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An autonomous Internet of Things (IoT) wireless sensor network (WSN) powered by a solar energy harvester with low power electronics is presented in this paper. The power supply is a critical challenge for IoT sensors as many of them normally have limited lifetime due to the battery with limited capacity used. The WSN system, sensor node electronics, and the energy harvesting techniques are all configured...
The monitoring of the ambient working conditions is a crucial part in occupational medicine. An innovative 3-layer, compact, multi-tasking and efficient wearable system for monitoring environmental conditions including physical and chemical parameters is introduced. It uniquely consists of a microcontroller board with integrated temperature, humidity and barometer sensors (physical parameters-middle...
The concept of quality of life is used as a measure of the welfare of a society, highlighting the relationship between the environment and health, mainly associated with pollution. Hence the importance of monitoring and communicating its results, in a timely manner, to the community. But often the last part of the process fail, there is a lack of communication between data, information and community...
Environmental pollution is an international serious, acute, health and social problem that humans are responsible for. Rapid technology evolution could provide us solutions to predict and monitor environmental parameters and thus minimize or even eliminate environmental pollution. Using a wireless sensor network (WSN) and an Internet of Things (IoT) implementation, we can create an eco-friendly and...
This work presents the first prototype of the Smart Pipe, a compact and intelligent wireless node hosting miniaturized sensors, embedded in a flange, for distributed and real-time monitoring of water contamination and for optimization of water treatment plants. Beyond pH and temperature, it features a low-cost and high-resolution (13 ppm, 11 ms response time) custom-designed 4-channel conductivity...
Because air pollution had a negative influence on the environment and human health, monitoring its quality has become a necessity. The air quality index is measured on different scales using data collected from devices that are sensitive to 3 up to 8 pollutant agents according to the different national standards. As the forth atmospheric gas in order of concentration, carbon dioxide (CO2), is proven...
This paper describes a cloud based architecture which has been designed for the monitoring of Cultural Heritage buildings. The architecture has been deployed in museums and basements proving its capabilities. The solution is composed of small sensing nodes with volume lower than 8 cm3 and dimensions of 2.5 cm × 1.5 cm which are capable of acquiring temperature and relative humidity for interval in...
This paper describes a sensor network architecture developed for museum monitoring. The proposed solution is based on a distributed environment composed of small, nearly invisible measuring nodes that wireless connect to Arduino-based WiFi routers to reach a distributed cloud. Users can connect to the measuring system by using their smart-phones and can receive alerts and measurements in real-time...
Current study shows that the advances in wireless sensor technology create a chance to promptly and effortlessly deploy low-cost, wide-scale and a network of low-power sensors across moderately considerable environmental areas. Additionally, the advancement and increase of small but affordable wireless hardware is further completed by the open source software components that rapidly developed. A variety...
Computational Intelligence (CI) techniques are being increasingly used for automatic monitoring and control systems, especially regarding industrial and environmental applications, due to their performance, their capabilities in fusing noisy or incomplete data obtained from heterogeneous sensors, and the ability in adapting to variations in the operational conditions. Moreover, the increase in the...
Forest ecosystems have always received worldwide attention due to their biological diversity and major role in the global atmospheric balance. One case example in Malaysia is the Royal Belum forest which has not been spared from land clearing or illegal activities by the irresponsible individuals, although this area has been gazetted as a protected area preserved for future generations. The main aim...
In this paper a new approach for safety monitoring of dangerous gases in the industrial plants is proposed. A single artificial neural network is used for determination of the gas concentrations based on sensor array measurements, performing at the same time compensation of the temperature and humidity influence on the sensor outputs. The obtained results show good accuracy in gas concentration estimation,...
Using wireless sensor network to monitor agricultural environments can provide decision support for precision agriculture. In this paper, combined with the sensor networks, mobile networks and remote database technology, a farmland environmental monitoring platform was designed and built, which can simultaneously monitor eight environmental parameters, such as atmospheric temperature, atmospheric...
Monitoring the sounds emitted by honey bees in a beehive is an important activity for beekeepers to ensure that their bee colonies remain healthy and to maximise productivity. A particular reproductive event called “swarming”, involves the departure of a queen bee with a large portion of the hive population. Swarming can be identified through sound, and if allowed to occur unchecked can lead to a...
The improvement of sanitary conditions and changes of life style making people's health awareness began to rise. The progress of medical and the promotion of medicine and health, the concept of preventive healthcare is widespread. People begin to concern about the quality of the environment where they stayed. The environmental comfort index include temperature, related humidity, illumination, noise...
The authors propose a system able to monitor environmental parameters like temperature, humidity, CO, CH4, GPL, alcohol, smoke sensor and flammable gases. In the paper is revealed the advantage of using open source hardware and software at low cost and the way how to develop new smart sensors to be future used in application like intelligent buildings. Being portable, the system can be also used to...
Along with the improvement of sanitary conditions and changes of life style, people begin to pay attention to the modern concept of health promotion and preventive medicine. Therefore, we built an intelligent environment monitoring feedback system to collect data of physical conditions of employees and air conditions of the working environment, displayed the collected data with a real time interface,...
With the advent of the enlarged health age, people's consciousness about health care has gradually improved. In the area of indoor air quality monitoring, a set of client based on PC and smart phone come up and is designed to solve the inflexible problem of the traditional way. PC client implements the functions such as environmental information (temperature, humidity, illumination, CO2, CO, NH3 and...
The paper presents a wireless sensor network system, including 433 MHz, ZigBee wireless network, data collection node and data concentrator node. This system is mainly to apply to monitoring winery's environment, the principle of which is that data collection node uses 433 MHz wireless network to send data, data concentrator node uses 433 MHz wireless network to receive the data from data collection...
An ageing population is now the leading concern for higher healthcare costs due to more cases of chronic illnesses. Telemedicine systems based on modern Information and Communication Technology (ICT) are expected to play a pivotal role in alleviating the pressure on health care services. Environmental factors have also profound impact on health condition of the patients. As a consequence monitoring...
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