Pub Date : 2015-04-13DOI: 10.1109/SAS.2015.7133576
T. Aftab, A. Yousaf, J. Hoppe, Sebastian Stoecklin, T. Ostertag, L. Reindl
This paper presents a wireless passive strain sensing concept that functions by detuning a dielectric resonator. It is shown how a high Q resonator functions as a wireless passive sensor when correctly matched with an antenna. Finite element and analytical models are compared with experimental data and the sensor cross sensitivity with respect to temperature and humidity are also explored. The sensitivity of the resonance frequency to the strain, temperature and humidity is measured to be 51.6 ppm/μm, 10.09 ppm/K and -0.65 ppm/% respectively.
{"title":"A parallel plate dielectric resonator as a wireless passive strain sensor","authors":"T. Aftab, A. Yousaf, J. Hoppe, Sebastian Stoecklin, T. Ostertag, L. Reindl","doi":"10.1109/SAS.2015.7133576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS.2015.7133576","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a wireless passive strain sensing concept that functions by detuning a dielectric resonator. It is shown how a high Q resonator functions as a wireless passive sensor when correctly matched with an antenna. Finite element and analytical models are compared with experimental data and the sensor cross sensitivity with respect to temperature and humidity are also explored. The sensitivity of the resonance frequency to the strain, temperature and humidity is measured to be 51.6 ppm/μm, 10.09 ppm/K and -0.65 ppm/% respectively.","PeriodicalId":384041,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"230 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124548713","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 : 2015-04-13DOI: 10.1109/SAS.2015.7133620
Attapol Adulyasas, Zhili Sun, Ning Wang
Wireless sensor networks usually have a massive number of randomly deployed sensor nodes that perform sensing and transmitting data to a base station. This can be a cause of sensor redundancy and data duplication. Sensor scheduling is a solution to reducing the enormous amount of the data load by selecting certain potential sensors to perform the tasks. Meanwhile, the quality of connectivity and coverage is also assured. This paper proposes a sensor scheduling method, called 4-Sqr, which uses a virtual square partition that is composed of consecutive square cells. Based on coordinates upon a monitored area, sensors learn their position on the virtual partition themselves; these are divided into groups of target areas, depending on the sensors' geographical locations. They are then ready for the node selection phase. In order to distribute energy consumption equally, the sensors with the highest residual energy within the same group usually have more chance of being active than the others. Compared to other existing methods, the proposed method is outstanding in many aspects such as the quality of connected coverage, the chance of being selected and the network's lifetime.
{"title":"A virtual square partition for connected coverage assurance in wireless sensor networks","authors":"Attapol Adulyasas, Zhili Sun, Ning Wang","doi":"10.1109/SAS.2015.7133620","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS.2015.7133620","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless sensor networks usually have a massive number of randomly deployed sensor nodes that perform sensing and transmitting data to a base station. This can be a cause of sensor redundancy and data duplication. Sensor scheduling is a solution to reducing the enormous amount of the data load by selecting certain potential sensors to perform the tasks. Meanwhile, the quality of connectivity and coverage is also assured. This paper proposes a sensor scheduling method, called 4-Sqr, which uses a virtual square partition that is composed of consecutive square cells. Based on coordinates upon a monitored area, sensors learn their position on the virtual partition themselves; these are divided into groups of target areas, depending on the sensors' geographical locations. They are then ready for the node selection phase. In order to distribute energy consumption equally, the sensors with the highest residual energy within the same group usually have more chance of being active than the others. Compared to other existing methods, the proposed method is outstanding in many aspects such as the quality of connected coverage, the chance of being selected and the network's lifetime.","PeriodicalId":384041,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116684032","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 : 2015-04-13DOI: 10.1109/SAS.2015.7133655
C. Trigona, A. Noto, B. Andò, S. Baglio
In this paper a novel Switched Capacitor (SC) approach based on mechanical switches driven by vibrations has been developed. The proposed transduction mechanism has been compared with a common class of discrete-time SC-conditioning circuits based on electronic switches (BJT, MOS, pass-transistors). Authors already proposed two magnetically-coupled cantilevers having each one a bistable behavior in order to implement SC topologies. In this paper a novel approach based on multiple coupled cantilevers having stoppers located only on the top of the beams has been presented. This configuration improves previous works in terms of noise and nonlinear effects attenuation, furthermore it represents a suitable solution to perform micro and nano-scale devices. Analytical models are presented here together with experimental characterization results on laboratory prototype.
{"title":"Novel mechanical transducers for switched capacitor circuits","authors":"C. Trigona, A. Noto, B. Andò, S. Baglio","doi":"10.1109/SAS.2015.7133655","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS.2015.7133655","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a novel Switched Capacitor (SC) approach based on mechanical switches driven by vibrations has been developed. The proposed transduction mechanism has been compared with a common class of discrete-time SC-conditioning circuits based on electronic switches (BJT, MOS, pass-transistors). Authors already proposed two magnetically-coupled cantilevers having each one a bistable behavior in order to implement SC topologies. In this paper a novel approach based on multiple coupled cantilevers having stoppers located only on the top of the beams has been presented. This configuration improves previous works in terms of noise and nonlinear effects attenuation, furthermore it represents a suitable solution to perform micro and nano-scale devices. Analytical models are presented here together with experimental characterization results on laboratory prototype.","PeriodicalId":384041,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"170 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116419421","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 : 2015-04-13DOI: 10.1109/SAS.2015.7133633
M. Georgiev, R. Bregović, A. Gotchev
In this paper, we emphasize the importance of fixed-pattern noise (FPN) that occurs in Time-of-Flight (ToF) devices that operate in the so-called low-sensing environment. We propose a method for designing FIR filters that can be used for suppressing the FPN. We illustrate by means of two experiments the importance of dealing with the FPN, before conventional denoising algorithms are applied.
{"title":"Fixed-pattern noise suppression in low-sensing environment of Time-of-Flight devices","authors":"M. Georgiev, R. Bregović, A. Gotchev","doi":"10.1109/SAS.2015.7133633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS.2015.7133633","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we emphasize the importance of fixed-pattern noise (FPN) that occurs in Time-of-Flight (ToF) devices that operate in the so-called low-sensing environment. We propose a method for designing FIR filters that can be used for suppressing the FPN. We illustrate by means of two experiments the importance of dealing with the FPN, before conventional denoising algorithms are applied.","PeriodicalId":384041,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128504911","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 : 2015-04-13DOI: 10.1109/SAS.2015.7133607
Michael Reininger, Seth Miller, Yanyan Zhuang, Justin Cappos
Smartphones serve as a technical interface to the outside world. These devices have embedded, on-board sensors (such as accelerometers, WiFi, and GPSes) that can provide valuable information for investigating users' needs and behavioral patterns. Similarly, computers that are embedded in vehicles are capable of collecting valuable sensor data that can be accessed by smartphones through the use of On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) sensors. This paper describes a prototype of a mobile computing platform that provides access to vehicles' sensors by using smartphones and tablets, without compromising these devices' security. Data such as speed, engine RPM, fuel consumption, GPS locations, etc. are collected from moving vehicles by using a WiFi On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) sensor, and then backhauled to a remote server for both real-time and offline analysis. We describe the design and implementation details of our platform, for which we developed a library for in-vehicle sensor access and created a non-relational database for scalable backend data storage. We propose that our data collection and visualization tools are useful for analyzing driving behaviors; we also discuss future applications, security, and privacy concerns specific to vehicular networks.
{"title":"A first look at vehicle data collection via smartphone sensors","authors":"Michael Reininger, Seth Miller, Yanyan Zhuang, Justin Cappos","doi":"10.1109/SAS.2015.7133607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS.2015.7133607","url":null,"abstract":"Smartphones serve as a technical interface to the outside world. These devices have embedded, on-board sensors (such as accelerometers, WiFi, and GPSes) that can provide valuable information for investigating users' needs and behavioral patterns. Similarly, computers that are embedded in vehicles are capable of collecting valuable sensor data that can be accessed by smartphones through the use of On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) sensors. This paper describes a prototype of a mobile computing platform that provides access to vehicles' sensors by using smartphones and tablets, without compromising these devices' security. Data such as speed, engine RPM, fuel consumption, GPS locations, etc. are collected from moving vehicles by using a WiFi On-Board Diagnostics (OBD) sensor, and then backhauled to a remote server for both real-time and offline analysis. We describe the design and implementation details of our platform, for which we developed a library for in-vehicle sensor access and created a non-relational database for scalable backend data storage. We propose that our data collection and visualization tools are useful for analyzing driving behaviors; we also discuss future applications, security, and privacy concerns specific to vehicular networks.","PeriodicalId":384041,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132712621","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 : 2015-04-13DOI: 10.1109/SAS.2015.7133578
Daniel Cesarini, B. Ungerechts, T. Hermann
Auditory biofeedback systems in the field of sports are increasingly adopted to provide an online guidance to the people performing actions. This paper concentrates on swimming and on producing auditory feedback intended to enhance the perception of the interaction between a swimmer's body and the surrounding water masses while swimming. The information is related to the concept of `feel-for-water', that is a key factor to produce an effective propulsion, through a correct perception of the boundary effects of body and water. The presented system is composed of pressure sensors, plastic tubes ending between the swimmer's hand fingers on the dorsal and palmar side, a microcontroller reading the sensors and sending data to a PC for further processing producing the auditory feedback through interactive sonification. We focus on the system setup and present a simple parameter-mapping sonification design as an example, along with possible extensions of the system and other sonification designs. Finally, we present video and audio examples of the system.
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Pub Date : 2015-04-13DOI: 10.1109/SAS.2015.7133589
Eranda Tennakoon, Charith Madusanka, K. Zoysa, C. Keppitiyagama, V. Iyer, Kasun Hewage, T. Voigt
The human-elephant conflict is one of the most severe natural problems in Sri Lanka. There are rich farmlands near the elephant habitats and elephants raid these farms in search of food. This has been the main cause for nearly 70 human deaths and over 200 elephant deaths that have been recorded each year in the recent past. To manage the problem, the government has initiated projects that secure the national wildlife parks with electric fences. However, maintaining the electric fence is a challenge, because of its large perimeter and the lack of available manpower. A particular concern is that of locating faults in electric fences since these typically span a few hundred miles. Currently, park rangers are required to travel on foot to locate the faults, which could take days to complete. In this paper, we propose a novel system architecture that considerably shortens the maintenance time for electric fences, at minimal and hence affordable cost. Our architecture benefits the park rangers of the national wildlife sanctuaries to detect and repair the breakages.
{"title":"Sensor-based breakage detection for electric fences","authors":"Eranda Tennakoon, Charith Madusanka, K. Zoysa, C. Keppitiyagama, V. Iyer, Kasun Hewage, T. Voigt","doi":"10.1109/SAS.2015.7133589","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS.2015.7133589","url":null,"abstract":"The human-elephant conflict is one of the most severe natural problems in Sri Lanka. There are rich farmlands near the elephant habitats and elephants raid these farms in search of food. This has been the main cause for nearly 70 human deaths and over 200 elephant deaths that have been recorded each year in the recent past. To manage the problem, the government has initiated projects that secure the national wildlife parks with electric fences. However, maintaining the electric fence is a challenge, because of its large perimeter and the lack of available manpower. A particular concern is that of locating faults in electric fences since these typically span a few hundred miles. Currently, park rangers are required to travel on foot to locate the faults, which could take days to complete. In this paper, we propose a novel system architecture that considerably shortens the maintenance time for electric fences, at minimal and hence affordable cost. Our architecture benefits the park rangers of the national wildlife sanctuaries to detect and repair the breakages.","PeriodicalId":384041,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121343080","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 : 2015-04-13DOI: 10.1109/SAS.2015.7133592
Huma Zia, N. Harris, G. Merrett, M. Rivers
Excessive or poorly timed application of irrigation and fertilizers, coupled with the inherent inefficiency of nutrient uptake by crops result in nutrient fluxes into the water system. The ability to predict nutrient-rich discharges, in real time, can be very valuable to enable reuse mechanisms within farm systems. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) offer an opportunity to monitor environmental systems with unprecedented temporal and spatial resolution. As part of our previous work, we proposed a novel framework (WQMCM) to combine increasingly common local farm-scale sensor networks across a catchment to learn and predict (using predictive models) the impact of catchment events on their downstream environments, allowing dynamic decision. Existing models use complex parameters which are difficult to extract and this, coupled with constraints on network nodes (battery life, computing power etc., availability of sensors) makes it necessary to develop simplified models for deployment within the networks. The paper investigates data-driven model for predicting daily total oxidized nitrate (TON) fluxes by seeking simplification in model parameters and using only a yearlong training data set. Data from a catchment in Ireland is used for training the model. Model simplification is investigated by abstracting details from an existing nitrate loss model. By using M5 decision tree model on the training samples of the proposed parameters, results give R2 as 0.92 and RRMSE as 0.26. The proposed novel model gives better results with fewer samples and simple parameters when compared to the traditional model. This shows promise for enabling real time nutrient control and management within the collaborative networked farm system.
{"title":"Data-driven low-complexity nitrate loss model utilizing sensor information — Towards collaborative farm management with wireless sensor networks","authors":"Huma Zia, N. Harris, G. Merrett, M. Rivers","doi":"10.1109/SAS.2015.7133592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS.2015.7133592","url":null,"abstract":"Excessive or poorly timed application of irrigation and fertilizers, coupled with the inherent inefficiency of nutrient uptake by crops result in nutrient fluxes into the water system. The ability to predict nutrient-rich discharges, in real time, can be very valuable to enable reuse mechanisms within farm systems. Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) offer an opportunity to monitor environmental systems with unprecedented temporal and spatial resolution. As part of our previous work, we proposed a novel framework (WQMCM) to combine increasingly common local farm-scale sensor networks across a catchment to learn and predict (using predictive models) the impact of catchment events on their downstream environments, allowing dynamic decision. Existing models use complex parameters which are difficult to extract and this, coupled with constraints on network nodes (battery life, computing power etc., availability of sensors) makes it necessary to develop simplified models for deployment within the networks. The paper investigates data-driven model for predicting daily total oxidized nitrate (TON) fluxes by seeking simplification in model parameters and using only a yearlong training data set. Data from a catchment in Ireland is used for training the model. Model simplification is investigated by abstracting details from an existing nitrate loss model. By using M5 decision tree model on the training samples of the proposed parameters, results give R2 as 0.92 and RRMSE as 0.26. The proposed novel model gives better results with fewer samples and simple parameters when compared to the traditional model. This shows promise for enabling real time nutrient control and management within the collaborative networked farm system.","PeriodicalId":384041,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123309427","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 : 2015-04-13DOI: 10.1109/SAS.2015.7133653
L. A. Marsh, Omar A. Abdel Rehim, Yee M. Tan, M. O’Toole, D. Armitage, A. Peyton
This paper presents a method for the simulation of sensitivity maps from an array of coils. Some of the criteria necessary for designing a coil array capable of inversion of the magnetic polarisability are examined, and sensitivity maps are analysed with this in mind. The summarised sensitivity map for a single optimised array is presented, as well as the results of noise testing of an inversion algorithm using simulated measurements. Finally, a method for the construction and testing of such an array is presented.
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Pub Date : 2015-04-13DOI: 10.1109/SAS.2015.7133625
R. Milliken, Jim Cordwell, Stephen Anderson, Ralph Robert Martin, A. Marshall
The creation of precise three dimensional geometric models produced from visual information from low cost smart devices has many potential applications. There is a need to establish the capability of such devices, to determine if they are suitable. We explain how a typical smart device could be used in the creation of precise 3D geometric models from visual information, and establish a benchmark for evaluating such devices via a simulator which allows for parametric exploration of device capabilities. Various vision based algorithms (e.g. SLAM) could benefit from auxiliary sensor inputs, e.g. to solve the problem of determining the scale of the object being sensed. We discuss how the ancillary sensors in smart devices can assist in 3D mensuration to underpin 3D scene generation and 3D model building. We describe a number of tests performed on the inertial sensors integrated into consumer smart devices to ascertain their performance characteristics. These findings are then incorporated in our simulations. We also explore the extent to which future improvements to technologies are likely to be beneficial. Our simulator allows modelling of a 3D scene, various sensors and the motion trajectory of the device whilst capturing data. We assess individual sensor outputs, and the quality of the fused sensor outputs in the context of 3D model building requirements.
{"title":"Can smart devices assist in geometric model building?","authors":"R. Milliken, Jim Cordwell, Stephen Anderson, Ralph Robert Martin, A. Marshall","doi":"10.1109/SAS.2015.7133625","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS.2015.7133625","url":null,"abstract":"The creation of precise three dimensional geometric models produced from visual information from low cost smart devices has many potential applications. There is a need to establish the capability of such devices, to determine if they are suitable. We explain how a typical smart device could be used in the creation of precise 3D geometric models from visual information, and establish a benchmark for evaluating such devices via a simulator which allows for parametric exploration of device capabilities. Various vision based algorithms (e.g. SLAM) could benefit from auxiliary sensor inputs, e.g. to solve the problem of determining the scale of the object being sensed. We discuss how the ancillary sensors in smart devices can assist in 3D mensuration to underpin 3D scene generation and 3D model building. We describe a number of tests performed on the inertial sensors integrated into consumer smart devices to ascertain their performance characteristics. These findings are then incorporated in our simulations. We also explore the extent to which future improvements to technologies are likely to be beneficial. Our simulator allows modelling of a 3D scene, various sensors and the motion trajectory of the device whilst capturing data. We assess individual sensor outputs, and the quality of the fused sensor outputs in the context of 3D model building requirements.","PeriodicalId":384041,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"173 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114227743","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}
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