News tagged with sensor nodes

Trains’ vibrations could provide power for monitoring tunnels

(PhysOrg.com) -- Traffic tunnels are often built in some of the most rugged and remote areas, which subjects them to extreme environmental forces while making them difficult to access. Ideally, the structural ...

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created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 4 | with audio podcast feature

Revolutionary sensor system protects ports, bridges and distribution centres

(PhysOrg.com) -- Özlem Durmaz Incel, researcher at the University of Twente, the Netherlands, has developed a spectacular new method that enables wireless sensor networks to function up to ten times more efficiently. Networks ...

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created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Students find 'lost' office gear with tiny sensors

(PhysOrg.com) -- Miniature sensors being developed by CSIRO promise to provide the answers to questions which seem to arise regularly in modern office workplaces like: "Where's my pen?" and; "Who nicked my ...

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created Feb 10, 2010 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Monitoring your health with your mobile phone

Belgian Imec, together with TASS software professionals have developed a mobile heart monitoring system that allows to view your electrocardiogram on an Android mobile phone.

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created Oct 05, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Drinking water watched by Queensland's seventh sense

One of the major sources of drinking water for south-east Queensland is now under the watchful eye of Australia's largest integrated intelligent wireless sensor network.

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created May 13, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Renesas creates a near-field wireless communication with no battery use

(PhysOrg.com) -- Renesas Electronics Corp has announced the development of a near-field wireless communication technology that can transmit data to Bluetooth- and wireless LAN-compatible devices without the use of a battery. ...

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created Jun 16, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast weblog