Crossbow Solutions

Industrial Applications.

Industrial  companies increasingly rely on advanced sensor and control systems to ensure  high productivity levels and low cost operations to remain competitive in the  global market place. Making sensor solutions smarter, more available, economic  and easier to deploy and manage is vital for applications such as oil and gas, semi-conductor manufacturing, factory  automation, pharmaceuticals, power generation and distribution, and mining.

Customer Benefits  Include:

• Cost elimination of hard-wiring, including safety and regulatory obstacles for running cables in constricted or dangerous areas
• Reduced maintenance costs of sensor deployments
• Improving operational visibility for predictive maintenance and process optimization

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Environmental Monitoring.

Crossbow’s unique wireless networking solution is an industry first in its ability to integrate the latest wireless mesh technology to collect practical environmental data Air Temperature, Relative Humidity, Location (GPS), Ambient Light, Solar Radiation, Barometric Pressure, Precipitation and Soil Moisture/Temperature.

Mesh sensor technology allows scalable range extension by node to node sensor communication. This technology has already been proven in numerous applications and is ideal for deployments where multiple sensor nodes are required.

The standard base station offers an RS232 port that can be easily interfaced to either a PC or a long range device such as a cellular link or sat link, or an 802.11 WiFi backbone

 Customer Benefits Include:

• Low-power, Remote Operation
• Reduced Deployment Costs
• Reduced Maintenance Costs

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Golf Course Irrigation.

To reduce the cost of maintaining award-winning greens and fairways, Desert Mountain—a collection of six championship golf courses in the high Sonoran Desert north of Scottsdale, AZ—decided to install a wireless sensor network to take the guesswork out of turf management. With the aid of RF-enabled sensors, the club's director of agronomy, Shawn Emerson, has been able to reduce irrigation costs by 15%–20% and upgrade maintenance practices.

Sandia National Labs in Albuquerque, New Mexico, is conducting research on the practicality and water savings potential of growing livestock forage in arid regions using "Controlled Enviromental Agriculture" (CEA) techniques. An experemental hydroponic greenhouse was built at the Livestock Border Crossing Facility in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. Sandia used 27 of Crossbow's environmental monitoring Motes, called the MEP410, to assist with monitoring air temperature, relative humidity, photosynthetyc active radiation, and total solar radiation. Data from all of the Mote sensors was sampled, packaged, time stamped and wirelessly sent to Sandia. The received data was then processed and configured into tme series data files. After post-processing data was visualized in  Matlab. Because of the receiving data was developed hydroponics system to reduce water consumption by up to 50%.

Building Automation.

Companies delivering solutions for building automation increasingly rely on wireless sensor and control systems to avoid expensive installations and maintenance of wired systems. Simple point-to-point wireless networks are prone to failure due to environments with tough RF conditions. Making sensor solutions smarter, more available, economic and easier to deploy and manage is vital for applications such as energy management, HVAC control, occupancy monitoring, security and asset protection, and meter reading.

Customer Benefits Include:

• Cost elimination of hard-wiring
• Mobility and ease of network reconfiguration
• Improving operational visibility for energy management and occupancy

Life Fitness and Crossbow

Life Fitness Company – the world leading training equipment manufacturer have studied during one year wireless technology market. It was intended by the means of wireless technology not only to control the use of different trainers, their workload but to work out individual training programs for the sport club members. The visitor should come to the trainer, to place his wireless club card against the reader and the training program will be loaded from the server to the trainer.

The advantages of this solution are indisputable:

• the low cost of sensors built into training equipment
• no wires between server and each trainer, low power consumption of sensors (the AA-battery is capable to ensure the sensors work during several years)
• scalability: sensors form so-called “mesh network”, each sensor can be the traffic source and repeater
• in such a way, it’s very easy to add several new trainers or to move old ones without disturbing network functionality

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Asset Management.

Global supply chain and transportation applications increasingly require real-time sensor and location information about their supplies and assets. Wireless sensor networks meet these customer requirements efficiently with low installation and management costs.

Making sensor solutions smarter, more available, economic and easier to deploy and manage is vital for applications such as active RFID, container tracking, personnel identification for secured access, sensitive asset security, raw materials and WIP tracking on shop floors, temperature chain tracking of perishable goods, and mobile equipment tracking.

Customer Benefits Include:

• Reduced Inventory
• Location Ttracking of Mobile Eequipment
• Increased asset utilization

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