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Sensors, Volume 17, Issue 6

June 2017 - 277 articles

Cover Story: In Italy, organic egg production farms use free-range housing systems with a big outdoor area and a flock of no more than 500 hens. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of ozone treatments of housing areas - that could reduce the levels of atmospheric ammonia and bacterial load – an automatic monitoring system able to detect the presence of animals was necessary to avoid risks for hens and workers due by ozone’ toxicity. With this purpose, a sensor that uses an image pattern recognition technique applied to thermografic images acquired from the housing system was developed and tested. View the paper
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Articles (277)

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,403 Views
20 Pages

21 June 2017

Remote monitoring of bearing conditions, using wireless sensor network (WSN), is a developing trend in the industrial field. In complicated industrial environments, WSN face three main constraints: low energy, less memory, and low operational capabil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
120 Citations
12,143 Views
16 Pages

Soil Moisture Content Estimation Based on Sentinel-1 and Auxiliary Earth Observation Products. A Hydrological Approach

  • Dimitrios D. Alexakis,
  • Filippos-Dimitrios K. Mexis,
  • Anthi-Eirini K. Vozinaki,
  • Ioannis N. Daliakopoulos and
  • Ioannis K. Tsanis

21 June 2017

A methodology for elaborating multi-temporal Sentinel-1 and Landsat 8 satellite images for estimating topsoil Soil Moisture Content (SMC) to support hydrological simulation studies is proposed. After pre-processing the remote sensing data, backscatte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,188 Views
10 Pages

21 June 2017

Simple methods using the striped pattern paper marker and FFT (fast Fourier transformation) have been proposed as alternatives to measuring the optical density for determining the level of bacterial growth. The marker-based method can be easily autom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
8,798 Views
12 Pages

Ag Nanoparticles Drop-Casting Modification of Screen-Printed Electrodes for the Simultaneous Voltammetric Determination of Cu(II) and Pb(II)

  • Clara Pérez-Ràfols,
  • Julio Bastos-Arrieta,
  • Núria Serrano,
  • José Manuel Díaz-Cruz,
  • Cristina Ariño,
  • Joan De Pablo and
  • Miquel Esteban

21 June 2017

A new silver nanoparticle modified screen-printed electrode was developed and applied to the simultaneous determination of Pb(II) and Cu(II). Two different types of silver nanoparticles with different shapes and sizes, Ag nanoseeds and Ag nanoprisms,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,879 Views
16 Pages

21 June 2017

In this paper, a cell selection technique for millimeter-wave (mm-wave) cellular systems with hybrid beamforming is proposed. To select a serving cell, taking into account hybrid beamforming structures in a mm-wave cellular system, the angles of arri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,409 Views
16 Pages

21 June 2017

For targets with complex motion, such as ships fluctuating with oceanic waves and high maneuvering airplanes, azimuth echo signals can be modeled as multicomponent quadratic frequency modulation (QFM) signals after migration compensation and phase ad...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,885 Views
18 Pages

Single-Lead Fetal ECG Extraction Based on a Parallel Marginalized Particle Filter

  • Zhidong Zhao,
  • Huiling Tong,
  • Yanjun Deng,
  • Wen Xu,
  • Yefei Zhang and
  • Haihui Ye

21 June 2017

This paper presents a novel method for extracting the fetal ECG (FECG) from a single-lead abdominal signal. A dynamical model for a modified abdominal signal is proposed, in which both the maternal ECG (MECG) and the FECG are modeled, and then a para...

  • Article
  • Open Access
215 Citations
29,950 Views
44 Pages

Towards the Internet of Smart Trains: A Review on Industrial IoT-Connected Railways

  • Paula Fraga-Lamas,
  • Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés and
  • Luis Castedo

21 June 2017

Nowadays, the railway industry is in a position where it is able to exploit the opportunities created by the IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) and enabling communication technologies under the paradigm of Internet of Trains. This review details th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
10,646 Views
13 Pages

Micro-Viscometer for Measuring Shear-Varying Blood Viscosity over a Wide-Ranging Shear Rate

  • Byung Jun Kim,
  • Seung Yeob Lee,
  • Solkeun Jee,
  • Arslan Atajanov and
  • Sung Yang

20 June 2017

In this study, a micro-viscometer is developed for measuring shear-varying blood viscosity over a wide-ranging shear rate. The micro-viscometer consists of 10 microfluidic channel arrays, each of which has a different micro-channel width. The propose...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,815 Views
11 Pages

Fabrication and Characterization of Plasmonic Nanopores with Cavities in the Solid Support

  • Bita Malekian,
  • Kunli Xiong,
  • Gustav Emilsson,
  • Jenny Andersson,
  • Cecilia Fager,
  • Eva Olsson,
  • Elin M. Larsson-Langhammer and
  • Andreas B. Dahlin

20 June 2017

Plasmonic nanostructures are widely used for various sensing applications by monitoring changes in refractive index through optical spectroscopy or as substrates for surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy. However, in most practical situations conventio...

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