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    Viable Sensor Network Industrial Ecosystem

    & Role of Zigbee/TinyOS

    Technology Exchange 2005

    Jim Schoenduve
    Chipcon

    UC Berkeley Technology Exchange 2005


    Industrial Ecosystems?
    • An industrial ecosystem is a community or
    network of companies and other organizations in
    a region who choose to interact by exchanging
    and making use of by-products and/or energy in
    a way that provides one or more of the following
    benefits over traditional, non-linked operations:
    – increased systemic energy efficiency leading to
    reduced systemic energy use,
    – increase in the amount and types of process outputs
    that have market value.

    (Gertler 1995, as cited by Lowe et al. 1997)

    UC Berkeley Technology Exchange 2005


    Industrial Ecosystems Viewpoints
    • Perscriptive or Descriptive?
    – Prescriptive
    • The way things oughtta be!
    – Descriptive
    • The way things are now.

    UC Berkeley Technology Exchange 2005


    Chipcon’s Unique Perspective
    TinyOS vs. Zigbee
    Chipcon is agnostic!
    TinyOS
    TinyOS Zigbee
    Zigbee

    Chipcon
    Chipcon
    Defacto
    DefactoRadio
    Radio

    Chipcon has a broad view of industry efforts; has over 5000 customers doing
    chip level adaptation of various Chipcon devices.

    UC Berkeley Technology Exchange 2005


    The Industrial Ecosystem
    • Prescriptive (The way things ought to be):
    – A self sustaining ecosystem is when there is a
    convergence in maturity of the following:
    – Markets
    » An economic imperative exists to deploy solutions
    – Capital
    » Sufficient capital is available to fund development and
    deployment of solutions
    – Technology
    » Hardware and software maturity exists such that
    solutions can be deployed to serve an economic
    imperative
    – Ideally, all three reach maturity simultaneously.
    UC Berkeley Technology Exchange 2005
    TinyOS Descriptive View
    (the way things are!)
    • Markets
    – Economic imperatives for deployment are being validated for
    ‘small’ networks
    – ‘Huge’ sensor networks are not so prevalent as candidates for
    possible deployments
    • Capital Funding
    – Academic and Government Sources
    – Internal Corporate Funding
    – Venture Capital Funding
    • Technology
    – Hardware availability accelerating.
    – Software ‘infrastructure’ still in a very dynamic state of change

    UC Berkeley Technology Exchange 2005


    Zigbee Descriptive View
    (the way things are!)
    • Markets for Zigbee
    – Existence of a ‘standard’ is causing exploration by
    Fortune 100 corporate interests.
    – Those owning huge sensor networks are exploring
    Zigbee
    • Capital
    – Internal Corporate Funding
    • Predominant Source of Funding
    – Venture Capital Funding
    • Too much to too few companies!
    • Technology
    – Hardware availability accelerating.
    – Software ‘infrastructure’ just emerging now
    UC Berkeley Technology Exchange 2005
    Threats to the Stability of the
    Industrial Ecosystem for TinyOS/Zigbee
    • Markets
    – ‘Overhype’ may threaten reputation of the community.
    – Economic imperatives for deployment for large
    networks are still being assessed. (and have been
    abandoned by some already.)
    • Capital
    – Academic funding in jeopardy?
    – Will the time horizons of software and hardware
    maturity match the time horizons of the VC
    community?

    UC Berkeley Technology Exchange 2005


    Threats to the Stability of the Industrial
    Ecosystem for TinyOS/Zigbee
    • Hardware maturity on track (little threat)
    – Hardware adaptation from other markets supporting
    the Tiny/OS Zigbee effort
    • The software systems are always the critical
    path
    – Software development is still a multi-year effort for
    products designed for industrial product deployments.
    – Will the ‘standards tube sock’ be sufficient to drive
    adaptation of a common set of hardware and software
    or will it fragment?

    UC Berkeley Technology Exchange 2005


    What to watch?
    • Market hype…
    – Let’s match expectations to reality
    • Venture funding
    – Watch inflows and breadth of companies
    funded.
    – Watch time horizon expectations
    • Technology
    – Consolidation or Fragmentation of Software?
    – [will the tube sock standard fit enough applications?]

    UC Berkeley Technology Exchange 2005

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