{"id":137044,"date":"2015-09-01T16:06:51","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T14:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=137044"},"modified":"2015-09-01T16:08:14","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T14:08:14","slug":"magnetic-fields-provide-a-new-way-to-communicate-wirelessly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/137044-magnetic-fields-provide-a-new-way-to-communicate-wirelessly.html","title":{"rendered":"Magnetic fields provide a new way to communicate wirelessly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Electrical engineers at the University of California, San Diego have\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacobsschool.ucsd.edu\/news\/news_releases\/release.sfe?id=1807\" target=\"_blank\">demonstrated a new wireless communication technique<\/a><\/strong> that works by sending magnetic signals through the human body.<\/p>\n<p>The new technology could offer a low-power and secure way to communicate information between wearable electronic devices, providing an improved alternative to existing wireless communication systems, said the researchers.<\/p>\n<p>While this work is still a proof-of-concept demonstration, researchers envision developing it into a wireless system that can transmit information around the human body.<\/p>\n<p>An application of this technology would be a wireless sensor network for full-body health monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re trying to find new ways to communicate information around the human body that use much less power,\u201d said the university.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More technology news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/131788-using-led-lights-to-move-data-at-300mbps.html\">Using LED lights to move data at 300Mbps<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wireless\/116502-2015-a-big-year-for-wireless-in-sa-wapa.html\">2015 a big year for wireless in SA: Wapa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new communications technique could pave the way for ultra-low power and high-security wireless communication systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":137046,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[36,32552],"class_list":["post-137044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-active","tag-wireless-communications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137056,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137044\/revisions\/137056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137046"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}