Wireless hive network
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Wireless Hive Networks (WHN) are communities of wireless devices for distributed tag, sensor, and actuator applications. However, taking semiconductor device economics into account, WHN technology stands to dominate the future of semiconductors technology for communications.
Wireless Hive Networks are clusters of wireless devices in local areas whose function, processing and communications protocols are optimized for hive member communications regarding hive’s task. While the results of the tasks have to be available to humans, human-to-human communications is NOT what hive networks are about. This is in contrast to mesh networks, Ethernet LANs and other networks whose ultimate job is to facilitate end-to-end communications among humans and/or among humans and electronic servers. The WHN analogy is to beehives. While extracting honey is key to the economics of beekeeping, bee-to-bee communications is about forging for nectar, defense of the hive and raising a brood capable of the hive’s multi-tasking.
WHN span wireless sensor networks, electronic tags (RFID), sensors and actuators in bio-med, smart dust, pixy dust, smart ID and several other areas. WHN studies address function and communications methods of communities of tiny wireless electronic devices cooperating in tasks such as general warehousing, high value asset management, perimeter monitoring, micro robotics, drug synthesis and similar applications. In academia some present activities are in wireless sensor networks, Motes, and TinyOS. In the industry current activities are in RFID, micro robotics and in hive-protocol developments, for example ZigBee.
Before real intelligent WHN products become available in the market, there are strong needs on developing new architectures, appropriate protocols, communications topology and on semiconductor and packaging technologies to support the unique requirements and huge production volume foretasted for devices in warehousing (RFID), perimeter monitoring, pharmaceuticals, robotics, etc.
