Sensors Everywhere ... BP installed five wireless sensors over Christmas at its Cherry Point refinery in Washington to monitor the temperature inside giant on-site fans...
Sensors Of The World, Unite! ... Here are some excerpts. Big boxy computers that were state-of-the-art 20 years ago can now be made about the size of an aspirin...
Nanotechnology-based Flexible Hydrogen Sensors ... You can see above one of these flexible hydrogen sensors (Credit: Argonne National Laboratory). Here is a link to a slightly larger version of this picture...
Nasa Tests Fiber Optic Wing Shape Sensors ... The new sensors, which incorporate fiber optic sensing technology, are located side by side with traditional sensors... As said one NASA researcher, 'there are 3,000 sensors on Ikhana that are imperceptibly small because they’re located on fibers approximately the diameter of a human hair.’ But read more…The sensors are so small that they’re almost invisible... "Although the new sensors on the Ikhana, which are located on fibers that are the diameter of a human hair, are not visible, the sealant used to apply them can be seen in this view from above the wing." (Credit: NASA photo by Tony Landis) Here are two links to a larger version of this picture and to a Ikhana photo collection....
Soda-Straw-Like Fiber Optic Sensors ... Here is a picture from Jonathan Weiss holding soda-straw-like glass tubes (Credit: Randy Montoya). And here is a link to a larger version (655 KB)...
Sensitive Textiles ... Here is what writes PhysOrg about this new kind of fabric. The fabric is a combination of conductive fibers and conventional textile fibers...
Military RFID Sensors Hidden Inside Fake Rocks? ... RFID is being developed into many areas of use. RFID technology is slowly taking over the use of barcodes in many instances...
Wireless Sensors To Monitor Power Grids ... The multidisciplinary team of UB engineers is working on this idea for a while. But the October's storm which affected parts of New York state in October pushed them to publicize it...
Shiny Nanoparticles For New Sensors ... These nanoparticles have been created by an interdisciplinary team at UC Davis, led by Ian Kennedy, professor of mechanical and aeronautical engineering, who also works for the Biosensor group, in particular on the subject of fluorescence immunoassays. Here is how these nanoparticles are made...
Bridge Traffic Powers Its Monitoring Sensors ... You can see above Clarkson University Assistant Professor Edward Sazonov and graduate students Darrell Curry and Haodong Li checking data from a wireless bridge sensor on the Route 11 bridge in Potsdam, N. Y. (Credit: Clarkson University) Here is a link to a larger version of this picture...
Nanotechnology To Protect From Earthquakes ... Let's start with the wireless sensors which were tested at WUSTL in the simulated structural control of a model laboratory building... Below is a picture of Dyke (left) and one of her students adjusting "wireless sensors onto a model laboratory building in Dyke's laboratory... Dyke is the first person to test wireless sensors in simulated structural control experiments." (Credit: WUSTL) Here is a link to a larger version of this photo....
Flexible Sensors Make Robot Skin ... Here are selected excerpts from the Technology Research News article. Researchers from the University of Tokyo have devised pressure-sensor arrays that promise to give objects like rugs and robots the equivalent of one aspect of skin -- pressure sensitivity....
Beautiful Nanorings Could Become Nanoscale Sensors ... Before going further, here is an example of these beautiful zinc-oxide circular nanorings (Credit: Georgia Tech). "This is the first report on the growth of freestanding, single-crystal, complete nanorings, demonstrating the possibility of synthesizing extreme structures and offering a new nanostructure that was not previously thought possible," Zhong Lin (ZL) Wang told nanotechweb...
Fish-like Sensors For Underwater Robots ... This technology has been developed by a team led by Chang Liu, professor of electrical and computer engineering at UIUC. Here is what he says about this new technology...
Wireless Sensors Monitor Glacier Behavior ... This diagram shows you how this works (Credit: GlacsWeb). Now, let's look at the goals of the project....
Wireless Sensors Monitor Volcanic Activities ... The sensors should help researchers, officials, and local residents understand and plan for eruptions of Tungarahua, one of Ecuador's most active volcanoes in recent years....
Making Music With Sensors ... Dr Riddell said the sensors are programmed according to the type of music they want to make, but the right hand's sensors usually work as the control system....
Less Power Needed For Wireless Sensors ... This communication protocol has been developed at the Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California. Wei Ye was the lead researcher, working with John Heidemann in the ISI Laboratory for Embedded Networked Sensor Experimentation (I-LENSE)...