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The Bluetooth technology allows for a simple sync to your phone to provide more than 15 different notifications about your battery. The Ridgid battery app also allows for security features such as locate, lock and disable should you ever need to remotely control your battery or tools it is connected to. As well, battery status and diagnostic information such as temperature is available in the app. Battery Status features include estimated charge time and total hours used.
originally posted by: annonentity
a reply to: IndieA
This looks like it is more advanced than previously thought, you have a digital twin in the cloud. The only reason people have not cottoned on is that it's too complicated, for the average Joe to take onboard. Massive amounts have been invested .153news.net...
IoT is well past its adolescence and is now raring to take the world by storm. The Internet of Nano Things is a nascent technology that has started making waves - IoNT is essentially the IoT but on a nano scale. IoNT basically refers to the interconnection of nano-sized devices within existing networks. In the sections below, we’ll take an in-depth look at IoNT and its applications.
So, how small are we talking? We’re talking 0.1 to 100 nanometers And just so you can wrap your head around that, the thickness of a sheet of paper is about 100,000 nm. It takes a billion nanometers to make a meter! That should give you a rough idea of the kinds of minuscule sizes we are talking about when we say “nano”.
Nanosensors are being used extensively in diagnostic medicine. Imagine a particle-sized doctor that can get into the tiniest crevices of your inner-body and use that to arrive at an exact diagnosis.
Implantable nanosensors could be either circulating in the blood or stationary at an anatomic site. They also can, in principle, produce electrical, optical, magnetic, or acoustic signals to report analyte measurements. Circulating nanosensor designs are very intriguing, but they also raise many discussion points such as biodistribution, circulation lifetime, and clearance that are too extensive for this review and are discussed elsewhere.
While many groups have attempted to design implantable glucose sensors with boronic acids and fluorophores, (9a) few have actually monitored glucose in a live animal. One successful design used an injectable polyacrylamide hydrogel to immobilize a fluorescent boronic acid derivative and showed glucose responsiveness for up to 140 days (9e, 13) (Figure 1). Their design is both injectable and explantable, but it induced substantial inflammation and relied on UV excitation. Another design paired boronic acid derivatives with alizarin to produce glucose nanosensors that fluoresce at 570 nm and selectively respond to glucose. (14) An improved design slowed nanoparticle diffusion from the injection site by encapsulating the nanoparticles in a hydrogel matrix, prolonging their in vivo residence 3-fold.
Spherical nanoparticles diffuse away within hours, (18) but high aspect-ratio nanoparticles like microworms (7a) or nanotubes show much less diffusion away from the implantation site. Implantable hydrogel microbeads also show promise by having a rapid response time and minimal diffusion from the implantation site. (9e) Some bimodal drug delivery systems already impregnate implantable hydrogels with particles, (38) and this configuration could produce stably implanted nanosensors.
A body's electromagnetic field could theoretically be utilized to transmit a MAC address through innovative technology known as body area networks (BANs).
Here's how it might work:
Electrostatic Interactions: The electric fields generated by the body's cells could encode digital information, such as a MAC address, through variations in field intensity or frequency [6].
Near-Field Communication (NFC): NFC protocols allow for communication between devices over short distances. By incorporating NFC technology into wearable devices or implants, a person's unique MAC address could be transmitted to compatible receivers within close proximity [3].
Experimental Research: Ongoing research explores the detection and utilization of the electromagnetic field generated by the human body. While current applications are primarily focused on medical monitoring and communication, future advancements may extend to novel uses such as transmitting identification information like MAC addresses [2].
These methods represent theoretical possibilities and experimental technologies that harness the body's electromagnetic field for data transmission, including MAC addresses.
"In 'Human Body Network Gets Fast,' Technology Research News tells us that NTT Docomo researchers in Japan have created a 10-Mbit/second indoor network by using human bodies as Ethernet cables. 'The network, dubbed ElectAura-Net, is wireless, but instead of using radio waves, infrared light, or microwaves to transmit information it uses a combination of the electric field that emanates from humans and a similar field emanating from special floor tiles.' ElectAura-Net is faster than the Bluetooth radio wave system and provides a solution for indoor networks. The researchers think that this is a solution for "ubiquitous" communication, using GPS outdoor and our bodies indoor. This summary contains more details."
Ultra-wideband and other short-range wireless "personal area networks" such as Bluetooth are receiving a lot attention but a new technology "ElectAura-Net" may provide a viable alternative. According to the SIGGRAPH Innovative Technology article and an article Human Body Gets Fast in the MIT Technology Review, ElectAura-Net uses "a combination of the electric field that emanates from humans and a similar field emanating from special floor tiles" to provide 10 Mbps connectivity.