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TI's Smart Meter Reference Design combines the best of ultra-low-power control, power line communications and ZigBee RF communication.

This video discusses industrial interface solutions for TI embedded processors. Using examples such as EtherCAT and ProfiBus it presents a demonstration system implementing industrial communication from master to slave based on processors, as well as interface and analog components from TI

BEEcube demonstrates the capabilities of their stackable full speed multi-FPGA based prototyping platform at AUVSI Unmanned Systems 2011, the BEE4-W. Demonstrations include a real-time HD video processing which highlights their Nectar OS, and a Software Defined Radio (SDR) reference design that highlights BEE4 as an SDR prototyping platform.

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FreeWave Technologies began shipping its first military radio in 1997. In August of 2011, they announced that their wireless data radios have logged more than a million hours of flight time in a variety of defense applications. FreeWave CMO Ashish Sharma talks about this milestone and some of their latest technologies at AUVSI Unmanned Systems 2011.

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ITT Corporation and Mercury Computer Systems debuted their jointly developed FELCO image processing solution for surveillance aircraft at Unmanned Systems 2011. FELCO (Federated Embedded inteL-server for Collaborative Operations) takes advantage of Mercury's high-performance processing architecture and ITT's open-standards software to process raw sensor imagery for the warfigher while reducing processing lag time and delivering intelligence data in a customizable format while the aircraft is in flight.

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Martin Ashton, CEO of Drone Technology, has created a self-configuring wireless control system based around a modular transceiver unit that can be plugged into a large variety of node-based data acquisition and control modules. The collected data can be relayed back for analysis or coordinated control of multiple devices such as motors, lights and displays.

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Engineers “bring a new set of tools and a new way of looking at problems posed by biologists,” says
Paula T. Hammond, and are proving integral to advances in cancer diagnostics and therapies. Hammond cites evidence of bioengineering breakthroughs against the disease: the design of micron-sized posts that can identify and capture metastatic cancer cells on their passage through blood vessels; and particles manufactured to act as “smart bombs” for destroying tumors. In this symposium, panelists discuss promising discoveries from labs that are merging engineering and life sciences in the war against cancer.

As the developing world increasingly becomes the source of new cancer cases, “we have to change how we think about diagnosing and treating” the disease, says Sangeeta Bhatia. Researchers find one road map for transforming diagnostics in the computer industry, where miniaturization makes technology both more cost effective and portable. Bhatia describes a small microscope that may bring screening tests for cervical cancer to the patient, and the possibility of a postage stamp-sized piece of paper that can test urine for the biological markers of cancer, working along the lines of a pregnancy test.

Changing cancer

Some professors work primarily in labs, and others mainly at desks. Daniela Rus conducts her research on the bustling streets of Singapore, where she is helping to design a “future mobility project” whose goal is to “marry information technology with the transportation industry.” This venture aims to improve urban passenger and freight transportation, addressing issues of gridlock and other traffic frustrations – a giant step toward a more rational, sustainable travel system.

Rus’s work, part of the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology, involves piloting a “mobility on demand” transport network on a campus springing up to host foreign research groups. Part of this vision involves creating autonomous robot vehicles (golf carts with brains) that can sense their way with laser scanners and GPS to pick people up at one point, and drop them off at another. These robots must navigate their way through a densely populated human environment, avoiding collisions and timing departures and arrivals with precision. Fleets of lightweight vehicles figure in the dream of making cities greener by decreasing private vehicle use.

In addition, as part of this multi-phase project, Rus and her collaborators are

Lou Frenzel talks with Amit Malhotra and Rich McNally of Metrico Wireless about the Fit 4 Launch end-user and M.E. cell phone testing services offered.

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Lou Frenzel talks with Nigel Wright of Spirent about wireless device and network testing and their spatial channel emulator device.

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