Increasing the level of remote monitoring and control of industrial environments—such as factories, plants and refineries—enables process engineers and managers to see the overall health of a system ...

If you want to track a snail, you need a tiny instrumentation package. How do you create an entire data acquisition system, including sensors, memory, data processing and a power supply, small enough ...

Smart dust. Utility fog. Programmable matter. Grey and blue goo. Cooperating swarms of micron-sized devices (motes) offer completely new solutions and capabilities that can hardly be imagined. However ...

Imagine fully functional sensor circuits so small and inexpensive that you could afford to scatter thousands into an area of interest to sense local conditions or to detect the presence and movement ...

Disposable sensing and communications systems converge into a cubic-millimeter bundle. Advances in miniaturization, integration and energy management show that a complete wireless sensor/communication ...

The University of California at Berkeley is fighting the energy crunch with a bit of experimental technology -- sensing devices contained in tiny computers not much bigger than quarters. The little ...

Engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, have successfully tested a wireless sensor chip so small that if someone were to sneeze, it just might blow away. The new "smart dust" chip ...