Company Profile for Crossbow Technology.Founded in 1995, Crossbow Technology
Crossbow Technology, Inc. (also referred to as XBow) is a California-based company with two distinct product lines. One is based on MEMS inertial sensor systems. , Inc. is the leading end-to-end solutions supplier in wireless sensor networks and the largest manufacturer of wireless sensor networks. Crossbow crossbow: see bow and arrow. crossbow Leading missile weapon of the Middle Ages, consisting of a short bow fixed transversely on a stock, with a groove to guide the missile and a trigger to release it. has for years been at the forefront of creating and deploying smaller, smarter, wireless sensing devices and 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. platforms for large-scale defense, environmental, agricultural, industrial monitoring and control, building automation, security and asset tracking applications. Crossbow's open architecture, TinyOS-based platform enables highly intelligent multi-sensing devices to dynamically and reliably self-organize to efficiently capture and send detailed physical data anywhere, anytime. Crossbow is also a leading supplier of inertial sensor systems for aviation, land and marine applications and other instrumentation sensors. The company has shipped more than 500,000 of its Smart Dust and other advanced sensors to more than 1,000 customers, including select Fortune 100 and other leading industrial, defense, technology, civil engineering and manufacturing companies. The company's strategic partners include Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking . Headquartered in San Jose, Calif., Crossbow has distributors in 24 countries worldwide. The company received its ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001/2000 Certification in May 2002, its FAA Certification for the AHRS AHRS Attitude Heading Reference System AHRS Attitude and Heading Reference System AHRS Attempted Hours (educational transcript) AHRS Altitude Heading Reference System AHRS Army Human Resources System AHRS Automatic Heading Reference System 500GA in January 2003 and its FCC (1) (Federal Communications Commission, Washington, DC, www.fcc.gov) The U.S. government agency that regulates interstate and international communications including wire, cable, radio, TV and satellite. The FCC was created under the U.S. Certification for the MICAz in October 2004. Contact Crossbow at 408-965-3300, e-mail info@xbow.com or visit Crossbow on the Web at www.xbow.com.
Company: Crossbow Technology
Headquarters Address: 4145 North First St.
San Jose, CA 95134
Main Telephone: 408-965-3300
Type of Organization: Private
Industry: Technology
Key Executives: CEO: Mike Horton
Public Relations
Contact: Kathy Maag Bentaieb
Phone: 408-965-3368
Email: kbentaieb@xbow.com
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