Feel the pulse of the Earth
When discussing new printers, laptops and other consumer products from HP, we often forget that Hewlett-Packard also has a research center - HP Labs, which have been looking far into the future for more than 40 years.
In early November, HP announced the creation of a new inertial sensor technology, which can form the basis of microscopic electromechanical (MEMS) accelerometers that are 1000 times more sensitive than current solutions.
A MEMS accelerometer is a sensor with an area of about 5 mm 2 that can be used to measure vibrations, shocks and accelerations. Using a variety of such devices as a single system, it is possible to collect and analyze state data in real time, for example, bridges, buildings and mines. And on a large scale - about seismic activity. Each microaccelerometer can measure accelerations and vibrations along one or several axes, depending on the task.
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Peter Hartwell, a leading researcher at HP Laboratories, is holding a prototype accelerometer with an integrated HP MEMS sensor.
Sensors based on the new technology have a noise level of less than 100 ng / √Hz, which can significantly improve the quality of the information received. But to get unambiguously correct data on vibrations, say, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, it will take up to 10,000 of these sensors. For a serious business application like the control of shipping - up to a million. No budget is enough to apply for these purposes the existing analogues today.
In order to make mass production of sensors, the last 25 years of HP Labs have been collaborating with our Group of devices for printing and image processing. As a result, these sensors are already used in hundreds of millions of printers around the world.
But this technological breakthrough is only part of a large HP research program called the Central Nervous System of the Earth ( CeNSE ). Its goal is to create an infrastructure of trillions of microscopic sensors of various types, embedded in the human environment and connected to computer systems around the world.
Only HP today has the ability to develop a system of this scale on its own, using its expertise in data transfer and processing, software and organization of business processes.
On its basis, it is supposed to create services that will give the facilities created by us and the objects we use to “feel”, adapt to the needs of the person and ensure his safety. HP Lab Lead Researcher Peter Hartwell said it would allow us to “feel the pulse of the Earth.” “If we want to save the planet, we have to keep an eye on it,” says Peter.
In early November, HP announced the creation of a new inertial sensor technology, which can form the basis of microscopic electromechanical (MEMS) accelerometers that are 1000 times more sensitive than current solutions.
A MEMS accelerometer is a sensor with an area of about 5 mm 2 that can be used to measure vibrations, shocks and accelerations. Using a variety of such devices as a single system, it is possible to collect and analyze state data in real time, for example, bridges, buildings and mines. And on a large scale - about seismic activity. Each microaccelerometer can measure accelerations and vibrations along one or several axes, depending on the task.
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Peter Hartwell, a leading researcher at HP Laboratories, is holding a prototype accelerometer with an integrated HP MEMS sensor.
Sensors based on the new technology have a noise level of less than 100 ng / √Hz, which can significantly improve the quality of the information received. But to get unambiguously correct data on vibrations, say, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, it will take up to 10,000 of these sensors. For a serious business application like the control of shipping - up to a million. No budget is enough to apply for these purposes the existing analogues today.
In order to make mass production of sensors, the last 25 years of HP Labs have been collaborating with our Group of devices for printing and image processing. As a result, these sensors are already used in hundreds of millions of printers around the world.
But this technological breakthrough is only part of a large HP research program called the Central Nervous System of the Earth ( CeNSE ). Its goal is to create an infrastructure of trillions of microscopic sensors of various types, embedded in the human environment and connected to computer systems around the world.
Only HP today has the ability to develop a system of this scale on its own, using its expertise in data transfer and processing, software and organization of business processes.
On its basis, it is supposed to create services that will give the facilities created by us and the objects we use to “feel”, adapt to the needs of the person and ensure his safety. HP Lab Lead Researcher Peter Hartwell said it would allow us to “feel the pulse of the Earth.” “If we want to save the planet, we have to keep an eye on it,” says Peter.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/75756/
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