For the last three weeks, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) has been holding a dialogue on consumer participation in the Smart Grid, taking questions on the desired or optimal architecture; who gets access to, and ownership of, data; and questions about the communication standards...More>>

This month we've got an energy conserving artificial foot developed at the University of Michigan; using ultrasound to asses the properties of leaves courtesy of researchers at the CSIC Institute of Acoustics in Madrid, Spain; and the ability to turn your skin into a touchscreen, as discovered by...More>>

Whether the issue is global security or campus safety, our responsibility is to correlate the available information, identify the risks, and respond accordingly. We have the data. We have the sensors. Data are being captured, whether through simple devices (such as RFID tags, GPS devices, or door...More>>

Last week, HP and Shell announced their collaboration</A> on a seismic sensing system that will couple many thousands of wireless sensors together in a bid to create a better tool for oil and gas exploration. And although this is the latest in a series of projects aiming to create very large...More>>

This month's round up is peculiarly rich in both energy harvesting and tininess, with a millimeter-scale, solar-powered sensor system developed at the University of Michigan, small wireless sensor nodes that can keep track of small objects, courtesy of CSIRO in Australia, and another step toward...More>>

Once in a while we're asked to spread the word about a tech transfer program or a state fund for worthy technical startups or something similar. The most recent of these can be summed up as follows: Sensor and technology companies! The U.S. Army needs your help!More>>

Last year, NIST published a draft report on the first of its three phases for the Smart Grid project, that epic endeavor to update the U.S. electrical infrastructure. Phase One involves the generation of a high-level conceptual reference model for the project, identifying existing standards we can...More>>

Welcome to 2010 which will be, I hope, an improvement over 2009! This month's collection of interesting research results includes glitter-sized solar cells, an optical magnetic field sensor, and detecting plastic anti-personnel mines by measuring 3D temperature gradients.More>>

This is the very last Sensors Weekly of 2009, a year that marked Sensors 25th Anniversary and saw us launch our new Web site. On the other hand, 2009 was also marked by a still weak global economy. The unemployment rate is scary high, business is still not back to normal, and an awful lot of people...More>>

So, the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference is happening as I write and while I would <I>love</I> to think that concrete and useful change will be a result, and that the world will end up with a real and workable plan to deal with climate change in a way that is equitable and yet fosters...More>>