The "internet of things," a growing web of interconnected devices—constituting everything from smart bulbs to warehouse robots—is posited as a central pillar of the "fourth industrial revolution" ...

Experts at the Fraunhofer Institute for Photonic Microsystems IPMS in Dresden have been developing compact, customer-customized sensor transponders for diverse industrial applications for years.

The Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) market is gaining strong momentum driven by rising industrial automation, smart infrastructure adoption, and rapid advances in low-power IoT technologies. Expanding ...

Today we’re going to be taking a look at the MAXREFDES143, Maxim’s newest reference design for Industrial Internet of Things applications. Today we’re going to be taking a look at the MAXREFDES143, ...

The individual sensor node is arguably the most interesting component of this system since it encompasses so many different sensors and applications. From the smart thermostat in your office adjusting ...

Training for the placement of unattended ground sensors (UGSs) takes place at Fort Bliss, Texas. Tactical and urban UGSs are both part of Future Combat Systems (FCS) equipment and are scheduled to be ...

[Mile]’s PTPM Energy Scavenger takes the scavenging idea seriously and is designed to gather not only solar power but also energy from temperature differentials, vibrations, and magnetic induction.

Unlike human beings, automated vehicles (AV) can indeed have eyes in the back of their heads and also the sides. They have a simultaneous 360 degree view of the world, but it’s not a perfect view. AVs ...

DUBLIN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The "Innovations in Gypsum Board Measurement, Magnetic Angle Sensors, Non-contact Displacement Sensors, Integrated Sensor Nodes, and Construction Site Sensing" report has been ...

The fact that I spend too much time focusing on consumer electronics was brought home to me vividly by a visit to the recent Sensors Expo 2011 in Chicago. Far from the niche show that I expected, it ...