Blue Vector Systems to Provide Sensor Networking for Nortel's Municipal Wireless Initiative.Initiative Aims to Bring Affordable Broadband Services to Municipalities PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif. -- Blue Vector Systems today announced that Nortel has selected its line of sensor networking appliances as part of its next generation of municipal wireless solutions. Nortel's municipal wireless solutions will deliver a range of services including automated meter reading, digital video surveillance, asset tracking, fleet monitoring, and video conferencing See videoconferencing. (communications) video conferencing - A discussion between two or more groups of people who are in different places but can see and hear each other using electronic communications. . Blue Vector Systems' network appliances will be integrated with Nortel's solution to control a wide variety of sensors including 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. , global positioning, and video cameras. As an example, RFID and GPS sensors can be used by various city departments to discover the location of a fleet and its spare parts in real time. Rules can be easily configured to control data integration and worker notifications, and easily accessed via a secure web interface. "Blue Vector shares our commitment to provide the most affordable and productive wireless solutions for widespread deployments," said Charles Salameh, vice president, Global Solutions, Nortel. "Together, we will continue to discover new ways to make city workers and citizens more productive." Nortel is currently showcasing the municipal wireless solution at a dedicated lab located in Research Triangle Park Research Triangle Park, research, business, medical, and educational complex situated in central North Carolina. It has an area of 6,900 acres (2,795 hectares) and is 8 × 2 mi (13 × 3 km) in size. Named for the triangle formed by Duke Univ. , N.C. The goal of the lab is to create an ecosystem of partners and technologies that combine to provide complete municipal solutions. "We are thrilled that Nortel chose our network appliances as a part of their municipal wireless solution," said Nancy Anderson, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Blue Vector Systems. "This is a really advanced and powerful combination of wireless mesh and wireless sensing that has the potential to change the economics of how a city communicates and manages its utilities, people, equipment, and assets." About Blue Vector Systems Blue Vector was founded by researchers and software engineers from Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center Palo Alto Research Center - XEROX PARC and Yahoo. They pooled their knowledge of new software architectures, distributed processing, and massively scalable systems to create a truly unique product offering for quickly creating and easily managing large networks of wireless sensors. Blue Vector's headquarters is located in Palo Alto, California “Palo Alto” redirects here. For other uses, see Palo Alto (disambiguation). Palo Alto (IPA: /ˌpæloʊˈʔæltoʊ/, from Spanish: palo: "stick" and alto: "high", i.e. . For more information, including exciting new job opportunities at the India Center, visit www.bluevector.com. |
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