HP Invents a "Central Nervous System for Earth" and Joins the Smarter Planet Sweepstakes

HP Labs researcher Peter Hartwell holds a prototype vibration and movement sensor, a super-sensitive inertial accelerometer. The first to be deployed as part of HP Labs' Central Nervous System for Earth (CeNSE), it is about 1,000 times more sensitive than today's mass-produced devices. Photo: Margie Wylie

Just days after Cisco signaled it will horn into IBM's turf by rewiring an aging city in Massachusetts, Hewlett Packard announced this morning the first commercial application of its own...