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Sensors, Volume 16, Issue 2

2016 February - 128 articles

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Articles (128)

  • Article
  • Open Access
109 Citations
11,130 Views
18 Pages

22 February 2016

The location and contextual status (indoor or outdoor) is fundamental and critical information for upper-layer applications, such as activity recognition and location-based services (LBS) for individuals. In addition, optimizations of building manage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,012 Views
23 Pages

Parametric Cognitive Modeling of Information and Computer Technology Usage by People with Aging- and Disability-Derived Functional Impairments

  • Rebeca I. García-Betances,
  • María Fernanda Cabrera-Umpiérrez,
  • Manuel Ottaviano,
  • Matteo Pastorino and
  • María T. Arredondo

22 February 2016

Despite the speedy evolution of Information and Computer Technology (ICT), and the growing recognition of the importance of the concept of universal design in all domains of daily living, mainstream ICT-based product designers and developers still wo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,658 Views
15 Pages

20 February 2016

Pedestrian detection and human pose estimation are instructive for reconstructing a three-dimensional scenario and for robot navigation, particularly when large amounts of vision data are captured using various data-recording techniques. Using an unr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,937 Views
12 Pages

Sensitivity Enhancement in Magnetic Sensors Based on Ferroelectric-Bimorphs and Multiferroic Composites

  • Gollapudi Sreenivasulu,
  • Peng Qu,
  • Vladimir Petrov,
  • Hongwei Qu and
  • Gopalan Srinivasan

20 February 2016

Multiferroic composites with ferromagnetic and ferroelectric phases have been studied in recent years for use as sensors of AC and DC magnetic fields. Their operation is based on magneto-electric (ME) coupling between the electric and magnetic subsys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
10,712 Views
13 Pages

20 February 2016

In this paper, we proposed an interdigitated capacitor (IDC)-based glucose biosensor to measure different concentrations of glucose from 1 μM to 1 M. We studied four different types of solvatochromic dyes: Auramine O, Nile red, Rhodamine B, and Reich...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,508 Views
10 Pages

Thin Film Differential Photosensor for Reduction of Temperature Effects in Lab-on-Chip Applications

  • Giampiero De Cesare,
  • Matteo Carpentiero,
  • Augusto Nascetti and
  • Domenico Caputo

20 February 2016

This paper presents a thin film structure suitable for low-level radiation measurements in lab-on-chip systems that are subject to thermal treatments of the analyte and/or to large temperature variations. The device is the series connection of two am...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
7,011 Views
17 Pages

CSRQ: Communication-Efficient Secure Range Queries in Two-Tiered Sensor Networks

  • Hua Dai,
  • Qingqun Ye,
  • Geng Yang,
  • Jia Xu and
  • Ruiliang He

20 February 2016

In recent years, we have seen many applications of secure query in two-tiered wireless sensor networks. Storage nodes are responsible for storing data from nearby sensor nodes and answering queries from Sink. It is critical to protect data security f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
9,620 Views
17 Pages

20 February 2016

To provide a long-time reliable orientation, sensor fusion technologies are widely used to integrate available inertial sensors for the low-cost orientation estimation. In this paper, a novel dual-linear Kalman filter was designed for a multi-sensor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
7,844 Views
18 Pages

19 February 2016

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have an important role in urban management and planning. The effective integration of vehicle information in VANETs is critical to traffic analysis, large-scale vehicle route planning and intelligent transportation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,660 Views
10 Pages

19 February 2016

We propose a parallel factor (PARAFAC) analysis-based angle and polarization estimation algorithm for multiple coherent sources using a uniformly-spaced linear tripole sensor array. By forming a PARAFAC model using the spatial signature of the tripol...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,514 Views
14 Pages

Inspection Robot Based Mobile Sensing and Power Line Tracking for Smart Grid

  • Bat-erdene Byambasuren,
  • Donghan Kim,
  • Mandakh Oyun-Erdene,
  • Chinguun Bold and
  • Jargalbaatar Yura

19 February 2016

Smart sensing and power line tracking is very important in a smart grid system. Illegal electricity usage can be detected by remote current measurement on overhead power lines using an inspection robot. There is a need for accurate detection methods...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,786 Views
17 Pages

19 February 2016

Heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (HWSNs) can achieve more tasks and prolong the network lifetime. However, they are vulnerable to attacks from the environment or malicious nodes. This paper is concerned with the issues of a consensus secure sch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
10,546 Views
22 Pages

19 February 2016

Contamination of eye movement and blink artifacts in Electroencephalogram (EEG) recording makes the analysis of EEG data more difficult and could result in mislead findings. Efficient removal of these artifacts from EEG data is an essential step in i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,637 Views
13 Pages

19 February 2016

In large-scale wireless sensor networks (WSNs), in order to enhance network security, it is crucial for a trustor node to perform social milieu oriented routing to a target a trustee node to carry out trust evaluation. This challenging social milieu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
73 Citations
14,171 Views
25 Pages

A Vehicle Active Safety Model: Vehicle Speed Control Based on Driver Vigilance Detection Using Wearable EEG and Sparse Representation

  • Zutao Zhang,
  • Dianyuan Luo,
  • Yagubov Rasim,
  • Yanjun Li,
  • Guanjun Meng,
  • Jian Xu and
  • Chunbai Wang

19 February 2016

In this paper, we present a vehicle active safety model for vehicle speed control based on driver vigilance detection using low-cost, comfortable, wearable electroencephalographic (EEG) sensors and sparse representation. The proposed system consists...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
6,293 Views
12 Pages

19 February 2016

Using a long, flexible test cable connected with a one-wire voltage feedback circuit, a resistive tactile sensor in a shared row-column fashion exhibited flexibility in robotic operations but suffered from crosstalk caused by the connected cable due...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
8,729 Views
11 Pages

19 February 2016

In this paper, a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) cantilever sensor was designed, modeled and fabricated to measure the terahertz (THz) radiation induced photoacoustic (PA) response of gases under low vacuum conditions. This work vastly improves...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
9,590 Views
12 Pages

Measurement and Modeling of Narrowband Channels for Ultrasonic Underwater Communications

  • Francisco J. Cañete,
  • Jesús López-Fernández,
  • Celia García-Corrales,
  • Antonio Sánchez,
  • Encarnación Robles,
  • Francisco J. Rodrigo and
  • José F. Paris

19 February 2016

Underwater acoustic sensor networks are a promising technology that allow real-time data collection in seas and oceans for a wide variety of applications. Smaller size and weight sensors can be achieved with working frequencies shifted from audio to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,338 Views
13 Pages

19 February 2016

The outage probability (OP) performance of multiple-relay incremental-selective decode-and-forward (ISDF) relaying mobile-to-mobile (M2M) sensor networks with transmit antenna selection (TAS) over N-Nakagami fading channels is investigated. Exact clo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,561 Views
11 Pages

19 February 2016

Laminate composites which are widely used in the aeronautical industry, are usually subjected to frequency variation of environmental temperature and excessive humidity in the in-service environment. The thermal fatigue and moisture absorption in com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
8,910 Views
24 Pages

19 February 2016

The advantages of remote sensing using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are a high spatial resolution of images, temporal flexibility and narrow-band spectral data from different wavelengths domains. This enables the detection of spatio-temporal dynam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,568 Views
19 Pages

19 February 2016

Collaborative strategies for mobile sensor nodes ensure the efficiency and the robustness of data processing, while limiting the required communication bandwidth. In order to solve the problem of pipeline inspection and oil leakage monitoring, a coll...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,881 Views
11 Pages

Detection of Gold Nanoparticles Aggregation Growth Induced by Nucleic Acid through Laser Scanning Confocal Microscopy

  • Ramla Gary,
  • Giovani Carbone,
  • Gia Petriashvili,
  • Maria Penelope De Santo and
  • Riccardo Barberi

19 February 2016

The gold nanoparticle (GNP) aggregation growth induced by deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is studied by laser scanning confocal and environmental scanning electron microscopies. As in the investigated case the direct light scattering analysis is not suit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
63 Citations
10,268 Views
15 Pages

19 February 2016

In bridge maintenance, particularly with regard to fatigue damage in steel bridges, it is important to determine the displacement response of the entire bridge under a live load as well as that of each member. Knowing the displacement response enable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,559 Views
18 Pages

A Robust Camera-Based Interface for Mobile Entertainment

  • Maria Francesca Roig-Maimó,
  • Cristina Manresa-Yee and
  • Javier Varona

19 February 2016

Camera-based interfaces in mobile devices are starting to be used in games and apps, but few works have evaluated them in terms of usability or user perception. Due to the changing nature of mobile contexts, this evaluation requires extensive studies...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,619 Views
18 Pages

18 February 2016

Medical asset tracking systems track a medical device with a mobile node and determine its status as either in or out, because it can leave a monitoring area. Due to a failed node, this system may decide that a mobile asset is outside the area, even...

  • Article
  • Open Access
96 Citations
11,931 Views
17 Pages

18 February 2016

Cloud computing has innovated the IT industry in recent years, as it can delivery subscription-based services to users in the pay-as-you-go model. Meanwhile, multimedia cloud computing is emerging based on cloud computing to provide a variety of medi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,445 Views
10 Pages

18 February 2016

Biomass energy represents a huge supplement for meeting current energy demands. A hyperspectral imaging system covering the spectral range of 874–1734 nm was used to determine the pH value of anaerobic digestion liquid produced by water hyacinth and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
9,409 Views
16 Pages

18 February 2016

Coordinate transformation plays an indispensable role in industrial measurements, including photogrammetry, geodesy, laser 3-D measurement and robotics. The widely applied methods of coordinate transformation are generally based on solving the equati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
10,733 Views
11 Pages

18 February 2016

In this work, we presented a simple method to synthesize magnetite Prussian blue nano-composites (Fe3O4-PB) through one-pot hydrothermal process. Subsequently, the obtained nano-composites were used to fabricate a facile and effective glucose biosens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,701 Views
15 Pages

Exploring Architectural Details Through a Wearable Egocentric Vision Device

  • Stefano Alletto,
  • Davide Abati,
  • Giuseppe Serra and
  • Rita Cucchiara

17 February 2016

Augmented user experiences in the cultural heritage domain are in increasing demand by the new digital native tourists of 21st century. In this paper, we propose a novel solution that aims at assisting the visitor during an outdoor tour of a cultural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,267 Views
16 Pages

Inertial Sensor Error Reduction through Calibration and Sensor Fusion

  • Stefan Lambrecht,
  • Samuel L. Nogueira,
  • Magdo Bortole,
  • Adriano A. G. Siqueira,
  • Marco H. Terra,
  • Eduardo Rocon and
  • José L. Pons

17 February 2016

This paper presents the comparison between cooperative and local Kalman Filters (KF) for estimating the absolute segment angle, under two calibration conditions. A simplified calibration, that can be replicated in most laboratories; and a complex cal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,166 Views
10 Pages

Tunable Microcavity-Stabilized Quantum Cascade Laser for Mid-IR High-Resolution Spectroscopy and Sensing

  • Simone Borri,
  • Mario Siciliani de Cumis,
  • Giacomo Insero,
  • Saverio Bartalini,
  • Pablo Cancio Pastor,
  • Davide Mazzotti,
  • Iacopo Galli,
  • Giovanni Giusfredi,
  • Gabriele Santambrogio and
  • Paolo De Natale
  • + 6 authors

17 February 2016

The need for highly performing and stable methods for mid-IR molecular sensing and metrology pushes towards the development of more and more compact and robust systems. Among the innovative solutions aimed at answering the need for stable mid-IR refe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
60 Citations
7,908 Views
20 Pages

A Collaborative Secure Localization Algorithm Based on Trust Model in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Guangjie Han,
  • Li Liu,
  • Jinfang Jiang,
  • Lei Shu and
  • Joel J.P.C. Rodrigues

16 February 2016

Localization is one of the hottest research topics in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks (UWSNs), since many important applications of UWSNs, e.g., event sensing, target tracking and monitoring, require location information of sensor nodes. Nowadays...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
8,762 Views
13 Pages

Grüt: A Gardening Sensor Kit for Children

  • Fabrizio Valpreda and
  • Ilaria Zonda

16 February 2016

Food waste is one of the main problems in our society. This is mainly caused by people’s behaviors and attitudes, which influence the whole food chain, from production to final consumption. In fact, food is generally perceived as a commodity by adult...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
6,910 Views
17 Pages

Suppression of Strong Background Interference on E-Nose Sensors in an Open Country Environment

  • Fengchun Tian,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Simon X. Yang,
  • Zhenzhen Zhao,
  • Zhifang Liang,
  • Yan Liu and
  • Di Wang

16 February 2016

The feature extraction technique for an electronic nose (e-nose) applied in tobacco smell detection in an open country/outdoor environment with periodic background strong interference is studied in this paper. Principal component analysis (PCA), Inde...

  • Review
  • Open Access
24 Citations
9,571 Views
12 Pages

Development of Microfluidic Systems Enabling High-Throughput Single-Cell Protein Characterization

  • Beiyuan Fan,
  • Xiufeng Li,
  • Deyong Chen,
  • Hongshang Peng,
  • Junbo Wang and
  • Jian Chen

16 February 2016

This article reviews recent developments in microfluidic systems enabling high-throughput characterization of single-cell proteins. Four key perspectives of microfluidic platforms are included in this review: (1) microfluidic fluorescent flow cytomet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
8,527 Views
15 Pages

Data Mining and NIR Spectroscopy in Viticulture: Applications for Plant Phenotyping under Field Conditions

  • Salvador Gutiérrez,
  • Javier Tardaguila,
  • Juan Fernández-Novales and
  • Maria P. Diago

16 February 2016

Plant phenotyping is a very important topic in agriculture. In this context, data mining strategies may be applied to agricultural data retrieved with new non-invasive devices, with the aim of yielding useful, reliable and objective information. This...

  • Article
  • Open Access
80 Citations
12,073 Views
16 Pages

16 February 2016

The purpose of this paper is to present a multi-sensor approach to the detection and inspection of steel bars in reinforced concrete structures. In connection with our past experience related to non-destructive testing of different materials, we prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
7,729 Views
15 Pages

15 February 2016

One of the main applications of mobile robots is the large-scale perception of the outdoor environment. One of the main challenges of this application is fusing environmental data obtained by multiple robots, especially heterogeneous robots. This pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,203 Views
9 Pages

15 February 2016

A taste sensor that uses lipid/polymer membranes can evaluate aftertastes felt by humans using Change in membrane Potential caused by Adsorption (CPA) measurements. The sensor membrane for evaluating bitterness, which is caused by acidic bitter subst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
8,065 Views
11 Pages

14 February 2016

This paper introduces a method to remove the unwanted interdependency between vertical and horizontal eye-movement components in electrooculograms (EOGs). EOGs have been widely used to estimate eye movements without a camera in a variety of human-com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
9,747 Views
13 Pages

11 February 2016

Vehicle analysis involves license-plate recognition (LPR), vehicle-type classification (VTC), and vehicle make and model recognition (MMR). Among these tasks, MMR plays an important complementary role in respect to LPR. In this paper, we propose a no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,707 Views
14 Pages

A Quantum Cascade Laser-Based Optical Sensor for Continuous Monitoring of Environmental Methane in Dunkirk (France)

  • Rabih Maamary,
  • Xiaojuan Cui,
  • Eric Fertein,
  • Patrick Augustin,
  • Marc Fourmentin,
  • Dorothée Dewaele,
  • Fabrice Cazier,
  • Laurence Guinet and
  • Weidong Chen

8 February 2016

A room-temperature continuous-wave (CW) quantum cascade laser (QCL)-based methane (CH4) sensor operating in the mid-infrared near 8 μm was developed for continuous measurement of CH4 concentrations in ambient air. The well-isolated absorption line (7...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,947 Views
13 Pages

8 February 2016

Crustal movement is one of the main factors influencing the change of the Earth system, especially in its vertical direction, which affects people’s daily life through the frequent occurrence of earthquakes, geological disasters, and so on. In order...

  • Article
  • Open Access
56 Citations
11,712 Views
19 Pages

Spray Droplet Characterization from a Single Nozzle by High Speed Image Analysis Using an In-Focus Droplet Criterion

  • Sofija Vulgarakis Minov,
  • Frédéric Cointault,
  • Jürgen Vangeyte,
  • Jan G Pieters and
  • David Nuyttens

6 February 2016

Accurate spray characterization helps to better understand the pesticide spray application process. The goal of this research was to present the proof of principle of a droplet size and velocity measuring technique for different types of hydraulic sp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
8,632 Views
16 Pages

Poly(Ionic Liquid) Semi-Interpenetrating Network Multi-Responsive Hydrogels

  • Alexandru Tudor,
  • Larisa Florea,
  • Simon Gallagher,
  • John Burns and
  • Dermot Diamond

6 February 2016

Herein we describe poly(ionic liquid) hydrogel actuators that are capable of responding to multiple stimuli, namely temperature, ionic strength and white light irradiation. Using two starting materials, a crosslinked poly ionic liquid (PIL) and a l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
12,249 Views
18 Pages

6 February 2016

Nowadays, researchers are paying increasing attention to embedding systems. Cost reduction has lead to an increase in the number of platforms supporting the operating system Linux, jointly with the Raspberry Pi motherboard. Thus, embedding devices on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
9,604 Views
11 Pages

Comparison of Thermal Detector Arrays for Off-Axis THz Holography and Real-Time THz Imaging

  • Erwin Hack,
  • Lorenzo Valzania,
  • Gregory Gäumann,
  • Mostafa Shalaby,
  • Christoph P. Hauri and
  • Peter Zolliker

6 February 2016

In terahertz (THz) materials science, imaging by scanning prevails when low power THz sources are used. However, the application of array detectors operating with high power THz sources is increasingly reported. We compare the imaging properties of f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,845 Views
13 Pages

Efficient Donor Impurities in ZnO Nanorods by Polyethylene Glycol for Enhanced Optical and Glutamate Sensing Properties

  • Sami Elhag,
  • Kimleang Khun,
  • Volodymyr Khranovskyy,
  • Xianjie Liu,
  • Magnus Willander and
  • Omer Nur

6 February 2016

In this paper, we show that the possibility of using polyethylene glycol (EG) as a hydrogen source and it is used to assist the hydrothermal synthesis of ZnO nanorods (ZNRs). EG doping in ZNRs has been found to significantly improve their optical and...

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