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Wireless, part 2: Mesh vs. mesh
Wireless, part 2: Mesh vs. mesh
May 8, 2007
Companies that manufacture pharmaceuticals, or have some other reason for extensive environmental temperature monitoring, now have a clear choice of wireless platforms representative of emerging technologies.
If we classify the two emerging technologies as mesh networks, either with all battery powered instruments using TSMP, or meshed powered nodes and battery powered instruments, there are now serious offerings representing each from major suppliers aimed at pharma manufacturers. Both GE Sensing and Sensicast made announcements recently at INTERPHEX along these very lines.GE Sensing announced that they have partnered with Dust Networks, using their TSMP based products, to offer wireless communication for a variety of instruments for pharmaceutical manufacturing. (This is not limited to temperature monitoring, but as a purely practical matter, that's where it is likely to begin.)"We evaluated many wireless technologies and ultimately chose Dust Networks' time synchronized mesh protocol-based products," said Mark Kingsley, chief marketing officer at GE Sensing. "We believe Dust Networks is the only company that can provide the reliability and power consumption critical to our customers' success."On the other side, Sensicast announced that it is the "world's leading provider of turnkey wireless sensor network systems" and it has unveiled "a wireless system for pharmaceutical and life sciences facilities who need to accurately monitor temperature, humidity and other key data in their facilities." Sensicast uses powered nodes and builds a mesh at that level rather than instrument to instrument.Sensicast has a head start in this competition since they already have a significant installed base in pharmaceutical and other environments. GE Sensing has a larger range of instrumentation and market presence, so it will be interesting to see how these appeal to customers.Watch this space for more about Sensicast and Dust Networks.Posted by Peter Welander on May 8, 2007 | Comments (0)
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