
6th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications series
15–30 Nov 2019
Biosensors, Chemical Sensors, Physical Sensors, Sensor Networks, Structural Health Monitoring Technologies and Sensor Networks, Wearable Sensors
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Welcome from the Chairs
All participants of ECSA-6 are welcome to submit the extended work to the Sensors Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 6th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications".
We gladly announce that Dr. Sandra Sendra (University of Granada, Spain) and Priv.-Doz. Dr. Marco Deluca (Montanuniversität Leoben, Austria) as our keynote speakers.
We are pleased to announce Dr. Yves Olsommer, Dr. Jiayue Shen and Dr. Sabina Merlo's papers were awarded the ECSA-6 Best Contribution Award in 2019.
Welcome from the Conference Chairs of the 6th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications
We are pleased to announce the 6th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications. After the success of the five editions from 2014 to 2018, this year edition will focus on four thematic areas where sensors are changing science:
- Chemo- and Biosensors (Session A)
- Physical Sensors (Session B)
- Sensor Networks (Session C)
- Applications (Session D)
There will be three specific sessions:
- Structural Health Monitoring Technologies and Sensor Networks (Specific Session S1)
- Wearable sensors (Specific Session S2)
- Smart Cities (Specific Session S3)
and also a Poster session. Posters can be presented without an accompanying proceedings paper and will be available online on this website during and after the e-conference. However, they will not be added to the proceedings of the conference.
Participants will have the opportunity to examine, explore and critically engage with issues and advances in these areas. We hope to facilitate discussions and exchange within the community.
This event will solely be an online proceeding which allows the participation from all over the world with no concerns of travel and related expenditures. This type of conference is particularly appropriate and useful because research concerned with sensors is progressing rapidly. An electronic conference provides a platform for rapid and direct exchanges about the latest research findings and novel ideas. The participation as well as the "attendance" of this online conference is free of charge.
The 6th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications is sponsored by MDPI and the scientific journal Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220, IF 3.031). The conference proceedings papers and presentations will be available on https://ecsa-6.sciforum.net/ for discussion during 15-30 November 2019 and will be published in journal Proceedings.
Extended and expanded versions of conference proceedings papers can be submitted to Special Issue "Selected Papers from the 6th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications" in journal Sensors, with a 20% discount on the Article Processing Charges.
Sensors is an Open Access publication journal of MDPI in the field of the science and technology of sensors and biosensors.
We hope the community will share this enthusiasm and help making this 6th edition a success—for many to come in the future.
The Chairs of the 6th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications.
Dr. Stefano Mariani |
Dr. Stefano Mariani received an M.S. degree (cum laude) in civil engineering in 1995, and a Ph.D. degree in structural engineering in 1999; both degrees are from the Polytechnic University of Milan. He is currently an associate professor at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Milan. He was a research scholar at the Danish Technical University in 1997, an adjunct professor at Penn State University in 2007, and a visiting professor at the Polytechnic Institute of New York University in 2009. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of Algorithms, International Journal on Advances in Systems and Measurements, Inventions, Machines, Micro and Nanosystems, Micromachines, and Sensors. He has been a recipient of the Associazione Carlo Maddalena Prize for graduate students (1996), and of the Fondazione Confalonieri Prize for PhD students (2000). His main research interests are: the reliability of MEMS that are subject to shocks and drops; the structural health monitoring of composite structures through MEMS sensors; numerical simulations of ductile fracture in metals and of quasi-brittle fracture in heterogeneous and functionally graded materials; extended finite element methods; the calibration of constitutive models via extended and sigma-point Kalman filters; and multi-scale solution methods for dynamic delamination in layered composites. |
Dr. Tom A. Messervey |
Dr. Tom A. Messervey has over 20 years of engineering experience, which includes military service in the US Army Corps of Engineers, industrial experience with the Italian Engineering Company, D’Appolonia, teaching excellence at the United States Military Academy at West Point, and coaching services as the EU Facilitator for the Intelligent Manufacturing Systems program (www.ims.org). He serves as an expert for the European Commission in textiles, manufacturing, and energy efficiency. His research interests focus on using sensor data to make better engineering decisions across design, assessment, maintenance, inspections, and energy management to include machine learning. He is a member of the International Association of Bridge Maintenance and Safety (IABMAS), the International Association of Life Cycle Civil Engineering (IALCCE), and a technical reviewer for the International Journal of Safety and Security Engineering and the Journal of Structure and Infrastructure Engineering. |
Dr. Alberto Vallan |
Dr. Alberto Vallan received the M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 1996 and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Instrumentation from the University of Brescia, Italy, in 2000. He is currently an Associate Professor in Electrical and Electronic Measurements with the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of the Politecnico di Torino. From 2000 to present, he has been a lecturer in courses concerning Electronic Measurements and Sensors. His research interests are focused on the development and characterization of fiber sensors and measuring instruments for biomedical and industrial applications. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE/Instrumentation&Measurement Society. |
Dr. Stefan Bosse |
PD Dr. Stefan Bosse studied physics at the University of Bremen. He received a PhD/doctoral degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in physics in the year 2002 at the University of Bremen, and the post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) and the Venia Legendi in Computer Science in the year 2016 at the University of Bremen with his habilitation (postdoctoral degree) "Unified Distributed Sensor and Environmental Information Processing with Multi-Agent Systems". Since 2017 he is teaching and researching as a Privatdozent at the University of Bremen, Department of Computer Science, and since 2018 he is an interim professor at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Faculty Computer Science, Institute of Software Technologies. At the University of Bremen and University Koblenz-Landau he teaches several courses in fundamental computer science, functional programming, and in selected advanced topics covering the design and programming of massive parallel and distributed systems, multi-agents systems and agent-based simulation, high-level synthesis of complex digital logic data processing systems, and material-integrated sensing systems with a high interdisciplinary background. His main research area is distributed artificial intelligence in general, and in particular information processing in massive parallel and distributed systems using agent-based approaches combined with machine learning, and agent-based simulation. A broad range of fields of application and domains are addressed: Material Science, Materials Informatics, Smart Materials, IoT, Production Engineering, Social Science, Crowd Sensing, Geo Science. He conducted projects in the internationally recognized ISIS Scientific Centre for Intelligent Sensorial Materials pushing interdisciplinary research closing the gap between technology and computer science, finally joining the ISIS council and publishing an internationally well regarded handbook on this topic. He published about 100 journal and conference papers and acts as a reviewer and a guest editor for several international journals and is a member of a broad range of international conference programme and organizing committees. |
Dr. Francisco Falcone |
Dr. Francisco Falcone received his Telecommunication Engineering Degree (1999) and PhD in Communication Engineering (2005), both at the Public University of Navarre in Spain. From 1999 to 2000 he worked as Microwave Commissioning Engineer, Siemens-Italtel. From 2000 to 2008 he worked as Radio Network Engineer, Telefónica Móviles. In 2009 he co-founded Tafco Metawireless. From 2003 to 2009 he was also Assistant Lecturer at UPNA, becoming Associate Professor in 2009. His research area is artificial electromagnetic media, complex electromagnetic scenarios and wireless system analysis, with applications to context aware environments, Smart Cities and Smart Regions. He has over 500 contributions in journal and conference publications. He has been recipient of the CST Best Paper Award in 2003 and 2005, Best PhD in 2006 awarded by the Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros de Telecomunicación, Doctorate award 2004-2006 awarded by UPNA, Juan Lopez de Peñalver Young Researcher Award 2010 awarded by the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain and Premio Talgo 2012 for Technological Innovation. |
Call for papers
6th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications
The 6th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications will be held from 15 to 30 November 2019 in the internet environment. This event will solely be an online proceeding which allows the participation from all over the world with no concerns of travel and related expenditures, while at the same time making rapid and direct exchanges about the latest research findings and novel ideas in sensors. All proceedings will be held online at https://ecsa-6.sciforum.net/ and in Journal Proceedings.
The conference aims to bring the scientists working in the field onto a common platform and promote and advance the exciting and rapidly changing field of sensing technologies and applications along the following four main themes:
- Chemo and Biosensors (Session A)
- Physical Sensors (Session B)
- Sensor Networks (Session C)
- Applications (Session D)
and three specific sessions:
- Structural Health Monitoring Technologies and Sensor Networks (Specific Session S1)
- Wearable sensors (Specific Session S2)
- Smart Cities (Specific Session S3)
and also a Poster session.Posters can be presented without an accompanying proceedings paper and will be available online on this website during and after the e-conference. However, they will not be added to the proceedings of the conference.
Paper Submission Guidelines
For information about the procedure for submission, peer-review, revision and acceptance of conference proceedings papers, please refer to the section "Instructions for Authors": https://ecsa-6.sciforum.net/#instructions.
Time Schedule
- Abstract Submission: 1 October 2019
- Notification of Acceptance: 5 October 2019
- Proceedings Paper Submission Deadline: 22 October 2019
- Conference Open: 15-30 November 2019
Conference Chairs

Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy
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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
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Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, Spain
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Conference Committee

Distinguished University Professor,
Senior Canada Research Chair in Information Technology,
Canada
Distinguished University Professor Senior Canada Research Chair in Information Technology Director, Micro- and Nano-Systems Laboratory President - Academy of Science, Royal Society of Canada (2015-17) Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, ITB 104 McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West Hamilton, ON L8S 4K1, CANADA URL: www.ece.mcmaster.ca/~jamal
Microelectronics, Nanoelectronics and Opto-electronics
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Department of Electrical, Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering and Naval Architecture, University of Genova, Italy
Embedded Integrated Circuits for Telecommunications; Electronic/artificial sensitive skin; Embedded electronic systems for tactile sensors; Tactile sensing systems for prosthetics and robotics; Neuromorphic touch sensors
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Institute of Crystallography,
CNR - Via Salaria km 29,3 - Monterotondo,
Rome, Italy
Roberto Pilloton (CNR-IC) is the Editor in Chief of IJEAC - International Journal of Environmental Analytical Chemistry (Taylor and Francis, London). He is in the Editorial Board of Biosensors (ISSN 2079-6374), and Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220;), two open access journals, providing an advanced forum for studies related to the science and technology of sensors, biosensors and biosensing, published by MDPI, Basel, Switzerland,
Electrochemistry, environmental analytical chemistry; biosensors; sensors and sensing; continuous flow monitoring; immobilization techniques; enzyme inhibitors; lab on a chip; nanostructured electrodes; screen printed electrodes; herbicides; pe
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Department of Communications, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Camino de Vera 46022, Valencia, Spain,
Chair of the Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute (IGIC)
Prof. Jaime Lloret ([email protected]) received his B.Sc.+M.Sc. in Physics in 1997, his B.Sc.+M.Sc. in electronic Engineering in 2003 and his Ph.D. in telecommunication engineering (Dr. Ing.) in 2006. He is a Cisco Certified Network Professional Instructor. He worked as a network designer and administrator in several enterprises. He is currently Associate Professor in the Polytechnic University of Valencia. He is the Chair of the Integrated Management Coastal Research Institute (IGIC) and he i
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Department of Mathematics, CoDAlab,
Barcelona East School of Engineering (EEBE), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain
Francesc Pozo received the degree in mathematics from the University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, in 2000, and the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, in 2005. Since 2000, he has been with the Department of Mathematics and the Barcelona East School of Engineering (EEBE), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, where he is currently an Associate Professor with the Control, Modeling, Identification and Applications Research Group (CoDAlab). He is also a Teaching Collaborator at the Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona. His research interests include wind turbine control, semiactive vibration mitigation in civil engineering structures (buildings and bridges), automotive and aeronautic systems, and offshore support structures, structural health monitoring (SHM) and condition monitoring (CM) for wind turbines and, in general, the application of applied mathematics in engineering problems. Dr. Pozo serves as a Secretary of the Spanish Joint Chapter of the IEEE Control Systems S
His research interests include wind turbine control, semiactive vibration mitigation in civil engineering structures (buildings and bridges), automotive and aeronautic systems, and offshore support structures, structural health monitoring (SHM) and condit
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Keynote Speakers
Dr. Sandra Sendra ([email protected]) was born in Gandia, Valencia (Spain) on February 27, 1985. She received her degree of Technical Engineering in Telecommunications in 2007. She received her M.Sc. of Electronic Systems Engineering in 2009 and her Ph.D. in electronic engineering (Dr. Ing.) in 2013. Currently, she is assistant professor at the University of Granada (Spain). She is Cisco Certified Network Associate Instructor since 2009 and HP-ATA instructor since 2015. She is author or co-author of more than 120 papers in SCI journals, peer-reviewed conferences proceedings, books and international book chapters. She is editor-in-chief of the international journal "WSEAS Transaction on Communications" since 2012, guest editor several SI in International Journals related to underwater communications, sensors and actuator networks. She has been the co-editor of 5 conference proceedings and associate editor in 4 international journals. She has been involved in more than 140 Program and organization committees of international conferences until 2019. She has been the general chair (or co-chair) of 3 International conferences. She has been session chair in 12 international conferences. She has participated in 16 research projects. She is IEEE Member. Her research interests, but no limited, include saving energy techniques in electronic circuits, sensor deployment, WSN, UWSN and the application of these technologies for environmental monitoring.

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Priv.-Doz. Dr. Marco Deluca received a Master in Chemical Engineering from the University of Trieste (Italy) and a Ph. D. in Materials Science from Kyoto Institute of Technology (Japan). He obtained in 2016 the Habilitation (venia docendi) in Materials Science from the Montanuniversität Leoben (Leoben, Austria). The main theme of his scientific career is the study of structure-property relationships in functional oxide materials, in particular ceramics for energy harvesting, energy storage and gas sensing applications. He is a member of the IEEE Ferroelectrics Standing Committee and of the Board of Directors of the Austrian Ceramic Society. He authored/co-authored more than 70 refereed publications in journals and conferences and two book chapters, and gave more than 20 invited presentations to international conferences and workshops. His h-index is 20. Marco Deluca is also Lecturer in the Materials Science Department of the Montanuniversität Leoben (Leoben, Austria).
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Instructions for Authors
Submissions should be done by the authors online by registering with https://sciforum.net/, and using the "Start New Submission" function once logged into system.
- Scholars interested in participating with the conference can submit their abstract (about 200-250 words covering the areas of manuscripts for the proceedings issue) online on this website until 10 September 2019 1 October 2019.
- The Conference Committee will pre-evaluate, based on the submitted abstract, whether a contribution from the authors of the abstract will be welcome for the 6th International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications. All authors will be notified by 15 September 2019 5 October 2019 about the acceptance of their abstract.
- If the abstract is accepted for this conference, the author is asked to submit the manuscript, optionally along with a PowerPoint and/or video presentation of his/her paper (only PDF), until the submission deadline of 15 October 2019 22 October 2019.
- The conference proceedings papers and presentations will be available on https://ecsa-6.sciforum.net/ for discussion during the time of the conference 15–30 November 2019 and will be published in Journal Proceedings.
- The Open Access Journal Sensors will publish Special Issue of the conference and accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference itself. After the conference, the Conference Committee will select manuscripts that may be included for publication in the Special Issue of the journal Sensors (the submission to the journal is independent from the conference proceedings and will follow the usual process of the journal, including peer-review, APC, etc.).
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must have the following organization:
First page:
- Title
- Full author names
- Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
- Abstract (200-250 words)
- Keywords
- Introduction
- Methods
- Results and Discussion
- Conclusions
- (Acknowledgements)
- References
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List of accepted submissions (85)
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sciforum-027410 | Electromagnetic characterization of engineered materials using capacitively loaded aperture sensors | N/A | N/A |
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Electromagnetic (EM) characterization of engineered artificial materials such as bio- and nanomaterials is very important for several reasons. One of these reasons is future proliferation of 5G communication networks exposing urban population into the EM radiation of wide spectral range, therefore it is critically important to understand how new materials EM response can be utilized in electronic and communication devices and also ensure EM compatibility of biomaterials used inside human body. A new method to characterize permittivity and permeability of artificial materials using capacitively loaded aperture sensors is proposed and experimentally evaluated. The advantage of this new method over the existing techniques (free space, loaded waveguide, microstrip and coplanar waveguide resonators, coaxial probe, etc) is three-fold: i) resonance EM field enhancement inside the loaded aperture leads to very high sensitivity and therefore accuracy of EM parameters de-embedding; ii) only small thin samples of material-under test are required (with sample area substantially smaller than squared wavelength of radiation); iii) the method is easily scalable over the frequency and wavelength and based on relatively simple permittivity and permeability de-embedding procedure. This method can find application in EM materials characterization for existing and future electronic and communication devices. |
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sciforum-027346 | IoT Based Monitoring System for White Button Mushroom Farming | , , , | N/A |
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In Nepal, most of the farmers depend upon traditional agricultural practices. Adapting modern agricultural technology plays an important role in improving overall efficiency as well as the productivity of their yields. In modern agriculture, the Internet of Things (IoT) connects farmers to their farm via the sensors so that they could easily monitor the real-time conditions of their farm from anywhere. White Button Mushroom is a widely cultivated crop among Nepalese farmers. Although being the most consumed and cultivated crop, it is still overshadowed by the traditional cultivation approach which is resulting in low productivity, high manpower efficiency, more effort, and cost. This work aims to develop a monitoring system to monitor the environmental conditions of a mushroom farm. It enables a user to monitor crucial factors such as temperature, humidity, moisture, the light intensity on a mushroom farm through the end devices. White Button Mushroom requires optimum temperature ranging from 22°C to 25°C and humidity from 70% to 90%. Sensors are placed on fixed locations and spots of the farm. Then, the sensors measure the status of parameters that are transmitted to the remote monitoring station via a low power Node MCU. The codes for the controller are written in the Arduino programming language, debugged, compiled, and burnt into the microcontroller using the Arduino integrated development environment. The result shows successful monitoring of environmental conditions accessing the internet from anywhere. It minimizes human efforts and automates production, which could be beneficial to Nepalese farmers. |
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sciforum-026977 | Towards the Internet of Augmented Things: an Open-source Framework to Interconnect IoT Devices and Augmented Reality Systems | , , , | N/A | N/A |
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The latest Augmented Reality (AR) systems are able to provide immersive and innovative methods for user interaction, but their full potential can only be achieved when they are able to exchange bidirectional information with the physical world that surround them, including the objects that belong to the Internet of Things (IoT). The problem is that elements like AR display devices or IoT sensors/actuators often use heterogeneous technologies that make it difficult to intercommunicate them in an easy way, thus requiring a high degree of specialization to carry out such a task. This paper presents an open-source framework that eases the integration of AR and IoT devices as well as the transfer of information among them, both in real time and in a fluid way. The proposed framework makes use of widely used standard protocols and open-source tools like MQTT, HTTPS or Node-Red. In order to illustrate the operation of the framework, this paper presents the implementation and evaluation of a practical home automation example: an AR application for energy consumption monitoring that allows for using a pair of Microsoft HoloLens AR glasses to interact with a smart power outlet. |
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sciforum-026873 | The influence of annealing on optical and humidity sensing properties of poly(vinyl alcohol-co-vinyl acetal) thin films. | , , , , | N/A |
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Poly(vinylalcohol-co-vinylacetal)s were synthesized at mild reaction conditions in aqueous media at 30°C [1]. The copolymer composition was controlled by PVA-to-acetaldehyde molar ratio. Polymers thin films of varied copolymer composition were deposited on silicon substrate using water-methanol solution in a volume ratio of 80:20 and concentration of 1 wt%. Films were subjected to low (60oC) and moderate (180oC) temperature annealing in order to study the temperature influence on optical and humidity sensing properties. Refractive index, extinction coefficient along with thickness of the films were determined from reflectance spectra measured at normal light incidence and non-linear minimization of the goal function comprising measured and calculated spectra. The humidity sensing ability of the films was studied through reflectance measurements at different humidity levels in the range 5-95%RH. The influence of temperature annealing on optical and sensing properties is demonstrated and discussed. References: [1] D. Christova, S. Ivanova, G. Ivanova, Polymer Bulletin, 50, 367-372 (2003). Acknowledgments: The financial support of Bulgarian National Science Fund, grant number DN08-15/14.12.2016 is highly appreciated. K. Lazarova and S. Bozhilova acknowledge the National Scientific Program for young scientists and postdoctoral fellows (РМС № 577 / 17.08.2018) for scholarship.
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sciforum-026888 | Experimental Study of a Multi Inertial Measurement Unit | , , | N/A | N/A |
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An inertial measurement unit (IMU) typically has three accelerometers and three gyroscopes. The output of those inertial sensors is used by the inertial navigation system to calculate the navigation solution. Since the sensor measurements contain noise, the navigation solution drifts over time. When considering low cost sensors, multiple IMUs can be used to improve the performance of a single unit. In this paper, we describe our designed 32 multi-IMU (MIMU) architecture and present experimental results of this system. To analyze the sensory data, a dedicated software tool, capable of addressing MIMUs inputs, was developed. Using our MIMU hardware and software tool we examined the possibility of using MIMUs instead of a single IMU for: 1) navigation solution 2) outlier rejection 3) calibration performance 4) coarse alignment accuracy and 5) the effect of different MIMUs locations in the architecture. Our results show that 32 IMUs obtained better performance than a single IMU for all testcases examined. In addition, we show that performance was improved gradually as the number of IMUs was increased in the architecture. |
List of Authors (274)
Conference Schedule
Abstract Submission: 10 September 2019
Notification of Acceptance: 15 September 2019
Paper Submission Deadline: 15 October 2019
Conference Open: 15-30 November 2019
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Stefanie Tian
MDPI Branch Office, Beijing
E-Mail: [email protected]
Ms. Nora Zhang
MDPI Branch Office, Beijing
E-Mail: [email protected]
Sponsoring Opportunities
For information regarding sponsoring opportunities, please contact the conference secretariat.
A. Chemo- and Biosensors
Session Chair
Dr. Stefano Mariani, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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B. Physical Sensors
Session Chair
Dr. Alberto Vallan, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
C. Sensor Networks
Session Chairs
Dr. Francisco Falcone, Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Public University of Navarre, Pamplona, Spain
Dr. Stefan Bosse, Department of Computer Science, University of Bremen, and Faculty Computer Science, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
D. Applications
Session Chair
Dr. Thomas B. Messervey, CEO and Co-Founder, Research to Market Solution s.r.l., Italy
S1. Structural Health Monitoring Technologies and Sensor Networks
Structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil structures and infrastructure aims at detecting any potential damage, leading to an irreversible reduction of their stiffness and strength characteristics and, possibly, to catastrophic events. As changes in the mechanical properties cannot be directly sensed, SHM systems perform data analytics on measurements to indirectly identify the damage. SHM can be therefore seen as the analysis of sensor data from operating structural systems to extract information used for decision-making process. The goal of this session is to collect contributions in the disciplines of physical sensors and also computer science and engineering. Experimental and theoretical works are both welcome, with the aim of moving towards the design of robust and resilient smart sensing strategies, and to effectively extract information from raw data acquired by pervasive sensor networks.
Topics include: design and exploitation of wireless sensor networks, multi-functional materials, energy harvesting, MEMS sensors; AI-based data mining, cloud/edge/fog computing for infrastructure maintenance; model-based Big Data analytics methods, such as Kalman and particle filtering for real-time damage detection; computational modelling for infrastructure simulation, optimization and response prediction.
Session Chairs
Dr. Yashar Eftekhar Azam, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Dr. Stefano Mariani, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
S2. Wearable Sensors
The market and the applications of wearable sensors are rapidly growing thanks to the widespread availability of miniaturized sensors having reduced power consumption and wide interfacing capabilities. Relevant applications of wearable sensors can be found in our everyday life both for scientific and non-scientific purposes, such as the monitoring of physiological parameters for health and for fitness assessment. Session topics include:
- development and advances of sensor technology for wearable systems
- power management and energy harvesting
- flexible sensors and related electronics and circuits
- characterization and calibration of wearable sensors
- textile integration of sensors and electronics
- smart wearable sensors
- wearable sensor for e-health, security , sport and gaming
- activity and fitness trackers
Session Chair
Dr. Alberto Vallan, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
S3. Smart Cities
Sensors, sensor networks and the information they provide are the fundamental building block of smart cities and everything they have to offer toward improving the quality of life. This session encourages researchers worldwide to share their sensors and applications related to smart cities as we build the urban future of tomorrow. Topics are not limited to but could include submissions related to smart buildings, districts and urban spaces, smart grids, environmental monitoring, transportation, infrstructure and mobility, IoT, and sensors and applications that empower citizens and improve qulity of life.
Session Chairs
Dr. Thomas B. Messervey, CEO and Co-Founder, Research to Market Solution s.r.l., Italy
Dr. Stefan Bosse, Department of Computer Science, University of Bremen, and Faculty Computer Science, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany