A SMART vibration sensor with wireless communication for recording and analysing train vibration has been developed in the country. Alka Dubey and Ashish Verma of Sagar University brought this innovation to light, while presenting their paper at the fourth
Monthly Archives: December 2008
December 31, 2008 by Muneeb Ali | No comments
SOS Perished
As of Nov 2008, SOS is no longer under active development. Their website displays a notice saying: “Please note that SOS is no longer under active development, and with the graduation of the core developers we are also unable to
December 30, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Sensing the World with Mobile Devices: Nokia’s vision
Nokia’s latest white paper paints a picture of a connected global network based around the world’s most distributed and pervasive sensing instrument – the mobile phone. Thanks to an increasing number of built-in sensors – ambient light, orientation, acoustical,
December 29, 2008 by Claro Noda | No comments
No more than 10% for the next 10 years?
IDTechEx has released a new report “Wireless Sensor Networks 2009-2019″. While WSN can assist with many of the big issues of this century including security, safety, protecting the environment, animal and plant conservation, healthcare and efficient food production, among many
December 29, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
No boring bits as animals’ wild life tracked
A network of solar powered mini-computers that ”talk” to each other is tracking the return of rare frogs to Australia’s rainforests and will record the antics of Santa’s reindeer at a zoo in Lappland. The world’s biggest outdoor wireless sensor
December 29, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
CFP: Software and Information Processing in Body Sensor Networks 2009
Body Sensor Networks (BSNs) have already shown potential to enable a broad variety of applications in the assisted living and health care domains, e.g. for rehabilitation, sports medicine, elderly care, gait analysis, fitness. BSNs allow to measure human body parameters
December 29, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Find a Parking Space Online
This fall, San Francisco will implement the largest mesh network for monitoring parking to date. Around 6,000 wireless sensors from the San Francisco company Streetline will be fixed alongside as many parking spots, monitoring both parking availability and the volume
December 23, 2008 by Claro Noda | No comments
TinyOS Technology Exchange comes to Europe
The First European TinyOS Technology Exchange ETTX 2009 will take place in Cork, Ireland, on February 10, 2009, collocated with EWSN 2009, the largest European based sensor networks conference. Clearly, with the aim to foster a broader European user community.
December 23, 2008 by Marco Zennaro | No comments
Sensor-Equipped Footballs to Make Refs More Accurate
As everyone who’s had a ref make a bad call at their team’s expense knows, NFL refs aren’t perfect. But footballs and gloves with built-in sensors? Those might just make coach’s challenges history. Dr. Priya Narasimhan of Carnegie Mellon University
December 16, 2008 by Antonio Ruzzelli | No comments
A sense of things to come – smart sensors and the environment
Monitoring threats to the reef – the need for smart sensors How do you manage a unique natural resource like the Great Barrier Reef when it’s threatened on so many fronts? Coral bleaching caused by rising water temperatures due to
