The number of sensors for Earth environmental observation is growing. Several new sensors have been announced for the near future and several proposals for smart sensors have been proposed. In particular, distributed sensors, sensor network and sensor integration are being taken into account, and smart sensors, intelligent sensors, sensor’s autonomy, etc. is beginning to be used in future earth...

Different from the past, in recent years, an increasing number of technology solutions have been started to be designed for the elderly and disabled due to the aging population and increasing awareness about common problems of the disabled. In smart homes, a group of smart, networked devices and sensors can help make the elderly and disabled more independent by letting family members, relatives...

Several millions of kilometres of pipes and cables are buried beneath our streets in the UK. As they are not visible and easily accessible, the monitoring of their integrity as well as the quality of their contents is a challenge. Any information of these properties aids the utility owners in their planning and management of their maintenance regime. Traditionally, expensive and very localised ...

Robots are machines that sense, think, act and (more recently) communicate. Sensing, thinking, and communicating have all been greatly miniaturized as a consequence of continuous progress in integrated circuit design and manufacturing technology. More recent progress in MEMS (micro electro mechanical systems) now holds out promise for comparable miniaturization of the heretofore-retarded third ...

The advances in sensing devices and integrated circuit technology have allowed for the development of easily \recon gurable smart sensor" products. Primarily utilizing commercial o -the-shelf (COTS) components, we have developed recon gurable smart sensors, consisting of a microprocessor, GPS receiver, RF transceiver, and a sensor. The standard serial control interface allows for ease of interc...

In this paper, we present an app development using sensor signals from smartphone ans smart watch. We use Bluetooth communication for the connection between the smartphone and the smart watch. Smart watch includes a various of sensors such as acceleration sensor, gyro sensor, pressure sersor, etc. Using these sensors, we can measure the movement data of the user and transmit to the smartphone. ...

An effort to simplify the IEEE 1451 standards family extension for adding smart, plug-andplay and self-adaptation capabilities to frequency output sensors is describe in the paper. It was shown that due to the use of one universal component – the universal frequency-to-digital converter (UFDC-1), any frequency output sensor can be transformed into a smart transducer compatible to the IEEE 1451 ...

Since active pixel sensors (APS) are fabricated in a commonly used CMOS process, image sensors with integrated “intelligence” can be designed. These sensors are very useful in many scientific, commercial and consumer applications. Current state-of-the-art CMOS imagers allow integration of all functions required for timing, exposure control, color processing, image enhancement, image compression...

Intelligent robotics demands the integration of smart sensors that allow the controller to efficiently measure physical quantities. Industrial manipulator robots require a constant monitoring of several parameters such as motion dynamics, inclination, and vibration. This work presents a novel smart sensor to estimate motion dynamics, inclination, and vibration parameters on industrial manipulat...

The term smart environment refers to a physical space enriched with sensors and computational entities that are seamlessly and invisibly interwoven. A challenge in smart environments is to identify the location of users and physical objects. A smart environment provides location-dependent services by utilizing obtained locations. In many cases, estimating location depends on received signal str...