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MIT creates battery-free sensor for deep-sea and extraterrestrial exploration

An underwater internet of things monitoring the effects of climate change or sampling waters on distant planets
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Underwater Backscatter wins SIGCOMM Best Paper Award

Underwater Backscatter Networking wins Best Paper Award at ACM SIGCOMM 2019
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A battery-free sensor for underwater exploration

Submerged system uses the vibration of “piezoelectric” materials to generate power and send and receive data.
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J-WAFS announces seven new seed grants

Nine MIT principal investigators will receive grants totaling over $1 million for research focused on global food and water challenges.
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Postdoc opening at MIT in underwater acoustic or ultrasonic systems

The Signal Kinetics group, led by professor Fadel Adib at MIT, has a postdoc opening in underwater acoustic systems.
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Fadel Adib receives NSF CAREER Award

CAREER: The Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program offers the NSF's most prestigious awards in support of early-career faculty.
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Robots track moving objects with unprecedented precision

System uses RFID tags to home in on targets; could benefit robotic manufacturing, collaborative drones, and other applications.
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RFIQ in the News

News coverage of the RFIQ project
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Paranoid about tainted lettuce? There could be an app for that one day

Fadel Adib talks to CBS about a project from the Signal Kinetics group that aims to democratize food quality and safety testing.
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Fadel Adib receives the Young Investigator Award from the Office of Naval Research

Fadel Adib is one of 25 recipients of the Office of Naval Research's 2019 Young Investigator Awards, and the only awardee from MIT.
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RFID stickers could signal contaminated food

MIT researchers have found a way to check many items instantly, non-invasively, and from a distance—using the RFID tags.
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Putting food-safety detection in the hands of consumers

Simple, scalable wireless system uses the RFID tags on billions of products to sense contamination.
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TARF in the News

BBC: New tech lets submarines 'email' planesFox News: Submarine breakthrough: MIT develops wireless system to let subs communicate with p...
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Wireless communication breaks through water-air barrier

Underwater sonar signals cause vibrations that can be decoded by an airborne receiver
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ACM SIGMOBILE Dissertation Award

Professor Fadel Adib has won the world's best dissertation award in wireless networks and mobile computing. His thesis showed how we can ...
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IVN in the News

IVN featured in the news
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Wireless system can power devices inside the body

New technology could enable remote control of drug delivery, sensing, and other medical applications.Anne Trafton | MIT News Office ...
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Google Faculty Research Award

Fadel Adib, assistant professor in Signal Kinetics group at MIT Media Lab, is a recipient of Google’s 2018 Faculty Research Award. As par...
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Internships in MIT's Signal Kinetics Group - Summer 2018

​We have four openings for visiting students (internships) in the summer of 2018 in the Signal Kinetics group directed by Prof. Fadel Adi...
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Signal Kinetics: Year One

Fadel Adib reflects on the whirlwind first year of his group, Signal Kinetics.
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RFind: Extreme Localization for Billions of Items
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RFID drones could solve a multibillion-dollar problem

Digital Trends on RFly: Drones that find missing objects using battery-free RFIDs.
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This drone can pinpoint a specific package in a giant warehouse

The RFly system catalogues items instantly as the drones fly up and down aisles.
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RFly in the News

RFly featured in the news
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RFly: Drones that find missing objects using battery-free RFIDs

RFly is a new drone-based wireless technology that can help companies save billions of dollars in misplaced items and faulty inventory in...
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Drones relay RFID signals for inventory control

System could save retailers billions lost through faulty inventory records
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Fadel Adib joins Media Lab faculty

Fadel Adib is directing Signal Kinetics, a new research group at the Media Lab.