The significance of data acquisition in archaeological practice has consistently held great importance. Over the past few decades, the growing prevalence of digitization in acquiring data has significantly transformed the landscape of archaeological...
Network Digital Twins (NDTs) require accurate, structured, and timely data from heterogeneous communication networks. However, many existing approaches assume that this information is already available and do not address the operational path needed t...
In the maintenance domain of the construction industry, digital twins have been actively introduced based on the technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution with growing interest in three-dimensional spatial information facility management and d...
The increasing deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) sensors in precision agriculture has created critical challenges related to wireless communication range, energy efficiency, and data transmission latency, particularly in large-scale rural operat...
This paper presents a low-cost microcontroller-based data acquisition device. The key component of the presented solution is a configurable microcontroller-based device with an integrated USB transceiver and a 12-bit analogue-to-digital converter (AD...
Wearable sensors have demonstrated wide applications from medical treatment, health monitoring to real-time tracking, human-machine interface, smart home, and motion capture because of the capability of in situ and online monitoring. Data acquisition...
This paper presents an approach for integrating data between a production system and its digital twin, focusing on achieving proactivity in production control. Recognizing the unique nature of each production system, this research highlights that a u...
As calibration errors have a direct impact on epipolar consistency, rectification accuracy, and metric 3D reconstruction performance, stereo camera calibration is a fundamental requirement for high-accuracy 3D modeling and reliable digital twin data...
Background: A maxillofacial prosthesis, an alternative to surgery for the rehabilitation of patients with facial disabilities (congenital or acquired due to malignant disease or trauma), are meant to replace parts of the face or missing areas of bone...
Efficient photovoltaic installations require control systems that detect small signal variations over large measurement ranges. High measurement accuracy requires data acquisition systems with high-resolution analogue-to-digital converters; however,...
The digital transformation of critical infrastructures, such as energy or water distribution systems, is essential for their smart management. Faster issue identification and smoother services enable better adaptation to consumers’ evolving dem...
This paper presents a hybrid TLS (Terrestrial Laser Scanning)—SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) framework for spatial data acquisition that integrates mobile laser scanning (Hovermap) with high-precision terrestrial laser scanning (R...
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), adopted by the European Union in 2018, aims to enhance consumer trust and market efficiency by strengthening data protection. The concurrent stringent compliance requirements raise operational costs and...
Several global digital elevation models (DEMs) have been developed in the last two decades. The most recent addition to the family of global DEMs is the TanDEM-X DEM. The original version of the TanDEM-X DEM is, however, a nonedited product (i.e., it...
Direct sensor–digital device interfaces measure time dependent variables of simple circuits to implement analog-to-digital conversion. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are devices whose hardware can be reconfigured to work in parallel. They usu...
Advanced multi-channel acoustic emission (AE) monitoring systems often rely on complex and costly architectures, especially those requiring custom FPGA-based hardware. In this work, we present a digital signal processing (DSP)-based approach to high-...
The growth of goods transported by ship affects the entire maritime industry, which is central to the global supply chain. Faced with an increased pressure from the industry, ports need greater visibility on the flow of goods and logistics operations...
Zero-defect manufacturing and flexibility in production lines is driven from accurate Digital Twins (DT) which monitor, understand, and predict the behavior of a manufacturing process under different conditions while also adapting to them by deciding...
This article examines an integrated approach to data acquisition and transmission within an intelligent thermal conditioning system for engines and vehicles that operates using thermal energy storage and the digital twin concept. The system is charac...
This paper presents the configuration and digital signal processing details of a tablet-based hearing aid transmitting wirelessly to standard earphones, whereby the tablet performs full sound processing rather than solely providing a means of setting...
A system for multiple camera networks is proposed for continuous monitoring of ecosystems by processing image time series. The system is built around the Finnish Meteorological Image PROcessing Toolbox (FMIPROT), which includes data acquisition, proc...
Spatial data acquisition is a critical process for the identification of the coastline and coastal zones for scientists involved in the study of coastal morphology. The availability of very high-resolution digital surface models (DSMs) and orthophoto...
Digital Twins are being used more and more frequently and provide information from the Real Twin for different applications. Measurements on the Real Twin are required to obtain information, which in many cases requires the installation of supplement...
Over the past decades, global air traffic has increased continuously, with passenger kilometers roughly doubling every fifteen to twenty years, and this trend is estimated to continue, with some adjustments due to COVID-19 impact. In response to the...
Lidar has emerged as an important technology for the high-precision three-dimensional remote sensing of the ocean. While oceanic lidar has been widely deployed on various platforms, its underwater deployment is relatively limited, despite its signifi...
The rapid development of technology has brought about a revolution in healthcare stimulating a wide range of smart and autonomous applications in homes, clinics, surgeries and hospitals. Smart healthcare opens the opportunity for a qualitative advanc...
Microgrids are considered a viable solution for achieving net-zero targets and increasing renewable energy integration. However, there is a lack of conceptual work focusing on practical data analytics deployment schemes and case-specific insights. Th...
Agriculture is the economy’s backbone for most developing countries. Most of these countries suffer from insufficient agricultural production. The availability of real-time, reliable and farm-specific information may significantly contribute to...
Rural digitization in the management of woody crops like olive orchards lags significantly behind the technological benchmarks established in other highly digitized sectors. We propose a modular Digital Twin (DT) framework that implements a multi-sca...
A programmable logic controller (PLC) executes a ladder diagram (LD) using input and output modules. An LD also has PID controller function blocks. It contains as many PID function blocks as the number of process parameters to be controlled. Adding m...
Mapping soil fertility attributes at fine spatial resolution is crucial for site-specific management in precision agriculture. This paper evaluated the performance of mobile measurements using visible and near-infrared spectroscopy (vis–NIR) to...
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A sensor is a device used to gather information registered by some biological, physical or chemical change, and then convert the information into a measurable signal. The first biosensor prototype was conceived more than a century ago, in 1906, but a...
Successive approximation register (SAR) analog-to-digital converter (ADC) manufacturers recommend the use of a driver amplifier to achieve the best performance. When a driver amplifier is not used, the conversion speed is severely penalized because o...
We contribute to a better understanding of different remote sensing techniques for tree height estimation by comparing several techniques to both direct and indirect field measurements. From these comparisons, factors influencing the accuracy of reli...
The choice of parameters for the life tests of gas turbine engines is a complex multi-criteria task. In this article, as a tool for solving this task, it is proposed to use simulation modeling of the engine life cycle to select gas turbine engine lif...
University students use the Internet regularly for study, socialising, and entertainment; moreover, in adolescents and young adults, Internet use increases with age. More than ever before, the wide availability of online information requires critical...
This work presents the design and validation of a low-cost electronic architecture for nuclear pulse conditioning and radiation exposure measurement using a Geiger–Müller tube. The main contribution is a structured three-stage conditioning...
This work presents a technique to actively reduce the vibrations generated by magnetic anisotropy in sinusoidal brushless motors through current injection. These vibrations are an unwanted phenomenon mainly generated by the interaction between the ro...
Quality prediction in additive manufacturing (AM) processes is crucial, particularly in high-risk manufacturing sectors like aerospace, biomedicals, and automotive. Acoustic sensors have emerged as valuable tools for detecting variations in print pat...
Real-time traffic signal acquisition and network transmission are essential components of intelligent transportation systems, facilitating real-time traffic monitoring, management, and analysis in urban environments. In this paper, we introduce a com...
One of the most suitable ways of distributing a resistive sensor array for reading is an array with M rows and N columns. This allows reduced wiring and a certain degree of parallelism in the implementation, although it also introduces crosstalk effe...
Resistive sensor arrays are formed by a large number of individual sensors which are distributed in different ways. This paper proposes a direct connection between an FPGA and a resistive array distributed in M rows and N columns, without the need of...
Biobanks are involved in a broad range of studies, including both basic and clinical research, so their functions and roles are evolving. Digital biobanks have emerged due to digitalization in this field; however, it also entails an increasing number...
The signature of the 2019 Declaration of Cooperation on advancing the digitization of cultural heritage in Europe shows the important role that the 3D digitization process plays in the safeguard and sustainability of cultural heritage. The digitizati...
Vehicle digital forensics includes the process of collecting and analysing digital data stored in vehicles to find evidence related to traffic accidents or crime scenes. Through this process, we can reconstruct digital events by recognizing various i...
A high-performance data acquisition and processing system within a spectrometer provides a powerful guarantee for obtaining high-precision data in ground-based Fourier-transform infrared greenhouse-gas spectroscopy. Addressing the challenge of accura...
This paper explores the diverse array of digital tools utilized for data acquisition in archaeology. This abstract outlines the various categories of digital tools commonly employed, including geographic information systems (GISs), global positioning...
Data acquisition based on network-on-chip (NoC) technology is a high-sampling-rate data acquisition scheme using low-sampling-rate analog–digital conversion (ADC) chips. It has the characteristics of multi-task parallel communication, being glo...
High-throughput phenotyping technologies have become an increasingly important topic of crop science in recent years. Various sensors and data acquisition approaches have been applied to acquire the phenotyping traits. It is quite confusing for crop...
Based on cross-sectional survey data from 574 grain farmers in Hebei Province, China, this study systematically analyzed, using an ordered Logit model and Bootstrap mediation effect tests, the mechanism by which information acquisition influences far...
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