The Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory (TAHMO) is organizing the TAHMO Sensor Design Competition among African Universities. The stations need a suitable sensor that measures climate variables. Therefore, the project is aimed at designing building and operating the 20,000 weather stations in…
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MIT Researchers Showcase Public-key Encryption Enhancement
MIT researchers show how to secure widely used encryption schemes against attackers who have intercepted examples of successful decryption. “According to Huijia Lin, a postdoc at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory “In real life, maybe it seems more…
Scientist Creates Chemical Sensors That Can Catch Drug-drivers
Scientist at the University of Oxford’s chemistry department have discovered an electrochemical sensors that can be used to detect the presence of drugs in saliva samples – or even measure how hot chillies are. According to an eminent scholar from…
Researchers develop a Sensor System that improves the precision of GPS in cities by 90 percent
Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a new system which improves the ability of a GPS to determine a vehicle’s position as compared to that of conventional GPS devices by up to 90 percent, and which…
Wireless Sensor Network Nodes For Monitoring Natural Disasters
Natural disasters are escalating world wide due to many issues including climate change and perhaps the global warming. The losses due to these disasters are increasing at an alarming rate. Hence, it is would be valuable to detect the pre-cursors…
Keynote: Are We Ready For The Wireless Building?
About the presentation In addition to the latest developments in the research for in-door communications, the event will feature practical examples and case studies to demonstrate new services inside wireless enhanced buildings. You will hear an update on the progress…
Sensors Invented to Predict Mine Collapse
Swedish scientists have developed a new wireless monitoring system for mines. It will be able to predict and save lives in the risky global mining industry making the mines become safer and more efficient. Mining accidents claims the lives of…
Texas Instruments Announces European Analog Design Contest
European Analog Design Contest (ADC) that tends to encourage system-level design within Universities has been announced by Texas Instruments. This is an opportunity for University students to show creativity and engineering skills whilst working on a design project using any…
WIN $3M CONTEST TO DEVELOP INTERNET OF THINGS
A company known as Smartthings have provided a platform that enables developers and makers to build smart and connected devices, an interactive and mobile user experience for consumers to manage and install apps into their physical world to make it…
Intruders Are Red Alert To Strike
Researchers have come to realise that data can be intercepted based on what was sent, whom it was sent to, when the message was sent and where the message was sent from and to. They are also considering the level…