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New Biosensor that Attaches to Phone Uses Bacteria to Detect Unsafe Arsenic Levels in Drinking Water

A smartphone device could possibly prevent millions of people from drinking arsenic-contaminated water.

27 Mar 2019

Smart Wrist-Worn Device Designed to Alert About Risky Health Conditions

Although smart wristbands are widespread fashion accessories for tracking heart rate and physical activity, they are generally not advanced enough to deliver specific and accurate information regarding potential health issues of the wearer.

27 Mar 2019

CapTemp Temperature Recording System Ensures Proper Conditions in Fruit Cold Storage Units for Greater Quality Control

CapTemp developed an automated temperature recording system for The CPF Group, an organization comprised of pear and apple producers throughout Portugal, to continuously monitor and report ambient temperature and relative humidity of fruit storage units as well as fruit pulp temperatures while in cold storage.

From CapTemp LDA 27 Mar 2019

New Cellulose-Based Material Simultaneously Measures Pressure, Temperature, and Humidity

Cellulose soaked in a precisely developed polymer mixture serves as a sensor to simultaneously measure temperature, pressure, and humidity. The measurements are absolutely independent of each other.

26 Mar 2019

Home Health Checks for Indoor Air Quality on Offer

Did you know, indoor air pollution can be five times worse in the home than outside? There are as many as 900 toxins that pollute indoor air, including Volatile Organic Compounds, found in perfumes, hair spray, cleaning agents, dry cleaning fluid, paints, lacquers, varnishes; and Formaldehyde, found in gas stoves, MDF, carpets and other furniture products.

From EnviroVent 26 Mar 2019

The Future of Stretchable Electronics

Stretchable electronics is emerging as a promising new technology for next-generation wearable devices, according to a review published in Science and Technology of Advanced Materials.

26 Mar 2019

London Mayor to Install Air Quality Monitors at Hospitals

Ten hospitals in the most polluted areas of London will be equipped with new air quality monitors to measure levels of toxic air and help protect patients and staff.

26 Mar 2019

Energy Monitor Can Find Electrical Failures Before they Happen

A new system devised by researchers at MIT can monitor the behavior of all electric devices within a building, ship, or factory, determining which ones are in use at any given time and whether any are showing signs of an imminent failure.

From QED Environmental Systems, Inc. 26 Mar 2019

Importance of Smart Speaker Technology in Hospital Medical Treatments Revealed

Smart speakers that are typically used in one’s living room can be set to serve as an aid to physicians in hospital operating rooms, according to new study presented at the Society of Interventional Radiology’s 2019 Annual Scientific Meeting.

25 Mar 2019

Scientists and Experts Identify Five Most Promising Application Areas for Magnetoresistive Sensors

In the next 15 to 20 years—except for the information reading and recording technology—the hypersensitive sensors working under the magnetoresistive principle will be used in a large number of novel fields.

22 Mar 2019

Open Source Software Made Available for Extracting Core Insights from Massive Sensor Datasets

A novel free data processing tool is being made accessible by Professor Andreas Schütze and his team of experts in measurement and sensor technology at Saarland University.

22 Mar 2019

New Sensor System Enables Precise Measurements of High-Temperature Humidity

A unique sensor system designed in Saarbrücken, Germany is capable of not only carefully regulating drying processes in industrial ovens, but also delivering consistent air humidity measurements even at high temperatures and when other background vapors are present.

21 Mar 2019

Less Expensive Solution for Audio Recorder that Records Sounds of Ecosystems

An international research team has developed an innovative sensor network with the ability to monitor two vital activities—biodiversity, or the wide range of life, in a specific ecosystem or habitat, and identification of potential illegal activities like poaching or logging in restricted areas.

21 Mar 2019

Kavli Lectures: Smart Garments for Sensing Human Behavior and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

Sensing human activity with smart garments and the chemistry of searching for extraterrestrial life will be the topics of a pair of Kavli Lectures at the spring 2019 National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world’s largest scientific society.

20 Mar 2019

NewTek Sensor Solutions Adds 4-20mA Output Capability to its Free Core and Spring-Loaded LVDT Product Lines

NewTek Sensor Solutions expanded the capabilities of its DC LVDT technology with 4-20mA output capabilities to meet the needs of industrial monitoring and feedback applications. In addition to offering 4-20 mA versions of its free-core and spring-loaded LVDTs, the company customizes 4-20mA position sensors to customer specifications.

From NewTek Sensor Solutions 20 Mar 2019

Sensors News

New Biosensor that Attaches to Phone Uses Bacteria to Detect Unsafe Arsenic Levels in Drinking Water

Smart Wrist-Worn Device Designed to Alert About Risky Health Conditions

CapTemp Temperature Recording System Ensures Proper Conditions in Fruit Cold Storage Units for Greater Quality Control

New Cellulose-Based Material Simultaneously Measures Pressure, Temperature, and Humidity

Home Health Checks for Indoor Air Quality on Offer

The Future of Stretchable Electronics

London Mayor to Install Air Quality Monitors at Hospitals

Energy Monitor Can Find Electrical Failures Before they Happen

Importance of Smart Speaker Technology in Hospital Medical Treatments Revealed

Scientists and Experts Identify Five Most Promising Application Areas for Magnetoresistive Sensors

Open Source Software Made Available for Extracting Core Insights from Massive Sensor Datasets

New Sensor System Enables Precise Measurements of High-Temperature Humidity

Less Expensive Solution for Audio Recorder that Records Sounds of Ecosystems

Kavli Lectures: Smart Garments for Sensing Human Behavior and the Search for Extraterrestrial Life

NewTek Sensor Solutions Adds 4-20mA Output Capability to its Free Core and Spring-Loaded LVDT Product Lines

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