Wireless Monitoring Sensor to Help Manage Heart failure Scott & White Memorial is one of six hospitals in Texas
and can send the information to a computer or smart phone via Bluetooth, where a dentist or orthodontist can retrieve it,
and pass through Wi-fi and other microwaves.""This research will also open new venues for general light control
and faster communication standards such as 4G LTE and beyond. Conservative estimates suggest worldwide Industrial Internet spending is set to increase from $20 billion in 2012 to $500 billion by 2020.
the microscopes described here are connected all to servers through WIFI or network signals, which make them uite powerfulin terms of labeling results as a function of space
The research has been published in the journal Microsystems & Nanoengineering, in an article headed"3d printed microelectronics for integrated circuitry and passive wireless sensors. e
For the last two years, Amal Graafstra, the founder and CEO of the Seattle-based company, has sold implantable devices including near-field communication (NFC) chips, radio-frequency identification chips (RFID), biomagnets,
Dangerous Things/Facebookimplanting a RFID tag only takes a few minutes and is a relatively painless procedure.
For example, Graafstra, who has an RFID chip implanted in each hand, has stopped almost completely using keys and passwords.
This RFID kit comes with everything needed to perform an implant. Eventually, implantable devices could even be tied to your bank account
Prices for products range from $39 for a basic RFID/NFC glass tag to $99 for a NFC injection kit and take only a few minutes to implant into the hands.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved RFID chips for human implantation in 2004.
Dangerous Thingsgraafstra has a RFID tag in each of his hands. e have been picking up things like rocks
and demonstrates how the RFID tag implanted in his hand can be used to unlock a smart doorlock.
#Wi-fi Aware enables location-based apps without GPS, cell service A new Wi-fi technology will soon let smartphones
and other Wi-fi enabled devices easily find each other and communicate without a cellular or internet connection or GPS.
Wi-fi Aware is a way for devices and apps to scan their surroundings for other devices
and apps they might want to connect to and exchange small messages before making a more solid Wi-fi connection.
Some uses suggested in a promotional video including: Finding someone to play a game with on a subway train.
The new technology was announced this week by the Wifi Alliance, a collaboration of companies involved in making
or selling Wi-fi devices or components, including Apple, Microsoft, Sony, Intel and Samsung. Location-based services have been billed as a convenient way to target information to people, such as shoppers,
In Wi-fi Aware-certified devices, the service runs continuously in the background, looking for services
users who find what they're looking for can establish a more solid connection via Wi-fi,
or Wi-fi Direct, which allows some devices to connect directly without an internet connection. Regular Wi-fi has sometimes been blamed as a battery drain in smartphones
but the Wi-fi Alliance says Wi-fi Aware operates in a very power efficient way"through a unique process of discovery
and synchronization, establishing a common'heartbeat'".'"Works indoors, in crowds It's billed as working well even indoors somewhere GPS doesn't work very well,
Wi-fi Aware will also work in crowded places like concerts and protests without a cellular, Wi-fi or GPS connection.
Its range is similar to that of a regular Wi-fi connection several dozen metres. So far, the Wi-fi Aware technology has been incorporated into a wireless chips from Broadcom, Intel, Marvell and Realtek."
"Wi-fi Aware closes many of the gaps preventing other technologies from offering a rich experience where users can fully engage with the world around them,
"said Clint Brown, director of product marketing for Broadcom Corp.,in a statement. Existing technologies used for location-based services all have weaknesses.
GPS doesn't work well indoors, regular Wi-fi is not very power efficient, NFC has an extremely short range,
and Apple's ibeacon, based on Bluetooth Low energy (BLE) is designed to work only with Apple devices. ibeacon:
How much privacy would you give up for a coupon? This week, Google announced its own competitor to ibeacon, known as Eddystone,
which can be compatible with any Bluetooth Smart device, regardless of whether its Apple, Android,
Kevin Robinson, director of product marketing for the Wi-fi Alliance, said another advantage of Wi-fi Aware over beacon technologies is they offer only one-way conversations."
"Wi-fi Aware enables a two-way conversation that doesn't rely on the cloud.""For example, he said,
But Wi-fi Aware would let the app ask about wait times at that and nearby security checkpoints o
Litman learned that city is buying a fleet of 400 new buses, all with onboard Wi-fi, USB ports at every seat and bike racks.
#Dutch Harvest Electricity From Living Plants To Power Streetlights, Wi-fi & Cell Phones Plant-e, a company based out of The netherlands,
using them to power Wi-fi hotspots, cell phone chargers, and even streetlights. The company debuted their project, called tarry Sky, in November of 2014 near Amsterdam,
and connect to a smartphone via Bluetooth. They can also be recharged twice fully in a charging case.
and a Wi-fi and Bluetooth connection to connect to different devices. The gadget is viewable from four different angles with 360-degree,
in order to send digital signals across wireless communication links to handlers, 'Roberts says. The technology can also reveal the position of the dog
it is equipped with bluetooth 4. 0 and an app that is intuitive and intentionally minimal. it grants access to friends and family members with either a bluetooth key,
or by registering their fingerprints. the ola fingerprint lock currently looking for funding on its kickstarter campaign with a march 2016 shipping date. the companion app for ola the sensor uses radio frequency signal to scan the pattern under the surface of the skin schematics of the ola fingerprint lock n
#Fraunhofer reveals chip-scale solar-powered wireless sensor node German lab Fraunhofer IMS has created a self-contained solar-powered wireless chip-scale IC that can warn
and the Bluetooth chipset firm has combined its in-the-home wireless mesh network technology with Android Wear to allow home control
The CSRMESH protocol is used to connect Bluetooth Smart enabled devices controlling lights heating thermostats or even mechanisms to open and close curtains.
#University embeds RFID chips in yarn Researchers at Nottingham Trent University have come up with a way of embedding RFID chips in yarns
f an RFID chip is embedded into a shirt, for instance, it will provide a much greater level of anti-theft
Sealed inside resin micro pods within yarns, the fabrics incorporating RFIDS can be run through washing machines
Similar to the RFID devices now used in bank cards for contactless payments, the tiny chips can contain all the information
and the mobile app can be used without Wi-fi. Quick Key Team Management and Quiz Sharing features allow district
Spiral 3 will add the Rockchip reference design, an LTE 4g modem, an Android release, packaging
along with an LTE modem to report their prevalence at specific locations. Google has stressed the goal of creating an entire ecosystem around this concept rather than simply throwing it to the consumer-wolves,
if the phone can be equipped with a sufficiently flexible LTE radio to allow for a truly global device.
A company called Energous is on hand at CES with a demo of its new wireless power system known amusingly as Wattup.
It uses a mix of Bluetooth and RF to combine the convenience of wireless power with the security of a wireless network.
Devices that want to receive power from the hub announce their presence via Bluetooth 4. 0. Wattup then uses that connection to direct the wireless power signal to the device.
It operates in the same unlicensed spectrum as Wifi, which makes me wonder about possible interference in busy wireless environments.
Some experiments in long-range wireless power have forced simply brute their way through this problem to the point that they actually heat up the air around the transmitter.
That Bluetooth connection is used to focus a tight cone of electromagnetic waves on the target, and it can even track the device and recalibrate as needed.
so why not your wireless power network? The Bluetooth tether that is used to direct beam-forming can also authenticate devices.
Wattup can operate in protected mode where only authorized devices can connect, or in public access mode where anyone with the hardware can soak up some electrons (controlled via an app).
in the case of the proposed T-Mobile/AT&T merger, 4G LTE networks), is that it costs too much to be economically viable.
Ambiq new design strategy could be critical to the long-term evolution of the wearables market the Internet of things,
#Indian-Origin researcher uses Wi-fi to power camera In a first such demonstration, an Indian-origin researcher has developed a system that uses Wi-fi Internet signals to beam power to remote
the system is known as power-over-Wi-fi. The idea is simple in concept. Wi-fi radio broadcasts are a form of energy that a simple antenna can pick up.
Until now, Wi-fi receivers have all been designed to harvest the information that these broadcasts carry. Talla simply connected an antenna to a temperature sensor
placed it close to a Wi-fi router and measured the resulting voltages in the device and for how long it can operate on the remote power source alone.
Even more ambitiously, the team also connected a camera to their antenna. This was a low-power sensor capable of producing 174×144 pixel black and white images,
we charge a Jawbone device in the vicinity of the power-over-Wi-fi router from a no-charge state to 41 percent charged state in 2. 5 hours,
According to the MIT report, power-over-Wi-fi could be the enabling technology that finally brings the nternet of Thingsto life.
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Each nti-bacterial, sweat-proofpair features a Bluetooth wireless connection and offers more than four hours of battery life.
Each nti-bacterial, sweat-proofpair features a Bluetooth wireless connection and offers more than four hours of battery life.
The WPT technology developed by researchers at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) works just as Wi-fi works for Internet connections.
like the Wi-fi Power zone, the researchers said. The system can charge multiple devices simultaneously
all wireless-charging technologies have had difficulties with the problem of short charging distance, mostly less than 10 cm,
#Device delivers drugs to brain by remote control A new wireless device the width of a human hair can be implanted in the brain
researchers made the tiny wireless devices capable of delivering drugs directly into the brain, with the remote push of a button.
The new technology uses implanted sensors sending wireless signals to the artificial limb's built-in computer, enabling subconscious, real-time control and faster, more natural responses and movements.
#Wi-fi signals used to perform a head count The technology is basically the same as that previously used by Mostofi's team to look through walls.
the changes in the strength of the sent and received Wi-fi signals was used to estimate how many people were walking in a given area.
the researchers used two Wi-fi cards, placing one at each end of a target area of roughly 70 sq m (753 sq ft). Using the received power measurements of the link between the two cards,
and search and rescue given the near-ubiquity of Wi-fi signals in many areas. In terms of energy efficiency
Mostofi says she plans to eventually bring the two Wi-fi-based technologies together, which could result in a system that could estimate the number of people moving in a given area,
The video below explains the head-counting Wi-fi technology, with the team's paper scheduled for publication in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.
or PC to it wirelessly using Wi-fi. With this option, users can mirror their screens on the giant projector display.
#New wireless power tech can charge multiple devices in any orientation Scientists at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science
and Technology (KAIST) have developed an omnidirectional wireless charging technology that can charge multiple devices at once, at a distance and, crucially, at peak efficiency regardless
An effective wireless transmitting power of 30 watts means the device can, according to the researchers, power either 30 smartphones or five laptops simultaneously.
which uses the latest wireless and connectivity technologies to integrate further into a coordinated transportation system.
Safety features are also part of the integration for devices such as Philips'LED Hue bulbs and Beep, a Wi-fi-connected music dial.
#Meet Milli 5 Silver Spring#s Tiny Wireless Smart grid Node Silver Spring Networks wants to push wireless connectivity beyond smart meters
That the purpose of the Milli 5, the new, super-small wireless node unveiled Wednesday by the Redwood City, Calif.-based smart metering giant.
Cisco and Itron are using 802.15. 4g wireless for their smart grid and smart city efforts and Toshiba Landis+Gyr is using it for its 27-million smart meter deployment in Tokyo,
#Patient safety driving increased RFID use in hospitals The University of Vermont Medical center in Burlington, Vt.
announced recently that five million medications have been tracked using radio frequency identification technology. Adam Buckley, MD, interim chief information officer and chief medical informatics officer at UVMC, said any time a system allows a hospital to track reliably from ordering through dispensing through administration at the bedside,
A vial of the drug Glycopyrrolate with a strength of 1mg/ML became the five-millionth RFID-tagged dose at UVMC tracked by Kit Check, a Washington, D c,
Karen Mcbride, UVMC's director of pharmacy services, said that patient safety was the main reason for utilizing RFID technology."
and that the RFID kit technology essentially eliminates that possibility. The way Mcbride explained it,
preparation and administration, said Kitcheck"has succeeded out of the gate"by applying RFID tags to anesthesia kits, already operational in over 100 hospitals.
Neuenschwander noted that in the past RFID companies thought at a universal rather than a macro level,
For example, MEPS Real-time Inc. a company that offers a suite of Intelliguard RFID Solutions, has shifted its from focus from macro to micro RFID solutions,
and track bullets throughout hospitals'pneumatic transport tubes with RFID. RFID vs. barcode Despite the progress RFID has made in the hospital setting, the debate over
which technology will sustain over the long hall, RFID or bar code, is ongoing among industry experts.
According to Neuenschwander, each technology has its advantages and disadvantages. Barcodes, he said, are less expensive data carriers than RFID chips.
And RFID chips have higher read-failure rates than bar codes.""Proximity reads are an advantage when
I want to read everything that is in a kit, as opposed to handling and scanning items one by one,
Why RFID hasn't been applied to drug packaging for point-of-care verification scanning? Neuenschwander said that he doubts
if RFID chips will ever displace barcodes on drug packages any more than on cereal boxes in grocery stores.
Rather, he contends that RFID will augment printed codes on a select number of items."
however, RFID is more than just a mirage on the frontier, he said:""RFID has materialized finally beyond prototypes to products that are live in hospitals today,
"said Neuenschwander. UVMC's Buckley said that people are going to figure out the best way to leverage RFID technology."
"Whether it will be the best way to leverage it or whether the price will be cost-prohibitive
"Going forward, UVMC said that its next step is to talk to Kitcheck about leveraging similar RFID technology in the OR setting."
Imagine dismissing smartphone notification with the wave of a hand or pressing your fingers together to play music from a bluetooth speaker.
Skin View Camera is a measurement device equipped with a CMOS image sensor, optical lens, LED device and Wifi module. oing forward,
Measurement data is sent to a cloud server via Wifi. One of the distinguishing features of the new system is that its measurement results are analyzed by a cloud server using SKEP,
#Novel Use of WI-FI Signals to Power Remote Devices, named Powi-Fi The scientists from the University of Washington have devised a method to utilize Wi-fi signals to power a battery-free camera,
demonstrating the possibility of using Wi-fi signals to broadcast power to remote devices. They have named the new approach as'Powi-Fi'signifying'power over Wi-fi'.
'In a report published in the MIT Technology Review, Vamsi Talla, an Indian origin scientist along with colleagues at the University of Washington in Seattle have asserted that Wi-fi radio broadcasts are a form of energy
and a simple antenna with the receivers can pick up this energy. Talla demonstrated his claim by connecting an antenna to a temperature sensor
and placing it close to a Wi-fi router. The resulting voltage in the device was measured then
The team also used Wi-fi signals to charge a Jawbone fitness device from a no-charge state to 41%charged state in 2. 5 hours.
The MIT report stated that power-over-Wi-fi could be the enabling technology that finally brings the'Internet of things'to life e
It smaller than any other comparable device and unlike other primary cell systems, it comes with a wireless remote that can be used by the patient to adjust therapy options.
All this is passed via Bluetooth to the patient smartphone, where glucose charts and insulin injections are tracked automatically.
Moreover, the system relies on wireless Bluetooth connectivity to talk to the neurostimulator completely getting rid of cables that have been used in the past to connect to the device.
or light-based wireless communication While lasers were invented in 1960 and are used commonly in many applications,
The technology under development is called Li-Fi for light-based wireless communication, as opposed to the more prevailing Wi-fi,
using radio waves. Li-Fi could be more than 10 times faster than current Wi-fi and white laser Li-Fi could be 10 to 100 times faster than LED based Li-Fi currently still under development. he concept of white lasers first seems counterintuitive
because the light from a typical laser contains exactly one color, a specific wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum, rather than a broad-range of different wavelengths.
Columbia engineers invent nanoscale IC that enables simultaneous transmission and reception at the same frequency in a wireless radio March 14th,
we anticipate such device developments as flexible displays and disposable RFID (automatic wireless identification) tags. Currently, development is mainly progressing for devices that use p-type organic semiconductors,
Today's standards, such as 4G LTE, already support 40 different frequency bands, and there is no space left at radio frequencies for future expansion.
and bring this functionality to handheld devices such as cellular handsets, mobile devices such as tablets for Wifi,
and in cellular and Wifi base stations to support full duplex communications.""The biggest challenge the team faced with full duplex was canceling the transmitter's echo.
The antenna performed well enough to make it practical for use in radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags and wireless sensors,
like RFID tags that currently transmit identifying info on everything from cattle to car parts,
Most commercial RFID tags are made from metals like aluminium and copper, Huang said, expensive materials with complicated fabrication processes that increase the cost."
"Graphene based RFID tags can significantly reduce the cost thanks to a much simpler process and lower material cost,
The University of Manchester and BGT Materials Limited team has plans to further develop graphene enabled RFID tags,
"Nikola Technology efficiently converts RF signals like Wi-fi, Bluetooth, and LTE into DC power using its proprietary energy harvesting circuit,
"explains the company on its website.""The result is usable energy that can provide power to mobile devices wirelessly."
by adding the concept of wireless communication, the biosensor could be placed in one part of the body,
#Gadgets powered wirelessly at home with a simple Wi-fi router Our homes are tangled a mess of wires and chargers.
Work is under way to use the Wi-fi signals that surround us to power our gadgets.
which modified electrical devices were put in their homes along with a Wi-fi router. Over 24 hours, the devices were powered solely by the router's signal,
the Wi-fi signal is active and can be used to power devices. However, when not browsing the signal goes quiet."
"With Wi-fi for communications, you only want to transmit when you have data to send, "Talla says."
"To get around this, the team designed software that broadcasts meaningless data across several Wi-fi channels
"The problem is that Wi-fi is never going to provide a very powerful signal. Wi-fi is regulated tightly in many countries the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC), for example, limits the power of a Wi-fi broadcast to 1 watt.
An iphone charger delivers at least 5 watts and has no other demands on its output. One company with a solution is Ossia in Bellevue, Washington.
It has called a system Cota that gets around the FCC regulations by designing a wireless hub that transmits waves at a Wi-fi frequency
"Unlike Wi-fi, our power signal is unmodulated, "says Zeine.""It's a continuous wave, there's no message in it."
Sensors powered by Wi-fi could be used to monitor air quality or the status of systems across a city
#Wi-fi Everywhere May Let You Roam Free From Your Mobile Carrier To get the most out of your smartphone do need you really a cellphone plan?
when he spent a month relying only on Wi-fi networks for his mobile data and voice needs.
but with Wi-fi they're hotspots Knutson said. So you can't walk down the street
while doing the Wi-fi only plan because the signals just don't carry far enough to cover you over long distances.
and carriers with cheap plans that rely on Wi-fi first and roam on the network of a cellular provider such as Sprint as a backup.
Waterproof and wireless, it can work even for smaller boats. The pod has its own battery pack
the Fish Scout pod creates its own Wi-fi connection with an impressive 320-foot range.
Before Google Project Jacquard, there was Byborre wifi-enabled pillow to combine technology, textile and shape.
It can be controlled wirelessly via Bluetooth within a 30-foot range, making it easy to follow a subject movements.
The Grillo Active contains an accelerometer, Wi-fi and GPS. But how will it work? The efficacy of a system relies on sensor placement.
and Wi-fi speed and reliability beg to be asked. But Grillo, which means ricket, thinks outside the box and uses something we already widely used to do something greater.
A bluetooth-enabled device attached to the monitor collects and transmits data such as the mother and baby's heart rates to a smartphone and stores it on a secure cloud-based database accessible only to expectant mothers and their physicians.
#A camera has successfully been powered using spare Wi-fi signals Researchers in the US have tweaked a regular Wi-fi router
Researchers have known long that the electromagnetic waves broadcast by Wi-fi routers could be harnessed for energy as well as sending information,
"In the past, scientists have never been able to harness enough Wi-fi signals to power anything of much use.
They found that the resulting voltages produced by the Wi-fi signals were never high enough to cross the operating threshold of around 300 millivolts.
was that Wi-fi routers don continuously blast out electromagnetic waves, they send them out on a single channel in bursts.
But by programming a router to broadcast noise across a range of Wi-fi channels even
and camera sensors using Wi-fi signals from a distance of six and five metres respectively,
The question that needs to be answered now is how these routers interfere with other signals in the area. aving a router next door that is blasting out signals on three Wi-fi channels might not be everybody idea of neighbourly behaviour,
the team of students from Shanghai Jiao Tong University describe how they fitted one of their team members with a bluetooth electroencephalogram (EEG) headset.
by adding the concept of wireless communication, the biosensor could be placed in one part of the body,
by adding the concept of wireless communication, the biosensor could be placed in one part of the body,
#Omnidirectional free space wireless charging of multiple wireless devices Scientists have made great strides in wireless-power transfer development.
just as Wi-fi works for Internet connections. With this technology, so long as mobile users stay in a designated area where the charging is available, e g.,
Until now, all wireless-charging technologies have had difficulties with the problem of short charging distance, mostly less than 10 cm,
it could significantly expand the reach of so-called"super Wi-fi"networks in urban areas.""Due to the popularity of cable, satellite and Internet TV, the UHF spectrum is one of the most underutilized portions of the wireless spectrum in the United states,
"said lead researcher Edward Knightly.""That's a bitter irony because the demand for mobile data services is expected to grow tenfold in the next five years,
and computer engineering and director of the Rice Wireless Network Group, said the UHF spectrum, which ranges from 400 to 700 megahertz,
is called often the"beachfront property"of the wireless spectrum. Unlike the higher frequency signals used for existing Wi-fi hotspots,
UHF signals carry for miles and are blocked not by walls or trees. Because of these advantages, wireless data hotspots that use UHF are referred often to as"super Wi-fi."
"In the U s.,TV broadcasters have been given preferential access to the UHF spectrum for more than 50 years.
"Unfortunately, in the most densely populated areas of the country, where the need for additional wireless data services is the greatest,
Knightly and Rice graduate student Xu Zhang developed a technology called"Wi-fi in Active TV Channels,
that eliminates TV broadcasts from interfering with the super Wi-fi data signals being sent to computer users,
Wi-fi in Active TV Channels,"won best-paper honors last month at Association of Computing Machinery's Mobihoc 2015 conference in Hangzhou, China.
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