Major power outages like the ones which affected the New York state last month or Western Europe ten days ago are becoming more frequent -- even if their causes were different. In some cases, the ...

Sensors networks are gaining widespread use in factories, industrial complexes, commercial and residential buildings, agricultural settings, and urban areas, serving to improve manufacturing ...

Wireless sensors have become ubiquitous in modern society, found in everything from RFID tags to GPS tracking systems, automatic meter reading (AMR/AMI), mesh networks, system control and data ...

They may be modules. Or motes. Or even smart dust. Whatever the form, wireless “sensor nets” will make a heavy imprint on the industry. Rapid-fire advances in "sensor nets"—wireless sensor modules ...

Gaetano Borriello at U. Washington; Intel, Small embedded computers and communications protocols; Deborah Estrin at U. California, Los Angeles, Networking, middleware, data handling, and hardware for ...

Engineers have developed experimental stickers that pick up physiological signals emanating from the skin, then wirelessly beam these health readings to a receiver clipped onto clothing. It's all part ...

In the real world, we have buildings, lamp posts, the breeze. In the virtual one, there's an amount of data from devices like cellular phones, video games and surveillance cameras. To Ashok Sukumaran, ...