Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have demonstrated for the first time that dark fiber - the massive network of unused fiber-optic cables installed all over the country and the world - can be used as sensors for detecting earthquakes, changes in permafrost conditions, the presence of groundwater, and a variety of other subsurface activity.
There is a vast selection of glass break detectors on the market. Even though these detectors certainly trigger an alarm when window panes break, they cannot register other ways in which burglars can tamper with a pane.
The catchy Beach Boys song, “Good, good, good, good vibrations”, and so on, was a big hit in 1966.
Thousands of miles of underground optical fibers run through California’s San Francisco Bay Area supplying high-speed internet and HD video to businesses and homes.
For decades, computer scientists have been working on automatic navigation systems to help the visually impaired. However, it has been difficult to come up with something easy and reliable to use as the white cane, which refers to a particular variety of metal-tipped cane that visually impaired people mostly use to identify clear walking paths.
Do spiders use their web as a computer? New research, led by the Universities of Bristol and Oxford, will look at spiders’ webs to investigate their computational capabilities and based on this research they will develop new sensor technology to measure vibrations and flow.
Swift Sensors, Inc. debuted today as an Industrial IoT company providing a cloud-based wireless sensor system for industrial and commercial applications.
Ashtead Technology has added the Vibrock V9000 Ground Vibration Monitor to its rental fleet of instruments. Portable, lightweight and battery powered, the V9000 is supplied fully calibrated and ready for immediate use, making it ideal for a wide variety of site investigation applications.
Researchers have developed a small, soft, and wearable acoustic sensor that can measure vibrations in the human body, monitor the heart health, and detect spoken words. The new electronic device was developed by scientists from the University of Colorado Boulder and Northwestern University.
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University discovered that a smartwatch is capable of detecting and distinguishing a wide range of flicks, taps and scratches by the fingers and hands, and all that is needed is a software upgrade that repurposes the existing accelerometer of the device.
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