Wireless battery-powered sensors that monitor bridges and report changes (that may lead to failure) are easy to install, but it is unwieldy to provide power for the sensors. Each bridge needs at least several sensors, many installed in hard-to-access locations.
Monthly Archives: October 2007
October 17, 2007 by Muneeb Ali | 1 Comment
The Sentilla Hype
The past some hours have been very exciting for sensornet researchers world wide with one of the leading hardware companies (Moteiv) making a huge change of direction and embracing Java as the de facto development platform for sensornets. This move
October 17, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Sentilla makes Ubiquitious Computing easy
You may have heard of a field of computing and electronics called “Ubiquitous Computing” (a.k.a. “pervasive computing”, “everware”, etc.) which has always held great promise but has never taken off. Well, it’s about to and I suspect that the product
October 16, 2007 by Muneeb Ali | No comments
Moteiv has moved!
Try logging onto the website of your (at least my) favorite sensornet hardware manufacturer and see what happens. Yes we are talking about Moteiv and yes you are in for a big surprise. Moteiv has moved and no we are
October 16, 2007 by Claro Noda | No comments
A new chip could help in early diagnosis of cancer
Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology have created an acoustic sensor that can report the presence of small amounts of mesothelin, a molecule associated with a number of cancers. The ACuRay™ chip (standing for ACoustic micro-arRay) consists of a
October 11, 2007 by RJ | No comments
NSMARTS: Networked Suite of Mobile Atmospheric Real-time Sensors
We're doing a platform based on a bluetooth link to a phone, integrating into the battery compartment, with both off the shelf and bleeding edge sensors. We have some CO, NO2 and SO2 data we gathered in Ghana using an
October 11, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Calling Java ME Developers
Save the date – January 22-24, 2008. Sun will be hosting the first Java Mobile & Embedded Developer Days Conference at our Santa Clara, CA campus – an event dedicated to mobile and embedded Java technologies and applications. The Call
October 11, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Paper: A Probability Model for Lifetime of Wireless Sensor Networks
Considering a wireless sensor network whose nodes are distributed randomly over a given area, a probability model for the network lifetime is provided. Using this model and assuming that packet generation follows a Poisson distribution, an analytical expression for the
October 11, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | 1 Comment
ICN 2008, The Seventh International Conference on Networking
CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS ICN 2008, The Seventh International Conference on Networking April 13-18, 2008 – Cancun, Mexico Site: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2008/ICN08.html Submissions will be peer-reviewed, published by IEEE CPS, posted in IEEE Digital Library, and indexed with the major indexes.
October 09, 2007 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Low Power WiFi Sensor
GainSpan, a Wi-Fi sensor company, today unveiled an ultra low power wireless sensor network that utilizes Wi-Fi. GainSpan’s semiconductor and software solutions are said to deliver the benefits of Wi-Fi with 5-10 years of battery life for applications like temperature
