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Fiber Optics Offer Gas Pipeline Protection
The monitoring system quickly detects when abnormal stress, movement, or temperature conditions occur.
TUNA to Improve U.S. Military Communications
Temporary underwater fiber-optics communications networks will ensure connectivity when tactical networks are unavailable.
Antwerp Pilots City of Things Project
The Belgian city will grow into the largest living lab in Europe for the Internet of Things.
Biometric Security: Your Body as Your Password
Biometric security has proven to be an effective and convenient way to bolster security, especially on mobile devices, which have the technology built-in.
Pipelines More Efficient Than Rail for Long-Hauling Oil
Comparing the energy consumed in construction and operation for both methods, researchers found that pipeline transportation produced 61%-77% less greenhouse gas emissions than rail.
Laser Strike App Designed to Enhance Aviation Safety
The Laser Event Recorder app uses an iPhone's built-in camera, GPS and connectivity to record, analyze and communicate details of an incident.
"Chariot" Aims to Deliver Healthier Homes, Lower Energy Bills
As well as revealing under-heated or over-heated parts of a home, Chariot enables energy advisors to pinpoint where and why dampness or mold may pose a problem.
Getting the Jump on Industrial Failures
The team’s statistics-based approach involves construction of a memory chart of multiple monitoring parameters using a technique known as principle component analysis.
Squeezing Light Into New Miniature Devices
With the end of Moore's Law apparently approaching, the future of big data processing will require new technologies to allow high-performance computers with faster operations.
V2V Communication to Be Required on New U.S. Light Vehicles
V2V devices would use dedicated short-range communications to transmit data such as location, direction and speed to nearby vehicles.
Iridium: The Audacious SatComm Network That (Almost) Couldn't
An audacious satellite communications program launched, nearly failed, and eventually found its orbit, albeit with government help.
Soil Moisture Used to Predict Hurricane Power Outages
Drought makes tree branches more likely to snap off, and over-saturation makes trees more likely to be uprooted.
Boosting Heat Transfer in Microelectronics
With the current trend of constant increases in power and device miniaturization, efficient heat management has become a serious issue for reliability and performance.
What to Look For in a Thermal Design Solution
Computational fluid dynamics enable engineers to model thermal responses including all the modes of heat transfer, namely conduction, convection and radiation. The results can be used to judge component and environment design viability.
Six Seconds to Hack a Credit Card
By automatically and systematically generating different variations of cards' security data and firing them at multiple websites, within seconds hackers were able to verify all the security data.
"Array of Things" to Monitor Chicago's Livability Factors
AoT will encompass a network of 500 computer nodes designed to gather data on livability factors all over Chicago, from climate, weather and air quality to noise and traffic, on a city block scale.
Watson-Powered Robot Aids the Elderly and Caregivers
The robot will perform several tasks, including helping to study innovative ways of measuring an individual’s vital signs and answering basic health-related questions.
Large Transparent Checkpointing Process Completed
Transparent checkpointing allows computer scientists and engineers working on large projects to save and reopen programs without modifying any code.
Wastewater Filtration Guidelines May Protect Aquatic Life
If left unchecked, phosphorus can cause significant environmental damage and millions of dollars in additional maintenance costs for large wastewater plant operators.
Dynamic Spectrum Sharing to Deliver Broadband
Dynamic spectrum sharing allows the available spectrum to be used more efficiently than existing static techniques.