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New Technology Articles
The Cutting Edge of Simple Chip Wireless
How this New Technology Will Transform Your Health & Home...
and Deliver Gains Over to Your Portfolio
A Special Report for Dynamic Market Alert
August 4 , 2006
by Ann Sosnowski, Senior Editor, WaveStrength Hot Sheet and Contributor to Taipan
Technology is Back!
Take, for example, the SmartShirt System, the first of its kind from Sensatex. It's a smart textile system that makes it possible to monitor the wearer's movement, heart rate and respiration through a new nanotechnology fiber. Imagine the uses for this: it can monitor the elderly, keep tabs on patients after surgery, or even make sure that truck drivers aren't in the final stages of fatigue.
The Advantages New Technology: Growth like Bluetooth
The common denominator of all these different products is a new, innovative technology called ZigBee. It is quickly establishing itself as a serious competitor to Bluetooth.
But it's not too late to play ZigBee. This technology was named after the way that colonized bees communicate to each other. This wireless platform enables tiny sensors 10 meters away from each other to communicate like a hive.
By putting a group of these sensors in a daisy chain of sorts, an entire business or home system can be tied together to a main base, or a cell phone: everything from lighting and alarm systems, water meters and environmental controls.
At just $1.10 per radio per sensor, the cost is very low. When Bluetooth launched in 1998, a similar radio for its services cost as high as $6, and today still costs almost $3. Cost-effectiveness gives the technology more room to grow.
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Advantages in New Technology: The Difference is in the Battery
Wireless networking strives to rid the world of cords and outlets needed to run a specific device, or a small number of devices, networked together. While Bluetooth is a solution to cable replacement, ZigBee is the solution to monitoring and control: an unlimited network of sensors may communicate in shorter distances. Bluetooth itself normally supports only up to seven devices.
The more sensors that are hooked up, the better. Think of the network as a beehive. Those bees that aren't working usually aren't awake. Therefore, they're not using any energy at all. The big difference between ZigBee sensors and other wireless standards is simple - a battery. The reason the "hive" network works so well is that there's always another sensor close enough to relay information on to the next. So most sensors work for 30 seconds, and then go to sleep for hours on end, sometimes even days.
The new wireless technology also requires only 10% of the software that Bluetooth requires, and simple sensors only need 2% of the software for applications requiring low data rates and power consumption (sensors that turn lights on and off, for example).The most anticipated year of wireless technology...
According to an article by the Electronic Engineering Times, "The first ZigBee-enabled products will be out in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific in the first quarter with initial deployments in home automation and industrial applications. Over 580 million ZigBee units will be deployed by 2010, according to Northern Sky Research (NSR)." And 80 million of these devices will ship by the end of 2006.
New Technology Articles: Where it All Begins
Agilent Technologies (A:NYSE) is the first test and measurement equipment manufacturer to join the ZigBee Alliance, a collection of over 175 companies working to get this standard into the market and put to good use. Its product, the Agilent N4010A Wireless Connectivity Test Set, is the first ZigBee/IEEE802.15.4 one-box test solution.
In layman's terms, it's the first means of making sure that all tech solutions are in compliance with ZigBee standards. It takes accurate, repeatable measurements on ZigBee devices, making it quicker for the products to come off of the assembly line and into your home or business. This is the building block for all those products I spoke about earlier... and the other endless possibilities that can put this technology to work!
Since 2003, Agilent has slowly gained market share, rising from a low of $11.30 in February 2003 to its current price of $38.46 (as of May 12, 2006), a gain of 240%. Year-to-date, Agilent has increased its stock price by approximately 15%. In April, Agilent's stock hit three new 52-week highs at $38.70, $39.45, and $39.54.
Based on Agilent's current pattern, the uplegs consist of roughly $27 in stock increase, followed by a correction. The current rising leg is only $17 into the current short-term rising trend, which could make it a $50 stock.
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