News tagged with wireless sensor
Salt and Paper Battery May One Day Replace Lithium Batteries
Sep 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Salt and paper battery can be used in many low-power devices, such as medical implants, RFID tags, wireless sensors and smart cards. This battery uses a thin-film which makes it an attractive ...
Network turns soldiers' helmets into sniper location system
Mar 24, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Micromachined piezoelectric harvester drives fully autonomous wireless sensor
Dec 15, 2009 |
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For the first time, a piezoelectric harvesting device fabricated by MEMS technology generates a record of 85μW electrical power from vibrations. A wafer level packaging method was developed for robustness. ...
Students create portable device to detect suicide bombers (w/ Video)
Jun 24, 2009 |
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(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 ...
Revolutionary sensor system protects ports, bridges and distribution centres
Apr 27, 2009 |
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(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
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Aug 13, 2008 |
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(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 ...
Measuring the next successful antennas for in-body health monitoring devices
Sep 08, 2009 |
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Antennas for the latest implanted medical devices are being developed by Queen Mary University of London and tested through a unique piece of kit at the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL).
Aerial Imagery System Helps Save Water
Sep 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists are developing a system that saves water by using aerial imagery and ground-based sensors to determine the irrigation needs of small sections ...
SRNL, automakers to develop high-performance wireless sensors networks
Aug 25, 2009 |
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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 ...
Drinking water watched by Queensland's seventh sense
May 13, 2009 |
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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.
Implementing sustainable technology to monitor the integrity of the nation's bridges
Apr 16, 2009 |
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Today, humans perform visual inspections every two years of most of the nation's older bridges. But with a scarcity of inspectors and tens of thousands of bridges, that process can be long and laborious.
Bridging the gap between wireless sensor networks and the scientists who use them
Apr 06, 2009 |
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(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 ...
