Start-up Dust Networks takes the covers off a low-power wireless system for linking sensors in walls, remote cameras and other places. Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--There's plenty of work to do before countless wireless sensors are scattered around the world, collecting data on everything from the temperature of food shipments to the health ...

Sensors networks are gaining widespread use in factories, industrial complexes, commercial and residential buildings, agricultural settings, and urban areas, serving to improve manufacturing ...

In a new study, researchers describe a novel approach for a wireless communication network that can efficiently transmit, receive and decode data from thousands of microelectronic chips that are each ...

Sensing technologies have made rapid inroads in industrial and commercial deployments. Their penetration in Industry 4.0 in the past few decades is spurred by data-driven operations in the ...

Prof. Ramaswamy Nagarajan from the department of plastics engineering at UMass Lowell has developed a new type of strain sensor suitable for wirelessly monitoring the mechanical deformation in tension ...