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RF Surveillance: A Case of Homeland and Border Security

  Although security threat can emerge from many sources, the one which is really brutal and catastrophic is terrorism. Terrorism has far reaching consequences like...

“Bluetooth Smart offers rapid rollout of low-power consumer products around the latest smartphone and tablet platforms, creating a large addressable market”

The IoT requires almost all objects to have some communication ability built into them. What is the scope of Bluetooth Smart in the IoT...

Tackling Power Consumption With High Technology

We have all heard of many software and hardware techniques to reduce power consumption. This interview takes a look at two impressive technologies that...

Part 2 of 2: Flexible Electronics: What’s the Use

Why do we need another form of electronics? Standard silicon-chip-based electronics is making great strides in miniaturisation, cramming more functionality into smaller chips. Couldn’t...

Mind-Reading Pets and Hijacking Planes: RPi Innovations Go Into Overdrive

A board designed to be used by students, the Raspberry Pi (RPi) ended up being the love affair for an entire hacker community—nerds and...

Daylight Harvesting With Automatic Lighting

Sekhar Nori has come up with a product he calls the Day360 Integrated Daylight System (IDS). This is a lighting system that harvests daylight...

Colour Segmentation Using MATLAB

This is a program for colour separation in an image. The program can be modified for a specific application, such as color detection in...

Getting Started With Kinect and OpenCV

This article gives a brief introduction to Kinect sensor and explains how to install OpenCV libraries in Ubuntu operating system. The article also covers...

ShopSecure: An IoT Security System

ShopSecure is an active security monitoring system developed by Knewron, which not only detects security breaches and unusual activities but also informs the occurrence...

3D Printing: The Technology That Changes Everything

The main benefit of 3D printing is the reduction in time, effort and energy taken to convert a design into a prototype. In a...