In a bid to combine technical expertise to offer enhanced high-performance wireless sensor networking solutions, Linear Technology Corp. has acquired Dust Networks, a provider of low power wireless sensor network (WSN) technology.
This move broadens Linear’s product portfolio into key growth areas in industrial process control, data acquisition and energy harvesting.
Commenting on major trends in these markets Erik Soule, Vice President of Signal Conditioning and High-Frequency products for Linear Technology, said: “As the need for wireless sensor networking continues to grow rapidly, efficiency is a major goal across many markets, and collecting more data on the environment is driving the need for cost-effective, smart communicating sensors.
Wireless is a critical enabler of such systems and applications because it dramatically reduces the cost of deploying sensors and gathering the information about the physical world.
Energy harvesting is another key enabler – the ability to perpetually power such sensors without the need to replace batteries further reduces the lifetime cost of these efficiency-enabling systems.”
Soule went on to say: “Dust Networks offers the lowest power radio technology and most complete networking software for building industrial grade wireless sensor networks.
Combined with Linear’s precision low-power sensor interface products and battery-free energy harvesting technology, we can now offer the industry’s highest performance remote monitoring solutions.”
Linear Technology Corp.
