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UC Berkeley Technology Exchange 2005

Viable Sensor Network Industrial Ecosystem

& Role of Zigbee/TinyOS

Technology Exchange 2005

Jim SchoenduveChipcon


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Industrial Ecosystems?

An industrial ecosystem is a community or network of companies and other organizations ina region who choose to interact by exchanging

and making use of by-products and/or energy ina way that provides one or more of the following benefits over traditional, non-linked operations: increased systemic energy efficiency leading to

reduced systemic energy use, increase in the amount and types of process outputs

that have market value.

( Gertler 1995 , as cited by Lowe et al. 1997 )


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Industrial Ecosystems Viewpoints

Perscriptive or Descriptive? Prescriptive

The way things oughtta be!

DescriptiveThe way things are now.


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Chipcons Unique Perspective

TinyOS Zigbee

Chipcon

Defacto Radio

TinyOS vs. ZigbeeChipcon is agnostic!

C hipcon has a broad view of industry efforts; has over 5000 customers doing chip level adaptation of various C hipcon devices.


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The Industrial Ecosystem

Prescriptive (The way things ought to be): A self sustaining ecosystem is when there is a

convergence in maturity of the following: Markets

An economic imperative exists to deploy solutions Capital

Sufficient capital is available to fund development anddeployment of solutions

Technology Hardware and software maturity exists such that

solutions can be deployed to serve an economicimperative

Ideally, all three reach maturity simultaneously.


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TinyOS Descriptive View

(the way things are!)Markets Economic imperatives for deployment are being validated for

small networks Huge sensor networks are not so prevalent as candidates for

possible deploymentsCapital Funding Academic and Government Sources Internal Corporate Funding Venture Capital Funding

Technology Hardware availability accelerating. Software infrastructure still in a very dynamic state of change


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Zigbee Descriptive View(the way things are!)

Markets for Zigbee Existence of a standard is causing exploration by

Fortune 100 corporate interests. Those owning huge sensor networks are exploring

ZigbeeCapital Internal Corporate Funding

Predominant Source of Funding Venture Capital Funding

Too much to too few companies!Technology Hardware availability accelerating. Software infrastructure just emerging now


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Threats to the Stability of theIndustrial Ecosystem for TinyOS/Zigbee

Markets Overhype may threaten reputation of the community. Economic imperatives for deployment for large

networks are still being assessed. (and have beenabandoned by some already.)

Capital Academic funding in jeopardy?

Will the time horizons of software and hardwarematurity match the time horizons of the VCcommunity?


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Threats to the Stability of the IndustrialEcosystem for TinyOS/Zigbee

Hardware maturity on track (little threat) Hardware adaptation from other markets supporting

the Tiny/OS Zigbee effort

The software systems are always the criticalpath Software development is still a multi-year effort for

products designed for industrial product deployments. Will the standards tube sock be sufficient to drive

adaptation of a common set of hardware and softwareor will it fragment?


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What to watch?

Market hype Lets match expectations to realityVenture funding Watch inflows and breadth of companies

funded. Watch time horizon expectations

Technology Consolidation or Fragmentation of Software? [will the tube sock standard fit enough applications?]

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