Remote control and monitoring
05 November, 2003 | Supplied by: Miles Electronics
CMACS is a control and monitoring unit designed to measure remote site conditions and alert personnel by mobile phone SMS message if an alarm condition occurs. The site monitor may then be interrogated remotely by supervisory software for real-time measurement information or to take corrective action by activating digital outputs.
Improving performance of wireless communications
05 November, 2003
Researchers at the University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR) in the US and Motorola's Advanced Technology Center are developing three-dimensional switches and tiny fuel cells to improve the reception quality and extend the operating time for wireless communications and other wireless sensing devices.
Tiny nanotube antennas may yield better signals
08 January, 2003
In the future, mobile phone calls and television pictures could become a lot clearer thanks to tiny antennas thousands of times smaller than the width of a human hair. At least that's the speculation of a University of Southern California researcher who has been investigating nanotube transistors.
