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Latest News & Events in Wireless Sensor Network

Passion for Sensor Development

Major General Vishwambhar Dayal has called upon researchers and students to develop sensors for their practical application and not to be confined to research papers. Speaking at ‘Tthe Ninth International Conference on Wireless Communication and Sensor Networks (WCSN-2013) organized by…

Wireless Sensor Technology in Rail Monitoring: IBM Boost

A network of wireless sensors should soon be make things easier when commissioning and monitoring rail vehicles. Experts from Siemens have developed a wireless sensor system that measures the mechanical loads to which a rail vehicle is subjected during operation.…

Wireless Sensor Networks Solutions to Africa

NEBUSENS, a company devoted to the research, development and commercialization of its innovative technological n-Core products related to Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) and Real-Time Locating Systems (RTLS), applicable to a wide range of areas, such as healthcare, home or industrial,…

Security Breach In Oil Refineries

Many critical infrastructures such as oil and gas pipelines are probable targets for hackers. This is due to the fact that many industries are controlled with supervisory control and data acquisition, or SCADA, systems. The systems are older, installed at…

Tiny Sensors to Detect Explosives, Bio Weapons, Rotten Food

Researchers at the  Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)  – Christopher Field, Junghoon Yeom, Daniel Ratchford, Hyun Jin In and Pehr E Pehrsson have figured out how to manufacture nanowires reliably using existing technology as tiny sensors built into military combat gear to detect chemical or biological…

Empowering Wireless Sensor Networks below Ground Surfaces

A group of scientist led by Dr. Ian F, Akyildiz, Ken Byers Chair Professor in Telecommunications of the Broadband Wireless Networking lab, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology (Ga Tech) and collaborators have come up with…