India has developed an elaborate but highly secretive network of sensors along the Pakistani border.
Other projects will include a network of sensors to monitor air quality, traffic flow, water supply and other parameters.
Department plans call for testing of a single network of sensors by 2010.
But the Pentagon must overcome technological hurdles before it can achieve its objective of a fully integrated warning, detection and reporting network of sensors and command and control systems.
The Pentagon's ultimate goal of creating a single network of sensors may also benefit state and local programs designed to monitor air pollution, noxious fumes and municipal water supplies, the report stated.
Data from a global network of sensors indicated that the disintegration of the Russia fireball unleashed nearly 500 kilotons of energy, more than 30 times the energy of the Hiroshima atomic bomb.
Google's Cloud Platform Developer Relations team is spearheading a project called the Data Sensing Lab, which utilizes a network of Arduino sensors to collect ambient data and translate it into easily understood visualizations.
Motorola's new Home Monitoring and Control System HMEZ1000, a system of wireless network cameras and sensors that let's you keep tabs on your home from anywhere, and will automatically email or text message you when a door or window is opened, or when the temperature or humidity hits a certain level.
Their sensors record network traffic and use a feed of data about threat sources associated with command and control servers.
You and I use it to get to work every day as a distributed network of hundreds of sensors relay vital information to the dashboards of the cars we drive.
Sensors installed throughout the network send data about local grid conditions to a central computer, 30 times a second.
The company sold more than 50 million Xbox consoles worldwide, and there are now more than 36 million members of the Xbox Live gaming network. 8 million Xbox Kinect sensors, shipped to retailers in the first 60 days worldwide, which seems quite remarkable, but Ballmer stopped short of mentioning actual consumer sales numbers.
GE, which supplies the National Grid operator in the U.K., would dearly love to outfit the U.S. network with control software and thousands of sensors to report voltage and other information on a second-by-second basis.
The Internet is now an interconnected, global network of things: computers, devices, sensors, applications, etc.
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The system consists of sensors fitted on cables throughout the network, both overhead and underground, measuring current and conductor temperature.
The big idea: putting sensors everywhere that communicate in a mesh network and allow real-time tracking and optimization of everything from traffic to the power grid to the water supply.
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The system the Administration is looking at would link a network of ground-based radars and space-based sensors with 100 missile interceptors located at a single site.
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.
SmartThings and DaisyWorks make sensors that can be attached to household things and send information to the network, improving your ability to manage your home and your schedule.
M2M solutions use sensors to capture information or an event and then relay that information through a network to an application or database.
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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.
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