Look at ZigBee (www.zigbee.org ?)
Chips Maunufactured by Freescale, Atmel, Chipcon & a few others.
Microchip support for the Chipcon version using an 18 series micro.

RP

On 02/06/05, Bradley Ferguson <bradleyee@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is more of a marketing (ugh) question as opposed to technical...
> 
> There is so much talk about wireless sensors in the industry
> publications, but I don't know anyone who knows anyone who uses these.
> 
> There are quite a few companies (start-ups, most likely) that are
> offering different transceiver options that do routing and mesh
> networking and all sorts of fancy stuff or just simple point-to-point.
> The DOD is looking for "smart dust" to be deployed in war zones.
> Berkeley has their (open-source, I believe) "motes" with custom
> software that is being marketed and developed in parallel by another
> company (Crossbow Technologies).
> 
> Does anyone on the list have any knowledge or experience of these
> things leaving the theoretical domain to be used in somewhat large
> scale?
> 
> I'm thinking along the lines of building automation where the danger
> of having wireless sensors unavailable due to interference isn't a
> real big deal and people might be interested in the technology to
> reduce installation costs.  The use of wireless sensors in laboratory
> settings seems more of a gimmick than something with very much
> practical use in the near future; although, I expect that will change
> in time.
> 
> For example, Kele has some stuff on their website:
> http://www.kele.com/cgi-bin/navigate.cgi?section=Network%20and%20Wireless
> 
> I would also suppose that oil well operations might be leaning towards
> wireless due to scale of the plants and the harsh conditions that
> sensor cables might otherwise have to contend with.
> 
> Any thoughts on these matters or parallel matters?
> 
> Thanks
> Bradley
> 
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