Pub Date : 2024-12-20DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2024.3520018
Yi-Bing Lin;Yi-Ting Chen;Wan-Jung Hsieh;Wen-Liang Chen;Yun-Wei Lin;Edward Sun
The Phalaenopsis orchid is highly valued in the ornamental flower market and is primarily cultivated in greenhouses. In a traditional commercial greenhouse, farmers must manually check daily for any signs of disease among the plants. Sick plants must be removed immediately to prevent the spread of diseases to healthy ones. In precision agriculture, farmers are expected to be alerted when a certain percentage (e.g., less than 2%) of the plants are infected so that they can be removed at the right time. Many experiments have been conducted in laboratories with constant temperature and humidity to investigate the spore germination rate, where spores typically germinate within a few days. However, these findings cannot be directly applied to large-scale greenhouses with long growth periods (over 200 days) and varying temperatures and humidity. The contribution of this letter is that we are the first to propose a sensor specifically designed for use in large-scale greenhouse environments to determine the spore germination rate for orchids. We have designed a simple yet novel algorithm to dynamically calibrate the spore germination sensor. Our experiments indicate that with the calibrated spore germination sensor, the outbreak probability can be completely eliminated, and human checking overhead can be reduced by up to 97.8%.
{"title":"Design of a Spore Germination Sensor for Orchids","authors":"Yi-Bing Lin;Yi-Ting Chen;Wan-Jung Hsieh;Wen-Liang Chen;Yun-Wei Lin;Edward Sun","doi":"10.1109/LSENS.2024.3520018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2024.3520018","url":null,"abstract":"The Phalaenopsis orchid is highly valued in the ornamental flower market and is primarily cultivated in greenhouses. In a traditional commercial greenhouse, farmers must manually check daily for any signs of disease among the plants. Sick plants must be removed immediately to prevent the spread of diseases to healthy ones. In precision agriculture, farmers are expected to be alerted when a certain percentage (e.g., less than 2%) of the plants are infected so that they can be removed at the right time. Many experiments have been conducted in laboratories with constant temperature and humidity to investigate the spore germination rate, where spores typically germinate within a few days. However, these findings cannot be directly applied to large-scale greenhouses with long growth periods (over 200 days) and varying temperatures and humidity. The contribution of this letter is that we are the first to propose a sensor specifically designed for use in large-scale greenhouse environments to determine the spore germination rate for orchids. We have designed a simple yet novel algorithm to dynamically calibrate the spore germination sensor. Our experiments indicate that with the calibrated spore germination sensor, the outbreak probability can be completely eliminated, and human checking overhead can be reduced by up to 97.8%.","PeriodicalId":13014,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Sensors Letters","volume":"9 2","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142976134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-19DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2024.3520524
Shouharda Ghosh;Nithin George
Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation techniques are essential for determining the locations of signal sources using sensor arrays. For a uniform linear array, the number of detectable sources is limited to one less than the number of sensors. Sparse linear arrays overcome this limitation by leveraging the difference array to estimate more sources than sensors. However, gain and phase mismatches among sensors can impair accuracy. Existing algorithms to correct these mismatches are computationally demanding, making them unsuitable for low-power Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. This article proposes a novel method to integrate gain-phase compensation into adaptive filtering-based DOA estimation algorithms. The proposed approach reduces computational complexity and improves performance, especially in low SNR and low snapshot scenarios, facilitating efficient deployment in low-power devices.
{"title":"Low Complexity Gain-Phase Error Correction for Adaptive Underdetermined DOA Estimation in Sensor Arrays","authors":"Shouharda Ghosh;Nithin George","doi":"10.1109/LSENS.2024.3520524","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2024.3520524","url":null,"abstract":"Direction of arrival (DOA) estimation techniques are essential for determining the locations of signal sources using sensor arrays. For a uniform linear array, the number of detectable sources is limited to one less than the number of sensors. Sparse linear arrays overcome this limitation by leveraging the difference array to estimate more sources than sensors. However, gain and phase mismatches among sensors can impair accuracy. Existing algorithms to correct these mismatches are computationally demanding, making them unsuitable for low-power Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices. This article proposes a novel method to integrate gain-phase compensation into adaptive filtering-based DOA estimation algorithms. The proposed approach reduces computational complexity and improves performance, especially in low SNR and low snapshot scenarios, facilitating efficient deployment in low-power devices.","PeriodicalId":13014,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Sensors Letters","volume":"9 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142905738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-19DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2024.3520408
Amin Biglari;Qisong Hu;Wei Tang
In this letter, we present a pixel-level predictive sampling method for image sensing and processing to reduce the computing overhead for power-limited image sensing systems. The predictive sampling method scans through rows and columns to identify the location and value of the critical pixels, which are the turning points in the row and column arrays. The prediction is performed using the value of prior pixels and a predefined error threshold. When the prediction is successful, the pixel is marked as a noncritical pixel and is skipped for recording and processing. Only the critical pixels are selected for further processing. We proposed reconstruction methods that recover the raw image from the selected critical pixels using interpolation. The experimental results show that the proposed method can reduce the data throughput by 72% with an error of 1.6% for sparse images. The convolutional neural network model applied with this method can achieve a similar detection accuracy in a standard method while only using 27.1% of data size.
{"title":"Predictive Sampling in Image Sensing for Sparse Image Processing","authors":"Amin Biglari;Qisong Hu;Wei Tang","doi":"10.1109/LSENS.2024.3520408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2024.3520408","url":null,"abstract":"In this letter, we present a pixel-level predictive sampling method for image sensing and processing to reduce the computing overhead for power-limited image sensing systems. The predictive sampling method scans through rows and columns to identify the location and value of the critical pixels, which are the turning points in the row and column arrays. The prediction is performed using the value of prior pixels and a predefined error threshold. When the prediction is successful, the pixel is marked as a noncritical pixel and is skipped for recording and processing. Only the critical pixels are selected for further processing. We proposed reconstruction methods that recover the raw image from the selected critical pixels using interpolation. The experimental results show that the proposed method can reduce the data throughput by 72% with an error of 1.6% for sparse images. The convolutional neural network model applied with this method can achieve a similar detection accuracy in a standard method while only using 27.1% of data size.","PeriodicalId":13014,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Sensors Letters","volume":"9 1","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142905786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-19DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2024.3520656
Yan Sun;Shuai Shao;Wen-qin Wang;Maria Sabrina Greco;Fulvio Gini;Shunsheng Zhang
The multidimensional structure of frequency diverse array (FDA) multiple-input–multiple-out (MIMO) radar signals has attracted a lot of attention. It allows to extend conventional space–time adaptive processing to space–time-range adaptive processing (STRAP). In this letter, we propose two tensorial filters for FDA-MIMO-STRAP, called the clutter subspace filter and the clutter-free subspace filter, which exploit the low-rankness of the clutter to achieve better clutter suppression in a small auxiliary training data scenario. The proposed method makes use of the alternative unfolding higher order singular value decomposition with different dimensional partitions. Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed filters over existing low-rank vectorial and tensorial methods.
{"title":"Low-Rank STRAP Filter Via Alternative Unfolding HOSVD for FDA-MIMO Radar","authors":"Yan Sun;Shuai Shao;Wen-qin Wang;Maria Sabrina Greco;Fulvio Gini;Shunsheng Zhang","doi":"10.1109/LSENS.2024.3520656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2024.3520656","url":null,"abstract":"The multidimensional structure of frequency diverse array (FDA) multiple-input–multiple-out (MIMO) radar signals has attracted a lot of attention. It allows to extend conventional space–time adaptive processing to space–time-range adaptive processing (STRAP). In this letter, we propose two tensorial filters for FDA-MIMO-STRAP, called the clutter subspace filter and the clutter-free subspace filter, which exploit the low-rankness of the clutter to achieve better clutter suppression in a small auxiliary training data scenario. The proposed method makes use of the alternative unfolding higher order singular value decomposition with different dimensional partitions. Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed filters over existing low-rank vectorial and tensorial methods.","PeriodicalId":13014,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Sensors Letters","volume":"9 2","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142993372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2024-12-17DOI: 10.1109/LSENS.2024.3519391
Mark Kantor;Nicola Molinazzi;Tsvi Shmilovich;Slava Krylov
We report on the design, fabrication, and experimental functionality demonstration of a simple, manufacturable, and cost-effective polymeric vibration intensity monitoring sensor for industrial applications. In the device combining sensing, energy harvesting, data processing, edge computing, and wireless connectivity functionalities, the electromagnetic harvester's output is used for the vibration intensity sensing. The electromechanical core of the device is realized as an assembly of three free-standing polyethylene terephthalate membranes with an array of micromagnets attached to them. The vibration of the magnets in proximity to the microcoils induces an electric current in the circuit and enables the EEPROM bit writing operation. The number of the on