Wireless Sensor Networks for Killing Mosquitoes

aaditeshwar writes "It looks like sensor networks have some applications afterall, other than the usual stuff for defense and US military! AmBio has created a wireless mesh network of bugspraying "magnets" that report back data on the temperature, air conditions, and wind directions, and a central controller uses this data to turn ON or OFF the magnets in different areas. They plan to cover entire cities with such wireless meshes, and create an anti-mosquito shield around the city!"

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[TallMatthew]

"We got the idea from institutions that were jury-rigging our technology to computer networks and mesh networks, with PC panels, to see how many mosquitoes they'd caught or how much propane they had left"

Jury rigging? Man that epithet has drifted over time. Those institutions slipping greenbacks to your technology to win a verdict? I assume it derived from "gerry-rigging" (as in German-rigging) which turned into the distasteful "nigger-rigging" (though I suspect Germans consider gerry-rigging pretty distasteful themselves) to represent tampering with something in a hardhanded way to get it to do something other than its intention.