Article By: Stephanie VL Henkel

The classic stance for a very pregnant woman is with one hand-or both-pressed against the small of her back. She's wearing either slippers or her husband's shoes. And why? Her back hurts and her feet look like zeppelins. These afflictions have been thoroughly described in the medical literature....More>>

Article By: Sensors Staff

If you're a working parent with a latchkey kid, you know there's plenty to worry about without adding a chronic, and potentially life-threatening disease like asthma to the mix. But there will soon be help at the nearest drugstore in the form of WhistleWatch, a simple-to-use monitor that gives an...More>>

Article By: Sensors Staff

Being in the hospital is unpleasant enough without getting tangled in equipment cords when you try to roll over in bed. With its 4100 Digital Pulse Oximeter, Nonin Medical pulls the plug on conventional sensor cables and brings wireless technology to the bedside.More>>

Article By: Stephanie VL Henkel

New Hampshire's Department of Transportation, in conjunction with Plymouth State University, is about to tackle a particularly thorny problem: unpredictable road surface conditions. The Road Weather Information System (RWIS) consists of multiple sensors and towers that report local conditions to...More>>

Article By: Gethin Wyn Roberts, Xiaolin Meng, Chris Brown

The GPS-based system provides 3D coordinates with corresponding time, making it possible to derive the frequency of structural movements."More>>

Article By: Barbara G. Goode

CityTV News in Calgary, AB, Canada, reports that motorists don't see the value in road sensors installed by the city's Roads & Maintenance division."More>>

Article By: Melanie Martella

Imagine a lot of large barrels full of liquid, in racks, during an earthquake. You wouldn't necessarily want to be around, just in case those racks weakened or broke or the barrels rolled right off them. Unfortunately many California winegrowers are perched close to active earthquake fault zones...More>>

Article By: Simon Wyre

Choices for logging systems are expanding all the time, and defining your application and finding a logger to match it, rather than fitting your requirements to a given logger, dictates the best selection. Take care not to over-specify because this will reduce your choices and increase your...More>>

Article By: Barbara G. Goode

InformationWeek says that Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is experimenting with sensor technology, pursuing two "proof-of-concepts" that would speed products to shelves and provide customers with better quality produce. http://tinyurl.com/qw5k5"More>>

Article By: Stephanie VL Henkel

Westar Energy's electric generating plant at St. Mary's, KS, is the largest in the state. Its three coal-fired boilers, 85 ft. wide and 14 stories high, are vertically divided by an interior center wall. Each side produces 1.5 million hp, and together they drive three 800 MW generators.More>>

Article By: Stephanie VL Henkel

Corrosion is the leading cause of production and process equipment failure. Not only are equipment downtime and component replacement expensive, but also in many cases product leakage constitutes an environmental threat."More>>

Article By: Stephanie VL Henkel

A couple of months ago, the water supply for the Town of Peterborough, NH, was found to contain unacceptable levels of E. coli bacteria. This unhappy discovery was made during a routine test; the word went out to boil all drinking and cooking water, and no one got sick. But how long had those...More>>

Article By: Melanie Martella

When Caterpillar Inc. wanted to improve its scale-model testing of its earth moving machines, its engineers selected a combination of software and real-time hardware from National Instruments.More>>

Article By: Barbara G. Goode

Sensors are evident in the innovations Time magazine chose for its November 21 cover story, called The Most Amazing Inventions of 2005.More>>

Article By: Barbara G. Goode

Cyberkinetics' BrainGate, a system in development to provide thought-controllable computer operating for people with severe paralysis, was featured on NBC's Today Show on December 1.More>>