Crossbow Technology's Rapid Growth Results in Expansion into New Corporate Headquarters in Silicon Valley.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. -- Global Leader in MEMs Wireless and Inertial Sensors Also Reports Record Revenues for Fiscal Year 2004 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. (www.xbow.com), the leading end-to-end solutions supplier in wireless sensor networks “WSN” redirects here. For the metasyntax, see Wirth syntax notation. A wireless sensor network (WSN) is a wireless network consisting of spatially distributed autonomous devices using sensors to cooperatively monitor physical or environmental conditions, such as and the largest manufacturer of Smart Dust wireless sensors, announced today that it had expanded into new corporate headquarters in San Jose, Calif. The new corporate address is 4145 N. First St., San Jose, CA 95134. All 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. phone numbers and e-mail addresses remain unchanged. Crossbow's rapid growth in both the wireless and inertial markets over the past few years led to the urgent need for an expanded facility, Crossbow President and 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. Mike Horton Dr. Michael William Horton (born 1964) is a fictional character on the soap opera Days of our Lives. He was named after Mickey Horton, who was thought to be his father, and Bill Horton, his father. said. A private company, Crossbow reports that it achieved record revenues for fiscal year 2004 ended Dec. 31, 2004, and continues to be profitable. Crossbow has a 10-year history of delivering sensors for applications and industries with the most stringent performance requirements in the harshest of environments. Crossbow's wireless mesh networking products, also known as Smart Dust, are being used to improve agricultural efficiency and growth, monitor and secure industrial plants and buildings, save environmentally sensitive lands, preserve national landmarks, mitigate earthquake and fire damages, and secure and protect the nation's natural resources. Crossbow is also a leading supplier of inertial sensor systems for aviation, land and marine applications and other instrumentation sensors. The new North First Street space is triple Crossbow's former facility. It boasts state-of-the-art wireless, test and sensor characterization labs, and manufacturing facilities, much expanded office space, as well as several full-size corporate training rooms. As with its former facility, Crossbow's Smart Dust Motes are deployed throughout the building to monitor temperature, movement, light, barometric pressure and acoustics, among other parameters. "Crossbow is very proud of our customer and revenue growth, as well as our continuing innovations in wireless sensor networks and inertial systems," Horton said. "We consider this facility expansion as another important stage in our growth." For directions to Crossbow's new headquarters, please visit http://www.xbow.com/General_info/worldwidecontact.htm. About Crossbow Technology Founded in 1995, Crossbow Technology, Inc. is the leading end-to-end solutions supplier in wireless sensor networks and the largest manufacturer of wireless sensor networks. Crossbow 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. Crossbow Technology is a registered trademark of Crossbow Technology, Inc. All other corporate names or trademarks stated herein are the property of their respective companies. (C)2005 Crossbow Technology, Inc. |
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