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Sensoring the World Wide Web

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

CSIRO scientists will lead an international initiative to develop standards for sharing information collected by sensors and sensor networks over the Internet.


Bridging the gap between wireless sensor networks and the scientists who use them

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new, simpler programming language for wireless sensor networks is designed for easy use by geologists who might use them to monitor volcanoes and biologists who rely on them to understand birds' nesting ...


Health-monitoring technology helps seniors live at home longer

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Many older adults want to remain active and independent for as long as possible. Seniors want to age in their own homes and avoid moving to institutions or nursing homes. University of Missouri researchers are using sensors, ...


Revolutionary sensor system protects ports, bridges and distribution centres

Technology / Engineering

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Özlem Durmaz Incel, researcher at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, has developed a spectacular new method that enables wireless sensor networks to function up to ten times more efficiently. Networks ...


Networks of the Future: Extending Our Senses into the Physical World

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 13, 2008 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (19) | comments 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- The picture of a future with wireless sensor networks-webs of sensory devices that function without a central infrastructure--is quickly coming into sharper focus through the work of Los Alamos National Laboratory ...


SRNL, automakers to develop high-performance wireless sensors networks

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created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Several industries use wireless sensors, which can monitor chemical processes or equipment activity and then transmit the data over a wireless network. Still, many facilities that could benefit from the use of wireless sensors ...


New vibration powered generator for wireless systems

Technology / Engineering

created Jul 04, 2007 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (27) | comments 0

A generator that is 10 times more powerful than any other similar devices has been developed by engineers at the University of Southampton.


New research seeks to enhance quality and security of wireless telemedicine

Medicine & Health / Other

created Sep 17, 2007 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A team of researchers led by Fei Hu, assistant professor of computer engineering at Rochester Institute of Technology, is working to advance the integration of radio frequency identification technology, also known as RFID, ...


Toward cheap underwater sensor nets

Toward cheap underwater sensor nets

Technology / Engineering

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

UC San Diego computer scientists are one step closer to building low cost networks of underwater sensors for real time underwater environmental monitoring. At the IEEE Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop ...


Demand for wireless networks growing

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created Sep 07, 2005 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Demand for wireless sensor networking is growing and deployments are accelerating, according to a recently published report by ON World.


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Sensor networks protect containers, navigate robots

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 09, 2006 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Agent 007 is a mighty versatile fellow, but he would have to take backseat to agents being trained at Washington University in St. Louis.


Wireless sensors learn from life

Technology / Engineering

created Aug 25, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- European and Indian researchers are applying principles learned from living organisms to design self-organising networks of wireless sensors suitable for a wide range of environmental monitoring purposes.


NASA Goes Inside a Volcano, Monitors Activity

NASA Goes Inside a Volcano, Monitors Activity

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Aug 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have placed high-tech "spiders" inside and around the mouth of Mount St. Helens, one of the most active volcanoes in the United States. Networks such as these could one day be used ...


UH team helps NASA improve navigation systems for lunar exploration

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created Apr 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

If NASA is going to successfully establish a permanent human presence on the moon, it must be able to accurately track and direct its crew members and exploration vehicles, and the space agency has charged a University of ...


Wireless networks that build themselves

Technology / Telecom

created Mar 07, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 1

From traffic lights to mobile phones, small computers are all around us. Enabling these ‘embedded systems’ to create wireless communications networks automatically will have profound effects in areas from emergency management ...