The Southwest Research Institute-developed Solar Wind Plasma Sensor (SWiPS) has been delivered and integrated into a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) satellite dedicated to ...

It’s easy enough to find a solar-powered charger for iPods, cell phones, and other gadgets, but this ultra-tiny solar-powered sensor system is smaller than anything else on the market — 1,000 times ...

An illustration of NASA's Parker Solar Probe, previously known as Solar Probe Plus, en route to the sun. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL WASHINGTON — As a NASA spacecraft designed to fly closer to the sun than ...

A new CO₂ sensor demonstrates the system design model carved out for smart building applications. Greatech, a German hardware developer and manufacturer of energy-efficient wireless embedded systems, ...

More of my EV kick coming through. A solar tracker is used rotate a solar panel to get optimum energy from the sun. This one uses LEDs as the light sensor and mosfets to drive the output to rotate on ...

[Manish] packed lots of functionality into this radiation sensor module. The device is completely solar powered and weatherproof, so it can be mounted anywhere. It uses a Geiger Muller tube to monitor ...