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Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2008
Courtney E. Howard |
The Joule-Thief Harvests Vibration Energy to Power Devices in the Field Engineers at AdaptivEnergy have developed and unveiled an innovative power technology that harvests and converts energy from vibration into usable electricity.   |
IndustryWeek
December 1, 2005
Traci Purdum |
Technologies Of The Year -- MEMS The Word Siemens' Micro-Electro Mechanical Systems is nanotechnology that will drive sensing, communicating, processing and power management in tiny silicon chips. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2007
Courtney E. Howard |
Science of the small Miniature MEMS and nanotechnology devices solve challenges in defense, security, and aerospace applications. |
Technology Research News
June 2, 2004 |
Sensors Track Martial Arts Blows Researchers from Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Stanford University, and Impact Measurement have brought computers into a martial arts sparring ring with a system that senses the force of a hit. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2007
Philip E. Ross |
Benedetto Vigna: The Man Behind the Chip Behind the Wii The designer of the MEMS motion sensor in Nintendo's fabulous game tells how he got into micro-machining and where he's taking it next. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2009
Clark Nguyen |
Radios With Micromachined Resonators Future wireless designs will replace electronics with precision mechanical components. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2006
Brian Betts |
Smart Sensors A single moment of human error can make a sensor and all the data it gathers worse than worthless. A new standard for analog sensors could save lives and money. |
Chemistry World
June 24, 2011
Rebecca Brodie |
Nanogenerators for environmental sensors A nanomaterial-based, self-powered sensor that detects mercury in water has been developed by teams from the US and Korea. |
CIO
July 15, 2003
John Edwards |
Sensitive Sensors Get those gigs. The State University of New York at Buffalo's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department has developed sensors that could boost hard drive capacity by a factor of 1,000 -- without also driving up price. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2006 |
LabVIEW Drivers for Wireless Sensor Networks National Instruments announced LabVIEW drivers for wireless sensor networks, giving engineers and scientists working with these devices the ability to fully integrate their wireless sensors into a graphical development environment. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
June 2008
Courtney E. Howard |
Small science makes a big influence Micro-electro-mechanical systems and nanotechnology continue to solve challenges in military and defense applications. |
CFO
August 1, 2005
John Edwards |
Sensors Working Overtime Wireless tracking devices are radically transforming how businesses monitor vital equipment. |
Technology Research News
February 11, 2004 |
Mechanical storage goes low power Researchers in Korea have devised a very low-power method of reading bits of information stored in areas of film that measure 50 nanometers. The method could eventually be used in ultrahigh-density mechanical storage devices. |
Technology Research News
July 16, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Sensors guard privacy The idea behind a new privacy scheme is to make sensor networks automatically reduce the accuracy of the location data they report whenever anyone is in danger of standing out. The goal is to allow people to be monitored without any one person being tracked. |
IEEE Spectrum
April 2008
Michael Dumiak |
Magnetic Field Sensors Could Help Halt Runway Crashes European engineers harness Earth's magnetic field to improve airport safety. |
Chemistry World
August 2006
David Walt |
Comment: Common Sense for Sensors Designing sensors for manufacturability must be performed at the outset rather than as an afterthought. Only when we develop such reproducible sensors will they become pervasive tools for improving our quality of life. |
Defense Update
Issue 1, 2006 |
Unattended Ground Sensors After several decades of rather obscure awareness in military operations, the use of passive sensors for remote battlefield applications is becoming more popular... Ground surveillance sensors... Future combat systems... etc. |
IndustryWeek
April 1, 2007
Jonathan Katz |
Sensing Change In Wireless Sensor technology is expected to drive wireless growth in manufacturing. |
Food Engineering
June 4, 2007 |
Not Your Mama's Sensor More rugged, adaptable and reliable sensors are being deployed in industrial automation. And the fact they're taken for granted attests to how well they perform. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2006 |
MEMS Market to Reach $12.5 Billion by 2010 With an average annual growth rate of more than 20%, microelectromechanical-systems devices and production equipment is one of the fastest growing technology areas. |
Home Toys
December 2002
David Steele |
Driveway And Entry Annunciators For Home Automation Driveway and entry annunciators have been around for many years. To add them to your home automation and security system can add a whole new meaning to convenience. They can provide you not only with being alerted when a visitor approaches, but also turn on lights for safety and convenience. |
Home Toys
June 2004
Bert Centala |
Sensors Make "Sense" for Home Automation Environmental sensor products can be a welcome addition to almost any Home Automation system whether they are used to actively control HVAC devices or to simply monitor key environmental parameters. |
