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HP Invents a Central Nervous System for the Earth

HP has just unveiled an incredibly ambitious project to create a “Central Nervous System for the Earth” (CeNSE) composed of billions of super sensitive, cheap, and tough sensors. The project involves distributing these sensors throughout the world and using them to gather data that could be used to detect everything from infrastructure collapse to environmental pollutants to climate change and impending earthquakes. From there, the “Internet of Things” and smarter cities are right around the corner.

Clipped from: Information and Quantum Systems Lab at HP Labs

Information and Quantum Systems Lab

Goal

Create the mathematical and physical foundations for the technologies that will form a new information ecosystem, the Central Nervous System for the Earth (CeNSE), consisting of a trillion nanoscale sensors and actuators embedded in the environment and connected via an array of networks with computing systems, software and services to exchange their information among analysis engines, storage systems and end users.

Clipped from: BBC NEWS | Technology | HP's plan to fix ailing planet

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HP's plan to fix ailing planet

Hewlett Packard is up to two years away from starting to build a "central nervous system for the Earth", known as CeNSE.

The man leading this ambitious project is Dr Stan Williams, who runs HP's Information and Quantum Systems Laboratory.

"The motivation for this work is realising and understanding the planet is sick and the disease is us," he told BBC News.

Clipped from: Stan Williams at PICNIC08: Tracking our World on Vimeo

Stan Williams at PICNIC08: Tracking our World from PICNIC Festival on Vimeo.
CeNSE: The Central Nervous System for the Earth is based on the believe that nanotechnology has the potential to revolutionise human interaction with the Earth as profoundly as the Internet has revolutionised personal and business interaction.

Clipped from: HP Labs' Central Nervous System for the Earth project aims to build a planetwide sensing network: HP Labs Feature Article (November 2009)

Earth calling: Turn off the lights!

HP Labs is developing a network of tiny, cheap, tough and exquisitely sensitive detectors that will make life more convenient and safer today while laying the groundwork for worldwide awareness tomorrow.

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