which may enable insects to spot the webs with their antennae'e-sensors'.'The study published in Naturwissenschaften shows how a quirk of physics causes webs to move towards all airborne objects regardless of
According to the researchers common garden spider webs around the world could be used for environmental monitoring as they actively filter airborne pollutants with an efficiency comparable to expensive industrial sensors.'
'Their antennae act as'e-sensors 'when the tips are connected to the body by insulating materials meaning the charge at the tip will be different from the rest of the insect.
Bees already use e-sensors to sense flowers and other bees so it now remains to be seen
Sensor technology, that is coming from the physical infrastructure (like that used on the IBM campus),
and by using people themselves as the sensor technology. With feedback from citizens, cities can be smarter.
use this sensor technology too. People are probably better at defining what they need than any technology,
thanks in part to more affordable sensors that can be attached to appliances, toys and other gadgets.
Health and fitness applications, especially where sensors can monitor a person's health, have been adopted widely.
Self service health technology will become more and more common as the cost of sensors decrease and ubiquity of smartphone software increases,
A wireless transmitter on the robot sends camera video and sensor data such as the unit's speed,
the Trakã Â r employs sensors that allow it to follow a 1 mm copper cable,
and sensors to make sure you don't waste a single drop of precious, expensive water. That's a big deal here in California.
handhelds and wireless sensors--is being spearheaded by Pepsico and Cambridge university on a pilot basis, as part of the food company's overriding agenda to develop an integrated crop management system that will help the company reduce the carbon emissions
Will refrigerators soon be automatically placing orders to replenish food stocks identified by its sensors as running low?
is comprised of off-the-shelf roadway sensors linked to software that tracks the speed and volume of vehicles oe either cars or bikes oe moving over the sensors.
Sensors measure the amount of urine entering the urinal and monitor ammonia levels. To determine where P-Planters are needed most,
Sensors in the bags alert passersby that the plant needs water or fertilizer or these signals can be sent to community members via text message.
Man uses fish poo, sensors to grow gardenin Oakland, California, a man grows veggies with fish excrement instead of soil.
Eric Maudu's garden is wired with sensors that let him know just how thirsty his plants are,
The garden has hooked sensors up, so Maudu can tell when the water is running low.
The plants have sensors that tweet updates so he can know in real-time how his garden is doing.
Sensors inside the device detect the three signatures of a bed bug's scent: a combination of pheromones, carbon dioxide and methane.
which is billed as ET Water's first consumer application doesn't rely on any particular sensor technology.
Why thousands of bees are flying around with sensors  Wireless data-collecting sensors are everywhere:
 Enter a swarm of sensors. Australia's national science agency, The  Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO), is placing tiny sensors on the backs of 5, 000 honeybees.
 Using Radio frequency Identification sensors the researchers will be able to track the movement of the bees.
By doing this, researchers will be able to track bee behavior and look for environmental changes that could be harming bee colonies.
the way the scientists are able to attach the sensors to the bees is fascinating.
According to CSIRO, the bees are refrigerated first for a short time to put them in a rest state just long enough to attach the tiny sensors to their backs with an adhesive--younger hairy bees must be shaved first.
and the sensors appear to have no impact on the bee's ability to fly and carry out its normal duties,
  The sensors used on the bees are 2. 5mm x 2. 5 mm,
Better sensors? Brain scans? Robots doing autopsies? Probably not. Even before more human lead autopsies are done,
sensors and barcodes which allow them communicate information digitally. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao expressed his support for the industry in 2009,
-or solar-powered sensors that are distributed in a greenhouse or field. These sensors connect to backend servers that process the data collected,
and the information is displayed as requested by the customer. So, for example, a farmer could monitor conditions for his
but he does want to prove how difficult spoofing the sensor will be --and that biometric technology has moved on in recent years.
Basically people criticized the Touchid sensor as being insecure, thinking it was a typical fingerprint sensor from five years ago.
In reality it's a lot harder, and I was part of a vocal minority of security researchers who argued Apple did a good job.
Dole food Company donating salad bars to schools Fenugreen Freshpaper keeps produce fresh for longer Ripeness sensor developed to monitor produce
and measures gas concentration using infrared sensors. A pair of wings pops out after it enters the stomach
A French company has developed a sensor that can detect if food has been abused Å temperature, Â or stored at an inappropriately cold or hot level.
the sensor will block out a portion of the product barcode, prohibiting a customer from purchasing it.
But it could be tough to find a market for this sensor, she added, because of potential liability issues.
Printed electronic sensors that make it clear when food is still safe to eat could prevent such waste,
the sensors themselves would have to be recyclable. Another option is to remove and sort the sensors,
which would likely be small enough to be melted down and remade. Innovation at what cost?
and places the jug on a base that contains a PH sensor, an LED display, scale, wireless transceiver and a rechargeable battery.
When the sensor detects a PH level outside of the safe range, it triggers the LEDS to turn from green to yellow.
The jug itself contains a temperature sensor that will alert the user if the milk has been left outside the fridge for long enough for bacteria to form.
They put sensors on the field that track nutrient levels and moisture levels, so you can be more precise in how you use resources.
New ripeness sensor developed to monitor produceflickr/DC Central Kitchen Scientists at MIT have created a sensor that has the ability to detect the ripeness of produce.
The sensor works by detecting levels of ethylene, a ripening hormone in fruits and vegetables.
and oranges, the sensor was successful in measuring how much ethylene was secreted. Warehouses have expensive systems to monitor gas composition in produce
but this sensor provides a low-cost and easy to use alternative that could be used in smaller facilities as well.
along with a group of students, envisions the inexpensive sensors  attached to cardboard boxes of produce
Picarro sensors can read'nature's bar code'You may have read about Picarro, which makes sensors for detecting
and measuring various carbon and gas emissions. Those sensors have typically been used for finding gas leaks
or for measuring how changes in weather patterns. Now, Picarro is working with agriculture and food products companies to apply the sensors to measuring the isotopes in foods.
The intention: help food companies spot check and confirm the origins of the ingredients more cost-effectively.
It is suited also well for mobile robots, in particular on flying vehicles that need lightweight sensors
Sensor swilling cattle can alleviate world hunger  Slip this Texas longhorn a sonar mickey, connect to big data,
Sensor-managed garden goes'beyond organic 'And you thought it just took sunlight and soil to raise a tomato.
an open source hardware platform and sensors to precisely monitor and automatically manage the temperature, light and moisture inside a small domed garden.
Within it, the soil is separated into growing beds, with buried water sensors, and a earthwork propagation bin that actively distributes earthworms throughout the bed.
Sensors are used widely to monitor the conditions within high-value sensitive crops such as wine grapes.
Small sensors can detect traces of explosives, using bee venomscientist have tried previously to engineer plants to detect bombs
MIT researchers created a carbon nanotube with a bee venom-based sensor, designed to detect traces of explosives.
and those derivatives could also be identified with this type of sensor. Because molecules in the environment are constantly changing into other chemicals,
we need sensor platforms that can detect the entire network and classes of chemicals, instead of just one type.
If the sensors make their way out of the lab and into the real world, they would be more sensitive than the spectrometry-based systems that are used currently to detect explosives in the air.
In the future, let's hope a single-molecule sensor can stop someone like Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab A k a. the underwear bomber from slipping through security.
and drugs A cheap landmine detector made from ebay parts Sensor robots sense out environmental changes
Researchers are now designing robots for these most delicate crops by integrating advanced sensors, powerful computing, electronics, computer vision, robotic hardware and algorithms,
whose movement is directed through an optical sensor; it allows the robot to make a choice based on fruit color, quality and size.
 Each robobee will be equipped with sensors and cameras, instead of antennae and eyes, that will allow them to do everything from pollinating a field of crops to searching for survivors after a natural disaster.
Some incorporate rain sensors. But what if you want to check on or water your garden remotely?
says Okamura. oeyou can have force-sensors and other ways of examining force, and then you re acquiring data at the same time that you re doing the procedure,
and heartbeat of the patient via sensors embedded in the catheter that had been inserted into the patient heart.
The device uses wireless sensors to constantly monitor patients and check environmental factors in the patients home
since a company developing forest sensors that exploit this new power source. The UW team sought to further academic research in the field of tree power by building circuits to run off that energy.
enough to run low-power sensors. The UW circuit is built from parts measuring 130 nanometers and it consumes on average just 10 nanowatts of power during operation (a nanowatt is one billionth of a watt)."
But the system could provide a low-cost option for powering tree sensors that might be used to detect environmental conditions or forest fires.
Low-cost sensors, clever software and advancing computer firepower are opening the door to new uses in energy conservation, transportation, health care and food distribution.
The role of sensors once costly and clunky, now inexpensive and tiny was described this month in an essay in The New york times by Larry Smarr, founding director of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information technology;
he said the ultimate goal was oethe sensor-aware planetary computer. That may sound like blue-sky futurism,
combining sensors, machine learning and Web technology. It senses not just air temperature, but the movements of people in a house, their comings and goings,
Across many industries, products and practices are being transformed by communicating sensors and computing intelligence. The smart industrial gear includes jet engines,
Computers track sensor data on operating performance of a jet engine, or slight structural changes in an oil rig, looking for telltale patterns that signal coming trouble.
SENSORS on fruit and vegetable cartons can track location and sniff the produce warning in advance of spoilage,
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