sensor networks
Where art, technology (& hipsters) meet [photos]
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This weekend, San Francisco’s first Creator’s Project — a collaborative program between the media company Vice and Intel — kicked off, showing off works of art that incorporate technology, software and connectivity. Johan Jervoe, VP of Creative & Digital Marketing Services for Intel, explained that The Creator’s Project was developed...
Guess What? This Mobile Internet Thing Just Might Be A Big Deal
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Networking giant Cisco Systems today revealed the latest version of its Visual Networking Index, its regularly updated look ahead and how big the Internet is going to be someday — the bigger the better because Cisco hopes to sell the gear to enable it, natch — and, well, there’s really...
Mobile tech's future isn't in the phone, it's in your car.
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Tesla’s line of Model S cars For the last five years we’ve become accustomed to seeing the hottest tech hit our mobile phones, but that may be about to change. Sure, phones will continue to get smarter, and perhaps innovations rivaling capacitive touch or natural language personal assistants will still...
Silicon Labs to buy Ember for $72M for Internet of things
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The over a decade-old company that makes the building blocks — chips, gear and software — for ZigBee-based wireless networks is finally being acquired. Austin-based chip company Silicon Labs announced on Monday that it has acquired Boston-based Ember for $72 million. Ember was founded back in 2001 and backed by...
FIFA: Soccer Refs Might Use Sensor Networks to Keep Score
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Should computer-controlled sensor arrays be used to keep referees from making bad calls? Officials of FIFA, soccer's international governing body, have called a special meeting to decide. Whether computer technology should be used to monitor goal lines has become an urgent question among soccer officials. During a match at the...
Meet TempoDB, a database startup with an eye for time
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TempoDB, a startup out of Chicago, has built a database-as-a-service offering specifically for time-series data. CEO and co-founder Andrew Cronk presented at the TechStars Cloud demo day earlier this week, and laid out the need for a specialty database for data that comes from thermostats, sensor networks, networking gear and...
The Open Cities App Challenge is set to highlight apps shaping the smart cities of tomorrow
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The idea of ‘smart cities’ that use open data and networks of sensors to empower their citizens with more information than ever before has gained real momentum over the past couple of years. A new competition is looking to highlight the best applications that embrace this ethos. The Open Cities...
Printed wireless power chips could be the kick start that NFC needs
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If you follow the mobile computing scene, you’re probably well aware that NFC — near field communication — is meant to be the next big thing. In fact, NFC and its sister RFID have been the next big thing for years — but for some reason, they’ve just never taken...
A discussion with David Farber: bandwidth, cyber security, and the obsolescence of the Internet
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David Farber, a veteran of Internet technology and politics, dropped by Cambridge, Mass. today and was gracious enough to grant me some time in between his numerous meetings. On leave from Carnegie Mellon, Dave still intervenes in numerous policy discussions related to the Internet and "plays in Washington," as...
Sensor networks in SF and LA could eliminate the search for a parking spot
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You’ve heard of smart cars — cars that are packed with sensors and computers and cameras to make driving easier — and now, rolling out in San Francisco, is a smart parking system that promises to almost eliminate the arduous process of finding a parking spot.SFpark is a network of...
Internet of Things: Opportunities For Entrepreneurs
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Last month the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab ran an event at the Stanford Business School, called The Internet of Things: Sensors Everywhere. The video of the event was recently put up on YouTube. We've embedded the entire hour-long video below, along with a 2-minute video snippet which we think budding entrepreneurs...
ReadWriteStart Weekly Wrapup
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This week was a busy one for technology lovers, especially fans of Apple as both the iPad and iPhone OS 4.0 both made their debuts. One of our more popular articles on ReadWriteStart this week mentioned here in the in Weekly Wrapup detailed how entrepreneurs and developers should team up...
Sensor Networks In San Francisco Finds Parking Spots
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MrSeb writes "You've heard of smart cars, and now, rolling out in San Francisco, is a smart parking system that promises to eliminate the arduous process of finding a parking spot. SFpark is a network of magnetic sensors that have been installed under 8,200 street parking spaces, along with...
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