As internet is carving out space everywhere for the technologies, HP Labs have joined the bandwagon to create some best of the emerging things for the internet. It is presently working on a very sincere project that according to the company is ascribed as “Central Nervous System for the Earth that is a research and development program to create a planet wide sensing network using billions of tiny, cheap tough and extremely efficient sensitive detectors.”

HP aims to use its nano sensing research to employ over this technology. These sensors are to be like RFID chips, however, with this case they are very smaller accelerometer which can gauge motion and vibrations. The firsr CeNSE sensor to be deployed by HP would be 1,000 times more sensitive than the accelerometers used in a Wii, an iPhone or an automobile’s airbag system. Apart from vibration other sensors are made for light, temperature, barometric pressure, airflow and humidity.

As for the importance and use of these node according to a senior researcher and project team lead Peter Hartwell these nodes would be put at bridges and buildings as to become attentive towards structural strains and weather conditions. A bridge like the San Francisco Golden Gate can use upto 10,000 nodes. Moreover these nodes can be used in everyday electronics tracking hospital equipment, sniffing out pesticides and pathogens in food. According to HP CeNSE sensors would also real-time data collection, analysis and better decision making.  However, this technology has many far reaching implications over cost and technology issues and HP lab has assured to make them as cheaper as possible to derive best sensing results.