Researchers have developed a battery-free sensor that reacts to sound waves, such as particular spoken words, producing enough vibrational energy to power an electronic device. The novel sensor would ...

Sensors networks are gaining widespread use in factories, industrial complexes, commercial and residential buildings, agricultural settings, and urban areas, serving to improve manufacturing ...

DENVER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advanced Energy (Nasdaq: AEIS) – a global leader in highly engineered, precision power conversion, measurement and control solutions – today announced the GEMINI™ 5540A ...

In 2011, Nest launched its smart thermostat, an early instance of an internet-connected device that collected and shared data to help homeowners make decisions about their energy use. Thermostats were ...

SONOMA, Calif. - In an effort to keep reducing wildfire ignitions, Pacific Gas & Electric has upgraded sensors that can tell it more quickly if a power line has been compromised or might spark a fire.

In this DI, high school student Tommy Liu builds a vehicle-mounted particulate matter monitoring system that siphons power from harvested wind energy from vehicle motion and an integrated ...

Streams of data from higher-speed sensors pose throughput and latency challenges for designers. However, optimizing a design for those criteria can come at the expense of increased power consumption ...

A new low-power sensor node framework combines sensing and machine learning, with the potential to enhance real-time environmental monitoring while optimizing energy efficiency.

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho power utility provider is partnering with a Boise-based company to install sensors on some utility lines to improve them. The funding for this project comes from the Department ...