The Times has seen a patent application filed by the company for a computer system that links workers to their computers via wireless sensors that measure their metabolism. The system would allow managers to monitor employees’ performance by measuring their heart rate, body temperature, movement, facial expression and blood pressure. Unions said they fear that [...]
Eric Singer, creator of musical robots and maestro of LEMUR, the League of Electronic Musical Urban Robots, has unveiled a new wireless sensor-to-MIDI interface. It’s quite a bit pricier than the non-wireless MIDI models at US$495, but the payoff is a complete kit for wireless performance that promises to be resistant to both latency and [...]
Dust Networks introduced a simpler, less expensive wireless sensor network with a new chip. The system-on-a-chip incorporates all the key elements of a sensor set: Dust’s network protocol, low-power technology, and code. For more information click here.
Sensinode provides WSN products with seamless enterprise and internet integration. Sensinode products include innovative low-power, ad hoc wireless technology based on IEEE 802.15.4 and Internet Protocol standards. As an example, they have recently announced the following news: Texas Instruments has adopted Sensinode as their first 6LoWPAN third party. This strengthens TI’s and Sensinode’s position in [...]
The e-SENSE project finished at the end of 2007 after running successfully for the past 2 years. The project was partially funded by the European IST (Information Society and Technology) 6th Framework Programme and listed an impressive 25 organisations from Europe (Industry and Academia). The project has achieved a number of technical breakthroughs with wider [...]
