Sensing Technology: Current Status and Future Trends III

Front Matter....Pages 1-13
Review of the Use of the Optical Fibers for Safety Applications in Tunnels and Car Parks: Pollution Monitoring, Fire and Explosive Gas Detection....Pages 1-24
Evanescent Wave Absorption Based Fiber-Optic Sensor - Cascading of Bend and Tapered Geometry for Enhanced Sensitivity....Pages 25-45
Design of High-Resolution Optical Systems for Fast and Accurate Surface Reconstruction....Pages 47-65
On the Use of Light Sensors and Pattern Recognition Techniques for Automated Detection of Street Lighting Lamps....Pages 67-92
Cesium Environmental Monitoring System for Assaying Temporal Changes in Atomic Disintegration Products Using Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy....Pages 93-109
Energy-Efficient WSN Systems....Pages 111-132
Simple Autonomous Active Period Selection Technique for Cluster-Based IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Sensor Networks with Dynamic Network Changes....Pages 133-155
Exploring Energy Efficiency of Hardware-Architectures for IMU Based Orientation Estimation....Pages 157-178
The Integrated versus Standalone Operation Mode for Second and Subsequent Fragments Headers Compression Scheme in 6LoWPAN....Pages 179-199
Wireless Sensor Network Attacks: An Overview and Critical Analysis with Detailed Investigation on Jamming Attack Effects....Pages 201-221
Learning with Great Care: The Adoption of the Multi-sensor Technology in Education....Pages 223-242
Detection of Microorganism in Water and Different Food Matrix by Electronic Nose....Pages 243-258
Pain Sensing in Animals....Pages 259-276
Moisture Content Estimation of Wet Sand from Free-Space Microwave Techniques....Pages 277-297
Organic Molecule Based Sensor for Aldehyde Detection....Pages 299-325
Noncontact Temperature Profiling of Rotating Cylinder by Laser-Ultrasound....Pages 327-339
Modelling of Sensing Performance of Electrostrictive Capacitive Sensors....Pages 341-358
Measurements for the Thermodynamic Model of a Pneumatic Muscle Actuator....Pages 359-376
Coordinate Measurement on Wafer Level – From Single Sensors to Sensor Arrays....Pages 377-398
Tailoring of Magnetic Properties and GMI Effect of Amorphous Microwires by Annealing....Pages 399-423
Back Matter....Pages 425-426