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Showing 1 to 20 of 38 for “"smart sensors"”.
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Drones Detection Using Smart Sensors
… countries have been attacked by terrorists using smart drones. Hence, drone detection is an active area of research and it receives the attention of many scholars.</p> <p>Advanced drones are, many times, difficult to detect, and hence they, sometimes, can be life threatening. Currently, most …
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Structural Health Monitoring Using Smart Sensors
… SHM systems employing a dense array of smart sensors.
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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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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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Sudden-event monitoring of civil infrastructure using wireless smart sensors
… Traditional monitoring systems using wired sensors can be prohibitive, mainly due to high installation costs resulting from onerous and expensive cabling networks. Wireless smart sensors (WSS) are an attractive alternative, as they have the potential to significantly reduce the cost. …
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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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An architecture for intelligent health assessment enabled IEEE 1451 compliant smart sensors
… of raw data into information takes place within sensors and actuators. This thesis develops novel field programmable health assessment capability for sensors and actuators in ISHM. Health assessment and feature extraction algorithms are implemented on a sensor or actuator through the Embedded …
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Modeling and monitoring of the dynamic response of railroad bridges using wireless smart sensors
… existing/potential damage, densely deployed sensors are required, which is inefficient and still expensive. Alternatively, model-based monitoring strategies can be adopted to identify a critical element from a numerical model that has been calibrated with measured field data. However, this …
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Remote sensing of crop structure and field condition enabled through smart sensors and satellite data
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2027-05-01
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Framework for risk-based management and safety of railroad bridge infrastructure using wireless smart sensors (WSS)
… for railroad bridges employing Wireless Smart Sensors (WSS). Wireless strain gages installed in the rail measured real-time trainloads and speeds, while wireless accelerometers and magnetic strain gages measured associated bridge responses. The sensing system was deployed and validated on …
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Distributed optical fibre smart sensors for acoustic sensing in the structural health monitoring of robust aerospace vehicles
The use of distributed optical fibre smart sensors for the detection of acoustic signals in the Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) of robust aerospace vehicles has been demonstrated. Current distributed optical fibre sensors are multiplexed along a single fibre. Inherent problems exist with a …
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Fluidic Energy Harvesting and Sensing Systems
Smart sensors have become and will continue to constitute an enabling technology to wirelessly connect platforms and systems and enable improved and autonomous performance. Automobiles have about two hundred sensors. Airplanes have about eight thousand sensors. With technology advancements in …
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Smart wireless control of civil structures
… and computational capabilities, wireless smart sensors, which have become popular for structural health monitoring applications, are an attractive option for implementing structural control systems. However, wireless smart sensors pose unique challenges, such as communication latency and …
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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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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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A service-oriented architecture for dynamic macroprogramming of sensor networks
… and computational capabilities, these smart sensors were poised to revolutionize our view of the environment we inhabit by linking the physical world with the digital realm of traditional computing. Smart sensors have been available to researchers for more than a decade; however, few …
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Quantification and assessment methods for large wood (LW) in fluvial systems
… LW interactions. Nine-degree of freedom (9-DoF) smart sensors are implanted into scaled wooden dowels, resulting in ‘SmartWood’, being able to capture complex movement processes of wood in a hydraulic laboratory environment. Each of the smart sensors comprises an internal processor for …
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Evaluating the impact of innovative cyber technologies on the delivery process of South African sustainable affordable housing
… Reality (AR), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Smart Sensors, Modular and Prefabrication, Object-Oriented Programming (OOP), and Project Portfolio Management (PPM) as potential solutions. The research adopted a mixed-method approach, combining qualitative and quantitative methods. The target …
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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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Security Management for The Internet of Things
… system that consists of many wired or wireless smart sensors and applications. The development of IoT has been taking decades. However, cyberattacks threat the IoT since the day it was born; different threats and attacks may cause serious disasters to the network system without the essential …
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