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How to Design Low Power Wireless Sensor Networks
White Paper Driven by the demand for "Green" technology and better use of power, a new generation of extreme low power wireless networks is being developed for use in machine to machine networks, for industrial and control applications, as well as... [12 Nov 2009]
It's Not Just About milliAmps: When Building an Effective Sense and Control Network
White Paper Wireless sensor applications prosper best within a sphere of the industry standards, which gives the OEMs the freedom to purchase from a larger pool of suppliers. Most importantly, standards allow devices from different... [12 Nov 2009]
The Darker Side of Mobile
White Paper With growth industries in GPS navigation, sensor networking, social networking and Google Maps the virtual and physical worlds are on a collision course that is unstoppable. Someday, everything will be 'Always Connected'... [12 Nov 2009]
SEC-SNMP: Policy-Based Security Management for Sensor Networks
White Paper This paper presents a sensor network security management framework called Sec-SNMP, which organizes and manages security related behaviors in sensor networks based on security policies. The security... [11 Nov 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: What is intelligence?
Comment S = Sensor facility More importantly, this formula says that intelligence grows as the logarithm of the sensor, actuator, processor, memory (SAPM) product. An axiomatic condition that the formula... [08 Oct 2009]
Fusion Electronics Selects SafeNet Hardware Keys, Implements Usagebased Pricing
White Paper The product range consists of herd management software and automated milking and feeding, as well sensor technologies for cows, goats, sheep, and camels. Fusion Electronics develops products for the automation of the... [01 Oct 2009]
Photos: Palm welcomes Pixi to the family
Photo The Pixi offers a 2.63-inch multi-touchscreen with a 320 x 400 resolution, built-in accelerometer, and proximity sensor. The Palm Pixi is the latest Palm WebOS device. Pricing and exact availability haven't been... [09 Sep 2009]
ViaLogy SPM Sensor Policy Manager
White Paper Now organizations are beginning to upgrade their ad hoc collections of sensors into sensor networks that provide higher performance, actionable information, and global reach. ViaLogy is a world leader in solutions for... [30 Aug 2009]
PermaDAQ: A Scientific Instrument for Precision Sensing and Data Recovery in Environmental Extremes
White Paper The paper presents a custom sensor interface board including specialized sensors and redundancy features for end-to-end data validation. The PermaSense project has set the ambitious goal of gathering real-time... [29 Aug 2009]
Sustainable Operation and Management of Data Center Chillers Using Temporal Data Mining
White Paper It helps bridge raw, numeric, time-series information from sensor streams toward higher level characterizations of chiller behavior, suit-able for a data center engineer. Data centers are a critical component of modern... [29 Aug 2009]
Photos: Artificial eyes and airport scanners - what's hot in R&D
Photo Capable of navigating meters off the ground, hovering over a spot, or cruising at 45mph, the Hystar permits remote, reusable, safe operation for sensor platforms. The radiation sensor relies on a... [21 Aug 2009]
Cheat Sheet: Microsoft's Project Natal
Cheat Sheet The technological fairydust works using an "RGB camera, depth sensor, multi-array microphone and custom processor running proprietary software" according to Microsoft, allowing it to capture movements in 3D as well as... [10 Aug 2009]
Future BlackBerrys to pack hybrid touchscreens?
News They use two separated touch-sensor layers that, when pressed by a finger or stylus, connect to tell a controller where the pressure took place. BlackBerry maker RIM has applied for a patent on a hybrid... [07 Aug 2009]
Structural Monitoring: Making Bridges Safer Across the United States
White Paper Today, continuous structural health monitoring solutions that combine embedded sensor systems with wireless communications networks are helping to identify potentially dangerous structures, and to pinpoint conditions... [07 Aug 2009]
Integrating Ambient Light Sensors With Windows 7 Computers: New Opportunities and Considerations for Interfacing Ambient Light Sensors With Windows
White Paper This paper provides information about new Ambient Light Sensor (ALS) features in the Windows 7 family of operating systems. It provides guidelines for hardware manufacturers and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to... [31 Jul 2009]