Commitment to Standards
Industry standards are critical to the broad adoption of wireless sensor networking technology. Dust Networks currently has leadership positions in several industry groups, including: the Wireless HART working Group (HART Foundation), the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), ISA's SP100.11 working group (ISA SP100) and the Wireless Industrial Networking Alliance (WINA).
Dust is also a member of the ZigBee Alliance. We are committed to working with leading OEMs and industry organizations to ensure that wireless sensor networking technology is both easy to implement and fully interoperable.
Dust Networks joined the HART Communications Foundation (HCF) in October 2005. Since then, Dust contributed its Time Syncrhonized Mesh Networking (TSMP) protocols and technology and collaborated with the HART Foundation and its member companies to develop the industrial automation market's first wireless standard for sensors. The Wireless HART™ standard will extend the investment companies have made in the 25MM installed HART devices with best-in-class wireless technology.
Dust Networks is active in the IETF and focused on the protocols and practices required for secure and scalable implementations of wireless sensor networks, the networks widely expected to ultimately form a large portion of the infrastructure of the Internet.
The ISA SP-100 committee is tasked to develop standards and best practices for wireless in industrial automation applications. Dust Networks has contributed both technology and leadership to the committee since 2005.
Dust Networks was an early member of the Wireless Industrial Networking Alliance, WINA, which aims to accelerate the adoption of wireless technology in the industrial markets. Joining the board in 2006, Dust Networks is supporting WINA’s efforts to educate end users and ecosystem participants about the impact wireless technologies will have on the industrial market.
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