Crossbow Technology, Inc. (also referred to as XBOW) was a California-based company that specialized in navigation products, including gyroscopes and guidance, navigation, and control units.
It created products based on technology developed at the University of California, Berkeley, supported by A. Richard Newton[1] and had investment from Cisco, Intel, and the Paladin Capital Group in 2005.
[2][3] Crossbow was one of the first suppliers of the Berkeley-style MICA sensor nodes that it called "motes"[4] which ran the TinyOS operating system.
[6] Formerly a joint venture, Crossbow Japan became the Sensor Networks and Systems department of Sumitomo Precision Products.
[8] The AHRS500GA, introduced in 2003, was a completely solid-state FAA-certified attitude and heading reference system (AHRS).