Search Results - "2011 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium"

Non-contact heart rate detection using periodic variation in Doppler frequency by Sekine, M, Maeno, K

“…Remote heart rate detection without body-attached probes is a promising technology for health care, monitoring of elderly people, emergency, and security. In…”
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Temperature sensor tag for passive UHF RFID systems by Virtanen, J, Ukkonen, L, Bjorninen, T, Sydanheimo, L, Elsherbeni, A Z

“…This paper presents a novel temperature sensor tag for passive UHF RFID systems and discusses a method to perform measurements in practice. The developed…”
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Next smart sensors generation by Gervais-Ducouret, Stéphane

“…Smart sensors are defined by the IEEE 1451 standard as sensors with small memory and standardized physical connection to enable the communication with…”
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Pedestrian motion based inertial sensor fusion by a modified complementary separate-bias Kalman filter by Rui Zhang, Reindl, Leonhard M

“…This paper presents a modified complementary separate-bias Kalman filter for orientation determination of pedestrian motions by using a inertial measurement…”
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Elderly-care motion sensor using UWB-IR by Ota, K, Ota, Y, Otsu, M, Kajiwara, A

“…Requirement for monitoring the state of the elderly in care facilities is increasing year by year and the increase in accidents involving them becomes great…”
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On the development of a wireless self localizing streetlight monitoring system by De Dominicis, C M, Flammini, A, Sisinni, E, Fasanotti, L, Floreani, F

“…The growing interest towards green and efficient use of electrical energy has recently pushed the industry of street light control systems. In the past, very…”
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3-axes MEMS Hall-effect sensor by Wei Cai, Chan, Jeremy, Garmire, D

“…A 3-axes Hall-effect sensor was fabricated using the PolyMUMPs process based on the MEMS design software, Coventorware. We document the fabrication of this…”
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Gold electrode sensors for electrical impedance tomography (EIT) studies by Bera, Tushar Kanti, Nagaraju, J

“…Surface electrodes in EIT phantoms usually reduce the SNR of the boundary data due to their design and development errors. A novel gold electrode array with…”
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Practical issues in Wireless Sensor Network localization systems using received signal strength indication by Motter, P, Allgayer, R S, Muller, I, Pereira, C E, Pignaton de Freitas, Edison

“…The emergence of Wireless Sensor Networks brought many benefits in different application domains such as collaborative tasks, lower costs, equipment's autonomy…”
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Energy efficient routing protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks with Node and Sink mobility by Deva Sarma, Hiren Kumar, Kar, Avijit, Mall, Rajib

“…The proposed routing protocol for Wireless Sensor Network is hierarchical and cluster based. The protocol supports mobility in the Sensor Nodes as well as in…”
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Sensing cellular adhesion with a CMOS integrated impedance-to-frequency converter by Mucha, Andreas, Schienle, Meinrad, Schmitt-Landsiedel, Doris

“…Sensing cellular adhesion via impedance measurements provides a versatile and easily accessible means for monitoring in-vitro cell cultures. In this work we…”
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Photovoltaic module shading: Smart Grid impacts by Jansson, P M, Whitten, K, Schmalzel, J L

“…In the design of a solar photovoltaic system, one criterion that continues to receive low priority is the provision of minimum inter row spacing for…”
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On accuracy of simple FDTD models for the simulation of human body path loss by Makarov, S N, Khan, U I, Islam, M M, Ludwig, R, Pahlavan, K

“…This paper compares a basic, MATLAB coded, time-domain FDTD formulation for the path loss around the human body with accurate FEM modeling in Ansoft HFSS…”
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Next generation system for real-time monitoring of rainfall, soil moisture, and soil temperature by Rezaei, Hamid Fahim, Sitter, Nicholas, Kruger, Anton

“…Here we present our work on an environmental sensing network that we have been developing over a number of years at The University of Iowa. Sponsored by the…”
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Fibre optic based 3-D accelerometer design by Masek, V, Cada, M, Cook, A, Wu Nan, Dan Li

“…A novel concept of using a fiber optic technology to create a 3-D seismometer/accelerometer was proposed. The initial planar prototype exhibits a good…”
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Secure Routing Protocol for Mobile Wireless Sensor Network by Sarma, A Hiren Kumar Deva, Kar, B Avijit, Mall, C Rajib

“…In this paper, a novel secure routing protocol is proposed for wireless sensor networks in which sensor nodes as well as the base station are mobile. The…”
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Interface detection in pipe separators Using ECT: Performance with reduced number of sensing electrodes by Pradeep, C, Yan Ru, Mylvaganam, S

“…Pipe separators are currently being assessed as substitutes for conventional separators in the oil and gas industry for the separation of gas, oil and water…”
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Physical layer architecture for 1-wire sensor communication bus: Binary channel Code Division Multiple Access by Peiffer, B, Kruger, A

“…Researchers at The University of Iowa have encountered the need for an efficient 1-wire communication protocol for use in embedded systems and distributed…”
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Embedded sensors for indoor positioning by Shanklin, T A, Loulier, B, Matson, E T

“…Indoor location-based applications have a broad appeal for development in navigation, robotics, gaming, asset tracking, networking, and more. GPS technologies…”
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A multi-agent model for fault diagnosis in petrochemical plants by Mendoza, B, Peng Xu, Limin Song

“…Petrochemical plants are extremely complex systems with many dynamically interconnected components. Traditional approaches to fault detection and diagnosis of…”
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