An ultra-low power silicon chip could pave the way for future wireless body networks that use ‘digital plasters’ in healthcare applications. The Sensium chip, developed by Toumaz Technology – a spin-out from Imperial College London – is said to consume
Monthly Archives: July 2006
July 18, 2006 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Riverscope
Lowered into a muddy stretch of the Hudson River, the unmanned submarine dove through the murk and zigzagged downstream, meticulously collecting information on the water’s condition and transmitting it to scientists. The robotic explorer, powered by sunlight and navigating on
July 18, 2006 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
WSN Improves Alzheimer’s Care and Diagnosis
High tech devices now in development may help compensate for loss of function due to Alzheimer’s, enhance care and treatment, and foster independence for people with Alzheimer’s and their caregivers, according to new research reported today. During a six week
July 12, 2006 by Muneeb Ali | No comments
TinyOS Plugin for Eclipse
There is a very cool Eclipse Plugin available (in beta testing) for TinyOS from here. The plugin is basically aimed at making TinyOS and NesC programming easier. “Newcomers who have little experience in writing sensor network applications need help on
July 11, 2006 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Rapidly Develop and Deploy Sensor-Based Applications with SensorBridge
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
July 11, 2006 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Lifeunderyourfeet.org
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
July 11, 2006 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Microsoft’s Plan to Map the World in Real Time
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
July 07, 2006 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Wireless Sensor Network Programming lectures
Great lectures on WSN programming are available here. I found these lecture notes to be a useful and enlightening survey of the field.
July 07, 2006 by Marco Zennaro | 3 Comments
Wake-on-WLAN
In bridging the digital divide, two important criteria are cost-effectiveness, and power optimization. While 802.11 is cost-effective and is being used in several installations in the developing world, typical system configurations are not really power efficient. In this paper, we
July 06, 2006 by Marco Zennaro | 3 Comments
ns-2 for the impatient
A very well writtent tutorial on ns-2 is available here. Tools used in the tutorial are available for download here.
