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applications that are not feasible when built using traditional WSN gateways.
Given this higher level of standardization, what now differentiates Dust
Networks products? Dust Networks continues to focus on products that
lead the market in terms of low energy consumption. This lengthens the
life of devices in industrial applications, which is particularly valuable to
both industrial OEMs and their customers.
Dust Networks also uses its huge experience base to optimize its network
manager. In most WSN applications the network manager is both extremely active and mission-critical. Active network management permits a sensor
network to achieve highly reliable end-to-end service combined with low
energy use. This is possible only because the network manager continuously makes decisions that dynamically reconfigure the network so that it
operates reliably over point-to-point links that are inherently unreliable.
Another area to watch may be energy harvesting. Though energy harvesting represents an ongoing technical challenge, it is a very active
development area within Linear. Low power products will be the first to
benefit from any new harvesting solutions that emerge.
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