Author: Dr. Celestine Iwendi

Celestine Iwendi is a Sensor and Electronics Researcher at the University of Aberdeen, UK. He can be reached at celestine.iwendi@ieee.org

Security Technologies: An Industry Perspective

Security has always been about maintaining the initiative over potential threats using a balance of people, procedures and technology. As organisations seek enduring, cost-effective and proportionate security solutions, this balance point continuously moves with the ever-increasing capability of security technology.…

Energy harvester for Wireless Sensor Networks

The AA or AAA or Lithium Batteries currently been used for sensor nodes are often cost prohibitive and highly problematic in hazardous areas during replacement, and also for industrial or commercial entities using wireless sensors in distributed networks. According to…

Continuous Corrosion Monitoring System with WSN

It is well known that the oil and Gas industry is suffering from the effects of corrosion. ‘Corrosion is seen lining the oil plants that occur during hydrocarbon refining process. It is the breakdown of a metal into its atomic…

Sigalabs Introduces WiStick

Sigalabs, a communication and data logging solutions supporting open platforms like Arduino based in Athens, Greece has introduced a new tool for the first open source wireless sensor networks (WSN) called  ‘The WiStick’. The WiStick is a microcontroller board based…

Ban on Facial-Recognition Apps by Google: Obstacle for WSN?

Some developers have expressed dissatisfaction on the news that Google has banned facial recognition for Glass application, thereby hindering doctors, police, and others in using the application for the betterment of future technology. Google’s last week decision  announced on its…

World Conference on WSN for Developing Countries

Speakers at the 1st International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks for Developing Countries (WSN4DC’13) have stressed that wireless underwater acoustic communication system had become one of the most promising technologies for the development and deployment of future ocean observation and…

Wired to Wireless Structural Engineering

Structural engineers are now working on new method to integrate wireless sensor networks as a means of ensuring that we live and work with latest safety regulations, and ready to face any natural disasters or terror attacks. For instance, the…