After AmBio observed some "Maker-like" contraptions using mesh networks and PC panels to track dead mosquitos and propane levels (used to kill the bugs) - they're "upping the ante with a "smart" mosquito net, or computerized defense system, to serve the corporate and public health sectors. By the first quarter of 2006, AmBio executives hope to have finalized sophisticated software to control a network of magnets--forming a kind of wide-scale fence--which will be able to communicate with a central network through wireless 802.11b technology." Link.
Wi-Fi Enabled Mosquito Killer...
After AmBio observed some "Maker-like" contraptions using mesh networks and PC panels to track dead mosquitos and propane levels (used to kill the bugs) - they're "upping the ante with a "smart" mosquito net, or computerized defense system, to serve the corporate and public health sectors. By the first quarter of 2006, AmBio executives hope to have finalized sophisticated software to control a network of magnets--forming a kind of wide-scale fence--which will be able to communicate with a central network through wireless 802.11b technology." Link.
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