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HP Enables Better, Faster Decision Making with Breakthrough Sensing Technology

Technology / Engineering

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

HP today announced new inertial sensing technology that enables the development of digital micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometers that are up to 1,000 times more sensitive than high-volume products currently ...


In-home health tracking system to deliver alerts to smartphones

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

For those who are caring for elderly parents, peace of mind is hard to come by. And, for their parents, dignity is hard to retain. But a team of University of Houston researchers hopes to ease worries and frustrations by ...


Students create portable device to detect suicide bombers (w/ Video)

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created Jun 24, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (9) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Improvised explosive devices (IEDs), the weapons of suicide bombers, are a major cause of soldier casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan. A group of University of Michigan engineering undergraduate students have ...


Drinking water watched by Queensland's seventh sense

Drinking water watched by Queensland's seventh sense

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created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

One of the major sources of drinking water for south-east Queensland is now under the watchful eye of Australia's largest integrated intelligent wireless sensor network.


Revolutionary sensor system protects ports, bridges and distribution centres

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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 ...


Sensoring the World Wide Web

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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

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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 ...


Network turns soldiers' helmets into sniper location system

Network turns soldiers' helmets into sniper location system

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created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (17) | comments 8

(PhysOrg.com) -- Imagine a platoon of soldiers fighting in a hazardous urban environment who carry personal digital assistants that can display the location of enemy shooters in three dimensions and accurately ...