This paper presents the design, development, and testing of a smart home automation system that integrates a Siemens LOGO! programmable logic controller (PLC) with an ESP32 microcontroller to enable dual-mode control—manual and voice-activated....
Agriculture, or farming, is the science of cultivating the soil, growing crops, and raising livestock. Ever since the days of the first plow from sticks over ten thousand years ago, agriculture has always depended on technology. As technology and sci...
This paper explains the design and construction of a platform that implements the ESP32 embedded system and connects it to a telephone asterisk plant, to exchange data on both sides, commands sent from a telephone to the esp32 and make calls from an...
This paper explores the application of the ESP32 microcontroller in edge computing, focusing on the design and implementation of an edge server system to evaluate performance improvements achieved by integrating edge and cloud computing. Responding t...
Managing firmware updates in large-scale IoT deployments presents significant challenges regarding security, reliability, and operational cost. This paper presents the design and implementation of “IOTAfy”, a new, open-source, comprehensi...
The rapid expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT) demands scalable, efficient, and user-friendly gateway solutions that seamlessly connect resource-constrained edge devices to cloud services. Low-cost, widely available microcontrollers, such as the...
This article describes the development and implementation of a water resource management system utilizing open technologies such as the ESP32 microcontroller and MicroPython. This system stands out for its low cost, high efficiency and adaptability t...
The rapid growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) and its applications requires high computational efficiency, low-cost, and low-power solutions for various IoT devices. These include a wide range of microcontrollers that are used to collect, process,...
Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) deployments increasingly rely on low-cost microcontrollers and single-board computers to stream operational telemetry for monitoring, control, and predictive maintenance, yet the canonical “TLS-to-broker&rdq...
The activity of serine proteases is influenced by their substrate specificity as well as by the physicochemical conditions. Here, we present the characterization of key biochemical features of the two SPATE members EspPα and EspI from Shiga-toxin pro...
LoRa is a long-range, low-power wireless communication technology widely used in Internet of Things (IoT) applications. However, its conventional implementation through Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) presents operational constraints due to it...
A pilot anaerobic bioreactor requires near-daily monitoring and frequent maintenance. This study aimed to upgrade a pilot bioreactor into a low-cost IoT device via ESP32 microcontrollers. The methodology was based on remote data acquisition and onlin...
To support the understanding of cardiovascular monitoring and physiological signal processing, we present a portable, open-source photoplethysmography (PPG) acquisition platform developed for educational and research applications. The system is built...
Thermal limitations restrict the performance of low-cost, vertically stacked embedded systems. This paper presents a self-referencing digital twin framework for thermal and task management in a multi-device ESP32-S3 stack. The system combines a Mixtu...
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) is a technology for monitoring and controlling distributed processes. SCADA provides real-time data exchange between a control/monitoring centre and field devices connected to the distributed processes...
A STEM education provides students with a friendly and efficient environment for learning science, technology, engineering, and math. According to the needs of STEM programs and activities, humanoid, biped, and quadruped robots have been developed. T...
This study presents the design and implementation of a full-stack IoT ecosystem based on ESP32 microcontrollers and web-based visualization dashboards to support scientific reasoning in first-year engineering students. The proposed architecture integ...
This paper presents the design and implementation of an IoT-based automation system for indoor hydroponic plant cultivation using the Nutrient Film Technique. The system employs an ESP32-based controller with multiple sensors and actuators. These ena...
Enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) causes severe diseases in humans worldwide. One of its virulence factors is EspP, which belongs to the serine protease autotransporters of Enterobacteriaceae (SPATE) family. In this review we recapitulate the current...
Electric submersible pumps (ESPs) are widely used in the oil and gas industry for crude-oil lifting, especially in subsea oil fields or underground storage caverns. The failure of ESPs causes a large economic cost mainly attributed to a break in prod...
The Internet of Things (IoT) has become a transformative technology with great potential in various sectors, including home automation, industrial control, environmental monitoring, agriculture, wearables, health monitoring, and others. The growing p...
Different levels of EspP2 expression are seen in strains of Glaesserella parasuis with high and low pathogenicity. As a potential virulence factor for G. parasuis, the pathogenic mechanism of EspP2 in infection of host cells is not clear. To begin to...
Mobile learning for English Language Teaching (ELT) has become an emerging trend to sustain education, providing the option to learn English for Specific Purposes (ESP). However, the review of mobile learning in ESP is scarce, despite its importance...
The statistics of using downhole electric submersible pump (ESP) units in the oil fields of Eurasia show that hydroabrasive wear is a common cause of ESP emergency failures. The authors of this study theoretically and experimentally investigated the...
The quantification of entropy in images is a topic of interest that has had different applications in the field of agronomy, product generation and medicine. Some algorithms have been proposed for the quantification of the irregularity present in an...
Using systems with machine learning technologies for process automation is a global trend in agriculture. However, implementing this technology comes with challenges, such as the need for a large amount of computing resources under conditions of limi...
Image processing has played a relevant role in various industries, where the main challenge is to extract specific features from images. Specifically, texture characterizes the phenomenon of the occurrence of a pattern along the spatial distribution,...
Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infection can cause a broad spectrum of symptoms spanning from asymptomatic shedding to mild and bloody diarrhea (BD) and even life-threatening hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS). As a member of the serine p...
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Enterococci are commonly found in humans, animals and environments. Their highly adaptive mechanisms are related to several virulent determinants and their ability to resist antibiotics. Data on the relationship between the esp gene, biofilm formatio...
The main aim of this work is to establish a sensor MESH network using an ESP-MESH networking protocol with the ESP32 MCU (a Wi-Fi-enabled microcontroller) for indoor and outdoor air quality monitoring in real time. Each sensor node is deployed at a d...
Fires and fire hazards in industrial environments pose a significant risk to safety, infrastructure, and the operational community. The need for real-time monitoring systems capable of detecting fires early and transmitting alerts promptly is crucial...
With the increasing popularity of IoT (Internet-of-Things) devices, their security becomes an increasingly important issue. Buffer overflow vulnerabilities have been known for decades, but are still relevant, especially for embedded devices where cer...
One of the characteristic manifestations of Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli (E. coli) infection in humans, including EHEC and Enteroaggregative E. coli O104:H4, is watery diarrhea. However, neither Shiga toxin nor numerous components of the ty...
Enteropathogenic (EPEC) and Enterohemorrhagic (EHEC) Escherichia coli are considered emerging zoonotic pathogens of worldwide distribution. The pathogenicity of the bacteria is conferred by multiple virulence determinants, including the locus of ente...
Glucosinolates are secondary plant metabolites that are part of the plant’s defense system against pathogens and pests and are activated via enzymatic degradation by thioglucoside glucohydrolases (myrosinases). Epithiospecifier proteins (ESPs)...
LexTALE has emerged as a popular measure of language proficiency in research studies. While it has been widely validated for L2 learners across multiple languages, its applicability to heritage language learners (HLLs)—who often show distinct l...
This paper presents a wireless mesh network testbed based on ESP8266 devices using painlessMesh library. It evaluates its feasibility and potential effectiveness as a solution to monitor perishable goods, such as fresh fruit and vegetables, which are...
In sustainable energy applications, standalone solar power systems are mostly preferred for self-powered energy zones. In all standalone renewable power systems, batteries are still preferred as the common energy storage device. On the other hand, ba...
Charged particles have high momentum under high-temperature conditions, which helps to promote their movement towards a dust collector in a magnetic field environment, making it possible to improve the efficiency of the high-temperature wire-plate el...
For centuries, tuberculosis has been a worldwide burden for human health, and gaps in our understanding of its pathogenesis have hampered the development of new treatments. ESX-1 is a complex machinery responsible for the secretion of virulence facto...
The increasing adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies has facilitated the creation of advanced applications in various industries, notably in complex workplaces where safety and efficiency are paramount. This paper addresses the challenge...
The erector spinae plane (ESP) block is a widely used technique for perioperative analgesia. It involves the infiltration of anesthetics into the interfacial plane between the erector spinae muscle and the transverse processes of the vertebrae. In ve...
Multi-beam box girder bridges have been applied widely throughout the world for many years. However, the cracking of longitudinal joints between the box girders always leads to reflective cracking of the bridge decks during the service period and thu...
For the rapid, reliable, and cost-effective methods of tuberculosis (TB) auxiliary diagnosis, antibody (Ab) detection to multiple antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) has great potential; however, this methodology requires optimization. We co...
With developments of modern and advanced information and communication technologies (ICTs), Industry 4.0 has launched big data analysis, natural language processing (NLP), and artificial intelligence (AI). Corpus analysis is also a part of big data a...
The use of natural marine bacteria as “oil sensors” for the detection of pollution events can be suggested as a novel way of monitoring oil occurrence at sea. Nucleic acid-based devices generically called genosensors are emerging as poten...
This article explores the application of the Espressif ESP32 System-On-Chip (SoC) for managing vehicle dynamics through real-time digital proportional–integral (PI-like) control. We present the development of advanced driving assistance algorit...
For nursing students in the vocational education system in Taiwan, English-language writing skills, whether for general or specific purposes, have long been ignored, which may jeopardize their success in medical-oriented courses and their future care...
The paper looks at an experience of use of ICT in a face-to-face ESP required course in the curriculum of the BA in Commerce and Marketing currently taught at the University of Oviedo, Spain. The main aims were (1) to update the contents and methods...
Over-the-air (OTA) firmware updating has become a fundamental requirement in modern Internet of Things (IoT) deployments, where thousands of heterogeneous embedded devices operate in remote and distributed environments. Manual firmware maintenance in...
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