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Digital cameras to incorporate image sensors
News Foveon X3 image sensors feature vertically stacked pixels for better resolution, Zakarov said. In traditional image sensors, individual pixels for capturing red, green and blue light are adjacent to each other.
[June 22, 2004, 14:35]
Toward Efficient Solutions to Resist Mobile Traffic Sensors: How Much Performance Cost Is Paid by On-Demand Anonymous Routing Protocols
White Papers The recent progress in embedded real-time system development has realized mobile traffic sensors, for example, embedded systems carried by palm-size Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV). This has great impact on privacy design in mobile ad hoc networks...
[August 1, 2007, 1:00]
Kodak teams with IBM on next-generation image sensors
News IBM and Eastman Kodak on Thursday announced plans to work together to develop and manufacture a new line of image sensors for use in digital cameras and camera phones. Under the deal, IBM will produce the sensors at its semiconductor facility in...
[September 17, 2004, 9:25]
Worms dodge Internet sensors
News Future worms could evade a network of early-warning sensors hidden across the Internet unless countermeasures are taken, according to new research. In a pair of papers presented at the Usenix Security Symposium in Baltimore, US on Thursday...
[August 5, 2005, 10:45]
Structural Monitoring Using Wireless Sensors and Controller Area Network
White Papers The proposed application uses wireless sensors and the Controller Area Network (CAN) to provide energy efficient monitoring. This paper investigates implementation and design issues for a heterogeneous network for structural monitoring.
[January 9, 2008, 0:01]
Spinning Sensors: Middleware for Robotic Sensor Network
White Papers This paper proposes Spinning Sensors, a middleware system for creating robotic sensor network applications. This middleware enables application programmers to easily write application software which utilizes both sensors and actuators in their...
[January 1, 2009, 23:00]
Bidding Protocols for Deploying Mobile Sensors
White Papers Constructing a sensor network with a mix of mobile and static sensors can achieve a balance between sensor coverage and sensor cost. This paper designs two bidding protocols to guide the movement of mobile sensors in such sensor networks to...
[August 10, 2007, 10:56]
Sensor Relocation With Mobile Sensors: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation
White Papers Mobile sensors are useful in many environments because they can move to increase the sensing coverage. This paper presents a mobile sensor prototype in which the Mica2 sensor node is used to control the movement of the robot built with Commercial...
[August 10, 2007, 10:59]
Ethernet Network-Based DAQ and Smart Sensors for the OPERA Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment
White Papers This paper proposes a data acquisition scheme for the OPERA long-baseline neutrino experiment based exclusively on Ethernet. The expected data rate allows the use of an Ethernet capable device close to the sensor.
[July 8, 2008, 1:01]
Challenges in Building a Portal for Sensors World-Wide
White Papers SensorMap is a portal web site for real-time real-world sensor data. SensorMap allows data owners to easily make their data available on the map. The platform also transparently provides mechanisms to archive and index data, to process queries, to...
[May 31, 2007, 1:00]
Tech consortium to focus on sensors
News A group of Boston-area academics is stepping up efforts to commercialise an experimental technology aimed at giving computer networks powerful new surveillance capabilities. Boston University is leading the charge, forming a consortium to encourage...
[December 1, 2004, 8:20]
IDEAS: Intrusion Detection Based on Emotional Ants for Sensors
White Papers Due to the wide deployment of sensor networks recently security in sensor networks has become a hot research topic. Popular ways to secure a sensor network are by including cryptographic techniques or by safeguarding sensitive information from...
[June 30, 2008, 1:21]
An Adaptive Mobility-Aware MAC Protocol for Sensor Networks (MS-MAC)
White Papers Most of the MAC protocols proposed for wireless sensor networks assume sensors to be stationary after deployment, which usually provide very bad network performance in scenarios involving mobile sensors.
[August 23, 2007, 1:00]
Sony fixes wobbly robot
News The SDR-4X II, a prototype walking robot introduced last year, has had its sensors and software upgraded to make it less likely to topple over, a common problem with bipedal robots. The robot now also sports sensors and motors that can detect when...
[March 26, 2003, 9:37]
NetBotz monitor senses datacentre security
News Network-connected physical security maker NetBotz has launched a Linux-based appliance with built-in video camera, motion detector and environmental sensors that allow IT managers to monitor activity, humidity and temperature within their...
[May 20, 2003, 7:00]
Sens-ation: A Service-Oriented Platform for Developing Sensor-Based Infrastructures
White Papers Context-aware systems use sensors in order to analyse their environment and to adapt their behaviour. The service-oriented paradigm of Sens-ation enables standardised communication within individual infrastructures, between infrastructures and...
[March 21, 2007, 0:00]
Task Switching in Mobile Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers A suitable distribution of sensors can provide an optimal coverage (according to a predefined criterion) of the area of interest. On the other hand, mobile sensors can also move to the point of interest if necessary, thereby possibly leaving large...
[July 20, 2007, 1:00]
BT's PDA in a pen...
News The pen, known as SmartQuill, is a fully working prototype which will detect movements of the hand using sensors and convert them into text. The pen contains a small computer and sensors which monitor the angle of the pen in space.
[October 9, 1998, 15:35]
Intel: Taking the Internet to Mars, and beyond...
News Intel's vision for "proactive computing" -- in which remote sensors will feed information about the physical world to computers for analysis and use by humans -- is moving closer to reality, said David Tennenhouse, vice president and director of...
[December 4, 2002, 9:18]
New car technology worries US privacy advocates
News General Motors will begin installing new sensors and communications systems into vehicles next year that could save lives but might raise privacy concerns. SDM receives input from other sensors throughout the vehicle, including those in side panels...
[August 1, 2002, 13:59]
