Daintree Networks
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Daintree Networks, Inc. is a clean technology
company that provides wireless control solutions for commercial buildings.
Commercial building control and lighting control solutions can provide benefits including reduced energy consumption and carbon footprint, compliance with new "green" building regulations, and cost savings available through government rebates and the ability to take advantage of demand response programs.
Daintree's ControlScope wireless lighting control includes key elements of lighting controls including switches, sensors and ballasts to enable control deployed through easy and accurate commissioning, in a reliable and scalable system. Wireless communication is achieved either by wirelessly adapting traditional wired devices (such as sensors), or by building wireless communications capabilities directly into devices.
Daintree has a strong background in wireless sensor and control mesh networking, with extensive knowledge and experience gained through its design verification and operational support tool, the Sensor Network Analyzer (SNA). The SNA provided support for a number of wireless embedded technologies including IEEE 802.15.4
, ZigBee
, ZigBee RF4CE, 6LoWPAN
, JenNet (from Jennic Limited), SimpliciTI (from Texas Instruments
), and Synkro (from Freescale Semiconductor
).
Founded in 2003, Daintree is headquartered in Mountain View, California with an R&D lab in Melbourne, Australia.
, and prior to that at Hewlett-Packard
.
Since its inception, Daintree has been an active member of the embedded wireless networking world. Over the years, Daintree's management team has held a number of roles within key wireless standards bodies, including chair of several working groups within the ZigBee Alliance.
In 2003, when many wireless technologies were new, Daintree's focus was on providing design verification and operational support tools for wireless embedded developers. As the market and technologies matured, so too did Daintree's product portfolio. In 2007, the company began developing and delivering wireless solutions for multiple vertical markets. By 2009, Daintree had narrowed its focus to lighting control solutions for broad commercial development.
is the name of a specification for a suite of high-level communication protocols using small, low-power digital radios based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard for wireless personal area networks (WPANs). ZigBee is targeted at RF applications that require a low data rate, long battery life, and secure networking.
Daintree is an active member of the ZigBee Alliance, and their Sensor Network Analyzer is used by the ZigBee Alliance for product certification.
Clean technology
Clean technology includes recycling, renewable energy , information technology, green transportation, electric motors, green chemistry, lighting, Greywater, and many other appliances that are now more energy efficient. It is a means to create electricity and fuels, with a smaller environmental...
company that provides wireless control solutions for commercial buildings.
Commercial building control and lighting control solutions can provide benefits including reduced energy consumption and carbon footprint, compliance with new "green" building regulations, and cost savings available through government rebates and the ability to take advantage of demand response programs.
Daintree's ControlScope wireless lighting control includes key elements of lighting controls including switches, sensors and ballasts to enable control deployed through easy and accurate commissioning, in a reliable and scalable system. Wireless communication is achieved either by wirelessly adapting traditional wired devices (such as sensors), or by building wireless communications capabilities directly into devices.
Daintree has a strong background in wireless sensor and control mesh networking, with extensive knowledge and experience gained through its design verification and operational support tool, the Sensor Network Analyzer (SNA). The SNA provided support for a number of wireless embedded technologies including IEEE 802.15.4
IEEE 802.15
IEEE 802.15 is a working group of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers IEEE 802 standards committee which specifies wireless personal area network standards. It includes seven task groups.-Task group 1 :...
, ZigBee
ZigBee
ZigBee is a specification for a suite of high level communication protocols using small, low-power digital radios based on an IEEE 802 standard for personal area networks. Applications include wireless light switches, electrical meters with in-home-displays, and other consumer and industrial...
, ZigBee RF4CE, 6LoWPAN
6loWPAN
6LoWPAN is an acronym of IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks. 6lowpan is the name of a working group in the internet area of the IETF....
, JenNet (from Jennic Limited), SimpliciTI (from Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Inc. , widely known as TI, is an American company based in Dallas, Texas, United States, which develops and commercializes semiconductor and computer technology...
), and Synkro (from Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is a producer and designer of embedded hardware, with 17 billion semiconductor chips in use around the world. The company focuses on the automotive, consumer, industrial and networking markets with its product portfolio including microprocessors, microcontrollers,...
).
Founded in 2003, Daintree is headquartered in Mountain View, California with an R&D lab in Melbourne, Australia.
History
Daintree was founded in 2003 by Bill Wood, who had previously worked as a General Manager for Agilent TechnologiesAgilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies , or Agilent, is a company that designs and manufactures electronic and bio-analytical measurement instruments and equipment for measurement and evaluation...
, and prior to that at Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard
Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
.
Since its inception, Daintree has been an active member of the embedded wireless networking world. Over the years, Daintree's management team has held a number of roles within key wireless standards bodies, including chair of several working groups within the ZigBee Alliance.
In 2003, when many wireless technologies were new, Daintree's focus was on providing design verification and operational support tools for wireless embedded developers. As the market and technologies matured, so too did Daintree's product portfolio. In 2007, the company began developing and delivering wireless solutions for multiple vertical markets. By 2009, Daintree had narrowed its focus to lighting control solutions for broad commercial development.
Products
- ControlScope manager (CSM): Software to configure, manage, and maintain lighting in commercial buildings. It includes management of individual devices and "zones" of multiple devices, plus calibration, scheduling, alarm notification, energy monitoring, occupancy and daylight control, demand response controls, and an automated commissioning tool.
- Wireless area controller (WAC): Hardware that manages the wireless network, contains the lighting control algorithm that converts sensing data into commands to ballasts and luminaires, tracks devices and stores their states, and detects issues and repairs the system.
- Wireless adapter: Hardware that enables traditional "wired" devices to communicate wirelessly within the network. It convert wireless signals into wired control signals, and can be used in conjunction with devices such as wired sensors, ballasts and switches.
- Sensor network analyzer (SNA): Software for the development, deployment and management of wireless hardware devices and embedded applications based technologies such as ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4, 6LoWPAN, SimpliciTI and Synkro. Best known for its performance measurements and its network visualization, which graphically shows what is going on within the wireless network. The SNA is also an important part of ZigBee Alliance interoperability and certification events. (Discontinued 31-March-2010)
- Sensor network adapter: Hardware that can be used as a capture device in wireless embedded networks, plus also actively interact with live ZigBee and IEEE 802.15.4 networks to poll, configure and commission devices. (Discontinued 31-March-2010)
ZigBee
ZigBeeZigBee
ZigBee is a specification for a suite of high level communication protocols using small, low-power digital radios based on an IEEE 802 standard for personal area networks. Applications include wireless light switches, electrical meters with in-home-displays, and other consumer and industrial...
is the name of a specification for a suite of high-level communication protocols using small, low-power digital radios based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard for wireless personal area networks (WPANs). ZigBee is targeted at RF applications that require a low data rate, long battery life, and secure networking.
Daintree is an active member of the ZigBee Alliance, and their Sensor Network Analyzer is used by the ZigBee Alliance for product certification.
External links
- ZigBee Alliance
- IEEE 802.15.4
- Wireless Embedded Network resources including white papers, glossary and specification updates