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Crossbow's Imote2 - High-Performance Mote
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By xbow308, Section News
Sat Feb 10th, 2007 at 03:08:35 PM PST
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Crossbow is pleased to announce Imote2, the most powerful mote platform for wireless sensor network research. The Imote2:
- Delivers next generation high-performance, high-capacity processor/radio platform
- Breaks computational and memory limitations of current platforms by orders of magnitude
- Enables low-power operation for battery-powered sensor network applications
The Crossbow Imote2 is a commercial release of the Intel Mote 2 design licensed from Intel Corporation. Imote2 is available for ordering immediately and will start shipping in Q1 2007.
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| Integrating a high performance, low power, PXA271 Intel XScale® processor and a 802.15.4 radio with a built in 2.4 GHz antenna, the Imote2 provides a high performance platform for advanced, compute intensive wireless sensor network applications such as digital imaging and industrial vibration monitoring. The PXA271 processor on the Imote2 can be configured to support a low voltage (0.85V), low frequency (13 MHz) mode as well as other scalable processing modes of up to 416 MHz. The 256KB of on-chip SRAM, 32 MB of SDRAM and 32MB of FLASH memory provide several orders of magnitude more resources for memory intensive applications than previous WSN hardware platforms. Power consumption is extremely low making this platform ideally suited for demanding but battery powered applications.
Several I/O and sensor interfaces on the board allow the development and integration of sensor boards that leverage the full capabilities of the Imote2, making it a versatile and flexible platform for a broad range of applications, including imaging, acoustics, seismic and vibration based signal processing. The 802.15.4 standard compliant radio supports a 250kb/s data rate with 16 channels in the 2.4 GHz band. With the integrated 2.4 GHz surface mount antenna, a typical range of 100 feet (30m) is achieved. For longer range requirements an external antenna can be used via an optional SMA connector.
Currently, the Imote2 is supported by several operating systems including TinyOS 1.1, TinyOS 2.0, SOS and Linux.
The complete press release can be found on Crossbow's site.
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