Cost-effective sensors and sensor nodes for monitoring environmental parameters

Sensors for Environmental Monitoring

SADmote: A Robust and Cost-Effective Device for Environmental Monitoring

Time to deployment for wireless sensor networks could be reduced by using commercial sensor nodes. However, this may lead to suboptimal flexibility, power consumption and cost of the system. Our pilot deployment for precision agriculture and fruit growing research showed similar conclusions and outlined the design decisions leading to SADmote: a new sensor node for environmental monitoring. It ...

Cost Effective and Scalable Sensor Network for Intelligent Building Monitoring

Conventional sensor networks for building monitoring lack smart means to exploit collected environmental data to support relevant knowledge generation. Explicit domain knowledge plays the key role for software units to execute relevant tasks autonomously, which in turn can ease the increasing complexity embedded in the contemporary building management process. In many cases, the cost of multi-f...

DETERMINATION OF SENSOR LOCATIONS FOR MONITORING OF ORCHARDS PARAMETERS USING REMOTE SENSING AND GIS

Optimal management of the farm and increasing production efficiency can be achieved by collecting accurate and appropriate information from the fields. The aim of this study is to determine the location of soil moisture sensors in pistachio orchards. For this purpose, initial information was obtained using satellite image processing. Then, using clustering method the information was clustered t...

Compact Sensor for Environmental Monitoring

This report describes a simple means of detecting trace amounts of gaseous substances in the atmosphere. In the fabrication processes for semiconductor LSIs, production defects occur if gas phase contaminants in the atmosphere stick to the wafer being processed. To overcome this problem, I have developed and am currently applying a contamination sensor that uses a quartz crystal microbalance (Q...