Ember Gets Funding for Low-Power Wireless Embedded Networking
[ "thing-to-thing" networking ]
Ember Corp., a start-up based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, received $3 million in seed funding for its development of a low- cost, low-power wireless embedded networking platform. The Ember platform will use patented, "self-organizing" networking technology from the MIT Media Laboratory. The company describes its vision as "the internet for small things." Investors include Polaris Venture Partners, DFJ New England, Stata Venture Partners and Bob Metcalfe, Ethernet inventor and 3Com founder.
embercorp.com
From the Ember Web site:
Imagine a vineyard where every vine
reports sunlight, temperature, and
moisture every hour of the day. Or a
city in which each street lamp monitors
the passage of each bus, shuttling the
information ahead to waiting passengers.
Ember Corporation, a startup out of the
MIT Media Lab, is making the "internet
for small things", creating extremely
low-cost, wireless "thing to thing"
networks for the countless embedded
processors, sensors and controls that
populate our planet. |
