Caltech biologist Richard Andersen is working to incorporate a sense of touch into the neural prosthetics he has been helping develop for years—devices implanted in the brain that allow a paralyzed patient to manipulate a robotic arm. Using funding from…
Category: Technical Articles
Technical papers written in the field of wireless sensor networks
Algorithms pave way for applications from stylish dressing to driverless cars
Raquel Urtasun has been named the Canada Research Chair in Machine Learning and Computer Vision, received two Google faculty awards, a Connaught award, an Early Career award as well as a best paper award at the Computer Vision and Pattern…
The Magic of Chemical Sensing on a Chip
A principal research scientist at MIT’s Microphotonics Center, Anuradha Agarwal and her colleagues have developed miniaturized mid-infrared and far-infrared sensing systems that can be tuned to detect specific materials and their concentrations. Agarwal’s miniaturized infrared detection technology research offers the…
IoT Connecting Rural and Urban India
Investors and companies are of the opinion that Internet of Things (IoT) can bring a real revolution to India by empowering millions in rural areas and connecting “humans” to the mainstream. According to Oracle India managing director Shailender Kumar “It…
Satellite Internet- Rudiments to Africa’s Advancement and Development
The Sub-Saharan Africa according to Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation has succeeded in the last decade in bringing voice services within the reach of some three quarters of the population, but the vast majority of the region is falling further behind the…
Fireproof Aerial Robot System (FAROS) detects fires in skyscrapers
A group of researchers led by Professor Hyun Myung of the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) have developed an unmanned aerial vehicle, named the Fireproof Aerial Robot System (FAROS), a…
Latest Articles in the Journal of WSN (JWSN)
An Energy Efficient Evo-Fuzzy Sleep Scheduling Protocol for Stationary Target Coverage in Wireless Sensor Networks Srinjoy Ganguly Abstract Target coverage is a fundamental problem that needs to be addressed in sensor networks for a variety of applications such as environment…
Weapons Sensor Technology Detects Rotten Meat, Ripe Fruit
A John D. MacArthur Professor of Chemistry at MIT, Timothy Manning Swager has created tiny sensors that detect chemical weapons and explosives but he also sees the potential for the technology to be used in a civilian application: smart food…
Sensor Application: Smart home heating and cooling
An MIT Alumnus with a spinout company known as Ecovent is further refining Smart Home Heating and Cooling technology with an automated system of vents and sensors that allows temperature control of individual rooms through an app. This technology which…
Latest Papers Published in the Journal of Wireless Sensor Network (JWSN)
B-LEACH: A Clustering Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks based on Bacterial Foraging Algorithm Bhavana Adiga Abstract: Wireless sensor networks [WSN] are popular as they are potentially low cost solution to various real world challenges. Environment is monitored by the autonomous…