IP-USN Blog

De-Mystifying Smart Grid Standards - Introduction to IEC 61968 - ArchRock

2010-07-28T04:25:00.000-07:00

If a utility Common Information Model (CIM) is essential for guaranteeing true end-to-end open standards-based Smart Grid communications, a major challenge is the requirement that it cover all...

DASH7 Alliance Announces Updated Standard For Wireless Sensor Networks

2010-07-20T11:01:00.000-07:00

San Ramon, CA, USA – July 20, 2010. The DASH7 Alliance (http://www.dash7.org), a non-profit industry consortium that promotes the use of the ISO 18000-7 standard for wireless sensor networking,...

De-Mystifying Smart Grid Standards - Common Information Model (CIM)

2010-07-20T10:54:00.000-07:00

"The “De-mystifying Smart Grid Standards” series started by reviewing new networking specifications - IEEE 802.15.4g, 15.4e, RoLL - part of the end-to-end Smart Grid communications architecture. The...

CouchDB 1.0 Released

2010-07-16T03:54:00.000-07:00

"As in our project we needed a (quickly setup, reliable, and flexible) backend system to store sensor data, I played around with CouchDB as I wanted to explore a RESTful data store. As a...

Interviews at Career Development Conference by SmartGridCareers

2010-07-15T09:30:00.000-07:00

Some interesting interviews on Smart Grid Industry Trends by SmartGridCareers.com Link: here

De-Mystifying Smart Grid Standards – IETF RoLL overview

2010-07-14T20:49:00.000-07:00

An excellent overview of what's happening at IETF RoLL WG "At the upcoming IETF 78 meeting, the Routing over Low power and Lossy Networks (RoLL) Working Group – co-chaired by Arch Rock CTO Dr....

Web Services for Smart Objects- Part 3 available now

2010-07-11T08:43:00.000-07:00

The last part, A real-world web service system for smart objects, is also available now. Web Services for Smart Objects - EE Times The following excerpt from the book "Interconnecting Smart...

Video: Vint Cerf Smart Grid Talk

2010-07-10T10:04:00.000-07:00

An interesting talk by Vint Cerf also known as the "Father of the Internet" ^^. Video 1 Video2

CoAP Plugfest at IETF-78 in Maastricht

2010-07-09T22:45:00.000-07:00

CoAP Plugfest at IETF-78 in Maastricht When: July 25th from 10-16 CET. TBD: A second plugfest repeat likely to also be held sometime during the week for those that can't make...

"Integrating Android apps with RESTful web interfaces" Hands-on at OSCON

2010-07-04T21:54:00.000-07:00

Taken from Official Android Developers Blog "This year at OSCON we and O’Reilly are co-presenting Android Hands-on. The event is on the evening of Wednesday, July 21 after the Expo-hall reception....

Video - IPSO Alliance: Promoting the use of IP for Smart Objects - EngineeringTV

2010-07-04T10:07:00.000-07:00

Electronic Design's Bill Wong talks with Chairman Geoff Mulligan about IPSO Alliance, an open, informal and thought-leading association of like-minded organizations and individuals that promote the...

Video: “Navigating the Web of Things” demo by Alcatel-Lucent

2010-07-04T10:03:00.000-07:00

"The Web of Things builds on the Internet of Things, proposing the extension of the Web to the physical environment of the user. Using Web design principles, one can create services and applications...

Web Services for Smart Objects- Excerpt from "Interconnecting Smart Objects with IP"

2010-06-30T09:02:00.000-07:00

Web Services for Smart Objects - EE Times The following excerpt from the book "Interconnecting Smart Objects with IP: The Next Internet", by Jean-Philippe Vasseur and Adam Dunkels, offers...

BuildSys 2010 - 2nd ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings

2010-06-29T20:26:00.000-07:00

2nd ACM Workshop On Embedded Sensing Systems For Energy-Efficiency In Buildings Zurich, Switzerland - November 2, 2010, in conjunction with ACM SenSys 2010 Important Dates Submission...

ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute Delivers Wireless Test Kits to Ensure Device Interoperability and Stack Conformance to ISA100.11a Standard

2010-06-19T01:05:00.000-07:00

ISA100 Wireless Compliance Institute Delivers Wireless Test Kits to Ensure Device Interoperability and Stack Conformance to ISA100.11a Standard Research Triangle Park, NC (16 June 2010) – The...

GainSpan and Freescale Collaborate to Provide All-in-One Wi-Fi Module for Tower System

2010-06-19T00:58:00.000-07:00

Developers using Freescale 8,16,32-bit processors can easily add Wi-Fi connectivity to their embedded applications San Jose, CA -- June 17, 2010 -- GainSpan Corporation announced today plans...

"Interconnecting Smart Objects with IP - The Next Internet" by Adam Dunkels and JP Vasseur Now Available from Amazon

2010-06-12T03:41:00.000-07:00

"Interconnecting Smart Object with IP - The Next Internet" by Adam Dunkels, the author of the Contiki operating system and the uIP and lwIP embedded IP stacks, and JP Vasseur, the chair the...

Arch Rock Launches First IP and Web Standards-Based Wireless Mesh Platform for Smart Grid

2010-06-07T08:28:00.000-07:00

'PhyNet-Grid' Technology Enables Real-time Communication Using Latest Standards in Network, Security, CIM and Sub-gigahertz 802.15.4g Radio SAN FRANCISCO--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Arch Rock...

ZigBee Smart Energy profile (SE 2.0) Draft 0.7 Specification released

2010-06-06T21:52:00.000-07:00

"ZigBee Smart Energy version 2.0 will be IP-based and offer a variety of new features. Given the important role ZigBee Smart Energy plays in the Smart Grid, the ZigBee Alliance is taking...

The ZigBee Alliance and IPSO Alliance Collaborate on ZigBee IP and ZigBee Smart Energy 2.0

2010-06-06T20:55:00.000-07:00

Efforts will focus on furthering use of IP in the leading HAN standardMay 24 /PRNewswire/ -- The ZigBee® Alliance, and the IPSO (IP for Smart Objects) Alliance announced today an agreement to...

Adam Dunkels' SUNET Talk on the Internet of Things

2010-06-01T04:05:00.000-07:00

The next digital revolution will consist of billions of interconnected devices - what does this mean and what are the technical challenges? In this talk, Adam Dunkels presents the technology behind...

The 1st IEEE LCN Workshop on Smart Grid Networking Infrastructure

2010-05-10T18:16:00.000-07:00

The 1st IEEE LCN Workshop on Smart Grid Networking Infrastructure http://granite.csep.umflint.edu/IEEELCN-SGNI2010/index.html In conjunction with IEEE Local Computer Networks (LCN'10) Denver,...

ContikiRPL: the new Default Contiki IPv6/6lowpan Routing Protocol!!

2010-05-05T17:09:00.000-07:00

Great news!!! "The Contiki team is happy to announce that ContikiRPL has been made public! ContikiRPL is an open-source implementation of RPL - the proposed standard routing protocol for IPv6 in...

UBI Summer School – Zach Shelby

2010-04-22T21:46:00.000-07:00

From Zach's blog "I will be teaching an IP-Based WSN workshop at the 1st International UBI Summer School held May 31st-June 4th in Oulu, Finland. The deadline has just been extended to...

IETF CORE WG (formerly 6LowApp) formed!

2010-03-12T16:48:00.000-08:00

As a result of a successful IETF 6LowApp BarBof in Hiroshima, IETF CORE (Constrained RESTful Environments) WG is now formed. "The CoRE working group will define a framework for a limited...