Science news articles about 'wireless computer networks'New wireless sensor network keeps tabs on the environment
... to answer that question. The departments of computing science and earth and atmospheric science have been working together to create a Wireless Sensor Network that allows for the clandestine data ... Dartmouth launches network security study
... researchers is preparing to launch a project that examines the campus wireless computer traffic in an effort to learn how the network is used and how to best maintain its security. The project is ... Hackers mull physical attacks on a networked world
(AP) -- Want to break into the computer network in an ultra-secure building? Ship a hacked iPhone there to a nonexistent employee and hope the device sits in the mailroom, scanning for nearby ... Networks of the Future: Extending Our Senses into the Physical World
(PhysOrg.com) -- The picture of a future with wireless sensor networks-webs of sensory devices that function ... focus through the work of Los Alamos National Laboratory computer scientist Sami Ayyorgun. ... Carnegie Mellon system thwarts Internet eavesdropping
Fi and other wireless computer networks has increased the risk of eavesdropping on Internet communications, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and College of ... Software aims to help wi-fi security
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Pittsburgh researchers say they have developed a low budget way of stopping hackers on WiFi or other wireless computer networks.Probably wireless
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) used to detect and report events including hurricanes, earthquakes, and forest fires and for military surveillance and antiterrorist activities are prone to subterfuge. ... Boston University partners in NSF challenge to create wireless network using visible light
... conducted by the Smart Lighting ERC.
Boston University researches will focus on developing computer networking applications, notably the solid state optical technology that will form the network's ... NIST debuts new approach to ad hoc networks for first responders
... walk out of range and lose the radio signal.
Other approaches to setting up ad hoc wireless networks in emergency situations typically instruct first responders to lay down breadcrumb relays, for ... Iowa State researchers developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming
... decisions."
Kumar said the sensors have worked underground in preliminary, point-to-point tests. A network of multiple sensors will be buried in a research field later this fall for more testing and ... Home Lighting Could Be Wireless Network
LED lights may soon wirelessly connect your computer, phone or car to the Internet.Method uses 'Bluetooth' to track travel time for vehicles, pedestrians
... for cell phone hands-free headsets, wireless keyboards, Internet access for personal digital assistants, and wireless networks for laptops and personal computers. The new travel-time estimation ... Cooperative system could wipe out car alarm noise
... begin to send out an identification signal. The researchers hope to be able to use existing wireless devices that are at intersections and roadsides, to track the sensors in the stolen car. While ... Killer whales, blind bats, discriminating dolphins, mating birds
... The hardware must be robust enough to survive deployment in the field, and it must operate wirelessly. Wired connections are logistically difficult in the field: cords become tangled, connectors fail, ... Wake-up call: Draft security pub looks at cell phones, PDAs
... System receivers and the ability to record and store multimedia files and transfer them over wireless networks—in addition to the cell phone system—using WiFi, infrared and Bluetooth communications. ...
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New wireless sensor network keeps tabs on the environment
... to answer that question. The departments of computing science and earth and atmospheric science have been working together to create a Wireless Sensor Network that allows for the clandestine data ...Dartmouth launches network security study
... researchers is preparing to launch a project that examines the campus wireless computer traffic in an effort to learn how the network is used and how to best maintain its security. The project is ...Hackers mull physical attacks on a networked world
(AP) -- Want to break into the computer network in an ultra-secure building? Ship a hacked iPhone there to a nonexistent employee and hope the device sits in the mailroom, scanning for nearby ...Networks of the Future: Extending Our Senses into the Physical World
(PhysOrg.com) -- The picture of a future with wireless sensor networks-webs of sensory devices that function ... focus through the work of Los Alamos National Laboratory computer scientist Sami Ayyorgun. ...Carnegie Mellon system thwarts Internet eavesdropping
Fi and other wireless computer networks has increased the risk of eavesdropping on Internet communications, but researchers at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and College of ...Software aims to help wi-fi security
PITTSBURGH, Aug. 26 (UPI) -- Pittsburgh researchers say they have developed a low budget way of stopping hackers on WiFi or other wireless computer networks.Probably wireless
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) used to detect and report events including hurricanes, earthquakes, and forest fires and for military surveillance and antiterrorist activities are prone to subterfuge. ...Boston University partners in NSF challenge to create wireless network using visible light
... conducted by the Smart Lighting ERC. Boston University researches will focus on developing computer networking applications, notably the solid state optical technology that will form the network's ...NIST debuts new approach to ad hoc networks for first responders
... walk out of range and lose the radio signal. Other approaches to setting up ad hoc wireless networks in emergency situations typically instruct first responders to lay down breadcrumb relays, for ...Iowa State researchers developing wireless soil sensors to improve farming
... decisions." Kumar said the sensors have worked underground in preliminary, point-to-point tests. A network of multiple sensors will be buried in a research field later this fall for more testing and ...Home Lighting Could Be Wireless Network
LED lights may soon wirelessly connect your computer, phone or car to the Internet.Method uses 'Bluetooth' to track travel time for vehicles, pedestrians
... for cell phone hands-free headsets, wireless keyboards, Internet access for personal digital assistants, and wireless networks for laptops and personal computers. The new travel-time estimation ...Cooperative system could wipe out car alarm noise
... begin to send out an identification signal. The researchers hope to be able to use existing wireless devices that are at intersections and roadsides, to track the sensors in the stolen car. While ...Killer whales, blind bats, discriminating dolphins, mating birds
... The hardware must be robust enough to survive deployment in the field, and it must operate wirelessly. Wired connections are logistically difficult in the field: cords become tangled, connectors fail, ...Wake-up call: Draft security pub looks at cell phones, PDAs
... System receivers and the ability to record and store multimedia files and transfer them over wireless networks—in addition to the cell phone system—using WiFi, infrared and Bluetooth communications. ...