HEADLINES ARCHIVE
Smart Meter Breaks Down Energy Use by Appliance
Non-intrusive load monitoring is based on a simple principle: each device has a pattern of energy consumption that gives rise to a type of signature or “fingerprint” within the power grid.
"Gremlins" Used to Test Assembly Line Quality Control
Ford employees are being tasked with secretly planting wrong and faulty parts onto the assembly line.
New Mic Could Bolster SONAR Applications
Many existing underwater microphones are made from ceramics, which generally absorb and register only about 20% of the low-frequency acoustic waves traveling through water.
Satellites Measure Earth Movement Down to the Millimeter
The new automatic radar service monitoring Europe’s seismic regions covers an area of three million square kilometers in 200-meter blocks.
Weak Control Laser Beam Could Boost Computer Chips
Researchers have developed an asymmetric metawaveguide that enables a weak control laser beam to manipulate a much more intense laser signal.
First Citywide Test of Radioactivity
A key element of SIGMA, which began in 2014, has been to develop and test low-cost, high-efficiency radiation sensors that detect gamma and neutron radiation.
Chips Bridge Gap Between Computation and Storage
University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers are creating chips that can be configured to perform complex calculations and store massive amounts of information in the same integrated unit.
Turning the Living Room into a Wireless Charging Station
The proposed system would operate at microwave frequencies, at which the power transfer distance could extend well beyond the confines of a room.
Spinach Plants Engineered to Detect Explosives
This is one of the first demonstrations of the engineering of electronic systems into plants.
Smart bridge sensors
The project is designed to showcase the future of smart, sustainable, user-centered transportation infrastructure that helps to monitor structural and environmental health.
Sensor Technology Could Prevent Infant Deaths
The system involves a pressure sensor installed under the lining of a car seat. An Arduino circuit board connected to the sensor synchronizes with an app on a parent’s mobile phone.
Smartphone "Laboratory" Detects Cancer Biomarker
Although smartphone spectrometers exist, they monitor or measure only a single sample at a time, making them inefficient for many real-world applications.
Finger Vein Authentication Uses Smartphone Camera
The advantage of finger vein authentication is that the characteristics used for biometric identification are in vivo, making it more difficult to forge or spoof.
"Clever Buoy" Uses Sonar and Software to Warn of Sharks
The system uses multibeam sonar transducers that are mounted on the ocean floor, together with custom detection software, to scan for shark-like objects.
A Solution for Phantom Load
All electronics have switches that turn electrical flow on and off throughout the circuitry. But unlike a mechanical switch, these waste small doses of electricity while they are in a waiting state.
"BioSwimmer" Tested for Port Inspections
BioSwimmer has the ability to twist and turn in limited space within the water, which sets it apart from most other remotely operated vehicles.
"Sensing Skin" Detects Damage in Structures
The skin consists of three layers, which can be painted onto the surface of a structure or pre-assembled and attached like wallpaper.
Increasing Energy Density in Lithium Batteries
When lithium batteries are charged the first time, they lose 5%-20% of their energy in that first cycle.
Lithium-Ion Battery Grows Back Together
In contrast to conventional lithium-ion batteries, the lithium compounds cannot leak out of the electrodes, either while in use or after a break.
Design for an Infinitesimal Computing Device
Key to the design is the use of a logic system called material implication logic combined with memristors.