The information you need is all around you - The challenge is getting access to it in a reliable, cost-effective way.  Imagine that a company could measure, manage and refine data from the physical world through a wireless network with the same reliability expected from a wired solution – and at a significantly lower cost.  Data from the physical world, including temperature, lighting, humidity, energy consumption, and movement, could then be married to the world of industrial and IT systems.

Today, standards-based wireless sensor systems based on the pioneering work of Dust Networks are delivering the reliability, low-power consumption, and ease-of-use required to serve a wide range of applications for monitoring and control.  As a result, a wide range of companies is putting wireless to work on specific applications, ranging from energy management to monitoring cargo in-transit to regulatory compliance monitoring in a plant.

Some users are skeptical that wireless systems can be as reliable as wires: those who have had prior experience with point to point wireless systems can be skeptical that a 'no-wires' system can really measure up. Dust Networks has pioneered the application of time synchronized mesh networking, which allows large, low power wireless networks to reliably operate in harsh environments.  As importantly, this technology is easy to install and can save a great deal of time and money during installation when compared to a wired solutions.  The wireless field devices can also be put virtually anywhere – with little regard for previous wiring concerns.