RADAR is RAdio Detection And Ranging & RAdio Direction And Ranging, gives this technology the ‘SWEEP SEARCHING’, ‘LOCATING’, 'TARGET LOCKING' & 'TARGET TRACKING' capabilities.
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THE OMNIPOTENCE MACHINES – was a 10-year project to place – Push-pin size, Self-Healing Network of Stackable Sensors – to sense everything and to know where you are (and to keep TRACK of YOU) and to know where everything else is too, whether solid, liquid or gas, by using radiofrequencies. The 10 - years are up!
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The Omnipotence Machines –– Scientific American - ELECTRONICS AND ROBOTICS (2009 article)
Tiny, ubiquitous sensors will allow us to index the physical world the way the Web maps cyberspace. Earlier this year Hewlett-Packard announced the launch of its Central Nervous System for the Earth (CeNSE) project, a 10-year effort to embed up to a trillion pushpin-size sensors across the planet. Technologists say that the information gathered by this kind of ubiquitous sensing network could change our knowledge of the world as profoundly as the Internet has changed business."
The spread of versatile sensors or "motes" and the ability of computers to analyze and either recommend or initiate responses to the data they generate, will not merely enhance our understanding of nature. It could lead to buildings that manage their own energy use, bridges that flag engineers when in need of repair, cars that track traffic patterns and detect potholes, and home security systems that distinguish between the footfalls of an intruder and the dog, to name a few.
CeNSE is the boldest project yet announced, but HP is not the only organization developing the technology to make ubiquitous sensing possible. Intel is also designing novel sensor packages, as are numerous university labs.
For all the momentum in the field, though, this sensor-filled future is by no means inevitable. These devices will need to generate rich, reliable data and be rugged enough to survive tough environments. The sensor packages themselves will be small, but the computing effort required will be enormous. All the information they gather will have to be transmitted, hosted on server farms, and analyzed. Finally, someone is going to have to pay for it all. "There is the fundamental question of economics," notes computer scientist Deborah Estrin of the University of California, Los Angeles. "Every sensor is a nonzero cost. There is maintenance, power, keeping them calibrated. You don't just strew them around."
In fact, HP senior researcher Peter Hartwell acknowledges that for CeNSE to hit its goals, the sensors will need to be nearly free. That is one of the reasons why HP is designing a single, do-everything, pushpin-size package stacked with a variety of gauges--light, temperature, humidity, vibration and strain, among others-- instead of a series of devices for different tasks. Hartwell says that focusing on one versatile device will drive up volume, reducing the cost for each unit, but it could also allow HP to serve several clients at once with the same sensors.
Consider his chief engineering project, an ultrasensitive accelerometer. Housed inside a chip, the sensor tracks the motion of a tiny, internal movable platform relative to the rest of the chip. It can measure changes in acceleration 1,000 times as accurately as the technology in the Nintendo Wii.
Hartwell imagines situating one of these pins every 16 feet along a highway. Thanks to the temperature, humidity and light sensors, the motes could serve as mini weather stations. But the accelerometers' vibration data could also be analyzed to determine traffic conditions-- roughly how many cars are moving past and how quickly. The local highway department would be interested in this information, he guesses, but there are potential consumer applications, too. "Your wireless company might want to take that information and tell you how to get to the airport the fastest," Hartwell says.
All of this gathering and transmission of data requires power, of course, and to guarantee an extended life, the HP pushpin will not rely solely on batteries. "It is going to have some sort of energy-scavenging ability," Hartwell says. "Maybe a solar panel or a thermoelectric device to help keep the battery charged."
With the power hurdle in mind, other groups are forgoing batteries altogether. At Intel Labs in Seattle, engineer Josh Smith has developed a sensor package that runs on wireless power. Like the HP pushpin, Intel's WISP, or Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform, will include a variety of gauges, but it will also draw energy from the radio waves emitted by long-range radio-frequency ID chip readers. Smith says a single reader, plugged into a wall outlet, can already power and communicate with a network of prototype WISPs five to 10 feet away--a distance that should increase.
Smith cites many of the same infrastructure-related possibilities as Hartwell, along with a number of other uses. If WISPs were placed on standard household items such as cups, these tags could inform doctors about the rehabilitation progress of stroke victims. If the cups the patient normally uses remain stationary, Smith explains, then the individual probably is not up and moving around.
The potential applications for ubiquitous sensing are so broad--a physicist recently contacted him about using WISPs to monitor the temperature outside a proposed neutrino detector--that, as with the Internet, Smith says it is impossible to foresee them all. "In terms of the impact it is going to have on our lives," Hartwell adds, "you haven't seen anything yet."
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An exhibit to show how we and all the RF things we tote around with us, is tracked, creating an inter-connected labyrinth or network, where everything is talking to each other, in essence creating an Internet of Things (IOT). Listen to the "SONIFICATION of YOU", it is WILD ! https://soundcloud.com/greyisgood/sonification-slade It will (audibly) SONIFY YOU, LIVE !!!!!!!!!
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Sonification of You – Martin John Callanan http://www.sonification.co.uk/ Updated Thursday, 12 September, 2013 22:23 ©
Interactivity has become ambient. Individual people are no longer isolated resulting from the scaling up of networks and the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission and reception. Various communication devices always carried are continuously emitting and receiving information. This continuous data flow is both invisible and often, by the majority of people, unknown. Today’s hand-held devices can be seen as extensions of the human body allow ubiquitous, inescapable network interconnectivity.
‘Sonification of You’ aims to make this data flow ‘visible’ to those people carrying active devices. The equipment will passively scan the various radio spectrum frequencies used by mobile phone devices, Bluetooth, WiFi networks and others used by mobile devices, within a given place. The data information then represented by assigned audio sounds that will indicate activity, distance and strength of signals.
Drawing on methods for monitoring large computer networks, the result is to create a background ‘sound’ for a space that is representational of the people, and their devices, present.
Interactivity has become ambient. Individual people are no longer isolated resulting from the scaling up of networks and the scaling down of the apparatus for transmission and reception. Various communication devices always carried are continuously emitting and receiving information. This continuous data flow is both invisible and often, by the majority of people, unknown. Today’s hand-held devices can be seen as extensions of the human body allow ubiquitous, inescapable network interconnectivity. ‘Sonification of You’ aims to make this data flow ‘visible’ to those people carrying active devices. The equipment will passively scan the various radio spectrum frequencies used by mobile phone devices, Bluetooth, WiFi networks, and others used by mobile devices, within a given place. The data information then represented by assigned audio sounds that will indicate activity, distance, and strength of signals.
Drawing on methods for monitoring large computer networks, the result is to create a background ‘sound’ for a space that is representational of the people, and their devices, present.
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This is more recent news on how to get located by law enforcement and first responders: What3Words 57 Trillion Places - creating a global standard for communicating location https://www.avgfunds.com/what3words/
January 22, 2020 --- what3words has segmented the entire world into a grid of 57 trillion 10-foot squares and assigned each a unique three-word address. We love how they’ve solved a worldwide geolocation problem with a brilliantly simple solution for navigation, events, emergency, and more. Backed by major global players like Daimler, Subaru, Intel and Sony, our investment in what3words has the potential for tremendous upside and has emerged as one of AVG’s strongest Syndications to date.
From Music Producer to Modern Mapmaker -- Like many entrepreneurs, Chris Sheldrick began his journey with a very specific problem.
Working in the music industry, managing live acts and producing events internationally, Sheldrick routinely encountered difficulties communicating location. He’d get lost, equipment would be delivered to the wrong place, performers would show up at the wrong gig, etc. To avoid dealing with inconsistent and inaccurate addresses, Sheldrick tried relying on GPS coordinates, but the long strings of numbers were unwieldy and impractical.
Frustrated by the lack of reliable addressing, Sheldrick teamed up with his friend Mohan Ganesalingam, a mathematician, and Jack Waley-Cohen, a friend with a background in translation, to come up with a way to describe location that would be as precise as latitude and longitude, but more concise and easier to use. Five years later, the product of their collaboration, what3words, is used by millions of people across the world.
Navigation, Squared -- The concept behind the app is surprisingly simple. The what3words team has built a system that converts latitude/longitude coordinates into 3-word sequences, segmenting the entire world into a grid of 57 trillion three-meter (10-foot) squares, each assigned a unique three-word address.
For example, the middle of AVG’s Manchester headquarters is ///crown.clear.league, whereas the GPS coordinates are 42.989565, 71.463300 – or 42°59’22.2″N 71°27’47.7″W, whichever you prefer.
Discover your 3 word address: https://what3words.com/clip.apples.leap
what3words’s system is both unique and proprietary. Unlike Google and other map providers, it does not need to pay to buy addresses from each of the world’s governments every year, so it can provide more accurate information, in a simpler, more user-friendly way, at a lower cost.
Finding a Way - Today, everyone can use 3 word addresses to find, share and describe places faster and more easily—from festival-goers and famous authors, to delivery drivers and emergency services. As we move toward a more autonomous future, being able to accurately and unambiguously tell your car where to drive or where your drone delivery should go will be essential. With today’s technology, a street address spoken to a machine is accurate 34% of the time. A what3words address is interpreted correctly 97% of the time and what it means is precise and unambiguous.
AVG participated in what3words’ 2019 Series C round of financing alongside Daimler, Sony, Fraser McCombs, Intel Capital and SAIC Technologies. AVG has been watching what3words for a few years, and it’s been exciting to witness the mainstream growth of this company as more applications for their innovations become apparent. what3words is setting a new standard for communicating location between humans, as well as between humans and machines. Use for this tech is only limited by the imagination, and we think what3words is just getting started.
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AND --- NO --- It is NOT done using satellites. This technology is using the interconnectedness of RF sensing devices, that have created the IoT.
posted by Helena Csorba rfhurtslife@gmail.com