Speaker: Xavier Orduña (DEXMA Technical Manager), Marc Fabregas (ADVANCARE Technical Manager)
Z1 is a new 802.15.4 mote from Zolertia ready to play: with easy access to analog inputs and digital ports and buses, and out of the box support for common protocols and RTOS like 6lowPAN, TinyOS or Contiki (soon).
ABSTRACT: Research in Wireless Sensor Networks has been done during many years in many fields and some commercial applications start to emerge in some vertical markets like Energy Monitoring. However there are still lots of challenges to resolve, like scalability, energy harvesting and interoperability. For this reason, researchers, enthusiasts and visionaries need new tools to further investigate and resolve those challenges. Z1 is a hardware platform ready to play: backwards compatibility with successful architectures TelosB and Tmote, easy access to analog inputs and digital ports and buses, and out of the box support for common protocols and operative systems like 6lowPAN, TinyOS or Contiki (soon), enables individuals and teams to create revolutionary applications in the Internet of Things with maximum flexibility and minimum time.
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SPEAKERS: Marc Fabregas is the technical manager and co-founder of Advancare. He is an Electronics and Telecommunications Engineer by the UPC. With more than 7 years of previous experience as an R&D engineer in technological companies such as Mier Comunicaciones, Knosos Amper or Simon Holding. In 2003 he co-founded Advancare, an electronics company specialized in healthcare, innovation and wireless portable devices. In 2007 Advancare started to work with WSN and now is launching the Zolertia brand with its first product, the Z1 platform.
Xavier Orduña is the technical manager and co-founder of DEXMA. Has more than 3 years of experience in embedded and firmware development and has ported the TI msp430X architecture to TinyOS. He is a Computer Science Engineer by the FIB-UPC with an additional business training by some major business schools. Performed his thesis at FH of Nürnberg (Germany) named: "trust and non-tracealibity in mobile adhoc networks". Speaks english, french and german.
