The birth of nanotechnology sensors has propelled human society into the era of intelligent sensors. It integrates numerous excellent properties, providing important diversified means for detecting the microscopic world at the nanoscale, which will trigger a revolutionary impact in the military field. It is the nanotechnology sensor. So, what is a nanotechnology sensor? What are … Read more
From November 11 to 13, the first China Sensor and Application Technology Conference was grandly held in Guangming District, Shenzhen. At the conference, Guo Yuansheng, chief engineer of the Electronic Components Industry Development Research Center of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) and vice president of the China Sensor and Internet of Things … Read more
With the continuous development of the Internet of Things (IoT), optical communication technology has gradually become an important means of achieving high speed, reliable, and energy-saving wireless connections. In this context, optical communication technology, as a high-speed, reliable, and secure communication method, is widely applied in the IoT. Applications in Sensor Networks Optical communication technology … Read more
Humans are now in the information age, and sensor technology, as the most important and fundamental technology for information acquisition, has also seen significant development. The development of sensor networks can be divided into three stages: sensors → wireless sensors → wireless sensor networks. The first stage can be traced back to the traditional sensor … Read more
Wireless sensor networks are a new technology for information acquisition and processing, integrating the logical information world with the objective physical world. Wireless sensor networks show broad application prospects in more and more fields. Cloud computing is a flexible way to organize and provide IT resources. It supports distributed storage and parallel processing, with its … Read more
Recently, Ankit Suthar, an ICS/OT network security expert, published an article titled “Are Your Smart Instruments Secure?” stating that over 3,000 smart instruments in a petrochemical facility were found to have no passwords set, even by default. Joe Weiss, a renowned automation expert and control system cybersecurity specialist, and managing partner of Applied Control Solutions, … Read more
Data collection is an important way to acquire the state of the physical world and serves as the foundation for various complex wireless sensor network applications. The mobile data collection of wireless sensor networks has broad application value. Depending on the different types of sensors onboard, it can detect various phenomena in the surrounding environment, … Read more
☞ This is the 13237th article published by Metal Processing (mw1950pub). Editor’s Note Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, and head of the 04 Special Project Group, Lu Bingheng, emphasized sternly at the Fifth World Intelligence Conference: “Producing machine tools like producing cars is absolutely wrong!” He also stated that there is still a … Read more
New concepts in the internet are emerging endlessly. After the rise of cloud computing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and big data, Industry 4.0 began to receive increasing attention in 2014 and became a new hotspot in 2015. It is necessary for us to understand what this new concept means and how it relates to … Read more
The term “Internet of Things” (IoT), also known as a sensor network, refers to the connection of various information sensing devices, such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) devices, infrared sensors, Global Positioning Systems (GPS), laser scanners, and other devices to the internet, forming a network that enables intelligent identification and management. According to data from … Read more