Airbee Inside for Active ZigBee/RFID Tags; Airbee Wireless Enters Mobile Sensor Technology Market.ROCKVILLE, Md. -- Airbee Wireless Inc. (OTC OTC See: Over-the-counter. OTC See over-the-counter market (OTC). Other: ABEW) today announced that it has entered the mobile sensor technology market, which addresses its ZigBee-compliant software stack (1) A stack that is implemented in memory rather than in hardware registers. See stack. (2) A generic reference to a set of system programs or a set of application programs that form a complete system. See stack. and radio frequency identification See RFID. devices ("RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) A data collection technology that uses electronic tags for storing data. The tag, also known as an "electronic label," "transponder" or "code plate," is made up of an RFID chip attached to an antenna. ") technology. At the recent Wireless Sensor see mote. Solutions Conference in Chicago, Srini Krishnamurthy, Airbee's Vice President-Business Development, presented a series of ideas about how RFID and ZigBee can coexist with solutions like Airbee's patent-pending, ZigBee compliant software stack for short-range wireless voice, data and video communications. As a developer of embedded software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. solutions for the wireless sensor market, Airbee's wireless protocol software is based on ZigBee and proprietary standards Specifications for hardware and software that are developed and controlled by one company. Proprietary standards are technically de facto standards such as Microsoft's Windows and Intel's x86 chip family. Contrast with open standards. . Its products and services apply to a broad range of intelligent wireless sensor networking applications. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. published reports, both IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and Hewlett Packard also recently announced their entry into the RFID space. IBM will establish a new business unit to exploit sensor networks and support the adoption of passive radio tags. Hewlett Packard has been a leader in using RFID on its own products and providing consulting services for others. "As a technology for asset tagging applications, RFID is gaining ground with implementation and roll-out scheduled for 2005 by retail giants such as Wal-Mart and Tesco, the dominant British grocer. However, RFID technology currently being implemented is quite 'passive' and does very little besides storing a unique number or set of numbers," said Krishnamurthy. "Airbee technology holds the promise of 'active' RFID tags to monitor and sense more complicated supply chain information and distribute it in real time. More advanced readers, such as in an RFID warehouse implementation, can be wirelessly linked with mesh networking Mesh networking is a way to route data, voice and instructions between nodes. It allows for continuous connections and reconfiguration around broken or blocked paths by “hopping” from node to node until the destination is reached. software from Airbee, thus eliminating the need for back-office wired networks at the point of data origin." Airbee's ZigBee-compliant embedded software will allow warehouse sensors to read data in groups, rather than single barcodes or tags, as is the case now for RFID. Moreover, Airbee's software allows tags to significantly expand the amount of data stored, including where and when a product was made, its batch number, expiration dates and the intended customer, to help combat product piracy. About Airbee Wireless Airbee is an innovator of patent-pending intelligent connectivity software for wireless voice, data and video communications over short distances. Airbee software is licensed to manufacturers of microprocessors used in an increasing number of wireless communications applications. Airbee's competitive edge is attributed to its ability to provide lower cost, greater flexibility and shorter time to market for its customers. To learn more about getting unwired with Airbee inside, please visit www.airbeewireless.com. 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