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| INRIX Wins Contract With GeoDecisions
| | | INRIX connected services for IRRIS application will facilitate safe, reliable material transfers and aid government logistics using real-time traffic data. |
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| | Beacons on the Battlefield
| | | | It's a fact that, in the chaos of the battlefield (and especially in confused urban warfare situations), people die from so-called "friendly fire." Adapting a MEMS technology developed for use in gas sensors, ICx Ion Optics has created IR emitters tuned to night-vision wavelengths. |
| | Monitoring Within and Without
| | | Firefighters and HazMat workers have a very tough job. They're frequently in heavy gear, in unfriendly atmospheres, and working hard. Unfortunately, this combination of equipment, environment, and job stress means that frequently they're operating at the limits of human endurance. |
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On-Site Trace Chemical Detection, Part 1:
| | | The first installment of this two-part series discusses ion mobility spectroscopy (IMS), the leading contender for fast and reliable detection of trace chemicals, and differential ion mobility spectroscopy (DMS), a related technology that provides faster, smaller and more sensitive sensors capable of detecting chemicals in environments with greater concentrations of interfering substances. |
| | | The Big Picture: Sensor Webs in Disaster Response Demo
| | | In an increasingly wired world, knitting together data from disparate sources into an interoperable whole can present disaster managers and first responders with critical information during a major emergency or crisis. Building on a vendor-neutral interoperability framework for Web-based discovery, access, control, integration, and visualization of online sensors, the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) tested this idea in a December 2006 disaster response demo. |
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| | Look to the Birds
| | | | Oxford University zoologists Graham Taylor and Adrian Thomas have
outfitted an eagle with four miniature high-speed spy cameras and
other instruments in a 15 g pack to learn more about its aviational
secrets. An inertial measurement unit recorded details of the
bird's aerobatics and transmitted the data to a receiver on the
ground. |
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| | Mesh Radio Network Performance in Cargo Containers
| | | Wireless sensors installed inside a cargo container? Aren't they metal? Then the radio signal can't get out . . .or can it? Here's how mesh-networked 2.4 GHz, 802.15.4-compliant RF transceivers performed when placed within cargo containers. |
| | Freight Fright Reduction
| | | GE's security business (www.ge.com ) has completed the first commercial field test of the Tamper Evident Secure Container (TESC), a freight container developed jointly with the world's leading manufacturer of maritime shipping containers, China International Marine Containers Group Ltd. (CIMC).
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| | Capacitive Sensor Operation Part I: The Basics
| | | Part 1 of this two-part article reviews the concepts and theory of capacitive sensing to help to optimize capacitive sensor performance. Part 2 of this article will discuss how to put these concepts to work. |
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