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DUST NETWORKS ANNOUNCES NEW ADDITION TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Hayward, CA, (February 22, 2010)—Dust Networks^®, the leading supplier of standards-based wireless sensor networking products, announced that Charlie Glavin has joined the Board of Directors of the company. Charlie is a Managing Director at MP² Capital, with extensive experience in the investment and technology industries focused primarily on the semiconductor, renewable energy, and wireless markets.

“Dust Networks is already a market leader in industrial wireless, and their traction in new efficiency-driven markets, such as energy management, is a testimonial to their extraordinary low power technology leadership”, said Charlie. “I am convinced of the tremendous opportunity to wirelessly enable ‘Smart Infrastructure’.”

Dust Networks established itself as the market leader for industrial wireless sensing when its Time Synchronized Mesh Protocol (TSMP) was adopted as the foundation for the WirelessHART standard. Now leading industrial sensing solutions are powered by Dust’s SmartMesh™ embedded wireless products, including those from Emerson Process Management, Endress + Hauser, GE Energy, GE Sensing and Phoenix Contact. Dust Networks is now expanding into the Smart Infrastructure market with a forthcoming product line focused on Internet Protocol-based wireless mesh networking standards.

“Charlie has a unique combination of relevant experience and contacts,” said Joy Weiss, President and CEO of Dust Networks. “He will add tremendous value as we steer Dust Networks through the next phase of growth.”

About Dust Networks
Dust Networks, the leader in standards-based intelligent wireless sensor networking (WSN), provides ultra low-power, highly reliable systems to OEMs in a wide range of markets. Dust Networks enables OEMs to offer monitoring and control solutions that provide unprecedented access to information from the physical world, resulting in improved operations, safer work environments, and increased competitive advantage. Dust Networks’ SmartMesh products combine revolutionary wireless networking capabilities with extremely low-power RF System-on-Chip (SoC) technology, providing OEMs with network-ready WSN solutions that are flexible and easy to integrate. Dust Networks partners with industry and standards groups such as ISA, the HART Communication Foundation, IEEE and IETF to ensure the broad adoption of interoperable wireless sensor networking products. For more information, please visit www.dustnetworks.com