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== WINE - Wireless Intelligent NEtwork ==

Main WINE fields of application are Wireless Sensor Networks. Implements a wireless clustered mesh network
topology.

=== History ===

WINE was developed starting from 2002 by Maurizio Corino and Paolo Zebelloni, founders of C-Labs, a
company oriented to development of industrial applications, like process monitoring, condition monitoring, asset
management, Environment, Health and Safety (EH & S) monitoring and power management. They are
headquartered in Turin, Italy.
WINE has been presented at International Wireless Summit 2005 - WPMC'05, in Aalborg (DK).
WINE is a patented technology grant in USA, Canada, Europe, Israel, New Zealand and Australia. Patents cover
the time synchronization method used to keep network nodes time-aligned, providing a near 3 order of magnitude
reduction in power consumption.

=== Technical Background === 

In wireless networks the most important challenge, media sharing, has been historically approached designing
either beaconed or unbeaconed media access protocols. 

In a beaconed network, a particular node (the base-station) provides time synchronization cyclically transmitting sync frames that other (slave) nodes use as timing reference for accessing the media: GSM mobile networks work in this way. In an unbeaconed network there is no synchronization, so the base-station must be ready to receive any frame, just acknowledging it. 

Previous approaches may not be applicable when the network has more than one of the following constrains:
* two-way communication between nodes is a must;
* base-station and nodes share the same power requirements;
* there are limitations in transmit/receive duty-cycle (like in most part of the European 868 MHz ISM band);
* data latency must be short.

WINE, with its time-synchronous approach, complies with all constraints listed above.

=== WINE Features Chart===

WINE implements a lot of nice capabilities:

* Ultra Low Power

* Safety and reliability by design

* Insensitive to neighbor networks issues

* Crypto with Tiny_Encryption_Algorithm in CBC mode

* Frequency Hopping

* Dynamic Tx Power trimming

* Network Latency 0.5 [s] per hop (typical)

* Works on all ISM bands (<1GHz, 2.4 GHz)

* Full ETSI compliance in all ISM bands

* Up to 65534 mesh nodes

* Up to 255 hops

* 15 application profiles

* Sub-millisecond network-wide common time reference

* Battery Powered Routers

* Portable (“C” code, no assembly)

* Compact (full stack < 13 [KB] on MSP430 core)

* Modulation scheme independent

=== Software Architecture ===

WINE is based on Brain-Like Nano Kernel (AKA ''B-LiNK''), a very powerful micro-controller oriented software architecture, designed to handle low-power states and CPU states transitions. 

B-LiNK is based on a neural information processing model described by [http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Jervis Giovanni Jervis] (1933-2009), professor at La Sapienza University (Rome). 
The basic idea is that brains process information in the same way, independently from their complexity. The human brain may process a lot of information, the one of a bee not so many, but enough to survive.

=== Licences ===

WINE is a patented technology. Technological Transfers and License Programs are available in request.
For more information, please [[http:''www.c-labs-wt.com/modules/liaise/index.php?form_id=3|contact]] C-Labs.

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