NANOTECHNOLOGY CARPET SENSORS
April 1st, 2006
BY MARK ROWE
SCIENTISTS and engineers are using nanotechnology to install sensors that will create "self-thinking" carpets offering huge resource savings and safety benefits to companies and householders.
Nanotechnology will implement sensors into carpets so that the carpets recognise where people are, according to Wolfgang Porod, director of the University of Notre Dame's Nanofabrication Facility in the United States. Such carpets will be able to configure the lighting in houses through these distributed sensor networks. "I certainly see this ...
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