Existing work on placing additional relay nodes in wireless sensor networks to improve network connectivity typically assumes homogeneous wireless sensor nodes with an identical transmission radius. In compare, this paper addresses the problem of deploying relay nodes to provide fault tolerance with higher network connectivity in heterogeneous wireless sensor networks, where sensor nodes have d...

Most wearable activity recognition systems assume a predefined sensor deployment that remains unchanged during runtime. However, this assumption does not reflect real-life conditions. During the normal use of such systems, users may place the sensors in a position different from the predefined sensor placement. Also, sensors may move from their original location to a different one, due to a loo...

The quality of the state estimation of a system is strongly conditioned by the number of measurements obtained from this system. Here, this dependence is studied by specifying especially the influence of the number and the position of sensors as well as of their precision. When some variables are necessary for the control, the possibility of failure of some sensors is analysed from the calculat...

Optimal sensor placement is a central challenge in the design, prediction, estimation, and control of high-dimensional systems. High-dimensional states can often leverage a latent low-dimensional representation, and this inherent compressibility enables sparse sensing. This article explores optimized sensor placement for signal reconstruction based on a tailored library of features extracted fr...

The goal of this chapter is to review recent developments on sensor placement for fault diagnosis in drinking water networks. Solving a sensor placement problem for fault diagnosis entails the evaluation of the diagnosis performance of a monitoring system for a certain sensor configuration. In model-based fault diagnosis the monitoring system is built upon a set of consistency indicators, which...

The linearised complex Ginzburg–Landau equation is a model for the evolution of small fluid perturbations, such as in a bluff body wake. By implementing actuators and sensors and designing an H2 optimal controller, we control a supercritical, infinite-domain formulation of this system. We seek the optimal actuator and sensor placement that minimises the H2 norm of the controlled system, from fl...

Wireless Sensor Networks are proposed to improve vehicle safety to avoid collisions in congested junctions and to enhance the capability of warning systems in the event of an emergency. The critical challenge in sensor networks is the extended temporal operation of the individual sensor node using a typically limited battery power supply. The sensor node consumes power due to sensing, signal pr...