Software developers and engineers working with sensors and sensor networks can now reduce their development time up to 90 percent thanks to SensorBridge, which was launched today by Augusta Systems Inc. SensorBridge is a sensor-based toolset, featuring design-time and run-time components, which enables rapid development and flexible management of diverse sensor-based applications.
SensorBridge enhances the development of Windows-based applications using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. When deployed, SensorBridge operates on end-user computers, servers and at-the-point of sensors or sensor aggregators.

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This site is dedicated to various aspects of soil ecology, related educational materials and will provide online access to live research data. The researchers are currently collecting data from the network of wireless sensors measuring the environmental conditions in the soil.

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Researchers at Microsoft are working on technology that they hope will someday enable people to browse online maps for up-to-the-minute information about local gas prices, traffic flows, restaurant wait times, and more. Eventually, says Suman Nath, a Microsoft researcher who works on the project, which is called SenseWeb, they would like to incorporate the technology into Windows Live Local (formerly Microsoft Virtual Earth), the company’s online mapping platform.

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