According to Britt, Afero has partnered with companies to use its flagship platform in a number of greenfield and brownfield IoT projects, ranging from connected toys and medical devices to detecting water leaks and sensing buildings and infrastructure.
The trouble is sensing these leaks on board a moving aircraft, bouncing around in the turbulence, and then tracking the molecules, blown about by the wind, back to the place they arose from.
Leak noise localisers and leak noise correlators are listening devices which use accelerometers to sense leak-induced sounds or vibrations caused by water escaping from a pressurized pipe.
"Smart" pipes can reduce this waste significantly by sensing and pinpointing the location of leaks that would otherwise go undetected for months or years.
While Inkster said it was too early to draw any definite conclusions about the impact of the leaks, he added: "I sense that those most interested in the activities of the NSA and GCHQ have not been told very much they didn't know already or could have inferred".
The fact that the phone is that old makes an earlier TwitPic leak make more sense, and means the device could very well be an early prototype that will change.
Mr Glover sensed an opening, learned about MP3s and soon became "the world's leading leaker of pre-release music".
Mr. O'Brien's producers started to sense that they had a significant online following once NBC's 12 05 a.m. plan was leaked to the news media.
Benefitting from the continuous innovations in semiconductor materials and device fabricating techniques, ultraviolet (UV) photodetectors have been successfully used in advanced communications, flame detection, air purification, ozone sensing and leak detection, among others, in the past few decades.
Nonetheless, Snowden didn't leak, in the traditional sense.
