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Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks, Volume 7, Issue 4

December 2018 - 13 articles

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Articles (13)

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
8,269 Views
17 Pages

Falls in the elderly are a common health issue that can involve severe injuries like hip fractures, requiring considerable medical attention, and subsequent care. Following surgery, physiotherapy is essential for strengthening muscles, mobilizing joi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,607 Views
12 Pages

Control of Power Electronics through a Photonic Bus: Feasibility and Prospects

  • Paolo Savio,
  • Anantaram Varatharajan,
  • Erasmo Vizzaccaro,
  • Sherif Abdelfattah,
  • Giuseppe Franco,
  • Silvio Abrate,
  • Gianmario Pellegrino and
  • Vittorio Curri

The ubiquitous diffusion of Power Electronic Converters (PECs) in many fields of application including traction and energy conversion suggests the possibility of new and better integration of advanced power conversion and Information and Communicatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
12,816 Views
16 Pages

Networking of Multi-Robot Systems: Architectures and Requirements

  • Imad Jawhar,
  • Nader Mohamed,
  • Jie Wu and
  • Jameela Al-Jaroodi

A large number of advancements have taken place in microprocessor-based systems leading to significantly more processing, memory, storage, sensing, actuating, recognition, controlling and communication capabilities. Robotics is one of the areas that...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,520 Views
26 Pages

A new phase of evolution of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication has started where vertical Internet of Things (IoT) deployments dedicated to a single application domain gradually change to multi-purpose IoT infrastructures that service different a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
7,551 Views
21 Pages

An Adaptive Beamforming Time with Round-Robin MAC Algorithm for Reducing Energy Consumption in MANET

  • Vincenzo Inzillo,
  • Floriano De Rango,
  • Alfonso A. Quintana and
  • Amilcare F. Santamaria

The use of smart antenna systems (SASs) in mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) has been promoted as the best choice to improve spatial division multiple access (SDMA) and throughput. Although directional communications are expected to provide great advan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,905 Views
11 Pages

This work investigates boundary node selection when tracking a jammer. A technique to choose nodes to track jammers by estimating signal-to-noise Ratio (SNR), jammer-to-noise ratio (JNR), and jammer received signal strength (JRSS) are introduced in t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
9,743 Views
13 Pages

Open-Source Wireless Cloud-Connected Agricultural Sensor Network

  • Daniel K. Fisher,
  • Lisa K. Woodruff,
  • Saseendran S. Anapalli and
  • Srinavasa R. Pinnamaneni

Agricultural research involves study of the complex soil–plant–atmosphere–water system, and data relating to this system must be collected under often-harsh outdoor conditions in agricultural environments. Rapid advancements in elec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
8,348 Views
17 Pages

Opportunistically Exploiting Internet of Things for Wireless Sensor Network Routing in Smart Cities

  • Shaza Hanif,
  • Ahmed M. Khedr,
  • Zaher Al Aghbari and
  • Dharma P. Agrawal

With the emergence of Internet of Things (IoT), the research on Smart Cities with wireless sensor networks (WSNs) got leveraged due to similarities between objectives in both Smart City and IoT. Along with them, research in controlling WSN faces new...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
74 Citations
14,098 Views
31 Pages

Compressive Sensing-Based IoT Applications: A Review

  • Hamza Djelouat,
  • Abbes Amira and
  • Faycal Bensaali

The Internet of Things (IoT) holds great promises to provide an edge cutting technology that enables numerous innovative services related to healthcare, manufacturing, smart cities and various human daily activities. In a typical IoT scenario, a larg...

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