Melanie MartellaSensors

Once again, NIST is developing a standards roadmap, although this time it isn't for the Smart Grid, it's for preserving digital data for the long-term. At the U.S. Workshop on Roadmap for Digital Preservation Interoperability Framework at the end of March, experts in digital data preservation...more >>

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 >>

Chemistry Videos and Many, Many Other Educational Goodies; Atlas Obscura: Strange and Wonderful Places and Sights

Last week, HP and Shell announced their collaboration 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!

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.

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 >>