Daintree Networks, Inc. was a
building automation
Building automation (BAS), also known as building management system (BMS) or building energy management system (BEMS), is the automatic centralized control of a building's HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), electrical, lighting, ...
company that provided wireless control systems for commercial and industrial buildings. Commercial building control and lighting control systems can reduce energy consumption, cost, and
carbon footprint
A carbon footprint is the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by an individual, event, organization, service, place or product, expressed as carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e). Greenhouse gases, including the carbon-containing gases carbo ...
, and comply with "green" building regulations.
Daintree's ControlScope wireless control includes switches, sensors, LED drivers, programmable thermostats, and plug load controllers. Wireless communication is achieved either by wireless adaptation to traditional wired devices (such as sensors), or by building wireless communications modules directly into the devices.
Daintree had produced a design verification and operational support tool, the Sensor Network Analyzer (SNA), which supports wireless embedded technologies including
IEEE 802.15.4
IEEE 802.15.4 is a technical standard which defines the operation of a low-rate wireless personal area network (LR-WPAN). It specifies the physical layer and media access control for LR-WPANs, and is maintained by the IEEE 802.15 working group, ...
, ZigBee, ZigBee RF4CE,
6LoWPAN
6LoWPAN (acronym of "IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks") in '6LoWPAN: The Embedded Internet', Shelby and Bormann redefine the 6LoWPAN acronym as "IPv6 over lowpower wireless area networks," arguing that "Personal" is no longer rel ...
, JenNet (from
Jennic Limited
Jennic Limited was a privately held UK-based fabless semiconductor company
Fabless manufacturing is the design and sale of hardware devices and semiconductor chips while outsourcing their fabrication (or ''fab'') to a specialized manufacturer c ...
), SimpliciTI (from
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globall ...
), and Synkro (from
Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. was an American semiconductor manufacturer. It was created by the divestiture of the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola in 2004. Freescale focused their integrated circuit products on the automotive, embed ...
).
Founded in 2003, Daintree was headquartered in
Los Altos, California
Los Altos (; Spanish for "The Heights") is a city in Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The population was 31,625 according to the 2020 census.
Most of the city's growth occurred between 1950 and 1980. Originally a ...
with an R&D lab in
Melbourne
Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-most populous city in both Australia and Oceania. Its name generally refers to a met ...
,
Australia
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.
History
Daintree was founded in 2003 by Bill Wood, who had previously worked as a General Manager for
Agilent Technologies
Agilent Technologies, Inc. is an American life sciences company that provides instruments, software, services, and consumables for the entire laboratory workflow. Its global headquarters is located in Santa Clara, California. Agilent was establi ...
, and
Hewlett-Packard
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...
.
Daintree managers have previously held roles within wireless standards bodies, including chair of several working groups within the ZigBee Alliance.
In 2003, when many wireless technologies were new, Daintree provided design verification and operational support tools for wireless embedded developers. In 2007 the company began developing and delivering wireless systems for specific purposes; by 2009 it had narrowed its focus to lighting and building control.
On April 21, 2016,
Current Lighting Solutions
Current Lighting Solutions, LLC (formerly Current, powered by GE and GE Current, a Daintree company), trading as Current, is a company that sells energy management systems. It is headquartered in Cleveland, U.S. The company CEO is Manish Bhandari, ...
, an energy management startup within GE, acquired Daintree Networks for $77 million to combine its open-standard wireless network with GE's open source platform Predix to offer a new
energy management system
An energy management system (EMS) is a system of computer-aided tools used by operators of electric utility grids to monitor, control, and optimize the performance of the generation or transmission system. Also, it can be used in small scale syste ...
to businesses.
Products
* ''ControlScope Manager (CSM):'' Software used to configure, manage, and maintain key energy loads in commercial buildings. It includes management of individual devices and "zones" of multiple devices. This includes calibration, scheduling, alarm notification, energy monitoring, occupancy and daylight control,
demand response
Demand response is a change in the power consumption of an electric utility customer to better match the demand for power with the supply. Until the 21st century decrease in the cost of pumped storage and batteries electric energy could not be ...
controls, and an automated commissioning tool.
* ''Wireless Area Controller (WAC):'' A hardware that manages the wireless network, contains the control algorithms that converts sensing data into commands to ballasts and luminaires, tracks devices and stores their states, and detects issues and repairs the system.
* ''Wireless Adapter:'' A hardware that enables traditional wired devices to communicate wirelessly within the network. It interfaces wireless signals to wired controls, and can be used in conjunction with devices such as wired sensors, LED drivers, ballasts and switches.
* ''Sensor Network Analyzer (SNA):'' A discontinued software for the development, deployment and management of wireless hardware devices and embedded applications based technologies such as ZigBee, IEEE 802.15.4, 6LoWPAN, SimpliciTI and Synkro. Carries out performance measurements and graphical network visualization. The SNA is a part of ZigBee Alliance interoperability and certification events. (Discontinued 31-March-2010).
* ''Sensor Network Adapter:'' A discontinued hardware used as a capture device in wireless embedded networks, able to interact with live ZigBee and IEEE 802.15.4 networks to poll, configure and commission devices. (Discontinued 31-March-2010).
ZigBee
ZigBee
Zigbee is an IEEE 802.15.4-based specification for a suite of high-level communication protocols used to create personal area networks with small, low-power digital radios, such as for home automation, medical device data collection, and othe ...
is a specification for a suite of high-level communication protocols using small, low-power digital radios based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard for wireless personal area networks (WPANs). ZigBee was targeted at RF applications that require a low data rate, long battery life, and secure networking.
Daintree was an active member of the ZigBee Alliance, and their Sensor Network Analyzer is used by the ZigBee Alliance for product certification.
References
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External links
ZigBee Alliance
Wireless Embedded Network resourcesincluding white papers, glossary and specification updates
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