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Tendril Networks, Inc.

Product Name

Tendril Service Broker

Market Segment

Enabling technology

Funding

Venture capital and privately funded with a Series A round of $1.5 million. Funding round led by Appian Venture Partners and joined by Access Venture Partners.

Competitors

SensorLogic, emWare

Product Description

The Tendril Service Broker is a runtime software engine that bridges the gap between difficult-to-program low-power wireless mesh/sensor networks and the PC/PDA developers who wish to orchestrate the information and activity of those networks. In the market’s transition from mostly firmware tinkering to full solution deployment, the Tendril Service Broker enables dramatically reduced deployment times while saving the developing organization man-years of software development expense and providing an extensible platform.

Market Opportunity

OnWorld projects 4.5 million low-power wireless sensor network installations by 2010, averaging 100 nodes per network. At an average of $100 to $1,000 system software dollars per network, market size is between $450 million and $4.5 billion. According to Bob Metcalfe, inventor of Ethernet, “Middleware... it’s a big opportunity.”

Demo Says

The emerging field of wireless sensor networks enables an exciting range of possibilities. Tendril is the enabler technology that turns possibilities into reality. The Tendril application development environment is the critical link in moving wireless sensor networks from experimentation to mass adoption.