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Pressures on Food Production Make Agriculture a Prime Candidate for Harnessing the Potential of IoT

The farm is perhaps the last place where you would look for advanced technology. But pressures on food production make agriculture a prime candidate for harnessing the potential of automation and the IoT. Real-time data collection is the key to improving yields and making the most of precious resources.

10 Mar 2017

Mobile Sensors Attached to Vehicles can Directly Measure Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Cities

Although cities have a vital role in minimizing the emission of greenhouse gases to tackle climate change, the direct measurement of the emissions has always been difficult.

3 Mar 2017

GW Researchers Build Sensors to Track Air Pollution and Traffic Data Near Campus

GW researchers are building sensors that will be placed on campus and along parts of Pennsylvania Avenue to track air pollution and traffic data.

28 Feb 2017

Wireless Environmental Sensing Platform Flourishing Among Research Groups, Government Entities

Less than two years since its release, interest and demand for Waggle, a wireless environmental sensing platform created at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, is flourishing among research groups, industry and government entities, its creators say.

21 Feb 2017

Smart Agriculture Project in an Australian Nursery to Ensure Crops Health and Reduce Losses

Traditional agriculture companies have applied for ages the same tools and processes that have become antiquated these days. Most of the organizations that work on the farming sector have realized the great potential that cutting edge technologies have to ease their daily works, reduce losses or improve the yield quantity and also product quality.

From Libelium Comunicaciones Distribuidas S.L. 15 Feb 2017

New On-Chip Sensor Could Detect Unprecedentedly Small Frequency Changes in Environmental Conditions

Chip scale high precision measurements of physical quantities such as temperature, pressure and refractive index have become common with nanophotonics and nanoplasmonics resonance cavities.

19 Jan 2017

Wearable Sensor Device to Help Visually Impaired Perceive Their Environment

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has built a wearable assistive device for the visually impaired, which enables them to sense their environment as well as move around more safely.

11 Jan 2017

Trimble Uses LoRa Wireless RF Technology for IoT Water Monitoring Sensor Series

Semtech Corporation, a leading supplier of analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, today announced its LoRa® Wireless RF Technology is being used in Trimble’s new Telog® 41 Series of wireless Internet of Things (IoT) sensors for remotely measuring, monitoring and analyzing water, wastewater and groundwater systems.

9 Dec 2016

Sol Chip’s Autonomous Solar Tag for Enabling Precision Agriculture and Smart Irrigation

Sol Chip, an innovative provider of Internet of Things (IoT) systems and energy harvesting solutions, today announced the introduction of its Sol Chip Comm™ autonomous, wireless, solar tag for enabling precision agriculture and smart irrigation.

7 Dec 2016

Small, Inexpensive Sensors Could Help Measure Air Pollution

Until recently, measuring air pollution was a task that could be performed only by trained scientists using very sophisticated – and very expensive – equipment.

5 Dec 2016

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Environmental Monitoring Sensor News

Pressures on Food Production Make Agriculture a Prime Candidate for Harnessing the Potential of IoT

Mobile Sensors Attached to Vehicles can Directly Measure Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Cities

GW Researchers Build Sensors to Track Air Pollution and Traffic Data Near Campus

Wireless Environmental Sensing Platform Flourishing Among Research Groups, Government Entities

Smart Agriculture Project in an Australian Nursery to Ensure Crops Health and Reduce Losses

New On-Chip Sensor Could Detect Unprecedentedly Small Frequency Changes in Environmental Conditions

Wearable Sensor Device to Help Visually Impaired Perceive Their Environment

Trimble Uses LoRa Wireless RF Technology for IoT Water Monitoring Sensor Series

Sol Chip’s Autonomous Solar Tag for Enabling Precision Agriculture and Smart Irrigation

Small, Inexpensive Sensors Could Help Measure Air Pollution

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