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Cognitive Radio has been proposed as a solution to the spectrum underutilization problem in Wireless Sensor Networks. This paper describes most used cooperative and non-cooperative sensing techniques in Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks. Energy detection is an optimal method when no prior information about primary signal is available. However, most of the contribution focus on the cooperative sensing...
Recently, applying the multimedia wireless sensor networks and computer vision techniques in the outdoor agriculture field can be observed. Since the performance of such techniques is limited by the low data rate of the wireless sensor network, the transmission using the wider bandwidth is one of the possible solutions. This paper proposes the technique to develop the wide-band channel sounder for...
With the advancement in energy harvesting in terms of wireless charging techniques, it provides a novel way to solve traditional energy constraint problems in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Renewable energy such as solar, wind, and geo-thermal energy is converted to energy-storage and further use via harvest-then-transmit strategy. This article introduces a two-layer sleep scheduling system in energy-harvesting...
Collecting information about faults, state of surrounding environment and equipment is crucial in systems that could jeopardize human lives, such as trains. Normally, data are obtained via analog sensors which do not have any interface to allow their integration with software systems. Additionally, acquisition and transport of sensor data could suffer interferences in the train's environment due to...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming important in many areas that include health, entertainment, manufacturing, automotive, home and building automation, industrial, etc. Will it be important for education and more specifically for teaching and learning? If so, what engineering subjects would benefit the most and how effective could the IoT be for teaching and learning? Can IoT technologies and...
Coverage issue in directional sensor networks (DSNs) is different from traditional omni-directional wireless sensor networks (WSNs) due to the limited angle of view and adjustable working direction. This paper sets up a model of monitoring area and a model of sensing area according to the unique characteristics of directional sensor and then derives an optimization model for area coverage ratio maximization...
In sensor-based activity recognition often huge amounts of data have to be acquired from multiple sensors, which need to be communicated for further processing. When using wireless sensor nodes, energy efficiency is of outstanding importance, since it directly influences the time until the battery needs to be recharged. However, communicating a huge amount of sensor data over wireless interfaces causes...
This paper proposes a distributed filtering scheme over sensor networks with topology switching and topology-dependent event-triggered transmission schemes. A new monitoring mechanism is introduced to identify the topology switching instants, and the system output is sampled by sensors when the network topology switches. Based on the time-varying sampled-outputs, a group of distributed topology-dependent...
The application of Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) systems is primarily limited by its energy transfer efficiency. For modern WPT that utilises Strongly Coupled Magnetic Resonances (SCMR), which transfers energy by using the mutual inductance between coils, a higher efficiency can be achieved compared with a conventional air-core transformer module. An SCMR normally works at a desired frequency which...
A method for detecting human motion in complex scenarios based on Channel State Information (CSI) is presented. First, the sensitivity of CSI phase information to human motion is explored, especially to the strenuous motion. Through a large number of experiments, the influence of human motion on CSI phase is found out, and the characteristics of signal changes are extracted. The One-class Support...
Load balancing and energy conservation techniques are one of the important constraints in the design of in wireless sensor network (WSN). Usually, clustering technique helps the network in the minimum utilization of energy that results in enhancing network lifetime. Moreover, various nodes in the multihop network that are near to the base station drain their battery very quickly thus result in creating...
Smart Irrigation Decision Support (SIDS) system based on fuzzy logic using Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is considered for precision water irrigation. WSN consists of limited-energy sensor nodes which are equipped with sensing, wireless communication and processing capabilities. SIDS aims to measure the agricultural parameters including the soil temperature and soil moisture using the sensor nodes...
Until recent years, industrial control systems relied on wires to transfer the process values and control signals through an industrial plant. The use of wireless is limited to monitoring non-critical process values and using it for process control was uncommon for several reasons: complexity of usage, reliability, power consumption and a general doubt on its advantages. Wireless technology has made...
MODBUS is still one of the most widespread application layer protocols used in industrial communication due to its simple request-response communication session and its readiness to be implemented on top of several lower level communication protocols and various physical media such as RS232/RS485 serial lines and Ethernet TCP/IP. Given the well-known inclination of Modbus to inter-networking, a solution...
This paper presents the development of an energy efficient environmental sensor that sends measurement data to a cloud platform using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) requests. The device is based on a programmable system-on-chip (PSoC), and is equipped with a temperature and relative humidity sensor for taking measurements and with a WLAN (wireless local area network) module for sending data to...
One of interesting problems, arising with deployment of large-scale systems, is integration of its nodes (systems / devices). In this work, we discus how to apply semantic technologies, as a mechanism to support node integration and facilitate interoperability within the developed ecosystem. We focus on pragmatic aspects of the proposed solution, discussed from the perspective of the Dependable Embedded...
It is important to use healthy communication and appropriate routing techniques to increase performance in wireless body area networks. At present, the biggest problem of sensor nodes that bring such networks into the uneasiness is limited energy resources. In this paper, it is proposed to make road selection by calculating the distances of the nodes and the battery levels while making the routing...
This article presents a real-time control system for an experimental model of a water distribution system. The hardware and software implementation follows the latest trends in IoT and proves that such an architecture can be used for real-time process control in distributed systems. The control of flow is implemented using a multiple-model control algorithm for the pumping station. A method which...
The resource-constrained nature of sensor nodes makes wireless sensor networks (WSNs) especially susceptible to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Due to the wireless communication medium, it is difficult to prevent attacks such as jamming. Hence, mechanisms to detect attacks during operation are required. The current generation of intrusion detection systems are still rather heavyweight, as some form...
It has been found that almost all routing protocols can induce network congestion due to control message complexity. To overcome this overhead various optimization processes are used. One such process is gossiping, where each node forwards a message with some probability, to reduce the overhead of the routing protocols. In this paper, we show how gossiping can be used to improve the performance of...
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