This study presents a methodology for determining the optimal placement of sensors along the height of buildings to minimize uncertainty in reconstructing structural response at non-instrumented floors. Recent advancements in sensing technology have...
Optimal sensor placement (OSP) is concerned with determining a configuration for a collection of sensors, including sensor type, number, and location, that yields the best evaluation according to a predefined measure of efficacy. Central to the OSP p...
Sensor placement is an important factor that may significantly affect the localization performance of a sensor network. This paper investigates the sensor placement optimization problem in three-dimensional (3D) space for angle of arrival (AOA) targe...
Optimal sensor placement is one of the important issues in monitoring the condition of structures, which has a major influence on monitoring system performance and cost. Due to this, it is still an open problem to find a compromise between these two...
Optimal sensor placement is a crucial issue in scientific and engineering research. This study proposes an autoencoder-based deep learning framework for automated optimal sensor layout and flow field reconstruction. A dataset is established based on...
This study presents a methodology for determining the optimal placement of seismic sensors along the height of buildings to minimize the uncertainty in reconstructing structural responses at non-instrumented floors. Due to the extensive benefits of i...
In recent decades, structural health monitoring (SHM) has gained increased importance for ensuring the sustainability and serviceability of large and complex structures. To design an SHM system that delivers optimal monitoring outcomes, engineers mus...
The paper presents a method for selecting the locations of field sensors under a medium- or high-voltage line or substation busbars, in a contactless voltage measurement system. The proposed method uses the condition number of a distance matrix, corr...
This research addresses the sensor placement optimization problem (SPOP) in the industrial sector, aiming to enhance operational efficiency and safety through the strategic deployment of sensors. The focus is on optimizing the locations of thermal ca...
There are hundreds of various sensors used for online Prognosis and Health Management (PHM) of LREs. Inspired by the fact that a limited number of key sensors are selected for inflight control purposes in LRE, it is practical to optimal placement of...
The sensor placement problem is modeled as a multi-objective optimization problem with Boolean decision variables. A new multi objective evolutionary algorithm (MOEA) is proposed for approximating and analyzing the set of Pareto optimal solutions. Th...
Smart parking is a typical IoT application that can benefit from advances in sensor, actuator and RFID technologies to provide many services to its users and parking owners of a smart city. This paper considers a smart parking infrastructure where se...
Conduit bursts or leakages present an ongoing problem for hydraulic fluid transport grids, such as oil or water conduit networks. Better monitoring allows for easier identification of burst sites and faster response strategies but heavily relies on s...
This paper addresses the application of six different optimal sensor placement (OSP) techniques in buildings. These techniques are the EFfective Independence (EFI), Optimal Driving Point (ODP), Non-Optimal Driving Point (NODP), Effective Independence...
As ageing structures and infrastructures become a global concern, structural health monitoring (SHM) is seen as a crucial tool for their cost-effective maintenance. Promising results obtained for modern and conventional constructions suggested the ap...
Sensors are a key component of water distribution networks due to their role in monitoring system variables. Specifically, water quality (WQ) sensors are utilized to measure chlorine concentrations in order to maintain water quality standards. Howeve...
Large-amplitude and long-term vibration deformation under external environmental loads often occurs on tensile membrane structures. Proper sensor placement plays a vital role in effectively achieving the objectives of a structural health monitoring s...
In this paper, we discuss different approaches to optimal sensor placement and propose that an optimal sensor location can be selected using unsupervised learning methods such as self-organising maps, neural gas or the K-means algorithm. We show how...
Contamination in water distribution networks (WDNs) can occur at any time and location. One protection measure in WDNs is the placement of water quality sensors (WQSs) to detect contamination and provide information for locating the potential contami...
Optimal Sensor Placement (OSP) is a key step in the design of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems for bridges and requires combining civil engineering constraints with computational optimization. This systematic review, conducted following PRI...
Nowadays, optimal sensor placement (OSP) for leakage detection in water distribution networks is a lively field of research, and a challenge for water utilities in terms of network control, management, and maintenance. How many sensors to install and...
For real time monitoring of the wing state, in this paper, the inverse Finite Element Method (iFEM) is applied, which describes the displacement field of beam according to the Timoshenko theory, to sense the wing frame deformation. In order to mainta...
A methodology for optimal sensor placement is presented in the current work. This methodology incorporates a damage detection framework with simulated damage scenarios and can efficiently provide the optimal combination of sensor locations for vibrat...
Although commercial motion-capture systems have been widely used in various applications, the complex setup limits their application scenarios for ordinary consumers. To overcome the drawbacks of wearability, human posture reconstruction based on a f...
The structural health monitoring (SHM) of bridge infrastructure has become essential for ensuring safety, serviceability, and long-term functionality amid aging structures and increasing load demands. SHM leverages sensor networks to enable real-time...
Sensor measurements of civil structures provide basic information on their performance. However, it is impossible to install sensors at every location owing to the limited number of sensors available. Therefore, in this study, we propose an optimal s...
This study proposes a Kalman filter-based method to optimize the placement of accelerometers in buildings, formulated as a multi-objective problem that simultaneously minimizes the number of sensors and the state estimation error. State-space equatio...
Sensors were of paramount importance in the context of poultry and livestock farming, serving as essential tools for monitoring a variety of production management parameters. The effective surveillance and optimal control of the swine facility enviro...
The optimal placement of samplers and sensors in water distribution systems (WDSs) and wastewater collection systems (WCSs) is fundamental to effective monitoring, early contamination detection, and system protection. The goal of optimal sensor/sampl...
The arbitrary placement of sensors in concrete structures measures a considerable amount of unnecessary data. Optimal sensor placement methods are used to provide informative data with the least cost and maximum efficiency. In this study, a robust op...
In source localization problems, the relative geometry between sensors and source will influence the localization performance. The optimum configuration of sensors depends on the measurements used for the source location estimation, how these measure...
Structural health monitoring (SHM) is critical to maintaining safe and reliable civil infrastructure, but the optimal design of an SHM sensing system, i.e., optimal sensor placement (OSP), remains a complex challenge. Based on the existing literature...
The objective of optimal sensor placement in a dynamic system is to obtain a sensor layout that provides as much information as possible for structural health monitoring (SHM). Whereas most studies use only one modal assurance criterion for SHM, this...
The optimal configuration of perception systems in autonomous vehicles is essential for accurate environmental sensing, precise navigation, and overall operational safety. In Formula Student Driverless (FSD) vehicles, sensor placement is particularly...
Despite advances in water treatment technologies and monitoring systems, contamination events in drinking water supply systems (DWSSs) still pose a threat to public health. Since timing is crucial in effectively mitigating impacts, the implementation...
Optimal sensor placement (OSP) for arch dams is important to ensure their long-term service, but the evolution of structural states and material properties is less considered at present. This paper considers the effects of cracks, contraction joints,...
This study establishes a GCN–NSGA-III-based framework for determining gas-leak sensor locations. Candidate layouts are optimized simultaneously with respect to installation expenditure, spatial coverage, leak-identification performance, and tim...
Optimal sensor placement (OSP) for structural health monitoring of large-scale space grid structures must enable reliable identification of localized member deterioration with sparse instrumentation. Modal-based OSP criteria optimize observability of...
In this paper, we present a novel approach in water loss research combining two different topics: The optimal placement of pressure sensors to localize leaks in water distribution systems and Serious Gaming—games that are not only entertaining...
Reliable temperature distribution measurement in ultra-low temperature (ULT) chest freezers is crucial for preserving biospecimen integrity in cryopreservation, but dense sensor arrays required for accuracy are often impractical due to space constrai...
Background: Solid waste collection is a relevant issue for municipalities and can be improved by installing volumetric sensors inside dumpsters. Sensors generate a maintenance cost but provide additional information to decide which dumpsters to empty...
In the field of structural health monitoring systems, sensors serve as the fundamental components for assessing infrastructure integrity. The rationality of their spatial configuration significantly influences the precision of structural performance...
The placement of sensors in an environment can significantly impact the sensing performance of a sensor fusion system. In this paper, the placement of cameras and radars is optimized based on the log determinant of the fused measurement noise of the...
Node placement is one of the basic problems in a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). During the operation of a WSN, sensor nodes may fail or die suddenly, which may lead to a coverage hole. To solve this problem, the node placement needs to be re-optimize...
For a practical structural health monitoring (SHM) system, the traditional single objective methods for optimal sensor placement (OSP) cannot always obtain the optimal result of sensor deployment without sacrificing other targets, which creates obsta...
Sensors networks for the health monitoring of structural systems ought to be designed to render both accurate estimations of the relevant mechanical parameters and an affordable experimental setup. Therefore, the number, type and location of the sens...
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) relies on sensor placement to collect structurally relevant data, which are then interpreted according to the monitoring objective. Optimal Sensor Placement is therefore an essential step for collecting useful infor...
Pulley group plays an important role in the transmission of large mechanical equipment. To obtain informative data for condition monitoring, it is very important to optimize sensor placement on the pulley group. However, due to sharp speed fluctuatio...
The leakage of hazardous chemical gases in chemical plants can lead to severe consequences. Source term estimation (STE) algorithms are effective in locating the leak source. The layout of the sensor network significantly affects the performance of t...
This study presents a comprehensive approach for single sensor placement optimization in two-dimensional and three-dimensional spaces. A traditional exhaustive search technique and a novel method called recursive exhaustive search are used to place a...
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