April 15, 2010 – 11:28 am
By Jon Adams In my idle moments I’ve been perusing my copy of the IEEE 802.15.4g draft standard document, which is now out for comment within the IEEE group. Last time, I noted the highlights of the proposal – the many new modulation methods, the different approaches to spread spectrum, the multiplicity of frequency bands, [...]
By Jon Adams The March plenary meeting of the IEEE 802 group in Orlando saw a lot of progress in the Smart Utility Network (SUN) 802.15.4g task group. As a result, the first Letter Ballot Draft was distributed to the group for their review and approval. The copy I have is Draft 1, dated March [...]
By Jon Adams There sure are a lot of standards-based wireless communications technologies out there. Do there need to be so many? In the immortal words of Jack Nicholson’s President James Dale, “Can’t we all just… get along?” and pick just one?
November 19, 2009 – 12:48 pm
By Jon Adams The path to standards is rarely an easy one, especially when there are a number of encumbent systems that all want to protect their interests and ensure that somehow their currently deployed systems are not rendered completely obsolete by the establishment of a new standard. This week, with many uncertain of forward, [...]
November 16, 2009 – 7:57 pm
By Jon Adams Just a few days ago, the IEEE802.15.4g task group got to see a single draft document that represents the compilation of the major PHY proposals. The editors did a great job in merging together some significantly different proposals. But, even this afternoon, the validity and purpose of this merged document was contested, [...]
November 15, 2009 – 9:07 pm
By Jon Adams Arrived here in Atlanta just a few hours ago, and am looking forward to about 30 hours of consideration and debate on what the Smart Utility Network of 2012+ could look like.
October 6, 2009 – 10:29 pm
Jon Adams The IEEE802.15 working group met last week in sunny Waikoloa, Hawaii. While they did get treated to an exhibition of hula dancing one evening, they spent 17 two-hour sessions debating proposals on how to help modernize the world’s electric networks (as well as gas and water), with what’s called a Neighborhood Area Network [...]
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