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Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) devoted to environmental monitoring has preponderantly assumed the adoption of a portable and limited energy source, (e.g. lithium, alkaline, NiMH batteries), to support the sensor functionalities. The usage of environmental resources as energy booster is now rising up as a workable energy source dedicated to embedded and wireless computing systems where manual replacement...
A catalytic combustion type methane gas sensor with Pd-Pt/ γ-Al2O3 catalyst working on pulse voltage mode is investigated in this paper, after fabricated by micromachining and sol-gel process on a silicon substrate. In order to achieve low power consumption as well as high sensitivity, pulse voltage was applied to a bridge circuit consisted of the sensor, and the ratio of the gas sensitivity...
The detector is mainly composed of CC430F5137, Lithium battery, Voltage monitor chip, temperature sensor, CO sensor and smoke detector, etc,. The detector is improved via the design optimization of hardware and software, which greatly reduces power consumption. Contemporarily, the detector uses BP algorithm program for judging whether there is a fire in the detect area. BP algorithm program is embedded...
We report on the design and fabrication of ultra-low power metal-oxide (MOX) gas sensors on plastic foils envisioning their fabrication at large scale and low cost. A complete sensor solution is presented including its packaging at the foil level and the driving/readout circuitry. The latter allowed the sensor to operate in pulsed temperature mode to reduce the power consumption in the sub-mW range...
Emission spectroscopy of plasma-excited chemical species is widely used for generalized chemical analyses in bench-top systems. This paper explores the use of pulsed microdischarges between two and three electrode microstructures, which operate in air at atmospheric pressure, for use in handheld chemical analyzers. Pulsed microdischarges are fired between two-electrodes spaced apart by 0.2-2 mm. Synchronized...
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