The demand for a variety of wireless applications that require a mesh network is exploding. Examples include sensor networking applications such as physical security, CBRN monitoring of urban habitat, ...

Multi-hop mesh networks, confined to university labs at the start of this decade, are now widely available from commercial vendors. These vendors tout a number of advantages for mesh technologies: ...

Sponsored by Digi-Key and Cypress Semiconductor: Large Bluetooth networks are now possible thanks to the mesh-network topology. This BLE-based solution simplifies its implementation. Virtually all of ...

The long-held dream of wireless network hackers everywhere is to dispense with centralised network infrastructure, and instead rely on a distributed network in which the clients perform the role of ...

The interconnections of nodes in a communications network. Nodes are wired together in a star, bus or ring architecture. Ethernet uses a star configuration, although earlier Ethernets used a bus.

Qualcomm has announced the Mesh Networking Platform intended to control and improve the use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices in the home. Unveiled at the Computex trade show in Taipei, Taiwan on ...

The mesh networking features introduced to Bluetooth this week are designed to make the technology more appealing for enterprise IoT use. A lot depends, however, on which enterprise use case you’re ...

A 10-year search to reduce wiring costs may soon be over for Ken McCoy, general manager of the Electronics and Controls Group within Tyco Thermal Controls. New products are emerging that could drive ...

IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Linksys ®, an iconic Home and Small Office connectivity company, announces in a statement of direction its new “Cognitive Mesh” capability currently shipping in the ...