Washrooms are among the highest-maintenance rooms in companies. New technology now monitors soap, cotton towel and toilet paper dispensers fully automatically, and notifies the cleaning staff when ...

The “over-the-air” power company is expanding its offerings to provide the necessary support for custom sensors and tags that could be powered and interrogated by the 2W PowerBridge. The goal is to ...

It provides design engineers with a practical architecture, hardware components, and firmware framework for developing reliable and scalable fire-safety devices used in smart homes and building ...

Most of us don’t think about the intricate network of wireless systems that influence our world unless and until our cell phones leave service range. But at the Drexel Wireless Systems Lab (DWSL), a ...

July 28, 2009 - Around the world multiple social factors are putting strain on existing healthcare operations, but a new wave of interest and investment in wireless body sensors will help healthcare ...

Factory and plant process automation are being re-invented thanks to advances in wireless sensor communications for industrial applications. These innovations are empowering automation engineers to ...

The market for non-mesh wireless sensor systems in general is far larger and some proposed standards apply to both. For example, in addition to the above, the market for Real Time Locating Systems is ...

Energy Harvesting Systems will enable maintenance-free operation of wireless sensors. However, these systems have to compete with batteries, because maintenance costs are not always considered in ...

Industries everywhere are finding ways to save not only on energy and its costs but through the use of wireless networks and in numerous other ways too. According to Oak Ridge National Laboratories, ...

Technology Editor Bill Wong checks out Sensor Expo 2011 and ESC Chicago to see the latest MEMS sensors and wireless sensor systems. The videos are not the greatest since I shot them using a Kodak Zi8 ...