In the Internet of Things area, sensor-based smart environments are becoming more and more ubiquitous. Smart environments can support user's cognitive abilities and support them in various tasks e.g. assembling, or cooking. However, programming applications for smart environments still requires a lot of effort as many sensors need to be programmed and synchronized. In this work, we present a no...

Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) is an important tool for the ongoing maintenance of aging infrastructure. The ultimate goals of implementing an SHM system are to improve infrastructure maintenance, increase public safety, and minimize the economic impact of an extreme loading event by streamlining repair and retrofit measures. Networks of wireless smart sensors offer tremendous promise for a...

Smart environments are heterogeneous architectures with a broad range of heterogeneous electronic devices that are with high in processing capabilities for computing, considering low power consumption. They have the ability to record information about the behavior of the people by means of their interactions with the objects within an environment. This kind of environments are providing solutio...

This work presents a unique thermal infrared (IR) camera calibration technique using wireless “smart” micro electro-mechanical (MEMS) sensors. The word “smart” denotes capabilities of MEMS other than sensing, such as, computing and communication. We foresee the use of widely distributed and deeply embedded “smart” MEMS sensors as potential calibration gauges for spectral cameras, such as, therm...

In the recent years there has been a growing interest in the design and implementation of smart homes. The evaluation of these approaches requires massive datasets of measurements from deployed sensors in real prototypes. While datasets obtained by real smart homes are freely available, they are not sufficient for comparing different approaches and techniques in a variety of configurations. In ...

Developing smart house systems has been a great challenge for researchers and engineers in this area because of the high cost of implementation and evaluation process of these systems, while being very time consuming. Testing a designed smart house before actually building it is considered as an obstacle towards an efficient smart house project. This is because of the variety of sensors, home a...

Smart praying mats are essential to help old and forgetful Muslims perform their religious needs. Due to the binary representation of pressure sensors embedded into the mat for posture identification, existing smart praying systems either use large sensing arrays, thus becoming expensive and bulky, or utilize only a limited number of sensors, minimizing the cost of posture recognition accuracy....

The Smart Surface project aims at designing an integrated micro-manipulator based on an array of micromodules connected with a 2D array topology network. Each micromodule comprises a sensor, an actuator and a processing unit. One of the aims of the processing unit is to differentiate the shape of the part that is put on top of the Smart Surface. From a set of shapes this differentiation is done...

MEMS (microelectronic mechanical systems) sensors make a rich design space of distributed networked sensors viable. They can be deeply embedded in the physical world and spread throughout our environment like “smart dust”. Today, networked sensors called Smart Dust motes can be constructed using commercial components on the scale of a square inch in size and a fraction of a watt in power. Highd...