Millennial Net Announces National Instruments LabVIEW Support for its i-Bean Wireless Sensor Networking Platform
Millennial Net, Inc., the leading developer of self-organizing, wireless sensor networking systems, announced the release of its virtual instruments (VIs) for National Instruments LabVIEW, designed for i-Bean(R) wireless sensor networking. NI LabVIEW – a graphical development environment for acquiring, analyzing, and presenting measurements for high-performance analog and digital instrumentation – is used by engineers and scientists to interface with real-world signals, analyze data for meaningful information, and share results and applications.
“Wireless sensor networking is a promising and exciting new technology that will greatly benefit users developing test, measurement and control applications,” said David Potter, data acquisition and distributed I/O platform manager at National Instruments. “As Millennial Net extends support for this new technology to LabVIEW and the National Instruments product platform, engineers performing sensor networking applications can take advantage of the easy-to-use LabVIEW graphical development environment to create flexible and scalable systems to collect, analyze, store and share their sensor data.”
“The new LabVIEW extensions to our application program interfaces (APIs) provide National Instruments customers with the ability to add wireless sensor networks to their applications with a familiar platform,” said Tod Riedel, co-founder and vice president of business development at Millennial Net. “Our VIs for i-Bean wireless sensor networks also now make it possible for our customers to enjoy broad support across the entire National Instruments product line.”
The Millennial Net product for LabVIEW is available now as part of Millennial Net’s Evaluation Kits for OEM prototyping. The kit includes five i-Bean endpoints, three i-Bean routers, one i-Bean gateway, the software’s virtual instrument APIs, and sensor networking management system. The price for the Evaluation Kit is $4,500.
The announcement was made at NIWeek, the annual worldwide user conference and exhibition hosted by National Instruments in Austin, Texas, where Millennial Net is demonstrating its wireless sensor networking technologies.
About Millennial Net
Headquartered in Burlington, Mass., with offices in Tokyo, Japan, Millennial Net is the world leader in developing and manufacturing ultra-efficient, highly scalable, self-organizing wireless sensor networking systems. Millennial Net’s award-winning networking software and tiny micro-power hardware elements, called i-Beans(R), allow instrumentation and sensing devices like gauges, sensors and actuators to connect and communicate with each other over self-organizing, self-healing networks. Patented technology enables the i-Bean to operate with an extremely low rate of power consumption on the energy of a 3-volt coin-sized battery for years at a time. Wireless sensor networks enable the remote monitoring and management of critical devices while providing continuous streams of previously unavailable data to enable more informed decision-making, better control and increased revenue opportunities. Wireless sensor networks are in use today for industrial, medical, consumer and military applications. Millennial Net is committed to advancing Wireless Sensor Networking…Anywhere. For more information, please visit www.millennialnet.com .
About National Instruments
National Instruments (www.ni.com ) is a technology pioneer and leader in virtual instrumentation – a revolutionary concept that has changed the way engineers and scientists approach measurement and automation. Leveraging the PC and its related technologies, virtual instrumentation increases productivity and lowers costs through easy-to-integrate software, such as the NI LabVIEW graphical development environment, and modular hardware, such as PXI modules for data acquisition, instrument control and machine vision. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, NI has more than 3,100 employees and direct operations in 40 countries. In 2003, the company sold products to more than 25,000 companies in 90 countries. For the past five years, FORTUNE magazine named NI one of the 100 best companies to work for in America.
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