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Method and apparatus for distributed signal processing among internetworked wireless integrated network sensors (WINS)
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Inventors: Gelvin, David C.; Girod, Lewis D.; Kaiser, William J.; Merrill, William M.; Newberg, Fredric; Pottie, Gregory J.; Sipos, Anton I.; Vardhan, Sandeep;
Assignee: Sensoria Corporation (San Diego, CA)
Primary Examiner: Wiley; David
Assistant Examiner: Lezak; Arrienne M.
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Shemwell Gregory & Courtney LLP
The Wireless Integrated Network Sensor Next Generation (WINS NG) nodes provide distributed network and Internet access to sensors, controls, and processors that are deeply embedded in equipment, facilities, and the environment. The WINS NG network is a new monitoring and control capability for applications in transportation, manufacturing, health care, environmental monitoring, and safety and security. The WINS NG nodes combine microsensor technology, low power distributed signal processing, low power computation, and low power, low cost wireless and/or wired networking capability in a compact system. The WINS NG networks provide sensing, local control, remote reconfigurability, and embedded intelligent systems in structures, materials, and environments. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The Wireless Integrated Network Sensor Next Generation (WINS NG) Technology The Wireless Integrated Network Sensor Next Generation (WINS NG) nodes of an embodiment combine sensing, signal processing, decision capability, and wireless networking capability in a compact, low power system.
Recent advances in integrated circuit technology enable construction of far more capable sensors, radios, and processors at low cost, thereby enabling mass production of sophisticated systems that link the physical world to networks.
Compact geometry and low cost allows WINS NG to be embedded and distributed at a small fraction of the cost of conventional wireline sensor and actuator systems.
WINS NG is a fundamental advance for network access to densely and deeply distributed sensing, control, and processing systems.
Applications for WINS NG extend from a local scale to a global scale.
For example, on a local, wide-area scale, battlefield situational awareness provides personnel health monitoring and enhances security and efficiency.
On a local, enterprise scale, WINS NG creates a manufacturing information service for cost and quality control.
On a local machine scale, WINS NG condition-based maintenance devices equip power plants, appliances, vehicles, and energy systems with enhanced reliability, reductions in energy usage, and improvements in quality of service.
On a national scale, transportation systems, and borders can be monitored for efficiency, safety, and security.
Also, on a metropolitan scale, new traffic, security, emergency, and disaster recovery services are enabled by WINS NG.
In the biomedical area, WINS NG connects patients in the clinic, ambulatory outpatient services, and medical professionals to sensing, monitoring, and control.
On a global scale, WINS NG permits environmental monitoring of land, water, and air resources.
It is, thus, fundamentally a technology that efficiently links networks to the physical world.
WINS NG is provided in one embodiment in a scalable, low cost, sensor network architecture that conveys sensor information to the user at a low bit rate with low power transceivers
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