Their findings will then be collated and analysed using handheld sensors and GPS technology.
Google's self-driving cars, which use laser sensors and mapping technology, are examples of Level 3 cars, Mr. Friedman said.
The forum's founding members are all involved in advanced technology and solutions associated with the Internet of Things, including commercial infrastructure monitoring, energy-saving street lighting, home automation, energy monitoring and low power radio technology for sensors.
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The real difference will be in industrial uses, including sales of the camera technology and related sensors itself.
The product utilizes a combination of positional technology, motion sensors and near field communication to capture the golfer's data from the course.
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Connecting together the company's existing capacitive touch technology with motion sensors and eye movement cameras, the system centers on the multimodal commander -- that mysterious-looking orb located below the gear stick.
The hardware includes sensors, GPS and radio technology.
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Known as Unattended Ground Sensors (UGS), the technology has been around since the 1970s.
Sensors, a widely used automatic technology, made sure everyone paid and maintained order.
The 42- and 47-inch diagonal LCD displays deploy a multitouch screen that uses unique scanning infrared technology, including embedded sensors to provide more accurate touch recognition.
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The collaboration between the X PRIZE Foundation and Qualcomm will bring together experts in technology usability, wireless sensors, cloud computing and mobile health to accelerate the convergence of these fields.
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It's not about the watch form factor, but creating a wearable mobile device that takes advantage of advances in mobile computing technology such as cheap sensors, better battery life and improved voice recognition.
Heighway Pinball's solution is to introduce inductive switch technology: solid state sensors beneath the playfield, well out of the way of flying steel balls, which are triggered when a ball passes by without any physical contact.
The initiative centers on deploying ambient sensors augmented by the mobile technology that most people now carry around in their pockets to collect a constant stream of data that, in turn, can help prevent danger and otherwise improve life in an urban area.
Prof Zhenqiang Ma, an electrical and computer engineer at the University of Wisconsin, argued that the technology could overcome issues with bulky sensors.
Every Android phone and tablet maker touts these specs because CPUs, image sensors, and displays are the rapidly evolving technology waves that they ride and where most of their evolution resides.
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Also putting pressure on the company's stock was a report on the website Digitimes, which covers the computer and related industries, that Hewlett-Packard had chosen Micron Technology over Omnivision to supply image sensors for its cameras.
It reports on the convergence of five forces: mobile, social media, Big Data, sensors and location to create an entirely new technology era, one in which context will shape business, marketing, advertising, our health, entertainment and our relationships with connected devices.
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The technology is made possible by commercially available sensors for recording electroencephalograms (EEGs), which are basically the electrical outputs your brain produces while it thinks.
They simply get a card in the mail that incorporates touch-sensitive technology, moving graphics, and biometric sensors, then touch a graphic on the card to cast their vote.
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Wearable technology is also booming, thanks to cheap sensors that can be used to track things like movement and heart rates.
Sensors are ubiquitous and some think they are the next technology frontier.
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As revealed last year, the US Department of Homeland Security is working on a system called FAST (Future Attribute Screening Technology) that relies on an array of sensors and advanced algorithms to detect physiological and behavioral cues that are said to indicate malintent.
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Yet the technology uses low-power, low-cost sensors and the device concept is small enough to clip on a belt.
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As LED technology proliferates, customers will experiment with integrating motion sensors into bulbs, turning LEDs into nodes for security systems.
Though gaps in technology remain, for example, a trillion tiny sensors will need a power sources, IoT startups are making a leap of faith that current advances in sensing, computing and energy will be sufficient to unlock a new world of possibility.
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This technology reveals a picture of the subterranean environment using exquisitely sensitive sensors.
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There are also ideas around using the technology to slowly release drugs inside the body or to build sensors for the brain and heart.
The electronic tongue consists of an array of liquid sensors (electrodes coated with conductive polymers) coupled to pattern-recognition technology that can distinguish particular flavors for taste studies.
Wireless technology has allowed scientists and researchers to pepper internet-enabled sensors far beyond the range of the wired grid, but the issue of powering these devices still remains.
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