Rooftop solar panels power millions of homes around the world. But a team of researchers at Binghamton University is asking what happens if some of that electricity came from inside the house. Their ...

With new capabilities available in Wiliot's ambient IoT Visibility Platform, companies can now continuously monitor the humidity of products—as well as temperature, location, and carbon footprint—to ...

There’s a huge variety of ways that we can potentially generate all the power we need for tiny medical sensors or other devices with minimal power needs. But there’s often a big gap between those ...

The company applies an additional membrane to its low-cost wireless passive sensors to measure humidity conditions, then transmits that and other sensor data wirelessly from trucks, stores, or ...

The potential sources of energy that can be harvested for free—or close to it—almost defy imagination. While some, such as wind, fluid flow, and solar, are somewhat obvious, others are not. Consider ...

Graphic image of a thin film of protein nanowires generating electricity from atmospheric humidity. (Courtesy: UMass Amherst/Yao and Lovley labs) Scientists in the US claim to have developed a device ...

A shift in ambient temperature in the data center can result in downtime caused by overheating, hardware damage due to moisture buildup or complete system failure. With the right tracking equipment, ...