Author Insights

How do inductive sensors work? A look into their technical inner life and their evolution over the last decennia with Sorin Fericean

Sorin Fericean’s book is titled Inductive Sensors for Industrial Applications and primarily deals with sensors containing inductive primary sensing elements, and that is because the “Inductive” is one of most widely used in the market and also due to the fact that the author acted mainly in the R & D, manufacturing and tests and …

The Need to Secure Medical Devices with Axel Wirth, Chris Gates and Jason Smith

The authors of Medical Device Cybersecurity for Engineers and Manufacturers explain the need to secure medical devices in the market today: The medical device industry was the first industry to be regulated to produce secure embedded devices, which left manufacturers in the odd position of being trailblazers in what is often unfamiliar territory. Secure development …

The Nearness Of Flu On a Smart Phone Near You – RTT Technology Topic with Geoff Varrall

Artech House author Geoff Varrall shared his monthly technology topic from his company, RTT. This month he (humorously) examines how moblie communication is being used and could be used to control communicable disease: The use of smart phones and phone data to support test track and trace is proving to be a significant life saver. …

Thinking about Computer Networks with Ed Birrane

Artech House author Ed Birrane, whose title, Delay-Tolerant Applications: The Role of Store-and-Forward Networks in an Increasingly Real-Time World, gave us some insight with regard to the future of computer networks: We need to think differently about computer networks. It is not easy to have a casual discussion about computer networking minutia. If you doubt …

The Making of “End-to-End Encrypted Messaging” with Rolf Oppliger

Artech House author and series editor Rolf Oppliger gave us insight into how his book, End-to-End Encrypted Messaging, came to be: In 2001, I wrote “Secure Messaging with PGP and S/MIME” (ISBN ISBN 978-1-58053-161-0) that was published as the fourth title in the then newly established Information Security and Privacy book series of Artech House …

How the book “Inductive Sensors for Industrial Applications” helps to develop the understanding of all sensors for industrial applications

Sorin Fericean’s book, Inductive Sensors for Industrial Applications, primarily deals with sensors containing inductive primary sensing elements.  “Inductive” is one of most widely used elements in the market (see Section 3.4) and the author acted mainly in the R & D, manufacturing and tests fields for inductive sensors for more than 25 years. A volume …

Modern Appliances and the Electric Grid with Mani Vadari

Mani Vadari, whose second edition of Electric System Operations: Evolving to the Modern Grid, is available now, gives us some background on an everyday convenience and how the electric grid helped make it happen: The modern toilet and the electric grid became part of our daily lives in the late 1800’s and have operated using the …