(Nanowerk Spotlight) Self-sustaining sensor platforms to continuously monitor the surrounding environment are core components for Internet-of-Things (IoT) and smart-grid systems. These sensor networks ...

This product is featured in EDN’s Hot 100 products of 2018. See all 100 here. Lighting in commercial facilities can be very costly. There has been an ever-growing demand to lower costs by switching ...

The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated that there were 6.9 million people supervised by adult correctional systems in the U.S. as of the end of 2013. And there are millions of people around the ...

Several industries use wireless sensors, which can monitor chemical processes or equipment activity and then transmit the data over a wireless network. Still, many facilities that could benefit from ...

There are many reasons to anticipate that the use of wireless instrumentation in industrial settings will increase dramatically in the next few years. However, certain stumbling blocks could curtail ...

Dialog Semiconductor plc, a provider of highly integrated innovative power management, audio and short range wireless technologies, has announced SmartPulse™, the world’s first family of IC based ...

Gaetano Borriello at U. Washington; Intel, Small embedded computers and communications protocols; Deborah Estrin at U. California, Los Angeles, Networking, middleware, data handling, and hardware for ...

The INFINITE consortium, supported by engineers from the University of Sheffield Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre’s (AMRC, Catcliffe, U.K.) composites team, is to integrate wireless sensors — as ...

Sensor technology has been opening doors for everything from precisely measuring the impacts of climate change on sea levels to enabling driverless cars to alerting homeowners when to restock their ...

Wireless sensor networks are evolving with AI and advanced protocols, enabling autonomous data collection and real-time ...