Lively, which recently announced $4.8M in series A funding, has launched a dongle and two months of free service to monitor older folks at home. Their minimalist monitoring is not ‘big brother’ intrusive. Their passive sensing devices track just enough information to interpret meaningful activity, without sharing too much. It doesn’t require any video cameras […]
For the BBC Horizon programme “The Secret Life of the Cat”, the Wildlife Tracking Collars developed by the Royal Veterinarian College were downsized to fit on domestic cats. About 50 tracking collars were fitted to house cats in the UK, incorporating the GPS receiver, accelerometers, gyroscopes, CPU, and much of the associated software. The college […]
The DASH7 Alliance, a non-profit industry consortium that promotes wireless sensor networking standards, today announced the public release of the DASH7 Alliance Protocol. DASH7, an open source wireless sensor networking standard, competes with Zigbee (900MHz/2.4GHz), Z-Wave (900 MHz), Bluetooth (2.4GHz), WiFi (2.4/5 GHz), and Low Power UWB for machine to machine communications, but features multi-kilometer […]
At its official unveiling Apple said both the “cheap” iPhone 5c and the flagship iPhone 5s will support “more LTE bands in than any other smartphone in the world”. Accompanying the new device’s launch is a long list of 17 bands covering many, but not all of the world’s 4G networks. It’s not a “world […]
WiSee, developed at a University of Washington lab, claims to be the first whole-home gesture recognition system using wireless signals. Since wireless signals do not require line-of-sight and can traverse through walls, WiSee can enable whole-home gesture recognition using few wireless sources (e.g., a Wi-Fi router and a few mobile devices in the living room). […]
Portland’s transit agency, TriMet, unveiled an e-ticket app from GlobeSherpa this week which is said to be the first used by a U.S. transit agency to let bus, train and streetcar riders buy and use fares from their iPhones and Androids. The free app, developed by local software startup GlobeSherpa, provides mobile ticket sales so […]
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