Dec 1 2010 in Environmental Sensors by Rick
New Solar-Powered Sensor Could Literally Change the World Science continues to amaze and one of the latest discoveries may literally change the world as we know it. This tiny solar-powered sensor can fit on the face of a penny and barely cover up the date. How this little wonder, developed at the University of Michigan, […]
Tags: Change, Could, Literally, Sensor, SolarPowered, World
Nov 30 2010 in Biometric Sensors by Rick
So you’re in the market for biometric locks, perhaps to put on the front door of your home or to better secure your office. You have familiarized yourself with the aspects of biometric locks. You understand the concept of the sensor, which reads input such as a fingerprint or voice and compares it to information […]
Tags: Biometric, Life, Locks, Mean, Mysteries, Sensor
Nov 29 2010 in Environmental Sensors by Rick
In the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, fish swimming in the northern lakes are sick and the water is no longer fit to drink. The First Nations people in the region now want to monitor the water quality themselves. INCAS³ is developing the environmental sensors they need. The INCAS³ Sensory System Hardware has been designed as […]
Tags: Canada's, Educating, First, Nations, People, Sensor, Technology
Nov 29 2010 in Biometric Sensors by Rick
It may seem silly to say that “the future is now” but it is absolutely true. As far-fetched as movies like seem, there is always a grain of truth to be gleaned from them. Such is the case in futuristic movies like Minority Report where people drive hover cars and stealing other’s eyeballs in order […]
Tags: Biometric, Locks, Mysteries, Sensor
Jan 31 2010 in Biometric Sensors by Rick
Under the terms of the contract, Lumidigm will develop a fully-functional multi-biometric sensor based on multispectral imaging of the hand. Four distinct biometric signals will be collected for each hand insertion: fingerprints, palmprints, skin textural characteristics, and hand shape. Score-level multi-biometric fusion will be used to combine these four different biometric information sources to provide […]
Tags: $730K, Anil, Army, Awarded, Contract, from, Jain, Lumidigm, MultiBiometric, Phase, SBIR, Sensor, U.S., WholeHand, Work
Jan 24 2010 in Biometric Sensors by Rick
If you are searching for a new solution to your security needs, biometric locks may do just the trick. Unlike traditional locks which require a physical tool to work (a key, an access card or remote control), biometric locks scan and compare physiological or behavioral traits in human beings to information within a database. When […]
Tags: Biometric, Locks, Mysteries, Sensor