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Sensors with Built-In Smart Controllers May Help Homeowners Reduce Fuel Bills

A smart sensor that predicts homeowners’ movements and living patterns to help reduce their fuel bills has been developed by experts from the Energy Academy at Heriot Watt University.

10 Oct 2014

UT Arlington Awarded $744,300 Grant to Develop Adaptive Sensor-Embedded Interface for Comfortable Prosthetics

UT Arlington researchers have been awarded a $744,300 grant from the Department of Defense Peer Reviewed Orthapaedic Research Program to create an adaptive interface that fits between a prosthetic and a patient's limb so that the fit and comfort of the prosthetic are improved.

10 Oct 2014

Novel Sensor Shrinks Size of Optical Emission Spectrometers

Optical emission spectrometers are widely used in the steel industry but the instruments currently employed are relatively large and bulky. A novel sensor makes it possible to significantly reduce their size and, moreover, enables a more precise analysis in half the time previously required.

10 Oct 2014

Payload Delivered for SBIRS GEO-4 Satellite for Accurate Missile Warning and Infrared Surveillance

Prime contractor Lockheed Martin and payload provider Northrop Grumman have delivered the payload for the fourth Geosynchronous Earth Orbit (GEO) satellite of the U.S. Air Force's Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS).

10 Oct 2014

Microchip Launches 3DTouchPad with Free Space Gesture Recognition for Projected-Capacitive Multi-Touch

Microchip Technology Inc., a leading provider of microcontroller, mixed-signal, analog and Flash-IP solutions, today announced the expansion of its Human Interface Input Sensing Solutions portfolio with the introduction of the 3DTouchPad, a PC peripheral and world’s first Development Platform for 2D multi-touch and 3D gestures.

From Microchip Technology Inc. 9 Oct 2014

UARK to Develop 'Sparse-Sensing' System for Increasing Efficiency of Wireless Sensor Networks

Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have received a $362,394 grant from the National Science Foundation to develop new sensing technologies that significantly reduce the amount of data collected and processed in sensor networks powered by extremely limited energy resources.

9 Oct 2014

CEATEC JAPAN 2014: Epson to Showcase Wearable Activity Monitors and Information Devices

Epson was the first company in the world to commercialize quartz watches in 1969. Globally, people were astonished that the advanced technology that went into achieving unprecedented and exceptional accuracy could fit in the size of a wristwatch that people could wear day-in-and-day-out.

9 Oct 2014

Mercury Systems Launches OpenRFM Standards Initiative

Mercury Systems, Inc., a leading provider of affordable, commercially developed, open sensor processing systems and services for critical commercial, defense and intelligence applications, announced it has launched the OpenRFM™ standards initiative designed to streamline the integration of RF and digital subsystems in advanced sensor processing applications with the goal of creating more affordable, flexible and open standards-based solutions.

8 Oct 2014

Research Study Report on Touchless Sensors Technology

Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Touchless Sensors Technology - 9 Dimensional Assessment (Technical Insights) " report to their offering.

8 Oct 2014

SMK Develops Touch Controller with Proximity and Hover Sensing Functions

SMK Corporation has developed a touch controller equipped with proximity and hover sensing functions with a maximum proximity sensing distance of 100mm and maximum hover distance of 20mm.

7 Oct 2014

Sensors General News

Sensors with Built-In Smart Controllers May Help Homeowners Reduce Fuel Bills

UT Arlington Awarded $744,300 Grant to Develop Adaptive Sensor-Embedded Interface for Comfortable Prosthetics

Novel Sensor Shrinks Size of Optical Emission Spectrometers

Payload Delivered for SBIRS GEO-4 Satellite for Accurate Missile Warning and Infrared Surveillance

Microchip Launches 3DTouchPad with Free Space Gesture Recognition for Projected-Capacitive Multi-Touch

UARK to Develop 'Sparse-Sensing' System for Increasing Efficiency of Wireless Sensor Networks

CEATEC JAPAN 2014: Epson to Showcase Wearable Activity Monitors and Information Devices

Mercury Systems Launches OpenRFM Standards Initiative

Research Study Report on Touchless Sensors Technology

SMK Develops Touch Controller with Proximity and Hover Sensing Functions

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