Electronic control of lighting is one of the more significant ways that we can reduce global energy consumption. In the U.S., commercial and residential lighting applications consume 22% of the total ...

Congratulations to the ZigBee Alliance for celebrating their tenth anniversary this month. In this fast changing short-range wireless environment, this is a real achievement that shows how widely ...

Ultra-wideband technology (UWB) allows for low-power wireless communication, ideal for wireless sensor nodes. The IEEE 802.15.4 standardization committee who defined the MAC and physical layers ...

Wireless embedded networks hold great promise for deployment in residential and commercial building-automation, industrial plant monitoring, and other wireless sensing and control applications. An ...

Our CES 2011 coverage for wireless technology went far and wide. You can check out much of it on Engineering TV with out CES 2011 video coverage. Many of those videos are being posted now so check ...

Sensify is a new technology that can turn Zigbee switches, bulbs, and plugs into sensors with a firmware update. This could be how Philips Hue will bring ambient sensing to its smart lights. Sensify ...