For the first time in Canada, a University of British Columbia engineer has found a way to use Wi-Fi to determine the number of building occupants and adjust ventilation accordingly – saving energy without sacrificing air ...
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 31, 2017
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You may soon see faster connections on your cellular service. But your Wi-Fi connection may pay the price.
Telecom
Mar 22, 2017
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Accurate indoor localization has the potential to transform the way people navigate indoors in a similar way that GPS transformed the way people navigate outdoors. Over the last 15 years, several indoor localization technologies ...
Engineering
Jun 14, 2016
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Allegheny City Market, tucked inconspicuously into Pittsburgh's Mexican War Streets neighborhood, has built a customer base with its tidy convenience store and deli featuring locally themed sandwiches like the Randyland Reuben, ...
Business
Nov 25, 2015
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To overcome the problem of interference between wireless networks, a doctoral student at EPFL has developed an algorithm that automatically selects the best frequency band according to the usage of neighboring networks. This ...
Telecom
Jan 23, 2015
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Data-intense multimedia applications are stretching cellular network capacities to their limits, but A*STAR researchers have developed a strategy to ease this burden using 'data offloading'. By using high-level computational ...
Telecom
Jan 21, 2015
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In the developed world, internet access is getting close to saturation point throughout the population, with the proportion of those online in many countries in the West approaching 80% for fixed broadband access and 30% ...
Telecom
Nov 6, 2014
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Recent reports of celebrities having nude or risqué photos of themselves leaked online highlights the serious risk of hackers getting access to our personal pictures.
Security
Sep 2, 2014
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James Lyne from IT security firm Sophos recently carried out a two-day public awareness exercise as part of the InfoSec 2014 conference.
Telecom
May 21, 2014
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Even over the moonscape Nevada desert travelling in a 1950s seaplane, the Internet is there.
Telecom
Jan 10, 2014
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