On a crisp, cloudless day earlier this year Ricardo Toledo-Crow went for a stroll in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx looking for one of the city’s newly discovered weak points: where water goes and ...

Machines still struggle with perception. Autonomous vehicles miscalculate distances in rain. Delivery robots hesitate at curbs. Industrial equipment halts ...

New autonomous sensor technology may help businesses monitor refrigeration and heating systems in real time much faster and easier than current options. Researchers at Purdue University developed the ...

I like to think of engineers as doctors of the electronics world. Let me explain: Think about the last time an optometrist examined your “human sensors.” Did they prescribe glasses to compensate for ...

The government needs to get smart about handling the coming flood of real-time, sensor-based data, writes consultant Marc Demarest. Marc Demarest is CEO and principal at Noumenal, a principals-only ...

Irvine, Calif., Sept. 18, 2006 -- A discovery by UC Irvine scientists could help public health officials know instantly when pollution has moved into the coastal ocean -- a breakthrough that could ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — The recent oil spill on the St. Marys River has pressed a new program from Lake Superior State University into action. The university’s Center for Freshwater Research and ...

A research team led by Professor Jiang Changlong at the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed a highly sensitive, real-time sensor for detecting trace water, ...

What are the database management system (DBMS) requirements for complex real-time sensor data fusion? What application modifications are needed if a DBMS isn’t being used? Different definitions of ...

Batch processing and testing is a mainstay of the biopharmaceutical industry today. But, as operations become increasingly automated and continuous and integrated manufacturing is adapted more widely, ...

A research team develops a real-time humidity sensing optical sensor. The response time of the new sensor is 10,000 times faster than the conventional sensors and can be mass-produced at low cost. The ...