Month: March 2013

Engineers Uncover Novel Wireless Brain Sensor

Engineers at Brown University in the United States of America have developed a novel wireless, broadband, rechargeable and fully implantable brain sensor that has performed well when tested more than a year with animal models. This is a major breakthrough…

Footballers to Wear Sensors

Fabrice Muamba, a 24-year-old professional soccer player in Britain playing for Bolton Wanderers, collapsed during a game last year after suffering cardiac arrest. He’s now up and walking but no more playing football. A 27-year-old Indian soccer player, Venkatesh Dhanraj…

Sensing Roles and Interactions using Mobile Phones

Traditional sensing applications have been limited to the collection of environmental data such as weather conditions or pollution levels. The availability of personal ubiquitous technologies, such as smart mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) enables a much richer set…

Sensors In Arduino Platform

This is another article on Sensors using Arduion platform. The first one ‘WSN Made Easy With Arduino Platform? can be found here. This will help you to understand some of the easiest methods to start implementing your sensor nodes.   …

World of Sensors vs Virtual World of Networks of Computer

A concept of information technology that has the potential to radically revolutionise the way we communicate and exchange information called Speckled Computing has been in existence at the University of Edinburgh. According to the Director of the Centre for Speckled…

Can You Trust Your Car?

Wireless systems are being integrated into modern automobile. However, the security and privacy implication of those systems are not well understood as many of their communication protocols are proprietary.  New anti-theft technologies have made today’s cars much harder to steal,…