Europe is on track for a large scale investment that will create a sustainable transport network with a project called “Connecting Europe Facility, aimed at increasing the benefits of pan-European freight and passenger traffic infrastructure projects. The Fund will have…
Wireless Sensor Networks And Energy Harvesting With EnOcean Technology
EnOcean Alliance are over 100 circle of companies that are committed to drive forward battery free EnOcean technology contributing to the field of wireless sensor networks and energy harvesting. EnOceans energy harvesting and radio technologies allow the innovation and implementation…
Charging Your Batteries From Thin Air Using Energy Harvester
The rapid growth in the field of wireless sensor systems has highlighted the issue of powering remote sensor nodes. The requirement to change batteries, or recharge other power sources, places an unwanted additional maintenance and cost burden on such wireless…
Sniffer WSN Gets Boost From Microchip Creation
Pair of engineers at California Institute of Technology (Caltech) has created a Tiny; inexpensive silicon microchips that generate and radiate high-frequency electromagnetic waves. This imager can penetrate a host of materials without the ionizing damaging effect of x-rays. The chips…
Will The Future Be Perfect?
The emergence and the implementation of Internet of Things (IoT) which brings the Internet, mobile and cloud computing into great light will bring lots of new micro-consumers into the fold and will reinvigorate the passion of innovation in industries. It…
Step-by-Step: Writing Contiki Programs
Hands –on simple instructions on how to program WSN motes on the Contiki operating system platform is illustrated here. This is one of the experiences I had while attending the CONET summer school of 2011 with the developers of Contiki.…