Network Turns Soldiers' Helmets Into Sniper Location System

Tuesday, March 24, 2009 - 16:35 in Mathematics & Economics

Engineers at Vanderbilt University's Institute for Software Integrated Systems (ISIS) have developed a system that turns individual soldiers into "smart nodes" in a low-cost sensor network that can identify the location of enemy shooters in three dimensions and accurately identify the caliber and type of weapons they are firing.

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