A haptic interface is a force reflecting device which allows a user to touch, feel, manipulate, create and/or alter simulated 3D objects in a virtual environment” This forces displays a technology that works by using mechanical actuators to apply forces…
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
The Creation of WSN-based GENESI
WSN-based systems for structural health monitoring could be the answer to the many dramatic events involving the collapse of public structures and private buildings. A system that is unavailable in today’s trend and that will be able to provide long…
Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory – Sensor design competition
The Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory (TAHMO) is organizing the TAHMO Sensor Design Competition among African Universities. The stations need a suitable sensor that measures climate variables. Therefore, the project is aimed at designing building and operating the 20,000 weather stations in…
MIT Researchers Showcase Public-key Encryption Enhancement
MIT researchers show how to secure widely used encryption schemes against attackers who have intercepted examples of successful decryption. “According to Huijia Lin, a postdoc at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory “In real life, maybe it seems more…
Scientist Creates Chemical Sensors That Can Catch Drug-drivers
Scientist at the University of Oxford’s chemistry department have discovered an electrochemical sensors that can be used to detect the presence of drugs in saliva samples – or even measure how hot chillies are. According to an eminent scholar from…
Interfacing Java-DSP With Sensor Motes
Interfacing Java-DSP with Sensor Motes by H. M. Kwon, V. Berisha and A. Spanias Distributed wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are being implemented in various applications that include defense, security, and smart systems. The application of hardware wireless sensors in a…
Researchers develop a Sensor System that improves the precision of GPS in cities by 90 percent
Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a new system which improves the ability of a GPS to determine a vehicle’s position as compared to that of conventional GPS devices by up to 90 percent, and which…
Tutorial: Understanding TinyOS with WSN
TinyOS is an event-driven operating system for networked applications in wireless embedded systems, with a component-based architecture. It is based on the nesC programming language and its core components require only 400 bytes of memory (data and instruction). While TinyOS…
Wireless Sensor Network Nodes For Monitoring Natural Disasters
Natural disasters are escalating world wide due to many issues including climate change and perhaps the global warming. The losses due to these disasters are increasing at an alarming rate. Hence, it is would be valuable to detect the pre-cursors…
Wireless Sensor Networks for Biomedical Applications
Quality of Service, Admission Control and Lifetime-Extending Challenges Authors: Carlos Abreu, Paulo Mendes Biomedical wireless sensor networks empowers the development of new applications and services to improve the quality of medical care provided to the citizens. In such context, these…