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Sensors, Volume 20, Issue 13

July-1 2020 - 197 articles

Cover Story: Air quality monitors using low-cost, optical PM2.5 sensors can track the dispersion of wildfire smoke but adjustment factors (AFs) are needed for quantitative hazard assessment. This paper reports AFs for 4 monitors with low-cost sensors and 3 professional-grade photometers using data collected in a lab in Berkeley during the 2018 Camp Fire in California. Paired data from 53 PurpleAir PA-II devices and 12 nearby regulatory stations impacted by smoke from the Camp Fire and three others in California and Utah were analyzed to show variations of AF by location. A global AF can reduce bias from roughly a factor of two to 20–30% or less and improve the accuracy of Air Quality Index (AQI) hazard level reporting, e.g., from 14% to 84% correct in Sacramento during the Camp Fire. The adjustment factors reported in this paper enable the use of low-cost monitors for smoke hazard assessment. View this paper
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Articles (197)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,864 Views
16 Pages

7 July 2020

Integrated fiber-wireless (FiWi) should be regarded as a promising access network architecture in future 5G networks, and beyond; this due to its seamless combination of flexibility, ubiquity, mobility of the wireless mesh network (WMN) frontend with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,622 Views
27 Pages

7 July 2020

Criminals and related illegal activities represent problems that are neither trivial to predict nor easy to handle once they are identified. The Police Forces (PFs) typically base their strategies solely on their intra-communication, by neglecting th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,482 Views
17 Pages

3D Contact Position Estimation of Image-Based Areal Soft Tactile Sensor with Printed Array Markers and Image Sensors

  • Jong-il Lee,
  • Suwoong Lee,
  • Hyun-Min Oh,
  • Bo Ram Cho,
  • Kap-Ho Seo and
  • Min Young Kim

7 July 2020

Tactile sensors have been widely used and researched in various fields of medical and industrial applications. Gradually, they will be used as new input devices and contact sensors for interactive robots. If a tactile sensor is to be applied to vario...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,975 Views
14 Pages

7 July 2020

The monitoring of the effects of geohazards on pipelines can be addressed by optical fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs). They are sensitive to strain and bending, and are installed on the external surface of pipelines at discrete locations. A joint approach...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,306 Views
13 Pages

Feature Point Registration Model of Farmland Surface and Its Application Based on a Monocular Camera

  • Yang Li,
  • Dongyan Huang,
  • Jiangtao Qi,
  • Sikai Chen,
  • Huibin Sun,
  • Huili Liu and
  • Honglei Jia

7 July 2020

In this study, an image registration algorithm was applied to calculate the rotation angle of objects when matching images. Some commonly used image feature detection algorithms such as features from accelerated segment test (FAST), speeded up robust...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,213 Views
18 Pages

7 July 2020

Cognitive radio networks (CRNs), which allow secondary users (SUs) to dynamically access a network without affecting the primary users (PUs), have been widely regarded as an effective approach to mitigate the shortage of spectrum resources and the in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,768 Views
16 Pages

7 July 2020

This paper presents the design of a high precision telescopic system consisting in three lines, with measuring principle based on simultaneous laser multilateration. The system offers the high precision of the interferometer systems and allows the au...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,556 Views
18 Pages

A Maze Matrix-Based Secret Image Sharing Scheme with Cheater Detection

  • Ching-Chun Chang,
  • Ji-Hwei Horng,
  • Chia-Shou Shih and
  • Chin-Chen Chang

7 July 2020

Secret image sharing is a technique for sharing a secret message in such a fashion that stego image shadows are generated and distributed to individual participants. Without the complete set of shadows shared among all participants, the secret could...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,226 Views
25 Pages

Deep Sensing: Inertial and Ambient Sensing for Activity Context Recognition Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

  • Abayomi Otebolaku,
  • Timibloudi Enamamu,
  • Ali Alfoudi,
  • Augustine Ikpehai,
  • Jims Marchang and
  • Gyu Myoung Lee

7 July 2020

With the widespread use of embedded sensing capabilities of mobile devices, there has been unprecedented development of context-aware solutions. This allows the proliferation of various intelligent applications, such as those for remote health and li...

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