Big engineering – The Panama Canal extension: Success or failure?
Infrastructure

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Big engineering – The Panama Canal extension: Success or failure?

The Panama Canal celebrated its 100-year anniversary in 2014, just as it was in the midst of its biggest expansion project yet, the Third Set of Locks Project – known in...

Wireless tunnel construction monitoring: The key questions & answers
Construction

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Wireless tunnel construction monitoring: The key questions & answers

Using wireless technologies for construction monitoring and instrumentation during tunneling projects is nothing new, but generally these technologies are not optimized for the...

5 ways that wireless monitoring systems improve the safety of tailings dams
Mining

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5 ways that wireless monitoring systems improve the safety of tailings dams

Failures of tailings dams are one of the most hazardous processes that may occur and can cause extensive damage to life, property, and health. The mining industry has experienced...

Measuring and Exploiting Guardbands of Server-Grade ARMv8 CPU Cores and DRAMs
Multi-application

Technical paper

Measuring and Exploiting Guardbands of Server-Grade ARMv8 CPU Cores and DRAMs

Characterization of ARMv8 micro-server cores and DRAM reveals the potential to reduce voltage and timing guardbands, achieving up to 38.8% energy savings in cores and 27.3% in...

An analysis of packet fragmentation impact in LPWAN
Multi-application

Technical paper

An analysis of packet fragmentation impact in LPWAN

Packet fragmentation in duty-cycled LPWANs can improve communication reliability, especially in dense networks, though it increases energy consumption and latency.

Smart mines: The 6 benefits of making your mine digital
Mining

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Smart mines: The 6 benefits of making your mine digital

Smart mining solutions are on the rise, but they are by no means ubiquitous. This is because there remains a number of barriers to the adoption of new technologies and...

An energy-efficient and error-resilient server ecosystem exceeding conservative scaling limits
Multi-application

Technical paper

An energy-efficient and error-resilient server ecosystem exceeding conservative scaling limits

The UniServer micro-server exploits hardware heterogeneity and optimized system software to achieve up to 38.8% CPU and 23.2% DRAM energy savings.

The top 6 tech trends improving mining productivity
Mining

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The top 6 tech trends improving mining productivity

Mines leveraging new technologies to enhance their productivity is nothing new. A poll by Ernst and Young of more than 700 mining industry representatives revealed that the...

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GPR Clutter Amplitude Processing to Detect Shallow Geological Targets
Multi-application

Technical paper

GPR Clutter Amplitude Processing to Detect Shallow Geological Targets

MAEI in A-scans reveals hidden streams and paleochannels, with surrounding amplitude variations caused by antenna path effects.

Understanding the Limits of LoRaWAN
Multi-application

Technical paper

Understanding the Limits of LoRaWAN

The deployment of sensors in contact with the ground (slopes, cliffs, rock blocks) is mandatory when a focused mechanism is underway. So far, most of the so-called ‘geotechnical...

Early Scavenger Dimensioning in Wireless Industrial Monitoring Applications
Multi-application

Technical paper

Early Scavenger Dimensioning in Wireless Industrial Monitoring Applications

Energy-harvesting technologies enable self-powered industrial IoT devices, and this work examines how to dimension them to meet network and application needs efficiently.

Distributed PID-Based Scheduling for 6TiSCH Networks
Multi-application

Technical paper

Distributed PID-Based Scheduling for 6TiSCH Networks

A decentralized PID-based scheduling policy for 6TiSCH networks lets nodes adapt cell allocation to traffic demand, handling bursty patterns efficiently.

Industrial Wireless IP-Based Cyber – Physical Systems
Multi-application

Technical paper

Industrial Wireless IP-Based Cyber – Physical Systems

This survey of 6TiSCH standards highlights challenges, lessons learned from open-source implementations, and guidelines for IP-based low-power industrial wireless networks.

Lean Sensing: Exploiting Contextual Information for Most Energy-Efficient Sensing
Multi-application

Technical paper

Lean Sensing: Exploiting Contextual Information for Most Energy-Efficient Sensing

Lean Sensing leverages temporal and spatial correlations in cyber-physical systems to reduce energy consumption of battery-powered devices, demonstrated in smart-parking...

The Power of Models: Modeling Power Consumption for IoT Devices
Multi-application

Technical paper

The Power of Models: Modeling Power Consumption for IoT Devices

A system-level power consumption model for wireless sensor nodes enables pre-deployment energy dimensioning, accounting for communications, acquisition, and processing to optimize...

6TiSCH: deterministic IP-enabled industrial internet (of things)
Multi-application

Technical paper

6TiSCH: deterministic IP-enabled industrial internet (of things)

The convergence of low-power wireless and IP technologies enables reliable, energy-efficient Industrial IoT networks, with 6TiSCH standardizing mechanisms for seamless integration.

When Scavengers Meet Industrial Wireless
Multi-application

Technical paper

When Scavengers Meet Industrial Wireless

A methodology is presented to dimension energy scavengers in TSCH-based industrial networks, ensuring reliable, low-risk deployment of autonomously powered systems.

Balancing Power Consumption in IoT Devices by Using Variable Packet Size
Multi-application

Technical paper

Balancing Power Consumption in IoT Devices by Using Variable Packet Size

A power-balancing mechanism for dense IoT networks distributes energy consumption evenly across motes, reducing battery replacements and extending network lifetime.

The mindset that moves us

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The mindset that moves us

Every great company starts with a moment of challenge and inspiration. Ours began with a bold group of physicists and engineers, braving the harshest elements high in the Swiss...