To date my ears are 25dB and 15dB down and my hearing range limited to frequencies below 9kHz - about half the norm. To see into the infrared and ultraviolet, to be able to switch colour in or out for the advantage of contrast afforded by pure...
But is a Minority Report style biometric future of billboards that scan your eyes and deliver personalised advertising and robot spiders that use biometric scans to catch criminals just science fiction or are those advances being made today?
Reuters says that it has improved its IT security controls by outsourcing the monitoring of critical network intrusion detection sensors and firewalls to NetSec in a six-figure deal. NetSec will be take the raw feed from the intrusion detection...
Grid computing in healthcare and anti-terrorist bio-sensors are some of the innovative projects taking part in a £90million government funding programme. Technologies include optical bio-sensors developed by the University of London to help with...
More sophisticated solutions may require environmental or component monitoring with sensors for heat, sound, stress etc, and others may require awareness or detection of periodic events, such as opening or closing of doors or gates.
Steve Beeby, advanced research fellow at the University of Southampton, said the big advantage of wireless sensor systems is - by removing wires and batteries - there is the potential for embedding sensors in previously inaccessible locations.