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Colorado university students find wireless fire sensors work in real world.

The Denver Post (Denver, CO)

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Byline: Will Shanley

Nov. 2--A day trip to Fourmile Canyon in early October to study a forest fire with a series of wireless sensors represented a technological breakthrough for University of Colorado professor Rick Han and his graduate students.

In the canyon west of Boulder, Han and his students learned that the wireless-sensor software they had developed in a laboratory worked in the real world. The sensors successfully monitored a controlled fire, tracking the burn's temperature and movement.

"There is so much power we can leverage with this technology," said Han, a computer science professor who last summer co-founded wireless sensor company Tendril Networks.

The rapidly developing industry of wireless-sensor networks is ...

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