Wireless sensors in embedded systems in devices from traffic lights to mobile phones, designed to create wireless communications networks automatically, could benefit a range of areas, including emergency management, security, helping vulnerable people to live independently, traffic control, warehouse management and environmental monitoring.

RFID has been moving ahead in leaps and bounds according to reports released throughout 2007. However, what is in store for 2008? Will RFID technology continue to move forwards or will another technology surge ahead and steal the limelight?

In a recent interview with Radio Comms, Asia-Pacific, Scott Austin, president Syscan Australasia, shed a little light on the subject.

This is the second part of a multi-part series looking at various RF effects including sperm count, interruption of sleep patterns and brain tumours. Researchers at the Cleveland Clinic in America studied 361 men at their infertility clinic to investigate the effect of mobile phone use on semen quality.

Over the years there have been ongoing concerns, scare stories and many reports on the possible harming effects of RF emissions, particularly in relation to mobile phones

A radio system operating at just below 1000 Hz has been designed to send and receive emergency text messages to miners working underground

Private investigators listen up: MagneticGPSTracker from the USA has launched a low-cost, easy-to-install magnetic covert GPS tracking system

In a typical broadcast transmission, radio signals bounce off objects in the environment, reaching the receiver over multiple paths. 'Multi-path' signals can produce fading and distortion resulting in temporary failure of reception

With the growing acknowledgement of global warming and the effect it has on our climate, in particular our precious water resources, there is now more than ever a realisation of the importance of water conservation

Held in conjunction with the RadioComms Connect 2007 conference, the ARCIA gala dinner brought together over 350 industry professionals, including manufacturers, suppliers, designers and system users, to celebrate the industry.

They came, they presented, they exhibited, they networked and they dined. They said they were "impressed", "delighted", they said it was worthwhile and then they asked where the 2008 event will be.

New research at the Georgia Institute of Technology could soon make that tangle of wires under desks and in data centres a thing of the past

The STP recycled water pumps are controlled by a programmable logic controller using cut-in/cut-out level signals installed at the dam

Radio frequency tagging has reached the motor vehicle manufacturing industry but not just as a guide to warehouse parts: the latest tags are actually attached to components inside a working car

The first 42 radio dishes of the Allen Telescope Array (ATA) are working and collecting data from outer space, according to the University of California, Berkeley and the SETI Institute

Wearable, wire free and easy to set up do not usually describe devices that monitor heart rate and cardiac activity