Ultrasonic sensors are one of the most common automatic monitoring methods in operational snow depth monitoring with reliable results. On the other hand, there is significant uncertainty when measuring small snow depths (<2 cm), thus it cannot pro...
Due to the presence of an abundant resource, wind energy is one of the most promising renewable energy resources for power generation globally, and there is constant need to reduce operation and maintenance costs to make the wind industry more profit...
Modern agriculture faces increasing demands for productivity, sustainability, and real-time operational control, driven by challenges such as input overuse, climate variability, and environmental compliance. Operational monitoring systems have emerge...
Bridges are fundamental facilities in the transportation system, and their operational performance is crucial for economic and social development. Many large bridges are now equipped with structural health monitoring (SHM) systems that collect variou...
The aim of operational load monitoring is to make predictions about the remaining usability time of structures, which is extremely useful in aerospace industry where in-service life of aircraft structural components can be maximized, taking into acco...
Building on sustainable supply chain management and operations strategy literature, our study seeks to identify structural relationships between switching cost and sustainable supplier relationships from a demand-side perspective. More specifically,...
Operational Load Monitoring consists of the real-time reading and recording of the number and level of strains and stresses during load cycles withstood by a structure in its normal operating environment, in order to make more reliable predictions ab...
Operational loads of an aircraft are the prerequisite for assessing its safety or fatigue life. Traditionally, numerous strain gauge sensors are installed to monitor the operational loads, which inevitably increase the weight and system complexity of...
Extending the service life of ageing infrastructure, transportation structures, and processing and manufacturing plants in an era of limited resources has spurred extensive research and development in structural health monitoring systems and their in...
The development of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) techniques has rapidly evolved and matured over the past few decades. Advances in sensor technology have facilitated deploying SHM systems for large-scale structu...
Rotating machines are key components in energy generation processes, and faults can lead to shutdowns or catastrophes encompassing economic and social losses. Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of structures in operation is successfully performed via...
Deployment of Level 3 and Level 4 autonomous vehicles (AVs) in urban environments is significantly constrained by adverse weather conditions, limiting their operation to clear weather due to safety concerns. Ensuring that AVs remain within their desi...
This work assesses the performance of an operational wave system in the Mediterranean Sea by comparing computed data with measurements collected at different water depths. Nearshore data measurements were collected through a field experiment carried...
Due to the introduction of highly automated vehicles and systems, the tasks of operators (drivers, pilots, air traffic controllers, production process managers) are in transition from “active control” to “passive monitoring” a...
In recent years, with the development of wind energy, the number and scale of wind farms have been developing rapidly. Since offshore wind farms have the advantages of stable wind speed, being clean, renewable, non-polluting, and the non-occupation o...
In the construction of super high-rise buildings, building machines (BMs) are increasingly replacing traditional climbing frames. Building machine jacking operation (BMJO) is a high-difficulty and high-risk stage in the construction of the top mold s...
There is an increasing demand for remote monitoring and management of agricultural machinery operation in conservation tillage. Considering the problems of large errors in detecting operation quality parameters, such as tillage depth and corn straw c...
A surveillance system with more than hundreds of cameras and much fewer monitors strongly relies on manual scheduling and inspections from monitoring personnel. A monitoring method which improves the surveillance performance by analyzing and learning...
With the complexity of the task requirement, multiple operating conditions have gradually become the common scenario for equipment. However, the degradation trend of monitoring data cannot be accurately extracted in life prediction under multiple ope...
Air quality monitoring systems differ in composition and accuracy of observations and their temporal and spatial coverage. A monitoring system’s performance can be assessed by evaluating the accuracy of the emission sources identified by its da...
The aim of this paper was to design a device for monitoring the work of irrigation technology (in our case, irrigation by sprinkler). Two devices for monitoring selected irrigation operating parameters for two hose reel irrigation machines were desig...
This study justifies the prospect of using aerial imagery from unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for technological monitoring and operational control of municipal solid waste landfills. It presents the results of surveys (aerial imagery) of a number of...
Geological hazards impede regional economy sustainability. To limit their destructive impacts on human life and property, the Chinese government has independently developed automated monitoring and early-warning equipment, which has been deployed in...
Released green building evaluation standards for operation stage include a huge number of indicators, which are very comprehensive and systematic. However, the indicators of these standards are very complicated and a large amount of time and manpower...
The degradation of onshore, reinforced-concrete wind turbine foundations is usually assessed via above-ground inspections, or through lengthy excavation campaigns that suspend wind power generation. Foundation cracks can and do occur below ground lev...
The technical and economic aspects and the possibility of the mesh network topology offering many radial configurations lead to the fact that large municipal networks are generally under radial operation. However, it is very important to analyze the...
Ensuring air quality in operating rooms is crucial for the health and safety of healthcare professionals and patients. This study, focused on 141 operating theatres in the Campania Region from 2015 to 2022, highlights the importance of air monitoring...
Modern military operations place significant physiological and cognitive demands on soldiers, necessitating innovative strategies to monitor and optimize health and performance. This narrative review examines the role of continuous physiological stat...
In the era of Industry 4.0 and the transition toward Industry 5.0, advanced manufacturing is increasingly driven by data analytics, artificial intelligence, and cyber-physical systems. The integration of intelligent monitoring systems and self-learni...
Condition monitoring (CM) is used to assess the health status of wind turbines (WT) by detecting turbine failure and predicting maintenance needs. However, fluctuating operating conditions cause variations in monitored features, therefore increasing...
Remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROUVs) have been attracting more attention lately as they are considered to be operationally versatile, capable of real-time communication, and can be fitted with various sensor payloads for environmental monito...
Environmental microbial contamination in the operating room (OR) can favour contamination of the surgical wound, posing the risk of infection of the surgical site. Thus, environmental monitoring is a useful tool for assessing environmental health and...
In ICRU Report 95, the International Commission on Radiation Units and Measurements (ICRU) has proposed jointly with the International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP) new operational quantities for external radiation. The quantity for en...
The purpose of the present study is to monitor tool condition in a grinding operation through the electromechanical impedance (EMI) using wavelet analysis. To achieve this, a dressing experiment was conducted on an industrial aluminum oxide grinding...
Combining multiple proximal sensors within a wireless sensor network (WSN) enhances our capacity to monitor vegetation, compared to using a single sensor or non-networked setup. Data from sensors with different spatial and temporal characteristics c...
The Impact Monitor Project is a European initiative designed to develop an impact assessment toolbox and framework, targeting the European aviation sector. The proposed framework is not only aimed at the environment, economics, and operations but als...
The reliability of cutting tools is critical to machining precision and production efficiency. The conventional statistic-based reliability assessment method aims at providing a general and overall estimation of reliability for a large population of...
This paper investigates the robustness of permanently mounted transducers used in airborne structural health monitoring systems, when exposed to the operational environment. Typical airliners operate in a range of conditions, hence, structural health...
Electric power operation is necessary for the development of power grid companies, where the safety monitoring of electric power operation is difficult. Irregular deformable objects commonly used in electrical construction, such as safety belts and s...
In chemical industries, process operations are usually comprised of several discrete operating regions with distributions that drift over time. These complexities complicate outlier detection in the presence of intrinsic process dynamics. In this art...
Structural health monitoring (SHM) and the operational condition assessment of blades are greatly important for the operation of wind turbines that are at a high risk of disease in service for more than 5 years. Since certain types of blade faults on...
The U.S. Drought Monitor (USDM) has been the de facto operational drought monitoring product for the United States for the last two decades. For most of this time, its coverage included the 50 States and Puerto Rico. In 2019, coverage was expanded to...
Dams are crucial for ensuring water and electricity supply, while also providing significant flood protection. Regular monitoring of dam deformations is of vital socio-economic and ecological significance. In Germany, dams must be constructed and ope...
Traditional on-site methods for mapping and monitoring surface water extent are prohibitively expensive at a national scale within Canada. Despite successful cost-sharing programs between the provinces and the federal government, an extensive number...
Methane emissions at oil and gas facilities can be measured in real time with continuous monitoring systems that alert operators of upset conditions, including fugitive emissions. We report on extensive operator field testing of a continuous laser mo...
Desert locust swarms intermittently damage crops and pastures in sixty countries from Africa to western Asia, threatening the food security of 10% of the world’s population. During the 20th century, desert locust control operations began organizing,...
Wetlands store large amounts of carbon, and depending on their status and type, they release specific amounts of methane gas to the atmosphere. The connection between wetland type and methane emission has been investigated in various studies and util...
Hurricane Harvey made landfall as a Category-4 storm in the United States on 25 August 2017 in Texas, causing catastrophic flooding in the Houston metropolitan area and resulting in a total economic loss estimated to be about $125 billion. To monitor...
The potential of optical remote sensing data to identify, map and monitor croplands is well recognized. However, clouds strongly limit the usefulness of optical imagery for these applications. This paper aims at assessing cloud cover conditions over...
As a core component of both the ship propulsion system and mission-critical equipment, shipboard motors are undergoing a technological transition from traditional fault diagnosis to multi-physical-field collaborative modeling and integrated intellige...
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