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AssigneeSensoria Corporation
InventorsDavid C. Gelvin, Lewis D. Girod, William J. Kaiser, William M. Merrill, Fredric Newberg, Gregory J. Pottie, Anton I. Sipos, Sandeep Vardhan
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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.
A sensor network comprising a plurality of network elements including at least one node of a first type and at least one node of a second type coupled among an environment and at least one client computer, wherein functions of the at least one node of a first type and the at least one node of a second type are remotely controllable, wherein the at least one node of a first type includes at least one sensor that receives at least one data type from the environment, wherein the at least one node of a second type provides node information including node resource cost and message priority to the plurality of network elements, wherein processing of the at least one data type is distributed among the plurality of network elements in response to the node information;
A sensor network comprising a plurality of network elements including a plurality of node types coupled among an environment and at least one client computer via at least one coupling with the Internet, wherein functions of the plurality of node types are remotely controllable and the plurality of node types are programmable via internetworking among the plurality of network elements, wherein the plurality of node types includes first and second node type, wherein the first node type includes at least one sensor node, wherein the second node types include at least one preprocessor coupled to at least one processor and a plurality of application programing interfaces (APIs), wherein the preprocessor operates on real-time processes, wherein the plurality of APIs are coupled to control at least one device that includes at least one of sensors, actuators, communications devices, signal processors, information storage devices, node controllers, and power supply devices, wherein the plurality of APIs support remote reprogramming and control the devices.
A sensor network comprising a plurality of network elements including a plurality of node types, including at least one sensor node, coupled among at least one environment coupled among at least one environment and at least one user, wherein the plurality of network elements are remotely controllable by the at least one user, wherein at least one node type of the plurality of node types provides node information including node resource cost and message priority to the plurality of network elements in response to at least one parameter of a signal received from the at least one environment, wherein at least one function of the plurality of network elements is controlled in response to the node information, wherein at least one node type includes at least one preprocessor coupled to at least one processor and a plurality of application programming interfaces (APIs), wherein the preprocessor operates on real-time processes, wherein the plurality of APIs are coupled to control at least one device that includes at least one of sensors, actuators, communications devices, signal processors, information storage devices, node controllers, and power supply devices, wherein the plurality of APIs support remote reprogramming and control the devices.
A sensor network comprising:
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