The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) has issued a warning that hackers have figured out how to exploit Java vulnerabilities to install malicious software enabling them to commit crimes ranging from identity theft to making an infected computer…
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 Challenges for Wireless Sensor Networks
Wireless Sensor Systems deployments are security sensitive and attacks against them may lead to damage to health and safety of people. The biggest treat to WSS is Denial-of-service attack. These attacks are conditions for hardware failures, resource exhaustion, bugs, malicious…
PhD Student Tackles Hazardous Gases With Foam Sensor
A doctoral student from the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, one of the America’s oldest technological research university, Fazel Yavari has developed a new sensor that detects extremely small quantities of hazardous gases. The…
Internet of Things Gets Boost From ZigBee
Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) has announced CC2538 what seems to be the first Industry’s 3-in-1 network processor that offer the three most popular ZigBee standards for one-end user and could aid the future Internet of Things deployment. According to the…
Flying Sensors Ready To Fight Crime
The Flying toy idea has improved to a new level. You can now have drones monitoring your land aerially over large swaths of land including a farm or factory. “To reduce the number of crimes, we wanted to develop a…
3D Sensing and Communication in Hazardous Places
Node positioning and deployment in hazardous places have numerous set back. In this article I intend to show the challenges that are currently been experience for wireless sensor experts. The scope covered so far on node positioning has been two-dimensional…
The Fight against Fat : WSN Effect
Obesity is a serious problem in the world today. It is a major health issue for people with a higher risk for high blood pressure, high cholesterol and diabetes as they grow older. Scientist has experimentally developed a wireless sensor…
Wireless Sensor Network for Underwater Communication
About the presentation Although, attenuation in Electromagnetic (EM) wave propagation underwater is high at high frequencies, the theory predicts that propagation is possible at some useful distance in the lower Industrial, Scientific and Medical (ISM) band.The aim of this paper…
Connect or Die: Can M2M save the world?
About the presentation Iain will explore some Machine 2 Machine (M2M) applications which could help improve quality of life as well as saving time, energy and money. “Networks” will be key to making it happen, in more ways than you…
Enhanced Security Technique For WSN Nodes
Enhanced Security Technique For Wireless Sensor Network Nodes Wireless sensor network (WSN) have become a complete solution in making use of low power implementation and embedded systems. Many different security protocols have been proposed that allow some form of security…