Sensing Technology: Current Status and Future Trends III

✍ Scribed by Alex Mason, Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay, Krishanthi Padmarani Jayasundera (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 430
• Series: Smart Sensors, Measurement and Instrumentation 11
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book contains a collection of selected works stemming from the 2013 International Conference on Sensing Technology (ICST), which was held in Wellington, New Zealand. The purpose of the book is to distill the highlights of the conference, and therefore track the latest developments in sensing technologies. The book contents are broad, since sensors can be applied in many different areas. Therefore the book gives a broad overview of the latest developments, in addition to discussing the process through which researchers go through in order to develop sensors, or related systems, which will become more widespread in the future. The book is written for academic and industry professionals working in the field of sensing, instrumentation and related fields, and is positioned to give a snapshot of the current state of the art in sensing technology, particularly from the applied perspective.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-13
Review of the Use of the Optical Fibers for Safety Applications in Tunnels and Car Parks: Pollution Monitoring, Fire and Explosive Gas Detection....Pages 1-24
Evanescent Wave Absorption Based Fiber-Optic Sensor - Cascading of Bend and Tapered Geometry for Enhanced Sensitivity....Pages 25-45
Design of High-Resolution Optical Systems for Fast and Accurate Surface Reconstruction....Pages 47-65
On the Use of Light Sensors and Pattern Recognition Techniques for Automated Detection of Street Lighting Lamps....Pages 67-92
Cesium Environmental Monitoring System for Assaying Temporal Changes in Atomic Disintegration Products Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy....Pages 93-109
Energy-Efficient WSN Systems....Pages 111-132
Simple Autonomous Active Period Selection Technique for Cluster-Based IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks with Dynamic Network Changes....Pages 133-155
Exploring Energy Efficiency of Hardware-Architectures for IMU Based Orientation Estimation....Pages 157-178
The Integrated versus Standalone Operation Mode for Second and Subsequent Fragments Headers Compression Scheme in 6LoWPAN....Pages 179-199
Wireless Sensor Network Attacks: An Overview and Critical Analysis with Detailed Investigation on Jamming Attack Effects....Pages 201-221
Learning with Great Care: The Adoption of the Multi-sensor Technology in Education....Pages 223-242
Detection of Microorganism in Water and Different Food Matrix by Electronic Nose....Pages 243-258
Pain Sensing in Animals....Pages 259-276
Moisture Content Estimation of Wet Sand from Free-Space Microwave Techniques....Pages 277-297
Organic Molecule Based Sensor for Aldehyde Detection....Pages 299-325
Noncontact Temperature Profiling of Rotating Cylinder by Laser-Ultrasound....Pages 327-339
Modelling of Sensing Performance of Electrostrictive Capacitive Sensors....Pages 341-358
Measurements for the Thermodynamic Model of a Pneumatic Muscle Actuator....Pages 359-376
Coordinate Measurement on Wafer Level – From Single Sensors to Sensor Arrays....Pages 377-398
Tailoring of Magnetic Properties and GMI Effect of Amorphous Microwires by Annealing....Pages 399-423
Back Matter....Pages 425-426

✦ Subjects

Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation; Communications Engineering, Networks; Analytical Chemistry