On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 07:57, j...@rejon.org <j...@rejon.org> wrote: > This is totally helpful. One final thing to you all and the list, what > user/human facing applications are people interested in making for this > and/or see that could be made on top of BEN-WPAN / SLOWFI? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ $$rkj the 6LoWPAN protocol which will be used with Ben WPAN will often be used in industrial control and monitoring applications where very low cost and low power consumption are important.
[unrelated] ATBEN/ATUSB are not IMO "slow." that (cute) term makes better sense applied to the radio technology such as HopeRF that works in the lower freqiency bands such as 800/900 MHz and indeed have low throughput, maybe 50-100 Kbps while Werner's radios can deliver a megabit or better per second. > What would be the dream that can sell someone who is not a freedom advocate > and is just interested in having connectivity? Is it simply so one can gain > network connectivity to a hub, aka, get internet? $rkj that is one application, although wifi would make a LOT more sense. A more sensible use case is wireless connection between Ben (or any Linux computer) and one or many small. cheap sensor pods, such as Arduinos or similar cheap, low power intelligent units. Ben has a display and keyboard, and Linux. It can operate as a "super node" talking to some number of dedicated sensor systems. The advantage of Ben is it requires very little power (easily fed by a small solar panel). > What range can we expect and how many nanonotes could talk to each other at > the same time? > > Cheers (trust me this is going somewhere, I just know when to ask the > experts!) > > Jon _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): discussion@lists.en.qi-hardware.com Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
