Droid Sensors, Mobile Sensors

Millimeter-scale, energy-harvesting sensor system developed

The U-M system’s processor, solar cells, and battery are all contained in its tiny frame, which measures 2.5 by 3.5 by 1 millimeters. It is 1,000 times smaller than comparable commercial counterparts. The system could enable new biomedical implants as well as home-, building- and bridge-monitoring devices. It could vastly improve the efficiency and cost of current environmental sensor networks designed to detect movement or track air and water quality. The sensor spends most of its tim...

Broadcom Bluetooth Enables Mobile Phones to Keep Track of User’s Health

Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM)  today announced that it has extended its portfolio of Bluetooth® system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions to enable mobile phones (and other devices) to wirelessly track and monitor health and fitness indicators. Broadcom's implementation of the Bluetooth Health Devices Profile (HDP) helps expand the Bluetooth ecosystem to include very low power health and fitness sensors enabled by Bluetooth. Broadcom is demonstrating its Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technology at ...

Project Natal – the Xbox 360 controller-less interface

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Sensors for mobile phones: more data, more services, more profit!

You still consider mobile sensors (built-in sensors in mobile phones) to be a far future? Why so? Nowadays one can find a number of commercially successful mobile sensors, an example being a built-in accelerometer in iPhone. With this simple silicon plate Apple managed to establish a whole industry of commercially successful mobile games and applications, worth billions of dollars. So  iPhone users don’t imagine their lives without this sensor anymore as well as request Apple to introduce...

Paper based diagnostic sensors(concept)

A paper sensor, perhaps with some help from a camera phone, can provide sophisticated diagnostics for remote points of care.

iPhone + Arduino + Heartrate Monitor = HumanAPI

In the project demonstrated in this video, iPhone developer Nikolai Onken has put together a prototype that gathers heart rate data from a Polar T31 transmitter, and collects it on his iPhone using Bluetooth transmission. Source: link

Radar from Nokia in your pocket?

The mad scientists at Nokia Research Center are always brewing up something that let’s us peak behind the curtain of future mobile technologies(sensors etc). Some concoctions make it into our mobile phones, while others never make it outside the NRC building in Helsinki. “Mobile Radar” is definitely one I’d like to see in my handset sooner rather than later. In the video shown below, you’ll see researcher Jani Ollikainen use his hand to adjust the music player’s volume, without ever tou...

PLEN – robot-droid – controlled wirelessly

PLEN is known throughout the world as the adorable robot that can roller-skate forwards, backwards, and kick a soccer ball all while balancing on one leg. A true marvel of modern engineering, PLEN is made up of the highest grade of servo motors, a powerful onboard microprocessor and precision machined parts. Each robot is built to order by the guys at Systec Akazawa in Osaka, Japan. The robot is controlled wirelessly by Bluetooth and can connect to your PC by standard USB connection. It is fu...

Wearable Health Monitoring Sensor Debuts in Japanese Market

WIN Human Recorder Co Ltd, a Japan-based venture firm, launched a health monitoring service that uses a sensor network. In the service, Health-related information is collected and analyzed by a small sensor attached to a human body, and it is viewed and managed on a mobile phone or a PC. This time, WIN Human Recorder released the "HRS-I," a system that measures electrocardiographic signals, body surface temperature and human movements at the same time by attaching a sensor with wirele...

Nokia Eco Sensor Concept

To meet Nokia's  future vision, the Nokia Research Center supported by Nokia designers conceived the Nokia Eco Sensor Concept.  Nokia's visionary design concept is a mobile phone and compatible sensing device that will help you stay connected to your friends and loved ones, as well as to your health and local environment. The concept The concept consists of two parts – a wearable sensor unit which can sense and analyze your environment, health, and local weather conditions, and a dedicat...