Measuring temperature turns out to be a fundamental function for a huge number of devices. You furnace’s programmable thermostat and digital clocks are obvious examples. If you just needed to know if ...

DANBURY — New sensors, designed to gauge how hot the city feels for the people who live in it, have been installed near public housing complexes in Danbury. The heat sensors are part of a research ...

Excess heat from electronic or mechanical devices is a sign or cause of inefficient performance. In many cases, embedded sensors to monitor the flow of heat could help engineers alter device behavior ...

When reviewing new sensor technology used in the discrete manufacturing industries, we wondered if end users were simply replacing older technologies or strategically using new sensors to gather more ...

Tracking energy use is recognized as more and more important in today’s world. It makes perfect sense to see the proliferation of smart energy meters and programmable thermostats that emerged in ...

Rising temperatures are risking the health of hundreds of thousands of Californians who do strenuous work indoors. We used sensors to measure how hot it gets for 16 people on the job in Sacramento, ...

The Core 2 sensor gives you three numbers whenever you wear it: Your core temperature is the temperature inside your body, specifically inside your torso (your core). Some studies test this with a ...

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and Rep. Ritchie Torres, both Democrats from New York, plan to introduce a bill in the Senate and House that will require heat sensors in residential buildings across the U.S.