An intelligent emergency service( IES) system is designed for indoor environments based on a wireless sensor and actuator network( WSAN) composed of a gateway, sensor nodes, and a multi-robot system( MRS). If th...An intelligent emergency service( IES) system is designed for indoor environments based on a wireless sensor and actuator network( WSAN) composed of a gateway, sensor nodes, and a multi-robot system( MRS). If the MRS receives accident alarm information, the group of robots will navigate to the accident sites and provide corresponding emergency services.According to the characteristics of the MRS, a distributed consensus formation protocol is designed, which can assure that the multiple robots arrive at the accident site in a specified formation. The prototype emergency service system was designed and implemented, and some relevant simulations and experiments were carried out. The results showthat the MRS can successfully provide emergency lighting and failure node replacement services when accidents happen. The effectiveness of the algorithm and the feasibility of the system are verified.展开更多
A heuristic theoretical optimal routing algorithm (TORA) is presented to achieve the data-gathering structure of location-aided quality of service (QoS) in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The construction of TO...A heuristic theoretical optimal routing algorithm (TORA) is presented to achieve the data-gathering structure of location-aided quality of service (QoS) in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The construction of TORA is based on a kind of swarm intelligence (SI) mechanism, i. e. , ant colony optimization. Firstly, the ener- gy-efficient weight is designed based on flow distribution to divide WSNs into different functional regions, so the routing selection can self-adapt asymmetric power configurations with lower latency. Then, the designs of the novel heuristic factor and the pheromone updating rule can endow ant-like agents with the ability of detecting the local networks energy status and approaching the theoretical optimal tree, thus improving the adaptability and en- ergy-efficiency in route building. Simulation results show that compared with some classic routing algorithms, TORA can further minimize the total communication energy cost and enhance the QoS performance with low-de- lay effect under the data-gathering condition.展开更多
[Objective] This study was to design an intelligent greenhouse real-time monitoring system based on the core technology of Internet of Things in order to meet the needs of agricultural informatization and intellectual...[Objective] This study was to design an intelligent greenhouse real-time monitoring system based on the core technology of Internet of Things in order to meet the needs of agricultural informatization and intellectualization. [Method] Based on the application characteristics of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), the intelligent greenhouse monitoring system was designed. And for the incompleteness strategy of load balancing in the Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH), a Real- time Threshold Routing Algorithm (RTRA) was proposed. [Result] The performance of network lifetime and network delay of RTRA were tested in MATLAB and found that, within the same testing environment, RTRA can save nodes energy consumption, prolong network lifetime, and had better real-time performance than LEACH. The al- gorithm satisfies the crops' requirements on real-time and energy efficiency in the greenhouse system. [Conclusion] For the good performance on real-time, the de- signed intelligent greenhouse real-time monitoring system laid the foundation for the research and development of agricultural informatization and intellectualization.展开更多
Wireless sensor-actuator networks can bring flexibility to smart home.We design and develop a smart home prototype using wireless sensor-actuator network technology to realize environmental sensing and the control of ...Wireless sensor-actuator networks can bring flexibility to smart home.We design and develop a smart home prototype using wireless sensor-actuator network technology to realize environmental sensing and the control of electric appliances.The basic motivation of our solution is to utilize the collaboration among a mass of low-cost sensor nodes and actuator nodes to make life convenient.To achieve it,we design a novel system architecture with assembled component modules.In particular,we address some key technical challenges:1) Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Implementation of Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (ADPCM) for audio data;2) FPGA Implementation of Lempel Ziv Storer Szymanski (LZSS) for bulk data;3) combination of complex control logic.Finally,a set of experiments are presented to evaluate the performance of our solution.展开更多
Developing wireless nanodevices and nanosystems is of critical importance for sensing, medical science, environmental/infrastructure monitoring, defense technology and even personal electronics. It is highly desirable...Developing wireless nanodevices and nanosystems is of critical importance for sensing, medical science, environmental/infrastructure monitoring, defense technology and even personal electronics. It is highly desirable for wireless devices to be self-powered without using battery, without which most of the sensor network may be impossible. The pie- zoelectric nanogenerators have the potential to serve as self-sufficient power sources for micro/nano systems. For wurtzite structures that have non-central symmetry, such as ZnO, GaN and InN, a piezoelectric potential (piezopotential) is created in the crystal by applying a strain. The nanogenerator is invented by using the piezopotential as the driving force for electrons to flow in respond to a dynamic straining of piezoelectric nanowires. A gentle straining can produce an output voltage of up to 20 - 50 V from an integrated nanogenerator. Furthermore, piezopotential in the wurtzite structure can serve as gate voltage that can effectively tune/control the charge transport across an interface/junction; electronics fabricated based on such a mechanism is coined as piezotronics, with applications in force/pressure triggercd/controlled electronic devices, sensors, logic units and memory. By using the piezotronic effect, it is showed that the optoelectronic devices fabricated using wurtzite materials can have superior performance as solar cell, photon detector and light emitting diode. Piezotronie is likely to serve as "mechanosensation" for directly interfacing biomechanieal action with silicon based technology and active flexible electronics. The paper gives a brief review about the basis of nanogenertors and piezotronics and their potential applications in smart MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems).展开更多
A suitable fiberoptic sensing array embedded in the smart structure to monitor quasi-distributed forces on the structure is presented in this paper.Artificial nearal networks are used in processing of fiberoptic sensi...A suitable fiberoptic sensing array embedded in the smart structure to monitor quasi-distributed forces on the structure is presented in this paper.Artificial nearal networks are used in processing of fiberoptic sensing array signals.Fundamental experiments have been done and the results are also given.展开更多
WSN has been developing from traditional environment monitoring applications to the ubiquitous information services such as the Congestion-oriented Intelligent Transportation System (ColTS). However, the mobility of...WSN has been developing from traditional environment monitoring applications to the ubiquitous information services such as the Congestion-oriented Intelligent Transportation System (ColTS). However, the mobility of nodes makes data dissemination a hard nut to crack. In this paper, we propose MSDD, a multiple mobile sinks data dissemination mechanism for solving the dissemination problem. The main ideas of MSDD are constructing a two-tier grid structure by a designated sink, exploiting a hierarchical monitoring mechanism, and employing a global agent to track the sink locations in order to make the emergencies reported to the sinks immediately, In addition, MSDD supports the query-driven data dissemination. Being compared with TTDD, MSDD is theoretically proved to have less communication overhead. We also validate MSDD outperforms TTDD in reliability and the emergency delivery latency bv simulations.展开更多
This paper presents a universal platform "uSensing" to support smartphones to communicate with sensor nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs).Since phones have different CPU processers and operating systems...This paper presents a universal platform "uSensing" to support smartphones to communicate with sensor nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs).Since phones have different CPU processers and operating systems,it is a challenge to merge these heterogeneities and develop such a universal platform.In this paper,we design both hardware and software to support the "universal" feature of uSensing:1) "uSD" card:an IEEE 802.15.4 physical communication card with SD interface;2) "uSinkWare":a WSNs middleware running on smartphones.Integrated with uSD card and uSinkWare,phones become mobile data sinks to access into WSNs and parse messages from sensor nodes.We demonstrate the proposed uSensing platform in a commercial smartphone to connect with our WSNs testbed,and validate that the smartphone has the same WSNs functions as commercial fixed sink.Additionally,we evaluate the performance of uSensing platform through measuring phone's CPU load and power consumption,and analyze the performance of these metrics theoretically.The results suggest that the phone-based mobile sink has enough capability to serve as a mobile sink of WSNs and can work up to twenty hours due to low power consumption.展开更多
Introducing a System-on-Chip (SoC) microcontroller (C8051F350) into a ceramic pressure sensor has resulted in the design of a intelligent sensor. An improved algorithm for digital phassensitive detection is used ...Introducing a System-on-Chip (SoC) microcontroller (C8051F350) into a ceramic pressure sensor has resulted in the design of a intelligent sensor. An improved algorithm for digital phassensitive detection is used to perform lock-in amplification of the sensor signal. The compensation for the sensor error is realized by the detection of the sensor's supply voltage and working temperature. The system also has the function of short/open circuit fault detection and can ommamicate with other digital equipment through an RS-485 communication interface. In the design, full utilization of the SoC microcontroller' s internal resource results in the simple hardware structure. Experimental results show that the error of the sensor is less than 0.5% at range ratio 1 : 10. Employing the microcontroller and using lock-in amplification algorithm are an effective method for achieving an intelligent sensor of slowly-varying physical quantities, thereby improving the measuring accuracy and performance.展开更多
This paper conducts research on the algorithm to improve the location of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) in Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). The localization algorithm introduced an improved RSSI vehicle loc...This paper conducts research on the algorithm to improve the location of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) in Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). The localization algorithm introduced an improved RSSI vehicle localization algorithm based on multi-path effect and Gaussian white noise. The localization results under different values of Gaussian white noise and different density of beacon nodes are analyzes, and Kalman filtering algorithm is introduced to reduce the influence of signal noise. Finally, a simulation model of ITS is developed to test the algorithm based on mixed noise and Kalman filtering algorithm, which is used to simulate the localization of real vehicles. The simulation shows the algorithm has effect to improve location accuracy and to application展开更多
Consigned to the shadows of telecommunications, optical sensing has often taken a back seat in a young person's mind when considering the importance of photonics, or optics, to the advancement of the society and of k...Consigned to the shadows of telecommunications, optical sensing has often taken a back seat in a young person's mind when considering the importance of photonics, or optics, to the advancement of the society and of knowledge. Here, I touch on briefly how broad optical sensing and sensing generally has become and how and why it is becoming the catalyst for the convergence of many technologies and in the process raising significant philosophical questions about the transformation of our society and indeed ourselves. In doing so I touch on many of the complexities in real life that influence the breakthroughs we see today, including a healthy speculation and critique on our society and an awareness of the motivations to improve it that drive many of them.展开更多
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.61375076)the Research&Innovation Program for Graduate Student in Universities of Jiangsu Province(No.KYLX_0108)+1 种基金the Scientific Research Foundation of Graduate School of Southeast University(No.YBJJ1423)Jiangsu Planned Projects for Postdoctoral Research Funds(No.1302064B)
文摘An intelligent emergency service( IES) system is designed for indoor environments based on a wireless sensor and actuator network( WSAN) composed of a gateway, sensor nodes, and a multi-robot system( MRS). If the MRS receives accident alarm information, the group of robots will navigate to the accident sites and provide corresponding emergency services.According to the characteristics of the MRS, a distributed consensus formation protocol is designed, which can assure that the multiple robots arrive at the accident site in a specified formation. The prototype emergency service system was designed and implemented, and some relevant simulations and experiments were carried out. The results showthat the MRS can successfully provide emergency lighting and failure node replacement services when accidents happen. The effectiveness of the algorithm and the feasibility of the system are verified.
基金Supported by the Foundation of National Natural Science of China(60802005,50803016)the Science Foundation for the Excellent Youth Scholars in East China University of Science and Technology(YH0157127)the Undergraduate Innovational Experimentation Program in East China University of Science andTechnology(X1033)~~
文摘A heuristic theoretical optimal routing algorithm (TORA) is presented to achieve the data-gathering structure of location-aided quality of service (QoS) in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). The construction of TORA is based on a kind of swarm intelligence (SI) mechanism, i. e. , ant colony optimization. Firstly, the ener- gy-efficient weight is designed based on flow distribution to divide WSNs into different functional regions, so the routing selection can self-adapt asymmetric power configurations with lower latency. Then, the designs of the novel heuristic factor and the pheromone updating rule can endow ant-like agents with the ability of detecting the local networks energy status and approaching the theoretical optimal tree, thus improving the adaptability and en- ergy-efficiency in route building. Simulation results show that compared with some classic routing algorithms, TORA can further minimize the total communication energy cost and enhance the QoS performance with low-de- lay effect under the data-gathering condition.
基金Supported by the Science and Technology Surface Project of Yunnan Province(2010ZC142)the Doctoral Foundation of Dali University(KYBS201015),the Scientific Research Program for College Students of Dali University~~
文摘[Objective] This study was to design an intelligent greenhouse real-time monitoring system based on the core technology of Internet of Things in order to meet the needs of agricultural informatization and intellectualization. [Method] Based on the application characteristics of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN), the intelligent greenhouse monitoring system was designed. And for the incompleteness strategy of load balancing in the Low-Energy Adaptive Clustering Hierarchy (LEACH), a Real- time Threshold Routing Algorithm (RTRA) was proposed. [Result] The performance of network lifetime and network delay of RTRA were tested in MATLAB and found that, within the same testing environment, RTRA can save nodes energy consumption, prolong network lifetime, and had better real-time performance than LEACH. The al- gorithm satisfies the crops' requirements on real-time and energy efficiency in the greenhouse system. [Conclusion] For the good performance on real-time, the de- signed intelligent greenhouse real-time monitoring system laid the foundation for the research and development of agricultural informatization and intellectualization.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.61070206,No.61070205and No.60833009the National973Project of China under Grant No.2011CB302701+2 种基金the program of New Century Excellent Talents in University of China under Grant No.NCET-080737the Beijing National Natural Science Foundation under Grant No.4092030the Cosponsored Project of Beijing Committee of Education
文摘Wireless sensor-actuator networks can bring flexibility to smart home.We design and develop a smart home prototype using wireless sensor-actuator network technology to realize environmental sensing and the control of electric appliances.The basic motivation of our solution is to utilize the collaboration among a mass of low-cost sensor nodes and actuator nodes to make life convenient.To achieve it,we design a novel system architecture with assembled component modules.In particular,we address some key technical challenges:1) Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Implementation of Adaptive Differential Pulse Code Modulation (ADPCM) for audio data;2) FPGA Implementation of Lempel Ziv Storer Szymanski (LZSS) for bulk data;3) combination of complex control logic.Finally,a set of experiments are presented to evaluate the performance of our solution.
文摘Developing wireless nanodevices and nanosystems is of critical importance for sensing, medical science, environmental/infrastructure monitoring, defense technology and even personal electronics. It is highly desirable for wireless devices to be self-powered without using battery, without which most of the sensor network may be impossible. The pie- zoelectric nanogenerators have the potential to serve as self-sufficient power sources for micro/nano systems. For wurtzite structures that have non-central symmetry, such as ZnO, GaN and InN, a piezoelectric potential (piezopotential) is created in the crystal by applying a strain. The nanogenerator is invented by using the piezopotential as the driving force for electrons to flow in respond to a dynamic straining of piezoelectric nanowires. A gentle straining can produce an output voltage of up to 20 - 50 V from an integrated nanogenerator. Furthermore, piezopotential in the wurtzite structure can serve as gate voltage that can effectively tune/control the charge transport across an interface/junction; electronics fabricated based on such a mechanism is coined as piezotronics, with applications in force/pressure triggercd/controlled electronic devices, sensors, logic units and memory. By using the piezotronic effect, it is showed that the optoelectronic devices fabricated using wurtzite materials can have superior performance as solar cell, photon detector and light emitting diode. Piezotronie is likely to serve as "mechanosensation" for directly interfacing biomechanieal action with silicon based technology and active flexible electronics. The paper gives a brief review about the basis of nanogenertors and piezotronics and their potential applications in smart MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems).
文摘A suitable fiberoptic sensing array embedded in the smart structure to monitor quasi-distributed forces on the structure is presented in this paper.Artificial nearal networks are used in processing of fiberoptic sensing array signals.Fundamental experiments have been done and the results are also given.
基金This work was supported in part by China National Natural Science Foundation under Grant 61271185,and the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
文摘WSN has been developing from traditional environment monitoring applications to the ubiquitous information services such as the Congestion-oriented Intelligent Transportation System (ColTS). However, the mobility of nodes makes data dissemination a hard nut to crack. In this paper, we propose MSDD, a multiple mobile sinks data dissemination mechanism for solving the dissemination problem. The main ideas of MSDD are constructing a two-tier grid structure by a designated sink, exploiting a hierarchical monitoring mechanism, and employing a global agent to track the sink locations in order to make the emergencies reported to the sinks immediately, In addition, MSDD supports the query-driven data dissemination. Being compared with TTDD, MSDD is theoretically proved to have less communication overhead. We also validate MSDD outperforms TTDD in reliability and the emergency delivery latency bv simulations.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.60932005China and Europe Government Cooperation Projects of the Ministry of Science and Technology under Grant No.2010DFA11680the Tsinghua Sci-Tech Project under Grant No.2011THZ0
文摘This paper presents a universal platform "uSensing" to support smartphones to communicate with sensor nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs).Since phones have different CPU processers and operating systems,it is a challenge to merge these heterogeneities and develop such a universal platform.In this paper,we design both hardware and software to support the "universal" feature of uSensing:1) "uSD" card:an IEEE 802.15.4 physical communication card with SD interface;2) "uSinkWare":a WSNs middleware running on smartphones.Integrated with uSD card and uSinkWare,phones become mobile data sinks to access into WSNs and parse messages from sensor nodes.We demonstrate the proposed uSensing platform in a commercial smartphone to connect with our WSNs testbed,and validate that the smartphone has the same WSNs functions as commercial fixed sink.Additionally,we evaluate the performance of uSensing platform through measuring phone's CPU load and power consumption,and analyze the performance of these metrics theoretically.The results suggest that the phone-based mobile sink has enough capability to serve as a mobile sink of WSNs and can work up to twenty hours due to low power consumption.
基金supported by Research Project of "SUSTSpring Bud"(No.2008BWZ042)from Shandong University of Science and Technology
文摘Introducing a System-on-Chip (SoC) microcontroller (C8051F350) into a ceramic pressure sensor has resulted in the design of a intelligent sensor. An improved algorithm for digital phassensitive detection is used to perform lock-in amplification of the sensor signal. The compensation for the sensor error is realized by the detection of the sensor's supply voltage and working temperature. The system also has the function of short/open circuit fault detection and can ommamicate with other digital equipment through an RS-485 communication interface. In the design, full utilization of the SoC microcontroller' s internal resource results in the simple hardware structure. Experimental results show that the error of the sensor is less than 0.5% at range ratio 1 : 10. Employing the microcontroller and using lock-in amplification algorithm are an effective method for achieving an intelligent sensor of slowly-varying physical quantities, thereby improving the measuring accuracy and performance.
文摘This paper conducts research on the algorithm to improve the location of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) in Intelligent Transportation System (ITS). The localization algorithm introduced an improved RSSI vehicle localization algorithm based on multi-path effect and Gaussian white noise. The localization results under different values of Gaussian white noise and different density of beacon nodes are analyzes, and Kalman filtering algorithm is introduced to reduce the influence of signal noise. Finally, a simulation model of ITS is developed to test the algorithm based on mixed noise and Kalman filtering algorithm, which is used to simulate the localization of real vehicles. The simulation shows the algorithm has effect to improve location accuracy and to application
文摘Consigned to the shadows of telecommunications, optical sensing has often taken a back seat in a young person's mind when considering the importance of photonics, or optics, to the advancement of the society and of knowledge. Here, I touch on briefly how broad optical sensing and sensing generally has become and how and why it is becoming the catalyst for the convergence of many technologies and in the process raising significant philosophical questions about the transformation of our society and indeed ourselves. In doing so I touch on many of the complexities in real life that influence the breakthroughs we see today, including a healthy speculation and critique on our society and an awareness of the motivations to improve it that drive many of them.