IEEE Approves 1902.1 Standard for Wireless Visibility Networks
New Standard Builds Upon RuBee™ Network Protocol for Harsh Environment Asset Visibility.
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PISCATAWAY, N.J., USA,11 February 2009 -- The IEEE has approved a new wireless standard, IEEE 1902.1™, "Standard for Long Wavelength Wireless Network Protocol," which improves upon the visibility network protocol known as RuBee™. RuBee is a bidirectional, on-demand, peer-to-peer, radiating, transceiver protocol operating at wavelengths below 450 Khz. This protocol works in harsh environments with networks of many thousands of tags and has an area range of 10 to 50 feet. The standard is expected to be used in healthcare for managing patient flow and high valued assets, high security government facilities, assets visibility and mission critical tool management in aerospace industries, firearm management and visibility in government armories,, livestock management and mobile asset management.
"Establishing RuBee as an IEEE standard will offer a range of benefits to the healthcare industry, government law enforcement agencies, livestock industry, retailers, industrial manufacturers and RuBee Equipment Systems manufacturers," said John K. Stevens, CEO & Chairman of Visible Assets Inc. and chair of the IEEE 1902.1 working group. "RuBee tags are ideal in situations where bandwidth is not an issue, but where low cost, high tag count, long battery life and use in harsh environments, such as near steel and water, are critical performance criteria."
IEEE 1902.1™ offers a "real-time, tag searchable" protocol using IP like addresses and subnet addresses linked to asset taxonomies that run at speeds of 300 to 9,600 Baud. RuBee Visibility Networks are managed by a low-cost Ethernet enabled router. Individual tags and tag data may be viewed as a stand-alone, web server from anywhere in the world. Each RuBee tag, if properly enabled, can be discovered and monitored over the Internet using popular search engines (e.g., Google) or via Visible Asset's ".tag" Tag Name Server.
The IEEE 1902.1™ standard was developed within the IEEE Standards Corporate Program. The Working Group included members from medical device manufacturers, retail vendors, networking companies, several major hospitals, and hardware, software, silicon and search vendors, and others who support or use visibility networks.
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