Carsten Brinkschulte, who founded Dryad Networks, built an IoT network to detect wildfires. He's motivated by the impact of his work and urges founders and engineers to move to green tech. This ...

I've been playing around with a couple of ESP32 microcontrollers, and that experimentation has taught me a lot about sensors and what you can build for really, really cheap. For as little as $4, you ...

A team of researchers from RMIT University’s Center for Advanced Electronics and Sensors(Opens in a new window) have come up with a breakthrough method that equips smartphones with special sensors to ...

Dryad Networks is making solar-powered sensors that can recognize wildfires early. The setup uses machine learning and alerts first responders. Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for ...

The last 10 years or so have produced some colossal and deadly fire events that have destroyed whole towns, burned a record amount of acreage, and polluted skies for weeks. And wildfires are not just ...

When it comes to modern electronics, the word “smart” seems to apply to almost every kind of device on the market, especially building automation products such as motion sensors and consumer products ...