Registered: Dec 1999
Location: Berkeley, CA USA
Posts: 3

Hi all,

In my lab, we currently have a family of boards with a whole bunch of sensors on them and a proprietary short-range wireless link (~30 feet). The idea is that you can spread up to a couple hundred of these sensor boards around a large area (like a building) and to be able to find out the sensor readings of any node in the network from any other node. I'm currently thinking about developing a springboard module version of this board in order to allow people to more easily interrogate and troubleshoot this type of network, so the key piece of functionality for this board would need to be its RF link - however, the springboard module could include any (or all) of the sensors we currently use - light intensity, temperature, relative humidity, barometric pressure, 2-axis magnetometer, 2-axis accelerometer without adding complexity to the board. Or it could just have the RF link and you could use external boards to do the sensing for you and talk to them over the RF link. What I need from you all is input on which of these feature sets would be the most useful to you personally. Since we're just a research lab at UC Berkeley, and not a company, this product would most likely not become a product, but if you have a legitimate use for this sort of technology, it could be made available to you as a testbed for our stuff. Please respond directly to me at [email protected], not to the guy whose address is listed on the web page (unless you have specific questions about the boards you see there). The boards we currently have working are shown at http://www-bsac.eecs.berkeley.edu/~...macromotes.html . Thanks!

Matt