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Now in its sixth year, the Cornell project team CU GeoData bridges engineering and earth sciences to design and deploy environmental sensors, including a sensor network across the Finger Lakes and a ...

The controller area network (CAN) bus is a reliable, real-time communication protocol and remains the backbone of modern ...

In addition to knowing if a neighborhood is experiencing active flooding, it helps to have a bit more data. How regularly do these events occur? Is flooding expected based on the forecast? “The sensor ...

Oura is part of a new partnership that’s looking to develop photonic sensors for wearable devices. As reported by PULSE, the company is one of several Finland-based companies – along with GE ...

Proximity sensors are common enough in automation projects that we hardly give them a second thought — pick something with specs that match the job and move on. But they can be fussy to get adjusted ...

On a crisp, cloudless day earlier this year Ricardo Toledo-Crow went for a stroll in Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx looking for one of the city’s newly discovered weak points: where water goes and ...

From DIY weather stations to industrial monitors, C++ makes it easy to interface with temperature sensors over I2C or ADC. With the right libraries, soldering skills, and design patterns, you can ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...