BEAVERTON, Oregon — Vernier Science Education recently launched the Go Direct ® Soil Moisture Sensor to help high school and college-level students easily and accurately collect data during soil ...

The ability to transform Zigbee devices, such as Philips Hue lights, into motion sensors. It’s called Ambient Sensing and apparently it works with a simple firmware upgrade and without ...

Sensify is a new technology that can turn Zigbee switches, bulbs, and plugs into sensors with a firmware update. This could be how Philips Hue will bring ambient sensing to its smart lights.

The soil moisture sensors in the new tool are supplied by Meter Group, the world’s leading provider of agricultural soil-plant atmospheric data, allowing for dependable readings and low maintenance.

Philips Hue and other smart bulbs based on the Zigbee standard could soon act as motion sensors without the need for any additional hardware. This would mean they could automatically switch on ...

Ambient Sensing for Zigbee lights allows zone-based lighting setups with just a firmware update and no additional hardware. Philips Hue products may support Ambient Sensing, requiring at least three ...

A demo of Ambient Sensing for Zigbee lights shows how smart lights could soon be used as motion sensors with just a firmware update and no additional hardware. Philips Hue products may soon ...

A vast field of tall, skinny trees sways in a light breeze. In the future, poplar trees in a scene like this could be a ...

Each morning Indian farmer R Murali opens an app on his phone to check if his pomegranate trees need watering, fertiliser or are at risk from pests. "It is a routine," Murali, 51, told AFP at his ...