OpenBSD 3.9 adds sensor framework
"The upcoming version of OpenBSD has better buffer-overflow protection, and can ease the burden of systems monitoring through a new sensor interface framework"
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/linuxunix/0,39020390,39259254,00.htm
This is clearly not wireless, but it is bringing to light the powerful advantages of sensor data at your fingertips. If this is the state of the server room, clearly there is plenty of room for sensor networks (wireless or otherwise) to grow.
Good ideas aren't lonely
Not neccesarily a bad thing. Guy Kawasaki [guykawasaki.com] has commented that there are a lot of smart people in the world... if you come up with an idea, look around, and see abolutely no competition, then you have pull a Scott Adams and ask yourself, "which is more likely?"
- I am incredibly smarter, luckier, and/or more insightful than each and every other person on the planet who might have ever had the chance to come up with this idea. In a sea of six billion faceless drones, I alone am unique.
- There are smarter people in the world - much smarter than me - who have thought of and then discarded this idea as the disgusting piece of trash that it is.
Now, you see, the trick is that if you are somewhat smarter, luckier, or more insightful, you have two choices. You can attempt to come up with something completely original and new, which is really risky, as shown above. Or, you can enter a known, existing, money making market where your somewhat-smarter brain, store of luck and somewhat novel insgihts will allow you to out-maneuver the barely sentient cretins who currently inhabit that market niche. Still somewhat risky, but not anywhere near as risky as trying to create a completely new market.