伯克利发明家启动无线传感器网络公司

随着Arch Rock Corp的正式推出，无线传感器网络行业刚刚变得更加拥挤。这家位于旧金山的初创公司成立于2005年中，旨在开发产品，以在更广泛的环境中广泛采用无线传感器网络互联网技术。3月27日，Arch Rock宣布已获得500万美元的资金。

The Series A investment from New Enterprise Associates, Shasta Ventures and Intel Capital, will be used to expand the company team and its sales and marketing capabilities, and to further develop Arch Rock’s cohesive set of portable operating systems, layered networking protocols and service oriented architectures, the company said. These three technologies are the critical components that enable scalable deployment and rapid application development for sensing and control across numerous industries with diverse needs, according to the company.

无线传感器网络是基于逻辑的微小传感器的集合，它们几乎可以监视所有内容，例如光，运动，接近性，温度，生物特征和化学物质，并通过使用低功率无线电形成无线网络进行联网。Arch Rock启用了Internet的无线传感器网络解决方案，使公司可以在这些传感器网络的所有层次上应用业务逻辑，以便轻松地从物理世界中捕获新的信息，并通过其企业软件和Web服务应用程序来利用该信息。

管理团队

Arch Rock Management团队是20年网络行业资深人士总裁兼首席执行官Roland Acra；David Culler, Ph.D., chairman, co-founder and chief technical officer, a professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley, former director of Intel Research Berkeley and principal investigator of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Network Embedded Systems Technology program (DARPA NEST); and Wei Hong, Ph.D., co-founder and vice president of Engineering, who brings more than 15 years of industry experience in databases and enterprise software.

Acra说：“我们的愿景是，传感器将远远超过计算机，并且互联网体系结构和价值系统是扩展的方式。”“多供应商硬件，跨越不同链接的网络和分布式应用程序，这些是互联网蓬勃发展的原则。我们将提出这些原则，并期待建立一个健康的生态系统，以扩展无线传感器网络，以使我们的客户受益。” Acra说。

As part of its March 27 announcement, Arch Rock also said that Forest Baskett, general partner with New Enterprise Associates, Rob Coneybeer, managing director with Shasta Ventures, and Judy Estrin, chief executive officer of Packet Design LLC, have joined the company’s board of directors.