Integrated opto-chemical sensors have promising prospects, for example by having the potential to be realized as very sensitive small monolithic smart multisensor systems with a digital signal output. Here the main accent will be laid on the optical principles underlying chemo-optical waveguiding sensors, focusing on linear evanescent field sensors. Sensing principles and systems based on inter...

Smart environments represent the next evolutionary development step in building, utilities, industrial, home, shipboard, and transportation systems automation. Like any sentient organism, the smart environment relies first and foremost on sensory data from the real world. Sensory data comes from multiple sensors of different modalities in distributed locations. The smart environment needs infor...

Smart homes are intelligent integrated environments, which provide residents with various and convenient automated service based on wired or wireless network using interface of home appliances, sensors and systems in living space. Context-awareness technology is essential to recognize the inhabitants’ context of in smart home research. This paper presents a simulator in a virtual space with vir...

The (approximate) diagonalization of symmetric matrices has been studied in the past in the context of distributed control of an array of collocated smart actuators and sensors. For distributed control using a two dimensional array of actuators and sensors, it is more natural to describe the system transfer function as a complex tensor rather than a complex matrix. In this paper, we study the p...

Nowadays on the embedded systems market there is a remarkable shift from the industry field buses to the Ethernet and internet (TCP/IP) communication technologies. The work presented in this paper aims to introduce an approach to develop TCP/IP based smart sensor and actuator networks, which are scalable, both in physical size and in the number of sensors and actuators. This approach uses the S...

F iber-opti c sensi ng systems are being presentl y tested in a vari ety of smart str uctures and ski ns appl icati ons [1{ 4]. In parti cul ar , po lari m etri c sensors wi t h hi ghly bi ref ringent (HB) polarizati on-m ainta ini ng opti cal Ùbers have focused a great interest for use in conjuncti on wi th com posite m ateri als. Thi s growi ng interest has been mainl y m ani fested in succes...

This special issue on “Smart Sensors for Healthcare and Medical Applications” focuses new sensing technologies, measurement techniques, their applications in medicine healthcare [...]

Due to the rapid advances in wireless communication and information technologies it is now possible to embed various levels of smartness in the home. These smart homes are ones that can interact intelligently with their inhibitors to provide comfort and safe living. This interaction may range from simple control of ambient temperature to context-aware and mobile agent based services. An example...