Two similar wireless protocols—WirelessHART, promulgated by the HART Communication Foundation (www.hartcomm.org) and ISA 100.11a, promulgated by the International Society of Automation ...

The Internet of Things promises a world of computers woven into our physical world. A common need for these devices is low-power, wireless communication. The goal of this course is to introduce ...

Neighbor discovery is the foundational process by which wireless sensor nodes detect and establish communication links with proximal peers. Operating under severe energy constraints, nodes adopt ...

A 1982 protocol still dictates how your devices find each other on the network ...

Why there’s a need for common standards for wireless communication in smart-home applications. The pros and cons of wireless network protocols, including Zigbee, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, Matter, Thread, and ...

Why the proliferation of wireless protocols is creating headaches for engineers. How multiprotocol wireless SoCs simplify IoT complexity and integration challenges. How innovations are tackling ...

Optimizing automated equipment condition monitoring calls for a different wireless network protocol than that used with process instruments. Manufacturers of all sorts have long sought a balance ...

The IoT is a global network consisting of networked things and provides the concept of seamless communication at any time, in any location and with any device. These “things” can be physical or ...

Wireless Personal Area Networks (WPANs) is an emerging technology for future short range indoor and outdoor multimedia and data centric applications. Two types of WPANs have been standardized by the ...

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are becoming big business. U.S.-based analyst Harbor Research predicts the number of wireless devices and sensors shipped in 2010 will be almost 200 million, while ABI ...

Unlike Wi-Fi or cellular signals, millimeter-wave wireless communication channels are unable to pass through walls, furniture ...