Wildfire detection: Drones paired with ground-based sensors
The twin technologies of unmanned aerial vehicles and wireless sensors could be the ideal combination to counter forest fires.
Jul 5, 2021
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Secure data communication IoT and wireless sensor network for COVID-19
The Internet of Things (IoT) has been much flaunted as the future of sensors and controllers allowing remote access to environmental and other information and facilitating feedback systems that would otherwise require human ...
Jun 16, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers develop ultrathin, self-powered e-health patches that can monitor a user's pulse and blood pressure
Scientists at Osaka University, in cooperation with Joanneum Research (Weiz, Austria), have developed wireless health monitoring patches that use embedded piezoelectric nanogenerators to power themselves with harvested biomechanical ...
Apr 23, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers create ambient vibration energy harvester with automatic resonance tuning mechanism
Korean researchers have developed an energy harvester that can generate electric power from ambient vibrations with diverse frequencies through a novel automatic resonance tuning mechanism. It was recently announced by the ...
Sep 23, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Scientists tap unused energy source to power smart sensor networks
The electricity that lights our homes and powers our appliances also creates small magnetic fields that are present all around us. Scientists have developed a new mechanism capable of harvesting this wasted magnetic field ...
Mar 31, 2020
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Telecom
New method: More timely and reliable transmission of wireless sensor networks
Since sensor nodes in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are cheap and powered by batteries, their capabilities in communication and energy supply are relatively weak and limited. The deployment of relay nodes in constructing ...
Feb 24, 2020
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Internet
The Internet of Things by satellite will become increasingly accessible
For some years now, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been a constantly evolving reality. The possibility that machines (nodes) can communicate with each other has paved the way for applications that promise to have a profound ...
Dec 19, 2019
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Telecom
When WiFi is weak, send noise instead
When WiFi was designed, it was intended for high-speed data communications. The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) set the standards for communications—that's the 802.11 protocol, a familiar number ...
Oct 23, 2019
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Engineering
Stretchable wireless sensor could monitor healing of cerebral aneurysms
A wireless sensor small enough to be implanted in the blood vessels of the human brain could help clinicians evaluate the healing of aneurysms—bulges that can cause death or serious injury if they burst. The stretchable ...
Aug 28, 2019
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Engineering
No wires, more cuddles: Sensors are first to monitor babies in the NICU without wires
An interdisciplinary Northwestern University team has developed a pair of soft, flexible wireless sensors that replace the tangle of wire-based sensors that currently monitor babies in hospitals' neonatal intensive care units ...
Feb 28, 2019
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