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ARCH ROCK WINS 'BEST OF SENSORS EXPO' AWARD FOR PHYNET WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK PLATFORM


SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., June 30, 2008 — Arch Rock Corporation has been awarded a Sensors Magazine "Best of Sensors Expo" award for its PhyNet wireless sensor network (WSN), which addresses large-scale enterprise applications by forming large, resilient IP-based WSNs that are integrated into the enterprise IP infrastructure. The award was in the Communications and Networking category.

The "Best of Sensors Expo" awards honored the most exciting new products on display at the Sensors Expo & Conference, which took place at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont, Ill., June 9-11. Entries were judged on the basis of potential impact, application, distinctiveness, timeliness and availability.

The panel of judges, comprised of the magazine's editorial staff, members of the editorial advisory board and industry experts, included Melanie Martella, executive editor of Sensors; Deborah Lickness of John Deere; and Ed Ramsden, a member of Sensors' editorial advisory board and sensor industry veteran.

"The awards program recognizes cutting-edge solutions in the sensor marketplace," said Martella. "All of the nominations demonstrated exceptional innovation, integration and ease-of-use. We believe this year's winners will be the leaders in the sensors marketplace and offer our congratulations to the companies recognized."

Arch Rock's PhyNet platform "adds tiered networking capability to wireless sensor networks, both improving their robustness and easing their integration into existing IP-based enterprise networks," Martella said. Introduced in March 2008, PhyNet eliminates the need to co-locate individual sensor networks with server-based functions that control them by placing a scalable internetworking tier – the first "WSN router" – between them. PhyNet Routers form an internetworking backbone between IETF 6LoWPAN-based WSNs and their server-hosted applications. As a result, those applications can reside in the next room, across a corporate campus or on the other side of the world, communicating with any number of WSNs across local- or wide-area networks.

About Sensors Expo and Sensors

Sensors Expo & Conference is the leading sensor event in North America exclusively focusing on sensors and sensor-integrated systems. The program explores the most up-to-date innovations in sensor technology, including physical sensors, sensor networks, biosensors, MEMS/nanotechnology, instrumentation & controls, intelligent systems, machine-to- machine communication, wireless sensing and IT technology.

Sensors is the premier publication dedicated to sensors, supporting technologies, and their applications. Serving an audience of 195,000 spanning online and e-mail newsletters, Sensors' integrated media offer greater access to targeted news, analysis, and technical information surrounding sensors and related technologies.

Sensors and Sensors Expo & Conference are produced by Questex Media Group, Inc. (http://www.questex.com), a global, diversified business-to-business integrated media and information provider, headquartered in Newton, Mass.

About Arch Rock Corporation

Arch Rock is a pioneer in open-standards-based wireless sensor network technology. The company's products, which gather data from the physical world and integrate it into the enterprise IT infrastructure using IP networking and web services, are used in environmental monitoring, tracking and logistics, industrial automation and control. Arch Rock's founders, while at the University of California-Berkeley and Intel Research, did seminal research and development work on WSNs, creating three generations of wireless sensor nodes, mesh networking protocols, and the leading operating system for sensor networks. For more information, visit http://www.archrock.com.