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.