A non-invasive wearable wireless sensing system for assisting patients affected by Parkinson’s Disease is proposed. It uses inertial sensors to recognize gait states and involuntary gait freezing. The system is designed for indoor and outdoor long-ti...
Wearable biomedical sensor technology enables reliable monitoring of physiological data, even in very young children. The purpose of the present study was to develop algorithms for gaining valid physiological indicators of sleep quality in toddlers,...
In recent decades, the interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR) technique has emerged as a powerful tool for monitoring ground subsidence and geohazards. Various satellite SAR systems with different modes, such as Sentinel-1 and Lutan-1, have...
Electrochemically based technologies are rapidly moving from the laboratory to bedside applications and wearable devices, like in the field of cardiovascular disease. Major efforts have focused on the biosensor component in contrast with those employ...
With the development of new materials and the trend of miniaturization of smart devices, wearable devices are playing an increasingly important role in people’s lives and occupying a larger market share. Meanwhile, the operation of wearable dev...
Wearable technology is attracting most attention in healthcare for the acquisition of physiological signals. We propose a stand-alone wearable surface ElectroMyoGraphy (sEMG) system for monitoring the muscle activity in real time. With respect to oth...
For the long-time monitoring of electrocardiograms, electrodes must be skin-friendly and non-irritating, but in addition they must deliver leads without artifacts even if the skin is dry and the body is moving. Today’s adhesive conducting gel electr...
Although blood is the basic test material to monitor levels of antipsychotic drugs in a person’s system, saliva could serve as a more convenient test material. Therefore, the aim of this novel study was to determine the correlations between the...
The surface water extraction algorithm based on satellite remote sensing images is advantageous as it is able to obtain surface water information in a relatively short time. However, when it is used to extract information on surface water in large-sc...
As the first marine economic zone, the coastal zone is a complex and active ecosystem, serving as an important resource breeding area. However, during the process of economic development, coastal zone resources have been severely exploited, leading t...
IoT platforms for the transportation industry are portable with limited battery life and need real-time and long-term monitoring operations. Since MQTT and HTTP are widely used as the main communication protocols in the IoT, it is imperative to analy...
Mastering the fluctuation of water levels and the water storage capacity of plateau lakes is greatly important for monitoring the water balance of the Tibetan Plateau and predicting regional and global climate change. The water level of plateau lakes...
Planning and decision-making are critical managerial functions involving the brain’s executive functions. However, little is known about the effect of cerebral activity during long-time learning while planning and decision-making. This study in...
The life cycle of wind turbines depends on the operation and maintenance policies adopted. With the critical components of wind turbines being equipped with condition monitoring and Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) capabilities, it is feasible...
“Tatami” is the most commonly used needle type in computer embroidery. Its uniform yarn, contact point and gap arrangement can greatly reduce the resistance of fabric electrodes (0.65 MΩ–4.9 MΩ) and the impedance between...
Wuhan city is the biggest city in central China and has suffered subsidence problems in recent years because of its rapid urban construction. However, longtime and wide range monitoring of land subsidence is lacking. The causes of subsidence also req...
Interchannel EEG synchronization, as well as its violation, is an important diagnostic sign of a number of diseases. In particular, during an epileptic seizure, such synchronization occurs starting from some pairs of channels up to many pairs in a ge...
Embedding functional sensor layers directly into mechanical systems in heavy-duty surroundings facilitate the real-time monitoring of the system’s state. This work presents a fully-spray coated pressure sensor that is suitable for applications...
Novel applications of online pH determinations at temperatures from -35 °C to 130 °C in technical and biological media, which are all but ideal aqueous solutions, require new approaches to pH monitoring. The glass electrode, introduced nearly hundred...
A geosynchronous spaceborne-airborne bistatic synthetic aperture radar (GEO SA-BSAR) system is an important technique to achieve long-time moving target monitoring over a wide area. However, due to special bistatic configuration of GEO SA-BSAR, two m...
In this paper, a new method for the detection of apnea/hypopnea periods in physiological data is presented. The method is based on the intelligent combination of an integrated sensor system for long-time cardiorespiratory signal monitoring and dedica...
This paper proposes a non-contact heart rate long-time monitoring system based on multi-source data fusion. Microwave radar cannot associate the identity of a target with its signal, whereas rPPG can achieve this through facial recognition. Additiona...
Latent insulation defects introduced in manufacturing process of gas-insulated switchgears can lead to partial discharge during long-time operation, even to insulation fault if partial discharge develops further. Monitoring of decomposed components o...
Jiangsu coastal wetland has the largest area of the invasive plant, Spartina alterniflora (S. alterniflora), in China. S. alterniflora has been present in the wetland for nearly 40 years and poses a substantial threat to the safety of coastal wetland...
We announce the detection of a new large jump in the phase of the free core nutation (FCN). This is only the second such large FCN phase jump in more than thirty years of FCN monitoring by means of a very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) technique...
13 October 2022
Home monitoring examinations offer diagnostic and economic advantages compared to inpatient monitoring. In addition, these technical solutions support the preservation of health care in rural areas in the absence of local care providers. The acceptan...
A non-invasive solution for monitoring of the activity and dehydration of organisms is proposed in the work. For this purpose, a wireless standalone chemical sensor platform using two separate measurement techniques has been developed. The first appr...
Scanning ion conductance microscopy (SICM) is a scanning probe technique that utilizes the increase in access resistance that occurs if an electrolyte filled glass micro-pipette is approached towards a poorly conducting surface. Since an increase in...
Active landslide risk assessment and management are primarily based on the availability of dedicated studies and monitoring activities. The establishment of decision support for the efficient management of active landslides threatening urban areas is...
Pavement design is essentially and usually a structural long-term evaluation process which is needed to ensure that traffic loads are efficiently distributed at all levels of the total road structure. Furthermore, to get a complete analysis of its du...
Immunosensors are analytical platforms that detect specific antigen-antibody interactions and play an important role in a wide range of applications in biomedical clinical diagnosis, food safety, and monitoring contaminants in the environment. Field-...
In this work, we propose a wireless wearable system for the acquisition of multiple biopotentials through charge transfer electrostatic sensors realized in MEMS technology. The system is designed for low power consumption and low invasiveness, and th...
Passive samplers have long been used to measure atmospheric pollutants in both indoor and outdoor environments. They are simple to operate, and can now monitor several chemical species. However, their use is limited because they usually require a lon...
Multiple wire twisted steel strands are commonly used to hoist elevators, concrete structures, etc. Due to frequent and long-time usage, the steel strands are subjected to corrosion, overloads, and aging, making strands may fail unexpectedly. Hence,...
Monitoring river plume dynamics and variations in complex coastal areas can provide useful information to prevent marine environmental damage. In this work, the Robust Satellite Techniques (RST) approach has been implemented and tested on historical...
Desertification is of significant concern as one of the world’s most serious ecological and environmental problems. China has made great achievements in afforestation and desertification control in recent years. The climate varies greatly acros...
Functional near-infrared spectroscopy is a noninvasive neuroimaging technique that uses optical signals to monitor subtle changes in hemoglobin concentrations within the superficial tissue of the human body. This technology has widespread application...
Respiratory rate and skin humidity are important physiological signals and have become an important basis for disease diagnosis, and they can be monitored by humidity sensors. However, it is difficult to employ high-quality humidity sensors on a broa...
The utilization of mineral resources plays an important role in supporting and promoting economic development and social progress. As a necessary facility for the development and utilization of mineral resources, tailings ponds will cause a series of...
The ecological stability of mining areas in Northwest China has been threatened by desertification for a long time. Remote sensing information combined with machine learning algorithms can effectively monitor and evaluate desertification. However, du...
Snow plays an important role in the water cycle and global climate change, and the accurate monitoring of changes in snow depth is an important task. However, monitoring snow properties is still challenging and unclear, particularly in the Tibetan Pl...
Secondary injuries are common during upper limb rehabilitation training because of uncontrollable physical force and overexciting activities, and long-time training may cause fatigue and reduce the training effect. This study proposes a wearable moni...
Flexible piezoresistive pressure sensors have been attracted a lot of attention due to their simple mechanism, easy fabrication, and convenient signal acquisition and analysis. Herein, a new flexible piezoresistive sensor based on microstructured ele...
This paper provides a summary of the knowledge of drinking-water temperature increases and present daily, seasonal, and yearly temperature data of drinking-water distribution systems (DWDS). The increasing water temperatures lead to challenges in DWD...
In this paper, we use the small baseline set technology and the early geological hazard identification method based on the selection of Permanent Scatter (PS) and Distributed Scatter (DS) points to carry out the research on surface deformation monito...
Annual concentration is a key element to assess the air quality of an area for long-time exposure effects. Nonetheless, obtaining annual concentrations from sensors is costly since it needs to have a year of measurements for each required pollutant....
Heart rate is one of the most important diagnostic bases for cardiovascular disease. This paper introduces a deep autoencoding strategy into feature extraction of electrocardiogram (ECG) signals, and proposes a beat-to-beat heart rate estimation meth...
1 April 2022
Interlaboratory exercises are a good tool to compare the response of different systems to the same quantity and to identify possible inconsistencies between them. One of the main goals of the EMPIR 19ENV01 traceRadon project is to harmonize radon flu...
With the rapid rise in technological advancements, health can be tracked and monitored in multiple ways. Tracking and monitoring healthcare gives the option to give precise interventions to people, enabling them to focus more on healthier lifestyles...
This paper reports a novel investigation in applying commercial Ultra High-Frequency RFID tags (UHF-RFID tags), which are widely used in logistics as sensing elements in civil engineering structures, particularly for monitoring out-of-plane displacem...
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