In a distributed wireless sensor system, a need to prolong the lifetime of the network is crucial and limited by battery capacity. As communication traffic among sensor nodes is triggered by sensing events, the network can exploit these time-varying scenarios to obtain power savings by adjusting its operating conditions accordingly. A coherent design of application-specific network protocol sta...

Due to unique features like small thermal masses and reduced conductivities, miniaturized thermal sensors offer properties superior to those provided by comparable macroscopic measurement setups. In this contribution a micromachined device is applied to characterize the thermal transport properties of various liquids. By means of sinusoidal excitation of a heater structure placed on a micro-bri...

Miniaturization of biomedical sensors has increased the importance of microsystem technology in medical applications, particularly microelectronics and micromachining. This work presents a new approach to biomedical monitoring and analysis of selected human cognitive processes. The system is based on our preliminary described theory and experiments (Vavrinsky et al. 2010). We are primarily inte...

To maximize battery lifetimes of distributed wireless sensors, network protocols and data fusion algorithms should be designed with low power techniques. Network protocols minimize energy by using localized communication and control and by exploiting computation/communication tradeoffs. In addition, data fusion algorithms such as beamforming aggregate data from multiple sources to reduce data r...

Resonant pressure microsensors are widely used in the fields of aerospace exploration and atmospheric pressure monitoring due to their advantages of quasi-digital output and long-term stability, which, however, requires the use of additional temperature sensors for temperature compensation. This paper presents a resonant pressure microsensor capable of self-temperature compensation without the ...