Company:Daintree Networks

Short description: Building automation company

Daintree Networks

Type	Private
Industry	Wireless Building Control
Fate	Acquired by Current Lighting Solutions
Founded	2003 (2003)
Defunct	2016 (2016)
Headquarters	Los Altos, California, U.S.
Key people	Danny Yu (CEO)
Website	daintree.net

Daintree Networks, Inc. was a building automation company that provided wireless control systems for commercial and industrial buildings. Founded in 2003, Daintree was headquartered in Los Altos, California, with an R&D lab in Melbourne, Australia .

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, Zigbee, Zigbee RF4CE, 6LoWPAN, JenNet (from Jennic Limited), SimpliciTI (from Texas Instruments), and Synkro (from Freescale Semiconductor).

History

Daintree was founded in 2003 by Bill Wood, who had previously worked as a General Manager for Agilent Technologies, and Hewlett-Packard.

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, an energy management startup within GE, acquired Daintree Networks for US$77 million to combine its open-standard wireless network with GE's open source platform Predix to offer a new energy management system 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 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 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.

External links

• Zigbee Alliance
• IEEE 802.15.4
• Wireless Embedded Network resources including white papers, glossary and specification updates