Magic monitor

摘要

Like many good ideas, it began in a beer garden. Siemens researchers Manfred Kube and Karl Bitzer were soaking up the Munich sun in the summer of 2003 when they began talking about what would happen if they attached a couple of sensors to a wireless module. Four years later, after much tinkering, extensive trials and a couple of prototypes, the AySystem — a wireless box of electronic tricks that can be used to monitor everything from your motorbike to your ailing grandmother — is about to go on the market.