Category: News
Calibrated Air Quality Sensors for Smart Cities
<p>Libelium released a <strong>new Gases PRO Sensor Board</strong> in May 2015. This platform features precision sensors to enable the implementation of urban monitoring, air quality, industrial, environmental or farming projects with high requirements in terms of accuracy, reliability, and measurement range. The new gas sensors line is available for both <a title="Libelium Waspmote" href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/waspmote/">Waspmote OEM</a> and <a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/plug-sense/" title="Libelium Plug & Sense!">Plug & Sense!</a>. <a href="https://www.libelium.com/libeliumworld/particle-matter-dust-sensor-pm1-pm25-pm10-air-quality-smart-cities/">Read more</a>.</p>
New Particle Matter – Dust Sensor (PM1 / PM2.5 / PM10)
<p>Libelium <strong>new particle matter sensor</strong> uses light scattering theory and particle counting technology and can accurately detect the number of particles in its surroundings to provide useful reference data for environmental improvement. With the new dust sensor we can obtain information about particle size and density ranging from 1um to 10um (PM1 / PM2.5 / PM10). <a href="https://www.libelium.com/libeliumworld/particle-matter-dust-sensor-pm1-pm25-pm10-air-quality-smart-cities/">Read More</a>.</p>
Sailing Tracker
This project was developed to monitor racing ships during competitions. It was required to measure navigation parameters maintaining the adequate acquisition times and data consistency. It was also important to communicate the collected information not only to a remote localization but also to the crew members using long-range wireless communication. The new system developed for […]
Waspmote to create a complete Smart Agriculture system
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="en-US">Agriculture not only suffers the impacts of climate change, it is also responsible for 14 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Hit by the worst drought in 60 year this year, the Horn of Africa is suffering from famine and hunger. Figures compiled by the Department for International Development (DfID) suggest that between 50,000 and 100,000 people, more than half of them children under five, died in the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/jan/18/east-africa-drought-disaster-report">2011 Horn of Africa</a> crisis that affected Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya.</span></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/waspmote/">Waspmote</a> can be used to monitor different environmental parameters related to agriculture such as temperature, humidity, soil temperature/humidity, weather station, leaf wetness and many other parameters. The monitoring of these parameters allows to minimize time and money as well as maximize agriculture results.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"> </p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">Researchers from Grupo Austen, a Spanish company, have developed a system called 'Siega System' that allows to monitor in real-time a bunch of variables in order to create a whole Smart Agriculture system.</p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"> </p>
Waspmote to prevent Forest Fires
<p style="text-align: left;">Fires, both man-made and natural, contribute to forest loss. <a href="http://english.cri.cn/6966/2012/05/10/2821s698547.htm">Last week</a> more than <strong>100 Forest Fires</strong> broke out in the eastern part of Russia's Siberia, affecting more than <strong>57,000 hectares</strong> of land. <a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/waspmote/">Waspmote</a> can be used to monitor different environmental parameters such as temperature, humidity, CO, CO2 and many other gases. The monitoring of these parameters can be used to determine the areas where a forest fire is more likely to break out.</p> <p style="text-align: left;"> </p> <p style="text-align: left;">Australian researchers from Edith Cowan University's Centre for Communications Engineering Research have used Waspmote to test Wireless Sensor Networks for detecting and preventing Forest Fires in the future</p> <p style="text-align: justify;"> </p>
Digi awards the Waspmote platform
<p>Digi has awarded Libelium's <a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/waspmote/">Waspmote</a> platform in the <strong>1st Digi Green Award 2010</strong> in the category <em>Save Environment</em>. Digi has outlined the big potential of Waspmote for making possible the deployment of environmental monitoring solutions to reduce CO2 emissions.</p>
Meshlium Xtreme – 802.15.4/ZigBee Sensor Network Gateway
<p>Libelium releases <a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/">Meshlium Xtreme</a> - the first multi-protocol wireless router - offering a powerful bridge between<strong> ZigBee wireless sensor networks</strong> and the Internet.</p> <p><a href="https://www.libelium.com/iot-products/">Meshlium Xtreme</a> is a modular, wireless, multiprotocol, mesh, outdoor router running Linux. It uniquely combines five wireless technologies - WiFi, ZigBee, GPRS, Bluetooth and GPS - as well as wireline Ethernet. The router provides wireless sensor networks a ZigBee <strong>gateway to the Internet</strong> and enables the<strong> storage</strong> of sensor data in both internal and external <strong>data base</strong> systems. </p>
10 Years of mote evolution: from WeC to Waspmote
<p>It has been more than 10 years since the first mote (WeC) was released by the Berkeley University. Since then multiple platforms have been developed by research centers, universities and companies.</p> <p> </p> <p>The Sensors & Instrumentation Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) based in London, UK, talks inside the study titled <em>"<strong>Power Management Technologies to Enable Remote and Wireless Sensing" </strong></em>(<a href="https://www.libelium.com/corporate-news/">pdf here</a>) about the different mote families and its evolution during the last 10 years.</p> <p> </p> <div style="text-align: center;clear:both; margin: 15px 0 15px 0;"> <div style="margin: 0 auto 0 auto;"> <p></p> </div> </div> <p> </p> <p>It is a big pleasure for <strong>Libelium</strong> to see how Waspmote is said as the <span style="text-decoration: underline;">natural evolution</span> of the mote platforms as it counts not only with a bunch of different modules (ZigBee, Bluetooth, GPRS, GPS) but also with an <strong>open source</strong> compilation environment and programming libraries and multiple sensor boards what makes it really easy for developers and researchers to start creating wireless sensor networks from the first day.</p>
Power Management Technologies to Enable Remote and Wireless Sensing
The UK’s Sensors & Instrumentation Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) published a study on power management technologies enabling self-powered wireless sensor networks. It groups optimisation strategies into three levels: microprocessor, node, and network. The report highlights Waspmote as a success case due to its ultra-low power consumption modes, especially hibernation at just 0.7µA, making it ideal for long-life, maintenance-free sensing deployments.
Waspmote is released
Libelium has officially launched today the Waspmote platform. The research efforts have focused on providing a minimum consumption (0.7uA in the Hibernate mode), and at the same time, maximum performance and capabilities. Waspmote counts with seven different models of communication radios which can be chosen depending on: * Frequency: 2.4GHz, 900MHz, 868MHz * Protocol: 802.15.4, […]