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Sensors, Volume 14, Issue 11

November 2014 - 119 articles

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Articles (119)

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
14,379 Views
15 Pages

A System for Traffic Violation Detection

  • Nourdine Aliane,
  • Javier Fernandez,
  • Mario Mata and
  • Sergio Bemposta

24 November 2014

This paper describes the framework and components of an experimental platform for an advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) aimed at providing drivers with a feedback about traffic violations they have committed during their driving. The system is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,815 Views
12 Pages

Novel Membrane-Based Electrochemical Sensor for Real-Time Bio-Applications

  • Fatima AlZahra'a Alatraktchi,
  • Tanya Bakmand,
  • Maria Dimaki and
  • Winnie E. Svendsen

24 November 2014

This article presents a novel membrane-based sensor for real-time electrochemical investigations of cellular- or tissue cultures. The membrane sensor enables recording of electrical signals from a cell culture without any signal dilution, thus avoidi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,256 Views
19 Pages

24 November 2014

Many wind energy projects report poor performance as low as 60% of the predicted performance. The reason for this is poor resource assessment and the use of new untested technologies and systems in remote locations. Predictions about the potential of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
8,989 Views
17 Pages

Overcoming the Challenges of BeiDou Receiver Implementation

  • Mohammad Zahidul H. Bhuiyan,
  • Stefan Söderholm,
  • Sarang Thombre,
  • Laura Ruotsalainen and
  • Heidi Kuusniemi

21 November 2014

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-based positioning is experiencing rapid changes. The existing GPS and the GLONASS systems are being modernized to better serve the current challenging applications under harsh signal conditions. These modern...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,911 Views
14 Pages

Development of a Piezoelectric Vacuum Sensing Component for a Wide Pressure Range

  • Bing-Yu Wang,
  • Fan-Chun Hsieh,
  • Che-Yu Lin,
  • Shao-En Chen,
  • Fong-Zhi Chen and
  • Chia-Che Wu

21 November 2014

In this study, we develop a clamped–clamped beam-type piezoelectric vacuum pressure sensing element. The clamped–clamped piezoelectric beam is composed of a PZT layer and a copper substrate. A pair of electrodes is set near each end. An input voltage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
11,287 Views
13 Pages

Raman Imaging with a Fiber-Coupled Multichannel Spectrograph

  • Elmar Schmälzlin,
  • Benito Moralejo,
  • Monika Rutowska,
  • Ana Monreal-Ibero,
  • Christer Sandin,
  • Nicolae Tarcea,
  • Jürgen Popp and
  • Martin M. Roth

20 November 2014

Until now, spatially resolved Raman Spectroscopy has required to scan a sample under investigation in a time-consuming step-by-step procedure. Here, we present a technique that allows the capture of an entire Raman image with only one single exposure...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,855 Views
20 Pages

20 November 2014

In the design phase of sensor arrays during array signal processing, the estimation performance and system cost are largely determined by array aperture size. In this article, we address the problem of joint direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
8,722 Views
20 Pages

Behavior Life Style Analysis for Mobile Sensory Data in Cloud Computing through MapReduce

  • Shujaat Hussain,
  • Jae Hun Bang,
  • Manhyung Han,
  • Muhammad Idris Ahmed,
  • Muhammad Bilal Amin,
  • Sungyoung Lee,
  • Chris Nugent,
  • Sally McClean,
  • Bryan Scotney and
  • Gerard Parr

20 November 2014

Cloud computing has revolutionized healthcare in today’s world as it can be seamlessly integrated into a mobile application and sensor devices. The sensory data is then transferred from these devices to the public and private clouds. In this paper, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,213 Views
18 Pages

Design of a Novel Flexible Capacitive Sensing Mattress for Monitoring Sleeping Respiratory

  • Wen-Ying Chang,
  • Chien-Chun Huang,
  • Chi-Chun Chen,
  • Chih-Cheng Chang and
  • Chin-Lung Yang

20 November 2014

In this paper, an algorithm to extract respiration signals using a flexible projected capacitive sensing mattress (FPCSM) designed for personal health assessment is proposed. Unlike the interfaces of conventional measurement systems for poly-somnogra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
10,298 Views
26 Pages

20 November 2014

The existing Internet environment has been extended to the Internet of Things (IoT) as an emerging new paradigm. The IoT connects various physical entities. These entities have communication capability and deploy the observed information to various s...

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