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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"smart sensor"”.
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Structural Health Monitoring Strategies for Smart Sensor Networks
… of SHM to civil engineering structures using smart sensors.
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Autonomous wireless smart sensor for monitoring of railroad bridges
… for monitoring railroad bridges using wireless smart sensor (WSS), so that a complete end-to-end monitoring solution can provide relevant information directly to the bridge owners. The system’s central feature is to capture the train-crossing event efficiently and eliminate the need for a …
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Flexible Smart Sensor Framework for Autonomous Full-Scale Structural Health Monitoring
… structural monitoring and maintenance. Wireless smart sensors provide an attractive means for structural health monitoring (SHM) through the utilization of onboard computation to achieve distributed data management. Such an approach is scalable to the large number of sensor nodes required for …
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Solar energy harvesting and software enhancements for autonomous wireless smart sensor networks
… in maintaining healthy society. Wireless smart sensors (WSSs) provide a means to effectively monitor the performance of buildings and bridges to improve maintenance practices, minimize the costs of repair, and improve public safety through a process called structural health monitoring …
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I-AdMiN: a framework for deriving adaptive service configuration in wireless smart sensor networks
… adopted in a number of domains such as wireless sensor networks, mobile computing, ubiquitous systems, cloud computing, etc. E fficient application development in wireless smart sensor networks (WSSNs) generally faces more restrictions and is the focus of this thesis. Inherent limitations of …
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In-the-loop training of a VLSI implementation of a smart sensor with low resolution programmable digital weights.
… motivated by the need to train an intelligent sensor that had been designed and fabricated with low resolution weights in order to meet constraints that were imposed upon the designers. The training method developed in this thesis can be also be used as a fault tolerant training procedure for …
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Automotive Suspension Parameter Estimation Using Smart Wireless Sensor Technology
… project demonstrates the feasibility of using a smart sensor system to estimate vehicle parameters. It includes the development of the smart sensor system and the method for which vehicle parameters are estimated using this system. The smart sensor system is a wireless computer controlled sensor …
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Monitoring, modeling, and hybrid simulation—an integrated Bayesian-based approach to high-fidelity fragility analysis
… of the problem: (1) monitoring with wireless smart sensor networks to facilitate efficient and accurate pre- and post-disaster data collection, (2) new modeling techniques including innovative system identification strategies and model updating to enable accurate structural modeling, (3) …
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Experimental Detection and Quantitative Interrogation of Damage in a Jointed Composite Structure
… prediction method. This research utilizes a smart sensor array to collect sensing information over a variety of damaged scenarios on a composite lap-joint assembly. Damage was implemented as bolt torque loss within the joint. A damage index was used as the key diagnostic feature to …
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Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Urban Data and its Application for Smart Cities
With the advent of smart sensor devices and Internet of Things (IoT) in the rapid urbanizing cities, data is being generated, collected and analyzed to solve urban problems in the areas of transportation, epidemiology, emergency management, economics, and sustainability etc. The work in this area …
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Ultra-low-power Wireless Camera Network Nodes: Design and Performance Analysis
… this context, the employment of a custom vision sensor and an ecient architecture are crucial. In order to validate the methodology, a prototype node is presented, mounting a smart sensor and a ash-based FPGA. The node implements a custom algorithm for counting people, a non trivial task …
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Multi-scale structural health monitoring using wireless smart sensors
… has been made in recent years in the wireless smart sensor (WSS) technology to monitor civil infrastructures, shifting focus away from traditional wired methods. Successful implementations of such WSS networks for full-scale SHM have demonstrated the feasible use of the technology. Much of the …
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Decentralized identification and multimetric monitoring of civil infrastructure using smart sensors
Wireless Smart Sensor Networks (WSSNs) facilitates a new paradigm to structural identification and monitoring for civil infrastructure. Conventionally, wired sensors and central data acquisition systems have been used to characterize the state of the structure, which is quite challenging due to …
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Development of a Self-Calibrated Motion Capture System by Nonlinear Trilateration of Multiple Kinects v2
… to calculate the relative positions of Kinect v2 sensors with a calibration wand and register the sensors’ positions automatically. By combining results from multiple sensors with a nonlinear least square method, the accuracy of motion capture is optimized. Moreover, to exclude inaccurate results …
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Analog and Digital Circuits in a Complementary Organic TFT Technology on Flexible Substrate
… the same substrate of different kinds of organic sensors (i.e., light, temperature, pressure, humidity, pH, biosensors, etc.) in order to implement fully-integrated flexible organic smart sensors. Despite these interesting developments, most OTFT processes still feature only p-type transistors, …
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Structural Health Monitoring for Bridge Structures Using Wireless Smart Sensors
… by available budgets, which define the number of sensors that can be deployed. This dissertation first presents a damage detection algorithm using static strain developed for efficient structural condition assessment with a few sensor nodes. A laboratory moving vehicle experiment has been …
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Metal oxide nanostructures and their applications
… for several important applications such as sensors, photovoltaic, and photocatalysis. The thesis is divided into several chapters. Chapter 1 starts with a brief introduction of the metal oxide nanostructures and their various synthetic methods. In addition to this, a short review on the …
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Application of radio-frequency identification (RFID) sensors for smart- monitoring applications in sewer systems
… and other acoustic technologies. Alternatively, smart-sensor systems can provide high-throughput, cost-effective, automatic-data-driven features, and robust solutions for monitoring sewer networks. This thesis aims to design, develop, and evaluate novel passive ultra-high frequency radio …
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Synthesis of Smart & Intelligent Sensors
L'abstract è presente nell'allegato / the abstract is in the attachment