Category: Technical Articles

Technical papers written in the field of wireless sensor networks

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…