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IEEE Spectrum
April 2006
Brian Betts |
Smart Sensors A single moment of human error can make a sensor and all the data it gathers worse than worthless. A new standard for analog sensors could save lives and money.   |
Home Toys
June 2002
Roy Schofield |
Using VIOM Versatile Input Output Module for Home Control Often adding timers, relays and assorted components can lead to a home automation system that is unreliable and difficult to service. The VIOM controller can provide a single-board solution giving a flexible and reliable solution. |
Home Toys
December 2002
David Steele |
Driveway And Entry Annunciators For Home Automation Driveway and entry annunciators have been around for many years. To add them to your home automation and security system can add a whole new meaning to convenience. They can provide you not only with being alerted when a visitor approaches, but also turn on lights for safety and convenience. |
Home Toys
August 2005
Adam Blake |
A Technical Introduction to Audio Cables As audio systems continue to improve in accuracy, listening to a "live" performance in your living room gets closer to reality. Cables are an enabling factor for advancements in audio reproduction and can play a remarkably important role in your system. |
PC World
September 2005
Sean Captain |
The Cable Game Salespeople may tell you that exotic video cables deliver a better picture. But the results of our exclusive lab tests could save you money. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2006 |
Fiber-Optic Pressure Sensor for Extreme-Temperature Environments FISO Technologies is offering the FOP-MH fiber-optic pressure sensor for applications in extreme temperatures such as military and aerospace applications. This sensor is based on Fabry-Perot interferometry (EFPI) technology. |
Home Toys
June 2003
Rick Tinker |
The Cold Sweat and Hot Chills of HVAC Security With the increased reliability of HVAC home automation solutions, you can enjoy the benefits of control, convenience and energy savings in your home. By integrating the security system to the HVAC system, you can greatly simplify the effort of pulling it all together. |
Home Toys
February 2006 |
How to Build the Ultimate Garage Door Monitor One critical monitoring element for any home automation system is the garage door. This method uses "analog to digital" principles that are basically described to satisfy the build of this garage door monitor. |
Home Toys
April 2006 |
Programmable Logic Controller -- Hardware The PLC is a versatile product that has many hardware options to accommodate the large number of different electrical interfaces out there. The PLC is modular in design so that one can mix and match the input/output (I/O) hardware requirements to meet the needs of the project. |
Home Toys
June 2002
Michel Chevroulet |
XEMICS' Home Automation Solutions The XEMICS SoC can manage several sensors/actuators. It has an efficient CPU for signal encoding/decoding. With a minimum number of external parts complete applications can be produced for remote controlled home appliances. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2006 |
Digital tactile sensors for robotics and pressure measurement Applications include robotics as well as human-machine interaction devices where the reading of the pressure of the contract, not just that contact was made, can add another dimension of information or control. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2008 |
MEN Micro 16-Bit Offers Analog Input m-Module for Data Acquisition The analog input mezzanine board called the M36N M-Module provides data acquisition for analog signals found throughout automation, measuring, and simulation applications. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
March 2009 |
Analog Devices Introduces Level-Translating A-D Converter Driver Digital signal processing specialist Analog Devices is introducing the AD8275 level-translating analog-to-digital (A-D) converter driver, which simplifies signal conditioning for high-voltage industrial and instrumentation designs. |
Home Theater
July 11, 2006
Darryl Wilkinson |
Analog Video Be Gone Gefen's new analog-to-digital video scaler takes the VGA output from a single analog video source, such as a computer's analog video output or a DVD player's component video output, and scales it to 1280 x 1024 or 1080i. |
Food Processing
November 2006 |
Product Round-Up: Instrumentation & Control Instrumentation and control products that can help plants increase reliability and efficiency. |
Food Processing
November 2005 |
Product Round-Up: Process control This product showcase highlights the latest advances in process control for the food processing industry. |
Food Engineering
June 4, 2007 |
Not Your Mama's Sensor More rugged, adaptable and reliable sensors are being deployed in industrial automation. And the fact they're taken for granted attests to how well they perform. |
Popular Mechanics
December 18, 2008
Alex Hutchinson |
Trees to Power Their own Wildfire Sensors MIT researchers devised a sensor that could measure temperature and humidity and store enough energy to broadcast data four times a day. |
Chemistry World
August 2006
David Walt |
Comment: Common Sense for Sensors Designing sensors for manufacturability must be performed at the outset rather than as an afterthought. Only when we develop such reproducible sensors will they become pervasive tools for improving our quality of life. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Rahul Sarpeshkar |
Brain Power Neuromorphic engineering has been around for 20 years, and its first fruits are finally approaching the market. The likely first application is bionics. |
Food Engineering
September 1, 2008
Kevin T. Higgins |
Tech Update: Plant Instrumentation Between temperature extremes and caustic washdowns, food plants rank as more challenging environments than offshore oil rigs, instrumentation manufacturers say. |
U.S. CPSC
February 9, 2005 |
Vernier Software & Technology Recall of Go! Temp Temperature Sensors When connected to a computer, a static discharge to the sensor can cause the sensor to draw too much current from the computer, causing the sensor to get hot. The sensor can get hot enough to cause a burn to the skin or damage objects in contact with it. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
October 2008
Courtney E. Howard |
The Joule-Thief Harvests Vibration Energy to Power Devices in the Field Engineers at AdaptivEnergy have developed and unveiled an innovative power technology that harvests and converts energy from vibration into usable electricity. |
This Old House
August 2007
Wilson Rothman |
Wireless Monitoring Systems Worry about whether you left home with the garage door open or an appliance turned on? Know what's going on at home with a wireless monitoring system. |
Home Toys
April 2004 |
Home Technology Integration The objective of this article is to provide you with a primer regarding the issues that must be considered when contemplating the installation of a Home Automation System. |
CIO
July 15, 2003
John Edwards |
Sensitive Sensors Get those gigs. The State University of New York at Buffalo's Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department has developed sensors that could boost hard drive capacity by a factor of 1,000 -- without also driving up price. |
PC Magazine
September 27, 2006
Greg Steen |
The Ultimate Doghouse Motion sensors, video cameras, and Internet access create the very best canine chateau. Is your dog worth the ultimate treatment? |
Home Toys
October 2002
Paul Grimme |
Pervasiveness and Impact of Embedded Controllers On the impact of the pervasiveness of embedded controllers in peoples' daily lives... trends and benefits with embedded controllers related to the home networking and control market... etc. |
Chemistry World
July 18, 2012
Catherine Bacon |
pH sensor for use in the body US scientists have developed a pH sensor based on nanocrystal quantum dots designed to be used in a biological pH range. |
Food Engineering
March 1, 2005
Wayne Labs |
Controls and interfaces give your process a boost An up-to-date process control system can automatically gather information and put it in the proper form for FDA's electronic record keeping regulations. Numerous choices abound -- defining which ones meet your needs will improve your success. |
Home Toys
October 2002
Wade Johnston |
Electric Underfloor Heating: Quiet, Comfortable, Connected Electric floor heating systems are usually connected through a programmable thermostat that controls each individual room. These thermostats work off a floor sensor to allow accurate control of the heat. |
U.S. CPSC
February 18, 2010 |
GE Infrastructure Sensing Recalls Commercial CO2 and Temperature Sensors Due to Fire Hazard The CO2 and temperature sensors can overheat, posing a fire hazard. |
PC World
February 20, 2002
Martyn Williams |
Sony Focuses on 6 Megapixels Company's new image sensor will allow consumers to create professional-quality digital images -- at a price... |
Popular Mechanics
March 3, 2010
Mike Allen |
Anatomy of Toyota's Problem Pedal: Mechanic's Diary Toyota deserves a better deal than the media and Congress are giving it. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
January 2006 |
Air Force Pushes Optical Data Network Air Force leaders granted optoelectronics company Srico $750,000 for a Phase II Small Business Innovation Research contract to develop a high-speed optical network. |
Chemistry World
July 30, 2012
Phillip Broadwith |
Flexible hairy heartbeat sensor Korean scientists have developed a skin-like flexible strain sensor made from interlocking forests of nanofibers. |
Home Toys
June 2005 |
Motorola Ushers New Era in Home Monitoring & Control Consumers can easily install and customize new solutions that work with existing broadband connections -- enabling users to remain connected and informed. Cost-effective and feature-rich, Motorola's solution monitors and controls a variety of home functions. |
Popular Mechanics
February 2006
Mike Allen |
Troubleshooting Antilock Braking Your ABS light is on. Now what? |
Home Toys
August 2003
Bob Hetherington |
Touchscreen Wireless Weather Station from La Crosse Technology The system keeps track of indoor and outdoor temperature and humidity, wind direction and velocity, solar intensity and rainfall. All of these variables are displayed on a very elegant touchscreen panel that can be wall mounted or set on a table. |
Home Toys
June 2005
Gary Drake |
Web Based Sensors Using Open Source Software and Web Services By using the open source program Hotkey, along with Web services from BroadbandSentry, a simple interface can be built to generate sensor inputs on your home computer. |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2009
Sally Adee |
Solid-State Circuits, in 3-D! At this year's IEEE ISSCC, some 3-D integration technologies are ready to wear, while others will remain haute couture |
Chemistry World
June 24, 2011
Rebecca Brodie |
Nanogenerators for environmental sensors A nanomaterial-based, self-powered sensor that detects mercury in water has been developed by teams from the US and Korea. |
Industrial Physicist
Wippich & Dessau |
Tunable Lasers and Fiber-Bragg-Grating Sensors Today, the tunable laser is being tested in many industrial applications, including optical remote sensing, where laser-based systems can provide improved performance over electronic means of measuring strain, temperature, and pressure. |
Chemistry World
November 4, 2011
Holly Sheahan |
Polymer based sensors feeling the strain Researchers in China have made a new strain sensor to monitor the safety of buildings and other structures. |
IEEE Spectrum
June 2008
Neil Savage |
Chip for Future Eye Implants Runs on Picowatts, Thanks to New Deep-Sleep Tech Chip could run for a year on millimeter-sized battery. |
Food Engineering
October 1, 2008 |
Airflow sensor A bi-directional digital unit for use with air or nitrogen gas, Panasonic Electric's SUNX FM-200 digital airflow sensor offers detection and high-speed response. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
August 2006 |
Products Rugged, low power 6U VMEbus board... Fused tantalum capacitors... Multifunction portable flight display for UAV reconnaissance... Molded lenses for long-wavelength infrared imaging... |
Chemistry World
February 7, 2014
Harriet Brewerton |
Saliva information Scientists in the US have developed a mouthguard sensor that could be used to monitor metabolites in saliva to provide real-time information on the health status of the wearer. |
Food Engineering
February 1, 2009
Wayne Labs |
Tech Update: Wireless Networks Provide Critical Measures Applications for wireless sensors in manufacturing are as vast as the imagination can create. |
Technology Research News
June 18, 2003
Ted Smalley Bowen |
Wires make wireless strain gauge Researchers at Keio University in Japan have developed peak strain and displacement building sensors that do not require a constant power source, and that can be read using a wireless device. The sensors are designed to be embedded in concrete and fire-protection coatings. |
