Check out our work on opioid overdose detection using smartphones https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612733/opioid-overdoses-could-be-prevented-by-an-app-that-listens-to-breathing/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-app-uses-sonar-to-detect-opioid-overdoses/ https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/07/this-cellphone-app-can-detect-an-opioid-overdose-and-save-your-life.html

Check out our multi-year effort that culminated into the Science Translational Medicine paper published in 2019 http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/11/474/eaau8914

Check out the coverage of the Living IoT program on NBC News. https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/how-tiny-backpacks-are-turning-bees-living-drones-ncna948046

Check out our work on Living IoT at MobiCom 2019:

https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1333985&page_number=3&fbclid=IwAR1ghr5-0uEQ7EUjdJqqXL3-rNcVKB9C4WGT_-wikUnhuA0iELAv1Ymw5yQ      

Congrats to Rajalakshmi and Vikram.   Check out the work at https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~gshyam/Papers/ulocate.pdf

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/02/about-the-weight-of-a-toothpick-first-wireless-robo-insect-takes-off.html   “Because the laser alone can’t provide enough voltage to move the wings, the team designed a circuit that boosts the 7 volts coming out of the photovoltaic cell up to the 240 volts needed for flight. To give RoboFly control over its own wings, the engineers added a   Read More ...

“LoRa Backscatter: Enabling The Vision of Ubiquitous Connectivity”, published in the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies is the winner of an IMWUT Vol. 1 Distinguished Paper Award. A selection committee made of 14 members of the IMWUT Editorial Board (see list below) selected –   Read More ...

To quote Colin Lawler: “Starting with the last question – smartphones have improved both in terms of processing capability and speaker and microphone quality. When combining this with a revolutionary.and patented, new approach to sonar, we found a way to enable a pretty clear picture of the respiratory pattern and   Read More ...

  Rajalakshmi Nandakumar and Vint Cerf