Wireless Mesh Disrupter?

Using Open Source development software and a hardware port for Freescale development of Wireless Mesh Networking may just be entering the disruption zone. In one example, the wireless controller for a toy tank was developed in less than 30min. This could be te technical opening to push mesh wireless technology into the datacenter, releiving the necessity for the mish mash of command and control cabling.

(06/24/2008 12:52 PM EDT)

ORLANDO, Fla. — Designing mesh network software for embedded processors using radio-frequency wireless protocol just got easier for original equipment manufacturers, according to Synapse Inc. (Huntsville, Ala.), which said it has re-hosted its Snap Pro 802.15.4 wireless mesh networking protocol for use on any RF module based on microcontrollers from Freescale Semiconductor Inc. (Austin, Texas).

Tapping an embedded virtual machine written in the easy-to-use Python language, Synapse demonstrated that applications could be developed in minutes, instead of weeks, by creating an embedded program during its presentation at the Freescale Technology Forum (FTF), held here June 16-19.

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