Out of curiosity what kind of accuracy can those sensors give you at a range of roughly 2 feet from the specimen? Is the use for sensing for an individual specimen versus similar specimens return the same value?
Another group that's doing research in this space is Aether Wire & Location [aetherwire.com]. They're building localizer frobs with the objective of getting down to coin size, and doing lots of work on Ultrawideband networking technology, which is good at very-low-power connectivity.
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MICA sensor motes (Score:5, Informative)
These tests were down with MICA sensor motes [xbow.com] which can be purchased from Crossbow Technology [xbow.com].
These motes run TinyOS [berkeley.edu], which was developed at UC Berkeley [berkeley.edu].
More information about TinyOS:
Yes, my job does involve programming for these motes. I have four of them on my desk acting as an ad-hoc wireless sensor network now.
Re:MICA sensor motes (nesC Compiler link) (Score:1)
Re:MICA sensor motes (Score:1)
Four? Mica? (Score:1)
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=formic
Aetherwire's Vingean Ultrawideband Locators (Score:2)