The challenge is accessing it in a reliable, cost-effective way. Imagine a company having the ability to exchange information between the physical world and its enterprise applications through a wireless network with the same reliability we’ve come to expect from a wired solution – but at a fraction of the cost. Data from the physical world – temperature, lighting, humidity, energy consumption, location – could then be married to the world of industrial and IT systems and enable a gamut of applications that could profoundly improve efficiency. You can’t manage what you can’t measure – creating Smart Grids, Smart Cities, Smart Buildings will require a whole new instrumented infrastructure.

Today, standards-compliant wireless sensor networks (WSN) are delivering the reliability, low-power consumption, and ease-of-use required to serve a wide range of applications for monitoring and control, successfully connecting the physical world to the IT world. Dust Networks' ultra-low power and highly integrated IEEE 802.15.4 SoC technology delivers the lowest energy consumption in its class, and Dust’s pioneering work in Time Synchronized Mesh Protocol is the basis for the global industrial wireless standard IEC 62591 (WirelessHART).

As a result, Dust Networks customers have put wireless to work in applications ranging from energy management to monitoring cargo in-transit to regulatory compliance monitoring in a factory. Customers choose Dust Networks as their embedded WSN provider because our products deliver the highest reliability, the greatest flexibility, and the lowest power consumption needed to meet their application requirements, and because our team is dedicated to their success.

Dust Networks was founded in 2002 by a team of dedicated engineers, led by industry pioneer Dr. Kris Pister. He envisioned a world of ubiquitous sensing – a world of connected sensors scattered around like specs of dust, or 'Smart Dust', gathering information that had previously been impractical or impossible to acquire.

At Dust Networks we are passionate about making this vision a reality.