Dust Networks
Embedded wireless sensor networking for monitoring and control applications
Dust Networks, the leader in embedded wireless sensor networking (WSN), provides ultra low-power, highly reliable products to OEMs in the industrial automation, building automation and defense markets. Dust Networks’ SmartMesh products combine revolutionary wireless networking capabilities with extremely low-power RF System-on-Chip (SoC) technology, providing OEMs with network-ready WSN solutions that are flexible and easy to integrate. All SmartMesh products utilize the Time Synchronized Mesh Protocol (TSMP), pioneered by Dust Networks, which serves as the foundation for the industry’s most flexible low-power mesh architecture. Dust Networks enables OEMs to offer monitoring and control solutions that provide unprecedented access to information from the physical world, resulting in improved operations, safer work environments, and increased competitive advantage. Dust Networks partners with industry and standards groups such as ISA, the HART Foundation, and WINA to ensure the broad adoption of interoperable wireless sensor networking products.
Located in Hayward, California, Dust Networks is a privately held venture-funded company focused on providing market-leading embedded wireless sensor networking products to industrial and commercial markets. Dust Networks was founded in 2002 by a team of dedicated engineers, led by industry pioneer Kris Pister, originator of the Smart Dust research at the University of California, Berkeley. They envisioned a world of ubiquitous sensing – a world of connected sensors scattered around like specs of dust, or smart dust, gathering information economically and reliably, that had previously been impractical or impossible to acquire. In-Q-Tel initially invested in Dust Networks in October, 2003. For more information about Dust Networks, please visit www.dustnetworks.com.
Technology Focus Areas
- Physical and Biological Technologies
- Security
- Software and Infrastructure
