Here are two quesitons for your panel on wireless sensor networks (see ESC: Panel to debate wireless sensor networks).

You probably have these questions on your agenda but just in case.

What is the impact of a standard such as ZigBee RF4CE on industrial wireless sensor networks as well as home/consumer networks? Will ZigBee RF4CE speed adoption of this new technology?

What is the future of energy scavenging and/or energy harvesting for wireless sensor networks. Is a better answer the adoption of ultra-low power wireless like ZigBee Green Power which relies on inexpensive long lived batteries (ten years or more) as compared to expensive energy harvesting technologies? Is a low-tech approach more effective? Reduce the power required by the WSN so that it can operate on a single battery for the life of the system.

In other words is energy harvesting over-hyped?

Mark Shapiro
SRS Tech PR
mshapiro at srs-techpr.com

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