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DARPA Grants $6.3 Million to GE to Create Bio-Inspired Sensors

In association with Air Force Research Laboratory, University of Exeter, and State University of Albany, researchers of GE Global Research, which is the technology development wing of GE, has secured a $6.3 million endowment from DARPA i.e. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, for a tenure of four years, to design a novel sensor, that is both bio-inspired and nanostructured, to enable speedier and discerning choices, among the hazardous explosives, chemical threats and combat instruments.

19 Aug 2010

OGC Sensor Planning Service Schedules Earth Observation Sensors

The Open Geospatial Consortium, an international consortium setting geospatial standards, is pursuing remarks on the "Earth Observation Satellite Tasking Extension for OGC® Sensor Planning Service (SPS).

19 Aug 2010

BSAC Joins the IPSO Alliance for Sensor Enabled Smart Object Communication

The IPSO Alliance, the organization describing the "Internet of Things," declared the latest association of the University of Berkeley, Sensor, Actuator Center and California (BSAC) with IPSO.

19 Aug 2010

LumaSense Technologies Acquire Opsens’ technology for Power Grid Reliability

LumaSense Technologies, a leading supplier of temperature and gas sensing equipments, declared that, it has secured the Opsens’ PowerSens system fiber optic sensing technology, for use in the energy companies for the detection of transformer points and to execute intense voltage equipment temperature sensing.

From Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. 19 Aug 2010

Regal Group Inc. Acquires RFID Pioneer UHF Logistics

In continuance to the news released on 15th July 2010, Regal Group, Inc has acknowledged, that it has officially concluded the acquirement of UHF (UHF Logistics Ltd), a Hong-Kong based enterprise, the primary manufacturers of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) applications.

18 Aug 2010

ResearchInChina Unveils New Report on Worldwide FPC Market Trends

A new report entitled, ‘Global China Flexible Printed Circuit (FPC) Industry Report’, has been made public, by ResearchinChina, for the year 2009-2010.

18 Aug 2010

LiDAR and SAR Technology Facilitates Precise Chesapeake Bay Mapping

The USDA Forest Service ecologist Megan Lang and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) soil scientist Greg McCarty mapped wetlands of Chesapeake Bay by blending LiDAR (light detection and ranging) an airborne laser sensor with a modified "synthetic aperture radar" (SAR) satellite sensor

18 Aug 2010

Lockheed Martin Integrates EOTS in Test Aircraft

Lockheed Martin, a global security company has carried out the first aviation of the F-35 Electro-Optical Targeting System (EOTS) on the stage of Cooperative Avionics Test Bed (CATBird).

From Lockheed Martin Corporation 18 Aug 2010

GuardRFID Alliances with DASH7 for Advancing their Products

GuardRFID declared that it has merged with the DASH7 Alliance™, a leading promoter with many participants for wireless sensor networking. The GuardRFID, a generator of RFID Technology and Solutions for the protection of applications in the 433MHz radio wave length, is mulling over to collaborate with more than 50 companies in furthering the ISO 18000-7 (DASH7) standard.

18 Aug 2010

Sensor Integrated Driving Tracks for Better Driving

The Union Minister for Surface Transport and Highways, Kamal Nath, will be inaugurating the first automated driving route at Mallathahalli, Jnanabharathi before September 15.

18 Aug 2010

Improved Watches with Water Sensor for Professional Divers

The Citizen Aqualand diver depth meter promaster JP1010-00E JP1010 is a unique diver’s watch with a coalition of digital and analog display and a depth meter which operates electronically.

17 Aug 2010

New Soil Moisture Sensors Maximize Yield by Optimizing Irrigation

Gilbert Miller, who is heading the soil moisture monitor project at Clemson University’s Edisto Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Blackville, has released a new soil moisture sensor

17 Aug 2010

New TrueAPI SDK Software Development Kit from Authentec

Authentec, a leading provider of fingerprint sensors, announced the release of a Software Development Kit

17 Aug 2010

New Class of Metamaterial-Inspired Implantable Biosensors

A promising path towards the release of a new class of large area metamaterial structures on implantable, bio-compatible silk substrates was reported by the researchers at the Tufts University School of Engineering and Boston University and the journal Advanced Materials recently published it online.

17 Aug 2010