Nor can one fully imagine what new forms of data we will yet have access to as sensors, and sensor platforms, proliferate.
In a typical session, the athlete will sit before a large screen as sensors monitoring electrical activity in his or her brain are placed on the scalp.
D.s, are now at work on a contract with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to develop sensors for airport terminals as well as sensors that can detect a broader range of explosives.
This becomes very, very important as sensors start being placed into more and more inanimate objects, such as lamps, sprinklers, running shoes, thermostats, toll booths, vending machines, shark-detecting buoys and just about everything else.
John Kestner and David Carr created Twine, a 2.5 inch-square device with on-board temperature and vibration sensors, as well as an expansion connector for other sensors, such as moisture sensors and magnetic switches, all tightly integrated through WiFi with a cloud-based service.
As sensors and crowdsourcing give us ever more granular data into the norms and deviations of the world around us, enterprising developers and hardware companies have trotted out various combinations of atoms and bits to package that awareness, sometimes paired with recommendations, into products.
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Global revenues from clean tech businesses--including air and water purification, advanced materials, distributed power generation, renewable energy, and process controls, such as sensors to monitor air and water--now surpass 85 billion pounds, according to the Cleantech Venture Network, a for-profit membership group that connects venture and institutional investors with entrepreneurs.
Also, every room has a large fireplace as well as motion sensors which control the heat, lights and even the shades.
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It is already possible to power small electronic devices, such as wireless sensors installed in buildings and industrial machinery, using a dedicated microwave transmitter nearby.
Last, but hardly least, the high-technology sought by the Soviet Union for its energy industry lends itself to sensitive military applications, such as underwater sensors for anti-submarine warfare and other purposes.
The X PRIZE Foundation and Qualcomm seeks to achieve this by combining advancements in expert systems and medical point of care data such as wireless sensors, advancements in medical imaging and microfluidics.
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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.
Data are also streaming in from other sources: remote sensors operating as fixed sentries, sensors on ground vehicles and sensors on the equipment that soldiers carry around with them (some have cameras on their helmets).
K. Venkatesh Prasad, head of the advanced engineering team at Ford, talked about the car as a global platform in which people spend some 2 billion commuter hours a week, which can give people custom information, and act as collective sensors of movement or weather.
Known as Unattended Ground Sensors (UGS), the technology has been around since the 1970s.
As the ultrasonic sensors detect nearby objects, the arms exert more and more pressure on the skin.
As storage and sensors evolve to ever-escalating video resolution, we'll eventually be able to use frames from that video as photos suitable for large prints.
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Mercedes-Benz's Distronic Plus system, for instance, contains radar-based sensors as part of its cruise-control system, to keep the car at a preset distance from the vehicle in front, braking automatically if the gap narrows quickly.
From there, you'll be able to use all of your iDevice's sensors as triggers, from motion through to facial recognition and even GPS. The app doesn't just fire the shutter, either -- it also gives you control over the focus and flash.
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Technically, the now famous HAPIfork counts as evidence that the Internet of Sensors is arriving, where the fork is used as a sensor to measure the things we really care about, namely the calories and nutrients we consume, but that in turn is only useful to the extent that it tells us about our bodies.
Sensors such as GPS, accelerometers, gyroscopes, NFC, and high resolution cameras are now commonplace in smartphones.
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The possible uses for ingestible sensors is as varied as the body itself.
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It can be reconfigured for each mission by adding or removing modules such as weapon systems, sensors, helicopters and drones.
Even though water is used in training, sensors react as though firefighters were using the foam they would use in a real emergency.
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Older alarm devices and panels are prone to failure and life-safety sensors such as smoke and carbon monoxide detectors must be periodically replaced to work reliably.
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Commercial demand is apt to rise sharply within the next few years as social media, sensors, and other new data generators make petabytes a routine part of business analytics.
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Whether or not this idea materialises, a regional anti-missile network of sorts is likely to emerge, as Arrow's sensors will probably be made capable of swapping data with nearby American ships, bases and spacecraft.
According to the report, programs such as Portal Shield "will facilitate the integration of chemical detectors into personal warfighter gear" as well as installation of the sensors on aircraft, ships, armored vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles.
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