This entry recaps some of the events over the past few weeks and a look forward to upcoming events.

Upcoming:

May 30 & 31, there will be a panel at Emnets in Boston called "Show me the money" discussing the opportunities for wireless sensor startups. Dr. Joe Polastre (me) is on the panel as well as Rob Poor, former CTO from Ember, and Jay Werb, CTO at Sensicast.

May 25, Dr. David Culler, who advised two of the Moteiv founders at UC Berkeley, is speaking at the monthly wireless sensor network SIG in San Jose

May 31, Chris Peterson, the Chief Wharfinger at the Port of Oakland, discusses their RFID rollout for monitoring and tracking containers. The talk will be held in San Jose.

News:

Boeing and FedEx are testing active RFID tags for tagging airplane parts on FedEx jets. From Ken Porad, program manager at Boeing, "If we can use active tags on flights, that sets the stage to begin deploying wireless sensor networks, in which things like temperature sensors could be attached to the tags and used to monitor perishable goods in transit." Unfortunately RFID and wireless sensor networks are terms that are commonly interchanged in the media.

DHS is asking companies to submit proposals by May 30th for securing America's borders with innovative technology.

Sun showed off their SunSPOTS platform, a 32-bit hefty mote with similar capabilities to Intel's iMote2, at the JavaOne conference here in San Francisco last week.

Crossbow has partnered with Honeywell for sensing and control applications. The press release doesn't mention specific target applications or when a product will be announced/released/available.

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