Want to know the temperature of machine parts before they overheat and cause damage? Monitor water-intolerant assets without opening the container to check each one? Detect strain in concrete? Save ...

Sensor-based passive RFID tags have been on the market for just a few years, but according to U.K.-based market-research firm IDTechEx, they have accomplished sufficient growth in niche markets that ...

The presented schematic shows how to build a simple PIR motion sensor. PIR sensors allow motion sensing, it is almost always used to detect whether someone has moved in or out of the sensors range.

The same material that makes the theft detectors go off in a department store when the salesperson forgets to remove the anti-theft tag, may make inexpensive, passive temperature and stress sensors ...

Staff Sgt. Jacob Rascon, right, and Sgt. David Hendrixson, both assigned to 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), analyze prototyped cyber field equipment during Cyber Quest ...

Sometimes space exploration doesn't go as planned. But even in failure, engineers can learn, adapt, and try again. One of the ...

Taiwan's passive components makers including Yageo and Thinking Electronic Industrial are tapping deeper into the segment of sensors to explore huge business potentials for automotive, industrial ...

There is a great deal of interest in digital health technology to support aging in place so that seniors living alone can stay in their own homes as long as possible, with the idea that it keeps them ...

Workers at Era's head office in Pardubice, Czech Republic, carry out testing on a trailer-configured version of the VERA-NG passive sensor system. (Photo: Grant Turnbull) In a small city, just a few ...

Below are the finalists for the Passive components, sensors, indicators, and interconnects category of the 2012 ACE Awards Ultimate Products. After reviewing the finalists, cast your vote here. The ...