There are many reasons to anticipate that the use of wireless instrumentation in industrial settings will increase dramatically in the next few years. However, certain stumbling blocks could curtail ...

As equipment ages in fossil-fueled power plants, component wear leading to machinery failure increases as a result. Extending equipment life requires increased attention to maintenance, and one way to ...

Washrooms are among the highest-maintenance rooms in companies. New technology now monitors soap, cotton towel and toilet paper dispensers fully automatically, and notifies the cleaning staff when ...

This product is featured in EDN’s Hot 100 products of 2018. See all 100 here. Lighting in commercial facilities can be very costly. There has been an ever-growing demand to lower costs by switching ...

A 30-member research team that includes chemists, engineers, and medical doctors has unveiled implantable wireless sensors that biodegrade within the body (Nature 2016, DOI: 10.1038/nature16492). Such ...

The very devices that help doctors take care of the most fragile babies also come with big drawbacks. Sensors that measure a premature newborn’s heart rate, breathing rate and other vital signs in the ...