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Northeastern University nanotechnology experts awarded patent for smart, zero-power sensors that will help fight forest, warehouse and construction site fires

Northeastern University nanotechnology experts awarded patent for smart, zero-power sensors that will help fight forest, warehouse and construction site fires

August 1, 2019

Matteo Rinaldi, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and the director of Northeastern’s SMART Center, has come up with a clever solution for that: a smart detector that wakes itself up from ultra battery saver mode using the very flames it is engineered to detect.

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