Arch Rock Unveils Enterprise-Class Wireless Sensor Network

Arch Rock Corporation has introduced the first wireless sensor network (WSN) to address large-scale enterprise applications by forming large, resilient IP-based WSNs and letting users centrally manage collections of those WSNs as an integral part of the enterprise IP infrastructure.
 
Arch Rock's new PhyNet IP-based platform implements a tiered WSN architecture that eliminates the need to co-locate individual sensor networks with the server-based functions that control them by placing a scalable internetworking tier – the first "WSN router" – between them.
Sensor applications can now reside half a world away, across a corporate campus or in the next room, communicating with any number of WSNs across local- or wide-area IP networks.

Because PhyNet extends standard Internet Protocol (IP) technology from the enterprise infrastructure to the sensor network mesh and out to individual sensor nodes, those nodes can communicate directly with any other IP devices on the enterprise network regardless of their connection medium (IEEE 802.15.4 radio, 802.11 Wi-Fi, Ethernet, etc.). The PhyNet platform also applies to the IP-based WSN the vast body of standard and well tested IP tools for interoperability, management and security, eliminating the need to deploy dedicated and unproven schemes.

The PhyNet platform's tiered architecture includes:

  • the PhyNet Server, which manages collections of WSNs and displays sensor data on a web-based user console that lets users do WSN setup, diagnostics, management and web services-based applications. The Management Server connects via LAN or WAN IP networks to:
  • the PhyNet Router, centerpiece of the new architecture. PhyNet Routers form an internetworking backbone between an IETF 6LoWPAN (IPv6 Low-Power Wireless Personal-Area Network)-based WSN and its server-hosted applications; the use of multiple PhyNet Routers within a single WSN eliminates the performance bottlenecks and the single point of failure characteristic of other solutions. PhyNet Routers connect via IEEE 802.15.4 low-power radio links to:
  • Arch Rock Nodes, including the new IPserial Node, which extends Arch Rock sensor support beyond analog sensors to digital sensors, data loggers and devices with legacy serial connectors.

PhyNet is well suited for a broad range of large-scale applications, including energy management, compliance and safety enforcement, environmental monitoring, and emerging energy-generation technologies.

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Posted by Dal on April 2, 2008 11:40 AM |
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