State of the art data centers use wired sensors embedded in equipment for thermal monitoring. The high cost of sensor installation restricts equipment relocation. We propose using a wireless self-locating network of smart sensing nodes, called SmartLOCUS, for automatic sensor configuration. We explore how to design the sensor control software to be self-reconfiguring when nodes relocate. The so...

In this paper, we present the Immediate Neighbourhood Temperature (INT) routing algorithm which balances thermal profiles across dynamically-throttled 3D NoCs by adaptively routing interconnect traffic based on runtime temperature monitoring. INT avoids the overheads of system-wide temperature monitoring by relying on the heat transfer characteristics of 3D integrated circuits which enable temp...

PURPOSE MRI-guided thermal ablations require reliable monitoring methods to ensure complete destruction of the diseased tissue while avoiding damage to the surrounding healthy tissue. Based on the fact that thermal ablations result in substantial changes in biomechanical properties, interventional MR elastography (MRE) dedicated to the monitoring of MR-guided thermal therapies is proposed here....

Elevated skin temperature at the body/device interface of lower-limb prostheses is one of the major factors that affect tissue health. The heat dissipation in prosthetic sockets is greatly influenced by the thermal conductive properties of the hard socket and liner material employed. However, monitoring of the interface temperature at skin level in lower-limb prosthesis is notoriously complicat...

Mild hyperthermia has been successfully employed to induce reversible physiological changes that can directly treat cancer and enhance local drug delivery. In this approach, temperature monitoring is essential to avoid undesirable biological effects that result from thermal damage. For thermal therapies, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) has been employed to control real-time Focused Ultrasound ...

High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) is an emerging non-invasive surgical technique. HIFU systems are generally designed to deliver a fixed amount of energy to tissue, but because the tissue thermal response is variable across patients and tissue type, this approach can often lead to underdosing or overdosing. In order to improve the dosing precision in HIFU we are investigating real time m...

We explore the analytical performance and limitations of optically monitoring aqueous-phase temperature using protein-protected gold nanoclusters (AuNCs). Although not reported elsewhere, we find that these bio-passivated AuNCs show pronounced hysteresis upon thermal cycling. This unwanted behaviour can be eliminated by several strategies, including sol-gel coating and thermal denaturation of t...

Nowadays, most factories rely on machines to help boost up their production and process. Therefore, an effective machine condition monitoring system plays an important role in these factories to ensure that their production and process are running smoothly all the time. In this paper, a new and effective machine condition monitoring system using log-polar mapper, quaternion based thermal image ...