Sensor Review: Volume 29 Issue 3

Energy harvesting and wireless sensors: a review of recent developments

The purpose of this paper is to review the development of energy harvesting techniques and their use with wireless, self‐powered sensors.

Using the mouth as a computer keyboard

The purpose of this paper is to review work at the Georgia Institute of Technology that uses magnetic sensor arrays to construct assistive technology systems for disabled people.

Sensing with electromagnetic radiation: a review. Part 2: long wavelengths

The purpose of this paper is to review the industrial sensing applications of electromagnetic radiation (EMR) and is in two parts. This, the second part, considers the infrared…

Measurements in harsh RF propagation environments to support performance evaluation of wireless sensor networks

The purpose of this paper is to describe common methods for evaluating the performance of wireless devices such as wireless sensors in harsh radio environments.

Modeling of pulsed GTAW based on multi‐sensor fusion

Welding process is a complicated process influenced by many interference factors, a single sensor cannot get information describing welding process roundly. This paper…

Combined active triangulation, morphology scheme for active shape retrieval

The purpose of this paper is to present a combined scheme of active laser‐based triangulation and a morphological edge detection, to quantify features dimensions (width and depth…

Analysis of arc sound characteristics for gas tungsten argon welding

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the characteristics of sound during gas tungsten argon welding (GTAW), which is very important to effectively monitor the welding quality…

Automatic texture inspection in the classification of papers and cloths with neural networks method

The purpose of this paper is to present an automatic inspection method of colors and textures classification of paper and cloth objects.

A wet‐etch method with improved yield for realizing polysilicon resistors in batch fabrication of MEMS pressure sensor

The purpose of this paper is to present a selective wet‐etching method of boron doped low‐pressure chemical vapour deposition (LPCVD) polysilicon film for the realization of…

Ultrasonic tomography imaging simulation of two‐phase homogeneous flow

The purpose of this paper is to present an implementation of ultrasonic tomography simulation to investigate the laminar flow of stratified liquid between water and oil.

Augmented reality based on online trifocal tensors estimation using multiple features

The purpose of this paper is to present a novel registration method for augmented reality (AR) systems based on robust estimation of trifocal tensor using point and line…

Acoustic monitoring extends uptime on paper rollers

New low cost thermal imager

Patent abstracts

ISO/IEC standard provides common international framework for RFID frequencies

Wireless sensor networks: a vision for new networking paradigm

Web sites

Optofluidic microscope shrinks to fit on a chip

Image Fusion. Algorithms and Applications

Perpetuum and CAP-XX team on battery-free wireless condition monitoring

SenGenuity announces TempTrackr™ wireless temperature measurement solution for unparalleled portability and performance

Diary

Wireless devices in the factory automation – an overview of adoption trends

Tidal analysis