Batteries for IoT – Challenges and key factors in maximizing battery life
With 9.9 billion active device connections worldwide as of 2020 and an expected global market worth of more than $1.5 billion by 2025, IoT devices...
Six emerging biometric technologies – Pros and cons
For thousands of years, we have been identifying our fellow human beings based on their voice, appearance, or gait. However, a scientific and systematic...
Iris Recognition vs. Retina Scanning – Pros and Cons
Traditional authentication systems require the user to perform the cumbersome task of memorizing numerous passwords, personal identification numbers (PIN), pass-phrase, and answers to secret...
Busting myths about biometric identification and authentication
Biometric authentication is an automated method of identifying or verifying a living person's identity in real-time, based on distinctive personal traits or physiological characteristics,...
Fingerprint Recognition System (FRS) – Benefits and challenges
Fingerprint recognition is a biometrics-based pattern recognition system widely used to identify or authenticate a person by determining the authenticity of the fingerprint, an...
The history of Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) – Timeline
Researchers have already demonstrated the human neuroprosthetic control of computer cursors, robotic limbs, and speech synthesizers, using no more than 256 electrodes. These successes...
Intelligent video – The next big trend in IP surveillance
IP surveillance is rapidly becoming the most flexible and future-proof option for security and surveillance for businesses, warehouses, and campuses, which have plenty of...
Machine Vision – Benefits, components, techniques and history
A robot capable of moving around a factory, construction site, or street must avoid obstacles and people with high precision. Machine vision enormously helps...
Affordable LiDAR systems – Recent breakthroughs and researches
LiDAR, an acronym for "light detecting and ranging," is a light-based echolocation technology. Unlike radar that uses radio waves in much lower frequency to...
Three big trends in Human Machine Interaction (HMI)
The big gap between humans and machines is permanently narrowing. Thanks to the transformative power of technology such as AI and robotics; every one...
Guidelines to use an infrared thermometer gun for fever screening
A non-contact or infrared thermometer gun is a device that can quickly determine surface skin temperature of people in high throughput areas such as...
Thermal imaging devices for mass temperature screening
Due to the infectious COVID-19 pandemic, there is a massive spike in demand for thermal imaging systems (infrared thermographic systems or thermal imaging devices...
