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Technology Advantage

Dust Networks’ SmartMesh products assure OEMs that they can deliver proven reliability and extremely low power in a robust, wireless platform. Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) based on Dust Networks’ SmartMesh products offer key attributes that customers demand:

  • High reliability
    • Measurable, predictable and reliable data throughout the network
    • Increased network redundancy from “mesh-to-the-edge” architecture
    • > 99.9% end-to-end reliability
  • Ultra low power
    • 5-10 year lifespan using off-the-shelf batteries
    • All motes are routing nodes – and consume one hundred times less than routers in other mesh networking solutions
    • Lower maintenance costs
  • Tunable configurations
    • Tradeoff power consumption and network latency that is best suited for each application   
  • Scalability
    • Up to 10,000 motes per entire network
    • Up to 250 motes per SmartMesh Manager


Proven Products

Since launching our first SmartMesh products in 2004, Dust Networks’ customers have developed monitoring and control solutions that integrate our wireless sensor networking technology to solve real-world problems in a wide variety of industrial automation, building automation and defense applications including: oil and gas refineries, supermarkets, and across expansive remote terrain. Even under the harshest conditions, Dust Networks' SmartMesh family of embedded wireless networking products has proven to be consistently reliable, low power, scalable, and flexible.