A guide for engineers balancing performance, reliability, and manufacturability across today’s smart systems By Barry Brents, ...

Accurately measuring electric fields is important in a variety of applications, such as weather forecasting, process control on industrial machinery, or ensuring the safety of people working on ...

SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today at DistribuTECH, Silver Spring Networks, Inc. (NYSE:SSNI) showcased how the ground-breaking SilverLink TM Sensor Network is helping unlock smart grid big data to ...

Capacitive sensing provides a robust alternative to traditional mechanical switches. However, some applications cannot accommodate the physical implementation of a printed circuit board directly under ...

A new quantum sensor can measure the energy stored in electric-vehicle batteries much more accurately than existing devices – according to its inventors Mutsuko Hatano at the Tokyo Institute of ...

The utility industry is on the cusp of transforming how it monitors, maintains and secures critical infrastructure. Specifically, we’re seeing them move from reactive electric grid maintenance to ...

Diamond detection A sensor based on NV centres has been used to measure electrical currents in the heart of a rat. (Courtesy: iStock/Gizmo) A diamond-based sensor that maps out the subtle electrical ...

Scientists have developed a sensor for measuring the strength of electric fields, which is much smaller, simpler and less prone to distortion than comparable devices. TU Wien has developed a sensor ...