Wireless Grids Corporation (WGC) to Endorse National Science Foundation (NSF) / Wireless Grid Innovation Testbed (WiGiT) Open Specifications

AUSTIN, Texas, April 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Wireless Grids Corporation (WGC) is one the first organizations to endorse the recently proposed WiGiT open specifications. John Andrews, CEO of WGC stated, "WiGiT standards for wireless grid applications will bring significant benefits, aimed at transforming relationships between people, their devices, and apps. Wireless Grids Corporation will work with WiGiT industry, academic, and government partners to ensure the rapid emergence of these new specifications, to benefit users worldwide."

Syracuse University Associate Provost for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Bruce Kingma, a WiGiT co-principal investigator, added: "We welcome WGC as one of the first firms to endorse our effort. We expect many more firms; universities and government agencies will join us in our Innovation Testbed, and contribute to learning through experimentation."

Mr. Andrews' statement follows the introduction of plans for open specifications for wireless grid applications at the 3rd WiGiT (Wireless Grid Innovation Testbed) meeting, April 2nd, 2010. Other current WiGiT partners include Qualcomm, Scientific Research Corporation, Innoventure, MOD-Eco, Sensyr, StandardID and Summerhill Biomass Systems. The open specifications may build on top of Application Programming Interfaces defined for Virginia Tech's cognitive radio network testbed, and will include specifications for edgeware as well, WGC's product area, to create social communities of content, software, devices, and services, including both cloud computing and smart grid features as shared services. Uses of wireless grid applications in distributed computing, collaborative learning, gaming, green/clean tech communities (Urban Farm/Greenhouses), military applications and neighborhood notification services were presented at the 3rd WiGiT meeting, illustrating the wide range of uses to be expected from WiGiT's modular open standards.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Partnership for Innovation (PFI) program provided a two year grant totaling $600,000.00 for the Wireless Grid Innovation Testbed (WiGiT).  Initially including Syracuse University, Virginia Tech, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Tufts University and Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST), Lisbon faculty, at the 3rd meeting colleagues from Telecom New Zealand, the Burton Blatt Institute, Rochester Institute of Technology, University of Wisconsin and the National Public Inclusive Infrastructure initiative, mentioned in the FCC's recently released Broadband Plan, also commented on WiGiT.  

About Wireless Grids Corporation:

WGC's edgeware product enables a social community of people to dynamically interact with content on their mobile (and other) devices. Wireless Grids Corporation (WGC) was spun out of Syracuse University and its labs and is developing a software based solution which is a next generation platform that transforms computer networking and wireless infrastructures (all devices) ability to interact seamlessly with little configuration. WGC has been widely recognized, including "One of the 9 Wireless Companies to Watch," Network World 2008. WGC is an Intel Certified Partner, an Academic Research Partner with Syracuse University, and an Academic Research Support Partner with the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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