The next generation of networks will move beyond disconnected device-specific networks and systems and toward a distributed infrastructure, with intelligent functions residing across the entire network, from its edge to its core.

Ethernet powers our home and office networks and it is increasingly being used to automate control processes on the plant floor. Here's why.

Wildfires, river basins, tsunami alerts, and environmental risk management are just some of the projects using OGC's interoperability framework for Web-based access and control of sensors and sensor data.

Embedding networking into low-cost sensors presents particular cost and complexity challenges. Pyxos is an embedded control networking platform with tiny ICs that is designed to be built into low-cost sensors and actuators.

Integrating networks of sensors has been a goal for years, from the creation of device profiles and industrial networking standards through to the adoption of ad hoc wireless sensor and control networks. Web services promise to ease the integration of these disparate and distributed elements.

TinyOS: Operating System Design for Wireless Sensor Networks May 1, 2006 By: David E. Culler, PhD, Arch Rock Corp.

Typically, a TinyOS application is a concise program built upon a set of system services and reflecting the processing logic of its particular domain.

Sensors streaming their data online are turning the Internet into a global sensor network. Software platforms that integrate and mine these data streams may create a world in which sensors become pixels and we browse reality as easily as we browse Web pages today.

The Sensor Web is a distributed sensing system in which information is globally shared and used by all networked platforms. It's already been deployed long term in different environments and is opening up new avenues for distributed sensing and control.

A new XML encoding scheme may make it possible for you to remotely discover, access, and use real-time data obtained directly from Web-resident sensors, instruments, and imaging devices.

Providing industrial-strength connectivity, this technology delivers self-configuring, scalable, and self-healing networks. And it's aimed right at distributed data acquisition and control.