sensing
RSS sensingSmart Grid Basics: Turning Information Into Power
White Paper Smart Grid implementations dramatically increase the quantity, quality, and use of data available from advanced sensing, computing, and communications hardware and software. The Smart Grid is a vision of a better... [19 Oct 2009]
Higher Dimensional Blue-Noise Sampling Schemes for Curvelet-Based Seismic Data Recovery
White Paper In combination with compressive sensing, a successful reconstruction scheme called Curvelet-based Recovery by Sparsity-promoting Inversion (CRSI) has been developed, and has proven to be useful for seismic data processing. [30 Aug 2009]
PermaDAQ: A Scientific Instrument for Precision Sensing and Data Recovery in Environmental Extremes
White Paper This paper discusses the specialized sensing and data recovery architecture tailored to meet the precision, reliability and durability requirements of scientists utilizing the data for model validation. [29 Aug 2009]
Optimized Compressed Sensing for Curvelet-Based Seismic Data Reconstruction
White Paper Compressed Sensing (CS) or compressive sampling provides a new sampling theory to reduce data acquisition, which says that compressible signals can be exactly reconstructed from highly incomplete sets of measurements. [29 Aug 2009]
GeoDMA: A Novel System for Spatial Data Mining
White Paper Although a huge amount of remote sensing data has been provided by Earth observation satellites, few data manipulation techniques and information extraction in large data sets have been developed. In this context, the... [29 Aug 2009]
IT essential for businesses' green success
Comment Once you've established the basics, you could consider whether remote sensing - of storage tanks, reservoirs, tunnels, farmland, etc - would be useful in reducing your business's energy usage. David Tebbutt offers... [19 Aug 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Microsoft's Project Natal
Cheat Sheet The former Redmond head honcho said that he reckons we'll see the depth sensing being used to control PCs and televisions, as well as gaming devices. Sounds very James Bond Sorry to disappoint, but this is Microsoft, not... [10 Aug 2009]
Windows to open up to gesture recognition, says Gates
News In an interview with silicon.com sister site CNET News this week, Gates talked about a world in which depth-sensing cameras such as the one Microsoft is adding to the Xbox allow people to control their PCs, game devices... [15 Jul 2009]
A Swarm-Based Fuzzy Logic Control Mobile Sensor Network for Hazardous Contaminants Localization
White Paper The mobile sensor network is composed of a collection of distributed nodes (robots), each of which has limited sensing, intelligence and communication capabilities. This paper describes a swarm-based Fuzzy Logic Control... [08 May 2009]
Coverage Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks Using Distance Estimates
White Paper In wireless sensor networks, it is desirable to maintain good sensing coverage while keeping the number of active sensor nodes small to achieve long system lifetime. This paper first presents a scheme that estimates the... [23 Apr 2009]
Information Processing and Data Management in Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper The rapid progress of wireless communication and embedded micro-sensing MEMS technologies has made wireless sensor networks possible. A wireless sensor network normally comes a large area with many inexpensive, tiny... [23 Apr 2009]
Optimal Cluster Number Selection in Ad-Hoc Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper In clustering-based Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), a certain sensing area is divided into many sub-areas. Cluster formation and cluster head selection are well done in the setup phase. With the predetermined... [23 Apr 2009]
Routing Techniques in Wireless Sensor Networks: A Survey
White Paper Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) consist of small nodes with sensing, computation, and wireless communications capabilities. Many routing, power management, and data dissemination protocols have been specifically designed... [23 Apr 2009]
A Framework for Cognitive WiMAX With Frequency Agility
White Paper Power control is employed to increase frequency reuse in conjunction with spectrum sensing. Cognitive radios have the ability to sense the radio spectrum environment and to switch dynamically to available frequency ranges. [22 Apr 2009]
ADL Recognition Based on the Combination of RFID and Accelerometer Sensing
White Paper The manual assessment of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) is a fundamental problem in elderly care. The use of miniature sensors placed in the environment or worn by a person has great potential in effective and unobtrusive long term... [15 Apr 2009]
