My old boss, who's company FitSense (now FitLinxx) developed their own=20
low power RF solution, had this to say about "motes".

> Motes were invented at UC Berkeley by Brodersons group.  And were low=20
> power sensors.  First funded by Darpa as unattended "accellerometers"=20
>  listening for tank and convoy movements in the field.  They were the=20
> first mesh network as well.  :)
>
> Done in the early to mid 90's-  guess the term got genericized.
>
> Tom

Joe W





On 5/15/2013 9:11 AM, Marc Nicholas wrote:
> On 2013-05-15, at 9:04 AM, Joe Wronski <jwronski@stillwatereng.net> wrote=
:
>
>> I thought "mote" was a term specific to a Boston or Cambridge based
>> company a few years back, but wikipedia indicates it is a generic term
>> for sensor networks.
> There's a project at Google I/O right now also stealing our thunder ;)
>
> http://news.cnet.com/8301-17939_109-57584514-2/sensor-motes-sniff-out-goo=
gle-i-o-data-trends/
>
>> FYI, the iniegogo page has an email address @ wimoto.com, and godaddy
>> claims that name is up for auction, min $60, so if you haven't already,
>> you might want to avoid a bidding war when you need it.
> I own Wimoto.com, Wimoto.net, and Wimoto.org already=85.I believe the God=
dady page is currently popping up when you go to the root of wimoto.com? I'=
ll fix that!
>
> Thanks!
>
> -m

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