(Nanowerk Spotlight) Self-sustaining sensor platforms to continuously monitor the surrounding environment are core components for Internet-of-Things (IoT) and smart-grid systems. These sensor networks ...

Engineers at Harvard and BBN Technologies are working on a project that will cover the city of Cambridge, MA, with wireless-sensor nodes mounted to telephone poles that could allow researchers to see ...

This file type includes high-resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. Office buildings are expensive to operate and maintain. Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC), as well as ...

Online weather services are great for providing generic area forecasts, but they don’t provide hyperlocal data specific to your location. [Harald Kreuzer] needed both and built a Raspberry Pi Weather ...

Sensor networks are highly distributed networks of small, lightweight wireless nodes, deployed in large numbers to monitor the environment or system by the measurement of physical parameters such as ...

"Our power-management system is designed for wireless sensor nodes powered by solar. It uses solar panels, batteries and supercapacitors for power and has an MPPT controller. It optimises node-energy ...

This product is featured in EDN’s Hot 100 products of 2018. See all 100 here. Lighting in commercial facilities can be very costly. There has been an ever-growing demand to lower costs by switching ...

Since manufacturers rely on various critical equipment, they often cannot effectively monitor each one. Major technical issues ensue if a problem goes undetected for long enough, making unplanned ...