How To Do Things With Sensors
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How to Do Things with Sensors
Author: Jennifer Gabrys
language: en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date: 2019-08-13
An investigation of how-to guides for sensor technologies Sensors are increasingly common within citizen-sensing and DIY projects, but these devices often require the use of a how-to guide. From online instructional videos for troubleshooting sensor installations to handbooks for using and abusing the Internet of Things, the how-to genres and formats of digital instruction continue to expand and develop. As the how-to proliferates, and instructions unfold through multiple aspects of technoscientific practices, Jennifer Gabrys asks why the how-to has become one of the prevailing genres of the digital. How to Do Things with Sensors explores the ways in which things are made do-able with and through sensors and further considers how worlds are made sense-able and actionable through the instructional mode of citizen-sensing projects. Forerunners: Ideas First Short books of thought-in-process scholarship, where intense analysis, questioning, and speculation take the lead
Sensors for IOT Applications
Author: E Control Devices
language: en
Publisher: E Control Devices
Release Date: 2021-12-21
In this book, we have discussed IoT technology and how it has changed the entire technological advancements in the future as well. The Internet of Things means billions of devices and gadgets throughout the world that is interconnected with the internet, all collecting and distributing information. Because of the appearance of small and modest CPUs and the universality of wireless networks, it's possible to turn anything, from something as little as a pill to something as big as a fighter plane or submarine, into a piece of the IoT. The IoT is making the essence of our everyday surroundings more intelligent and more responsive, interconnecting the automated and physical worlds. Any actual item can be changed into an IoT gadget if it tends to be associated with the web to be controlled or convey data. As even more up-to-date advancements and availability procedures hit the market, IoT development will keep on developing, assisting the change of detached items into brilliant associated gadgets. This pattern will affect enterprises, all things considered, just as our own lives. Be that as it may, similarly to any other innovation, IoT issues do exist. Concerns incorporate acknowledgment, cost, network, security, and that's just the beginning. As numerous new players enter the field, guidelines are being set. In any case, even with these difficulties, the ultimate objectives of IoT have a lot of guarantees.
Sensing Machines
How we are tracked, surveilled, tantalized, and seduced by machines ranging from smart watches and Roombas to immersive art installations. Sensing machines are everywhere in our world. As we move through the day, electronic sensors and computers adjust our thermostats, guide our Roombas, count our steps, change the orientation of an image when we rotate our phones. There are more of these electronic devices in the world than there are people—in 2020, thirty to fifty billion of them (versus 7.8 billion people), with more than a trillion expected in the next decade. In Sensing Machines, Chris Salter examines how we are tracked, surveilled, tantalized, and seduced by machines ranging from smart watches and mood trackers to massive immersive art installations. Salter, an artist/scholar who has worked with sensors and computers for more than twenty years, explains that the quantification of bodies, senses, and experience did not begin with the surveillance capitalism practiced by Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, and Google but can be traced back to mathematical and statistical techniques of the nineteenth century. He describes the emergence of the “sensed self,” investigating how sensor technology has been deployed in music and gaming, programmable and immersive art environments, driving, and even eating, with e-tongues and e-noses that can taste and smell for us. Sensing technology turns our experience into data; but Salter’s story isn’t just about what these machines want from us, but what we want from them—new sensations, the thrill of the uncanny, and magic that will transport us from our daily grind.