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Proceedings, Volume 2, Issue 3

2018 ECSA-4 2017 - 46 articles

The 4th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications

Online |15-30 November 2017

Issue Editors:
Stefano Mariani, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Francesco Ciucci, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Dirk Lehmhus, University of Bremen, Germany
Thomas B. Messervey, R2M Solution s.r.l., Italy
Alberto Vallan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy Stefan Bosse, University of Bremen, Germany

Cover Story: This issue of Proceedings gathers the papers presented at the 4th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications, which collected contributions concerning five thematic areas (Biosensors, Chemical Sensors, Physical Sensors, Sensor Networks, Applications) and two specific sessions (Smart Cities, Smart Systems and Structures).
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Articles (46)

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,539 Views
8 Pages

18 January 2018

One of the main aspects affecting the life of people living in urban and suburban areas is their continued exposure to high road traffic noise (RTN) levels, traditionally measured by specialists working on the field. Nowadays, the deployment of Wirel...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,409 Views
7 Pages

18 January 2018

In recent year, the most emerging and growing field of research and development is “Internet of Things” (IoT). This is due to advancement in wireless sensor network (WSN) which operate in the unlicensed industrial, scientific and medical (ISM) spectr...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,975 Views
7 Pages

The Alignment Method for Linear Scale Projection Lithography Based on CCD Image Analysis

  • Dongxu Ren,
  • Jianpu Xi,
  • Zhengfeng Li,
  • Bin Li,
  • Zexiang Zhao,
  • Huiying Zhao,
  • Lujun Cui and
  • Hang Xu

15 November 2017

This paper presents a method to improve the alignment accuracy of mask in linear scale projection lithography, in which the adjacent pixel gray square variance method of CCD image is used to find the best position of the focal length of the motherboa...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,288 Views
6 Pages

Evaluation of Silicon Nanonet Field Effect Transistor as Photodiodes

  • Muhammed Kayaharman,
  • Maxime Legallais,
  • Celine Ternon,
  • Sangtak Park,
  • Bassem Salem,
  • Mehrdad Irannejad,
  • Eihab Abdel-Rahman and
  • Mustafa Yavuz

14 November 2017

Silicon nanowire networks (nanonets) is an emerging candidate technology for sensor applications. In this work, we characterized Field Effect Transistor (FETs) employing silicon nanonet channels and evaluated their performance as photodiodes. We foun...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,103 Views
6 Pages

14 November 2017

In most autonomous vehicles the navigation subsystem is based on Inertial Navigation System (INS). Regardless of the INS grade, its navigation solution drifts in time. To avoid such a drift, the INS is fused with external sensor measurements. Recent...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,143 Views
7 Pages

Smartphone Motion Mode Recognition

  • Itzik Klein,
  • Yuval Solaz and
  • Guy Ohayon

14 November 2017

The possibility of using mobile devices, such as smartphones, for locating a person indoor is becoming more attractive for many applications. Among them are health care and safety services, commercial and emergency applications. One of the approaches...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,195 Views
10 Pages

14 November 2017

Monitoring of mechanical structures is a Big Data challenge and includes Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Non-destructive Testing (NDT). The sensor data produced by common measuring techniques, e.g., guided wave propagation analysis, is charact...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,223 Views
6 Pages

14 November 2017

Damage detection in structural health monitoring (SHM) using piezoelectric transducers has received attention in recent decades for increasing safety and reducing maintenance costs of various types of engineering structures. Among the various methods...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,625 Views
7 Pages

14 November 2017

The average of life expectancy of the population and the prioritization of authorities in active and home aging has increased recently. This has led governments and private organizations to increase efforts in caring the elder and dependant segment o...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,758 Views
4 Pages

Micro Sensing of pH Levels in Biological Samples by Graphene-Based Raman Spectroscopy

  • Carlo Camerlingo,
  • Alessandro Verde,
  • Sonia Errico,
  • Lorenzo Manti and
  • Maria Lepore

14 November 2017

Graphene provides a unique way for sensing local pH level of substances on micrometric scale, with important implications for the monitoring of cellular metabolic activities where protonic excretion could occur. Doping modifications of graphene, indu...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,956 Views
7 Pages

Wireless Monitoring of Pavement Temperature Based on Low Cost Computing Platform

  • Álvaro García,
  • Rodolfo Haber,
  • Jorge Godoy and
  • Juan Jesús Muñoz

14 November 2017

Nowadays, the preservation, the maintenance, the rehabilitation and improvement of the road network are key issues. Many of the parameters that define the road surface conditions are influenced by various environmental factors, mainly temperature. He...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,954 Views
6 Pages

Deterministic Propagation Modeling for Intelligent Vehicle Communication in Smart Cities

  • Fausto Granda,
  • Leyre Azpilicueta,
  • Cesar Vargas-Rosales,
  • Peio Lopez-Iturri,
  • Erik Aguirre,
  • Jose Javier Astrain,
  • Jesus Villandangos and
  • Francisco Falcone

14 November 2017

Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs) are envisaged to be a critical building block of Smart Cities and Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) where applications for pollution and congestion reduction, vehicle mobility improving, accidents prevention...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
26 Citations
5,129 Views
6 Pages

Combining Water Indices for Water and Background Threshold in Landsat Image

  • Tri Dev Acharya,
  • Anoj Subedi,
  • In Tae Yang and
  • Dong Ha Lee

14 November 2017

Accurate and frequent update of surface water has been made possible by remote sensing technology. Index methods are mostly used for surface water estimation which separates the water from background based on a threshold value. Generally threshold is...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,761 Views
6 Pages

14 November 2017

Conventional methods for diagnosing gastrointestinal (GI) diseases have involved analysis of headspace volatile organic compounds (VOCs) present in the breath, urine, or fecal samples of patients. Most previous diagnostic testing methods have utilize...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,136 Views
6 Pages

14 November 2017

Drawing inspiration from the human vision-touch interaction that demonstrates the ability of vision in assisting tactile manipulation tasks, this paper addresses the issue of 3D object recognition from tactile data whose acquisition is guided by visu...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,185 Views
6 Pages

14 November 2017

The propagation of the Lamb-like modes along a diamond/AlN thin supported structure was simulated in order to exploit the intrinsic zero group velocity (ZGV) features to design high frequency electroacoustic resonators. As the ZGV points are associat...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,660 Views
8 Pages

14 November 2017

The propagation of quasi-longitudinal Lamb mode along SiN/c-AlN thin composite plates was modeled and analyzed aimed at the design of a sensor able to detect the parameters change of a liquid environment, such as added mass and viscosity changes. Thr...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,088 Views
7 Pages

A Smartphone Application for Supporting the Data Collection and Analysis of the Cultural Heritage Damaged during Natural Disasters

  • Antonio Costanzo,
  • Sergio Falcone,
  • Rosalbino Bisignano,
  • Michele Straface,
  • Giuseppe Ritacco,
  • Carmelo La Piana,
  • Massimo Musacchio and
  • Francesco Calimeri

14 November 2017

The adverse impacts of natural disasters on lives and livelihoods, as well as regional and local economies, are increasingly evident, and losses to both tangible and intangible cultural heritage due to these disasters pay an important role in the tot...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,183 Views
7 Pages

Hyperspectral Survey Method to Detect the Titanium Dioxide Percentage in the Coatings Applied to the Cultural Heritage

  • Antonio Costanzo,
  • Donatella Ebolese,
  • Sergio Falcone,
  • Carmelo La Piana,
  • Silvestro Antonio Ruffolo,
  • Mauro Francesco La Russa and
  • Massimo Musacchio

14 November 2017

Nanotechnologies provide new materials for the consolidation and protection of the Cultural Heritage: innovative solutions are represented by ethyl silicate or silica nanoparticles dispersed in aqueous colloidal suspensions mixed to titanium dioxide...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,880 Views
8 Pages

An Integrated Framework for Users’ Well-Being

  • Francesco Salamone,
  • Lorenzo Belussi,
  • Ludovico Danza and
  • Italo Meroni

14 November 2017

The hygro-thermal comfort (ICQ) is defined as the psychophysical state in which the subject expresses a condition of well-being with respect to environmental variables, a condition known as thermal neutrality. Furthermore, the ICQ represents one pill...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,367 Views
6 Pages

14 November 2017

In this contribution, we present a narrowband radio channel model for a scenario wherein the radio link operates under near-ground conditions, occurring on a ZigBee wireless sensor networks applied to smart agriculture. A near-ground network deployme...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,783 Views
7 Pages

14 November 2017

The fluorine-treated silicon–silicon oxide–hafnium oxide–silicon oxide–silicon capacitor device (hereafter F-SOHOS) could be a candidate for UV radiation total dose (hereafter TD) nonvolatile sensor. The UV radiation induces a significant increase in...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,705 Views
5 Pages

Influence of Particle Size in the Characterization of Street Dust by Proximal Soil Sensing

  • Ricardo Urrutia-Goyes,
  • Netzahualpille Hernandez,
  • Enrique Ortiz-Nadal,
  • Olivia Carrillo and
  • Nancy Ornelas-Soto

14 November 2017

Urban road dust can be enriched in different elements and hence it can pose a threat to human and environmental health. Proximal soil sensing allows the swift monitoring of such particles in order to drive attention to any possible risks. The goal of...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,352 Views
6 Pages

14 November 2017

Ordinary solar cells are too hard to bend, squash by compression, or extend by tensile strength. However, if it were possible to have elastic, flexible and extensible properties, as well as piezoelectricity, that material would be useful and effectiv...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,951 Views
4 Pages

14 November 2017

The type of wheeled mobile robots (WMRs) may affect the level of positional errors during motion. The errors are inevitable, as caused by imperfections in design to fabrication, and need to be rectified using calibration techniques. This paper uses t...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,931 Views
4 Pages

14 November 2017

We have previously investigated the application of cellulose dialysis membrane as a biosensor scaffold medium for protein detection with UV spectrophotometry. That was performed by using minor amounts of sample, through drying the sample on the dialy...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,071 Views
6 Pages

14 November 2017

Laplacian electroencephalogram signal from novel and noninvasive tripolar concentric ring electrodes has been demonstrated to have superior performance compared to the electroencephalogram from conventional disc electrodes due to its unique capabilit...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,320 Views
7 Pages

Underwater Communication Using Acoustic Parametric Arrays

  • Miguel Ardid,
  • María Campo-Valera,
  • Dídac D. Tortosa,
  • Ivan Felis,
  • Carlos D. Llorens and
  • Juan A. Martínez-Mora

14 November 2017

This paper presents a study of different types of parametric signals with application to submarine acoustic telecommunications. In all of them, the carrier frequency is 200 kHz, which corresponds to that resonation of the transducer under study, whil...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,784 Views
8 Pages

14 November 2017

Considering specialized agents in swarm robotics, with robots dedicated to specific tasks, requires that formation control and efficient transition in the leadership of the swarm is achieved. Here, a task switching approach is formulated by evolving...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,010 Views
7 Pages

A Domain Specific Language for Smart Cities

  • Francisca Rosique,
  • Fernando Losilla and
  • Juan Ángel Pastor

14 November 2017

In Smart Cities Systems, one of the main problems of its development is the integration of different devices and sensors. Many of them are incompatible with each other (different platforms, communication protocols, etc.). In this paper a Domain Speci...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,267 Views
6 Pages

Refinement of Temperature Sensing Yarns

  • Pasindu Lugoda,
  • Tilak Dias,
  • Theodore Hughes-Riley and
  • Rob Morris

14 November 2017

Body temperature is an important parameter to measure in a number of fields such as medicine and sport. In medicine temperature changes can indicate underlying pathologies such as wound infections, while in sport temperature can be associated to a ch...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,668 Views
5 Pages

Chatter Vibration Monitoring in the Surface Grinding Process through Digital Signal Processing of Acceleration Signal

  • Felipe Aparecido Alexandre,
  • Wenderson Nascimento Lopes,
  • Fábio Isaac Ferreira,
  • Fábio R. L. Dotto,
  • Paulo Roberto de Aguiar and
  • Eduardo Carlos Bianchi

14 November 2017

The grinding process is a manufacturing process that is performed at the end of the machining chain. In such step, the workpiece has a high added-value and therefore critical problems are not allowed, as they may lead to scrap and significant financi...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,851 Views
6 Pages

Planar Localization of Radio-Frequency or Acoustic Sources with Two Receivers

  • José Manuel Fresno,
  • Guillermo Robles and
  • Juan Manuel Martínez-Tarifa

14 November 2017

Spatial localization of emitting sources is especially interesting in different fields of application. The focus of an earthquake, the determination of cracks in solid structures or the position of bones inside a body are some examples of the use of...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,144 Views
7 Pages

14 November 2017

Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFC’s) are devices for power generation, usually for stationary applications. Microtubular SOFC’s have been developed for portable applications. The present contribution includes a brief description of the fabrication and som...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,383 Views
6 Pages

Optical Remote Sensing Method for Detecting Urban Green Space as Indicator Serving City Sustainable Development

  • Tran Thi Van,
  • Nguyen Dang Huyen Tran,
  • Ha Duong Xuan Bao,
  • Dinh Thi Thanh Phuong,
  • Pham Khanh Hoa and
  • Tham Thi Ngoc Han

14 November 2017

Urban green space, discovered by optical remote sensors, is the area covered by terrestrial vegetation in urban areas, and is considered an important factor in urban sustainability. Two sensors ALOS/AVNIR-2 and Landsat/OLI&TIR were used in this s...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,582 Views
5 Pages

Novel Food-Safe Spin-Lattice Relaxation Time Calibration Samples for Use in Magnetic Resonance Sensor Development

  • Najlaa K. Almazrouei,
  • Michael I. Newton,
  • Elizabeth R. Dye and
  • Robert H. Morris

14 November 2017

Magnetic Resonance (MR) sensors are an area of increasing interest for the measurement and monitoring of material properties. There are two relaxation times associated with samples that can be measured with MR sensors: The spin-lattice and spin-spin...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,988 Views
6 Pages

Wireless System Integration to Enable Smart Cities and Smart Regions

  • Leyre Azpilicueta,
  • Peio Lopez-Iturri,
  • Erik Aguirre,
  • Jose J. Astrain,
  • Jesús Villadangos and
  • Francisco Falcone

14 November 2017

The advent of Smart Cities and its extension to Smart Regions requires seamless interaction of systems as well as with users, in a context where a great deal of devices exhibit potential network connectivity. Wireless systems are key elements in orde...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,306 Views
6 Pages

Recent Advances on SHM of Reinforced Concrete and Masonry Structures Enabled by Self-Sensing Structural Materials

  • Filippo Ubertini,
  • Antonella D’Alessandro,
  • Austin Downey,
  • Enrique García-Macías,
  • Simon Laflamme and
  • Rafael Castro-Triguero

14 November 2017

Structural Health Monitoring is aimed at transforming civil structures into self-diagnosing systems able to automatically reveal the occurrence of a fault or a damage after a critical event such as an earthquake. While data science is presently exper...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,797 Views
6 Pages

Integration of Autonomous Wireless Sensor Networks in Academic School Gardens

  • Peio Lopez-Iturri,
  • Erik Aguirre,
  • Jose J. Astrain,
  • Leyre Azpilicueta,
  • Jesús Villadangos and
  • Francisco Falcone

14 November 2017

In this work, the combination of capabilities provided by Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) with parameter observation in a school garden is employed in order to provide an environment for school garden integration as a complementary educational activit...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,440 Views
6 Pages

Standalone Point-of-Use Device for Gluten Detection in Food: POCT Application Experiment in SMARTER-SI European Project

  • Jorge Elizalde,
  • Xabier Eguiluz,
  • Kepa Mayora,
  • Luis Alfonso Rivas,
  • Antonio Sanz,
  • Jan Dehnert,
  • Vadim Goridko,
  • Stefan Görlandt and
  • Martin Schädel

14 November 2017

In this work, we present an automatic and standalone microfluidic-based immunosensor to detect food allergens for food safety. The system has been developed as an application experiment in the SMARTER-SI European project. It comprises a microfluidic...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,916 Views
6 Pages

Optimal Robot Path Selection Using Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchical Process

  • Abhijeet Ravankar,
  • Ankit A. Ravankar,
  • Yukinori Kobayashi and
  • Takanori Emaru

14 November 2017

Mobile robots are faced with problems (for ex. path planning) with many alternative solutions (ex. paths) based on several factors, and they must make a selection by quantifying the factors and mathematically evaluating the alternative solutions. Rob...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,877 Views
6 Pages

14 November 2017

This work presents the effects that ambient temperature causes on the SL900A sensor tag’s current consumption. Temperature conditions inside a metallic tray, transporting ready meal for the service food industry, are replicated through a climatic cha...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,198 Views
5 Pages

14 November 2017

The “Smart” concept applied to the cities intends to improve different fields of the urban context and in particular the life quality of citizens. An important part of the overall well-being is the urban comfort, defined as a function of some environ...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,292 Views
6 Pages

Cost-Benefit Optimization of Sensor Networks for SHM Applications

  • Giovanni Capellari,
  • Eleni Chatzi and
  • Stefano Mariani

14 November 2017

Structural health monitoring (SHM) is aimed to obtain information about the structural integrity of a system, e.g., via the estimation of its mechanical properties through observations collected with a network of sensors. In the present work, we prov...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,072 Views
6 Pages

Analysis of Piezoelectric Diaphragms in Impedance-Based Damage Detection in Large Structures

  • Danilo Budoya,
  • Bruno de Castro,
  • Leandro Campeiro,
  • Ricardo da Silveira,
  • Everaldo de Freitas and
  • Fabricio Baptista

14 November 2017

The use of low-cost transducers such as piezoelectric diaphragms in structural health monitoring (SHM) applications based on the electromechanical impedance (EMI) method has grown in recent years. Although many studies report the feasibility of such...

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