Using sensor information, it will spring to life at the sight of its master and express the anticipated emotion -- lapping up affection and retreating when scolded.
The other was Mari Maeda, an obscure program manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), who described her work on Advanced Soldier Sensor Information Systems and Technology (ASSIST).
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Patrons can browse through a menu on their table, or type text, with the help of that all-important infra-red sensor, with the information sent back to waiting staff.
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The watch provides the ability to store log information from these various sensor readings.
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The superior telecentric optical design improves image quality throughout the frame by passing on information about subjects to the sensor.
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Recently, the domain has also developed vector data sets that represent subsets of information extracted from the base sensor data such as roads, pipelines and waterways.
Dr Aviv said that typically users did not have to give permission for a sensor to gather data even if the information it grabbed had nothing to do with the application they were using.
So, according to Martella, WSNs were set up so vital information would not be lost when one sensor malfunctioned.
The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration has set up a program to gather information about car crashes using data from sensor boxes.
And this extra "sensor" will have almost unlimited range, because information can be instantaneously relayed from one vehicle to the next, to the next, and so on.
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Emerging sensor technologies like barometer, microbolometers, and chemical sensors will provide even richer user context information.
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If a surgeon used a scalpel enhanced with Smart-Tool technology, the real-time sensor on the blade could sense what kind of tissue it is touching and rely the information back to the doctor.
Since there's no physical interface on the device to configure WiFi, the company's developed Blinkup, a way to enter SSID and password information on any iOS and Android smartphone and beam it to the Electric Imp's light sensor by rapidly pulsing the handset's screen on and off.
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