News tagged with number plate recognition

Plan to use satellites to monitor British motorists

(PhysOrg.com) -- Britain may soon be using global positioning satellites and advanced speed cameras with number plate recognition technology to track speeding motorists, and according to a report released ...

Technology / Hi Tech & Innovation

created Apr 22, 2010 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (6) | comments 28 | with audio podcast report




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Using real-time road traffic data to evaluate congestion

A new project has shown that by using existing sources of information about traffic flow it is possible to create a minute-by-minute image of congestion in cities.

Technology / Engineering

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

In Texas schools, a picture's worth 1,000 calories

(AP) -- Smile, schoolchildren. You're on calorie camera. Health officials trying to reduce obesity and improve eating habits at five San Antonio elementary schools unveiled a $2 million research project Wednesday that will ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 12, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Innovative concepts of urban mobility to face increased traffic and pollution in historical centers

The Civitas Mimosa European project, working together with the citizens towards a new and innovative concept of urban mobility, is identifying where traffic congestion can be handled more effectively and how ...

Technology / Other

created Jan 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new automated system to monitor potentially dangerous vehicles whilst in motion

A European research project has tested the use of 3D cameras alongside the highways and sensors embedded in the roadside to detect dangerous, overloaded trucks as they move. The system enables a reduction ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 17, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Ears tuned to water

(PhysOrg.com) -- For bats any smooth, horizontal surface is water. Even so if vision, olfaction or touch tells them it is actually a metal, plastic or wooden plate. Bats therefore rely more on their ears than ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Nov 02, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

How Darwin's little-known work impacts current schizophrenia, autism treatment (w/ Video)

Historical research by Peter J. Snyder, PhD, reveals more of Charles Darwin's thinking when he completed what may be the first example of a prospective "single-blind" study of human perception of emotional ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created May 04, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Xerox in $6B deal to expand tech services business

(AP) -- Xerox Corp. said Monday it will buy Affiliated Computer Services Inc. for $6.4 billion in cash and stock, joining the expensive race among technology companies to broaden their offerings.

Technology / Business

created Sep 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Chemical Nose' to Sniff Out Cancer Earlier, Improve Treatment Options

(PhysOrg.com) -- Using a "chemical nose" array of nanoparticles and polymers, researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst have developed a fundamentally new, more effective way to differentiate ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Jun 23, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Research puts police gun detectors a step closer

The new technology - being designed by Newcastle, Manchester Metropolitan and Queen Mary universities - uses electro magnetic waves in order to pick up 'reflections' from concealed guns, gun barrels or knives without the ...

Technology / Engineering

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

'Face pass' is latest security system for NEC laptops

NEC has launched two new series of laptops with a unique security feature called "face pass" -- or, in Japanese, "kao pass."

Electronics / Hardware

created Sep 04, 2007 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (34) | comments 0 weblog


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