Sensors Quotes

We're using these animals as ocean sensors to tell us about oceanographic conditions, and we're also learning how they use the ocean--where they go and what they do. - Daniel Costa

We're coming at (wireless sensors) from the Internet infrastructure approach. - Roland Acra

We worked with Sailors in the CDC to reinforce their training. Reagan Sailors know what they are doing and quickly became more confident and comfortable with the new system. The first deployment of an SSDS Mk 2 based combat system gives the Reagan a more integrated self defense capability that supports air control, strike operations, data link communications with other platforms and track management of all sensors. - Bob Potter

We wish it had worked out differently, but it's first and foremost that we fly safely. It was prudent to change these sensors out. - Wayne Hale

We will run these signals and verify that they were in fact working properly. We will run the timing of the sensors that were 3,400 feet up the track. We will make sure that the lights worked, that the cross bucks came down, and so on. - John Goglia

We will experiment with sensors and software that will help us manage a generator and batteries that provide power to a habitat, while we are living and working inside (of it). - Bill Clancey

We want to make sure we have a really good set of cutoff sensors, because, after all, that is a critical function and we want to be safe when we fly. - Wayne Hale

We started off with the idea of developing a system using several sensors that could eliminate most of the false alarms. - Florence Daniault

We looked at using existing messages because that would be a cheaper solution and easier to implement. But because we were looking to define this common standard not just for current weapons capabilities, but also for projected weapon capabilities and for future sensors, that drove us to new message implementations. - Ron Taylor

We haven't figured out a way to get sensors that can discriminate between decoys and warheads. The technology doesn't exist yet. - Stephen Young