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2nd International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications series
15–30 Nov 2015
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Call for Papers
The 2nd International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications will be held from 15–30 November 2015 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://sciforum.net/conference/ecsa-2.
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 5 main themes and 7 specific sessions:
- Biosensors (Section A)
- Chemical Sensors (Section B)
- Physical Sensors (Section C)
- Sensor Networks (Section D)
- Applications (Section E)
- Posters: In this section, posters can be presented without an accompanying proceedings paper. Posters will be available online on this website during and after the e-conference. However, will not be added to the proceedings of the conference.
- MEMS and NEMS (Specific Session S1)
- Smart Systems and Structures (Specific Session S2)
- Smart Textiles (Specific Session S3)
- Sports & Sensors (Specific Session S4)
- Factories of the Future (Specific Session S5)
- Fiber Optic Sensors (Specific Session S6)
- Sensing Technologies for Water Resource Management (Specific Session S7)
Abstracts (in English) should be submitted by 15 September 2015 online at https://www.sciforum.net/login. For accepted abstracts, the full paper can be submitted by 25 October 2015. The conference itself will be held from 15–30 November 2015.
Paper Submission GuidelinesFor information about the procedure for submission, peer-review, revision and acceptance of conference proceedings papers, please refer to the section "Instructions for Authors": https://www.sciforum.net/conference/ecsa-2/page/instructions.
Conference Chairs
lin.li@mdpi.com
MDPI AG
larussa@mdpi.com
lucy.lu@mdpi.com
lei.chen@mdpi.com
stefano.mariani@polimi.it
Sessions
B. Chemical Sensors
C. Physical Sensors
D. Sensor Networks
E. Applications
P. Posters
S1. MEMS and NEMS
S2. Smart Systems and Structures
S3. Smart Textiles
S4. Sports & Sensors
S5. Factories of the Future
S6. Fiber Optic Sensors
S7. Sensing Technologies for Water Resource Management
Instructions for Authors
Submissions should be done by the authors online by registering with www.sciforum.net, and using the "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 15 September 2015.
- 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 2nd International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications. All authors will be notified by 25 September 2015 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 25 October 2015.
- The conference proceedings papers and presentations will be available on sciforum.net/conference/ecsa-2/page/call for discussion during the time of the conference 15-30 November 2015.
- 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...).
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
Manuscripts should be prepared in MS Word or any other word processor and should be converted to the PDF format before submission. The publication format will be PDF. The manuscript should count at least 3 pages (incl. figures, tables and references) and should not exceed 6 pages.
Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the Manuscript. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly in the website using Sciforum.net's proprietary slides viewer. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results can be presented. Slides should be converted to the PDF format before submission so that our process can easily and automatically convert them for online displaying.
Besides their active participation within the forum, authors are also encouraged to submit video presentations. If you are interested in submitting, please contact the conference organizer – conferences@mdpi.com to get to know more about the procedure. This is an unique way of presenting your paper and discuss it with peers from all over the world. Make a difference and join us for this project!
Submission: Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.sciforum.net/login by registering and logging in to this website.
Accepted File Formats- MS Word: Manuscript prepared in MS Word must be converted into a single file before submission. When preparing manuscripts in MS Word, the Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications Microsoft Word template file (see download below) must be used. Please do not insert any graphics (schemes, figures, etc.) into a movable frame which can superimpose the text and make the layout very difficult.
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- Paper Format: A4 paper format, the printing area is 17.5 cm x 26.2 cm. The margins should be 1.75 cm on each side of the paper (top, bottom, left, and right sides).
- Paper Length: The conference proceedings paper should not be longer than 6 pages. The conference manuscript should be as concise as possible.
- Formatting / Style: The paper style of the Journal Sensors should be followed. You may download the template file to prepare your paper (see above). The full titles and the cited papers must be given. Reference numbers should be placed in square brackets [ ], and placed before the punctuation; for example [4] or [1-3], and all the references should be listed separately and as the last section at the end of the manuscript.
- Authors List and Affiliation Format: Authors' full first and last names must be given. Abbreviated middle name can be added. For papers written by various contributors a corresponding author must be designated. The PubMed/MEDLINE format is used for affiliations: complete street address information including city, zip code, state/province, country, and email address should be added. All authors who contributed significantly to the manuscript (including writing a section) should be listed on the first page of the manuscript, below the title of the article. Other parties, who provided only minor contributions, should be listed under Acknowledgments only. A minor contribution might be a discussion with the author, reading through the draft of the manuscript, or performing English corrections.
- Figures, Schemes and Tables: Authors are encouraged to prepare figures and schemes in color. Full color graphics will be published free of charge. Figure and schemes must be numbered (Figure 1, Scheme I, Figure 2, Scheme II, etc.) and a explanatory title must be added. Tables should be inserted into the main text, and numbers and titles for all tables supplied. All table columns should have an explanatory heading. Please supply legends for all figures, schemes and tables. The legends should be prepared as a separate paragraph of the main text and placed in the main text before a table, a figure or a scheme.
It is the authors' responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state here "The authors declare no conflict of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflict of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Financial support for the study must be fully disclosed under "Acknowledgments" section.
Copyright
MDPI AG, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe that authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting a Communication paper to this conference, you retain the copyright of your paper, but you grant MDPI AG the non-exclusive right to publish this paper online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your paper to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher (if required by that publisher).
List of accepted submissions (56)
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sciforum-006096 | GaAs Lamb wave micro sensor | , , , | N/A |
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Acoustic Lamb Wave microsensors are suitable for label free sensing in liquid. The device relies on the interaction between acoustic waves propagating within a thin membrane and the liquid. Lamb wave sensors have been previously studied using AlN/Si structure to detect multi-parameters of a liquid, such as its temperature, density, sound velocity and viscosity using various modes as A0 and S0. These devices already showed good ability to perform measurements on fluids (gas or liquid) but in this case, chemical wet etching silicon was used to realize thin membranes combined with an Aln piezoelectric layer used to generate and detect the acoustic wave. This paper reports the use of Gallium Arsenide as piezoelectric material to generate and propagate Lamb waves. GaAs material presents intrinsically interesting piezoelectric properties and is compatible with wet chemical etching process. The fabrication process allows producing a thin membrane but is also adapted for microfluidic microchannels. So, the same substrate can be used for the resonant structure and its excitation. The design of the resonant structure has been optimized using simulations to adapt the design of interdigital electrodes to the GaAs substrate taking into account the shear piezoelectric coefficient and its orientation. An experimental setup has been realized and measurements of the interaction with fluids are presented. |
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sciforum-006109 | Radio propagation analysis for ZigBee based indoor dog monitoring system | , , , , , , | N/A |
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The flexibility of new age wireless networks and the variety of sensors to measure a high number of variables, lead to new scenarios where anything can be monitored by little electronic devices, thereby building Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). Thanks to ZigBee, RFID or Wi-Fi networks the precise position of humans or animals as well as some biological parameters can be known in real-time. However, since wireless sensors must be attached to biological tissues and they are highly dispersive, propagation of the electromagnetic waves must be studied to build an efficient and well-working network. In this work, the radio wave propagation produced by ZigBee devices working over ISM 2.4GHz based network is studied through a home-made 3D Ray Launching simulation tool. Furthermore, a simplified dog model is developed for the chosen simulation code, considering not only its morphology but also its dielectric properties. This model is placed inside a home, taking under consideration all the furniture (tables, chairs, mirrors, etc.) and some measurements have been carried out attaching ZigBee based Xbee motes to a real dog. Power distribution, Power delay profile and delay spread graphs are extracted from simulation results concluding in an extensive and accurate wireless radio propagation studio. Finally, a dog monitoring system is presented, it works over the zigbee network and sends information to Android based devices. |
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sciforum-005928 | Assessment of overetch and polysilicon film properties through on-chip tests | , , |
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Two main uncertainty sources can affect the response of polysilicon MEMS during standard on-chip measurements: the overetch induced by the deep reactive-ion etching process; the mechanical properties of the aggregate of silicon grains. The former one can be reduced by finer fabrication techniques, not adopted indeed in mass production processes, while the latter one is related to the length-scale of the devices. Due to the increasing miniaturization, the width of some MEMS components may become comparable to that of a silicon grain and the relevant effective mechanical properties can vary significantly from one device to another. In this work, through on-chip tests we investigate the response of polysilicon films using standard electrostatic actuation/sensing. The results of such experimental campaign are then compared to an analytical reduced-order model of the structure, and to coupled electro-mechanical simulations accounting for the stochastic morphology of the silicon film. These two models are adopted to bilaterally bound the experimental data up to pull-in, and to assess the scattering induced by the random orientation of the crystal lattice of each grain in digital Voronoi tessellations of the slender parts of the devices. |
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sciforum-005929 | Agent-based Solutions for Industrial Environments composed of Autonomous Mobile Agents, Modular Agent Platforms, and Tuple Spaces. |
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Future factory production and assembly environments require smart automation and are controlled by a massively increasing number of computers with sensorial feedback from machines, parts, products, and humans, consisting of a wide variety of different networked devices and software programs, which can be considered as one big use case of pervasive and cloud computing with vanishing boundaries between the computing and the environment, and with a strong focus on decentralized distributed computing and information storage. These new complex information processing architectures are composed of hierarchical network graphs, and require some kind of self-organization and adaptability to overcome single-point of failure and robustness constraints. The data acquired from machines and sensitive products or parts are growing at a fast rate, leading to a large data volume that must be handled distributed with pre-processing, map- and reduce, and filtering algorithms. |
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sciforum-005930 | Energy and Water Monitoring System for Smart Metering and Consumer Awareness | N/A |
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Smart meter facilitates real-time communication between the customer and the utility company offering various advantages to both the suppliers and the consumers. Problems such as meter reading, information on energy and water usage, demand requirements, varying tariff, billing and theft can be solved through smart metering. This paper presents the design and implementation of an automatic electricity and water meter system. The system consists of the smart meter comprising a GSM board, Arduino microcontroller, a clamp current sensor together with a water flow sensor for measuring the amount of electricity and water consumed. An in-house display which communicates with the smart meter via a RF link offers the consumers access to real-time data of their consumption. The in-house display system, which requires authentication to communicate with the smart meter, also offers the users to set usage limits with short message service (SMS) alerts, and turn on/off the supply of electricity or water. The usage details are also sent to the suppliers via a SMS for billing purpose. The supplier also has access to the smart meter system, as they can set usage limits or cut off supply in cases such as bills not being paid. |
Best Paper Awards
ECSA-2 Best Paper Awards
The following papers presented at the 2nd International Electronic Conference on Sensors and Applications (ECSA-2) were awarded as best papers:
Piezoresistive membrane surface stress sensors for characterization of breath samples of head and neck cancer patients
by Hans Peter Lang, Frédéric Loizeau, Agnès Hiou, Jean-Paul Rivals, Pedro Romero, Terunobu Akiyama, Christoph Gerber and Ernst Meyer
Force and motion capture system based on distributed micro-accelerometers, gyros, force and tactile sensing
by Claudia Latella, Naveen Kuppuswamy and Francesco Nori
Effectively Positioning Water Loss Event in Smart Water Networks
by Weiren Yu and Julie A. McCann
Conference Schedule
- Conference Open: 15-30 November 2015
- Abstract Submission: 15 September 2015
- Notification of Acceptance: 25 September 2015
- Proceedings Paper Submission Deadline: 25 October 2015
Conference Organizers
Dr. Francesco Ciucci
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Kowloon, Hong Kong
Dr. Dirk Lehmhus
ISIS Sensorial Materials Scientific Centre
University of Bremen
Bremen, Germany
Dr. Stefano Mariani
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Editorial Board Member and Guest Editor of several
Special Issues of the Journal Sensors
Dr. Thomas B. Messervey
CEO and Co-Founder, Research to Market Solution s.r.l. Pavia, Italy
Dr. Alberto Vallan
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications Politecnico di Torino
Turin, Italy
Scientific Advisory Committee
Dr. Francesco Ciucci, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Dr. Dirk Lehmhus, ISIS Sensorial Materials Scientific Centre, University of Bremen, Germany
Dr. Stefano Mariani, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Dr. Thomas B. Messervey, CEO and Co-Founder, Research to Market Solution s.r.l., Italy
Dr. Alberto Vallan, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Dr. Marco de Fazio, STMicroelectronics, Genève, Switzerland
Dr. Stefan Bosse, Department of Computer Science, Workgroup Robotics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Dr. Giuseppe Andreoni, Design Department, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Dr. Francesco Braghin, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Dr. Manuela Galli, Department of Electronics, Information and Biongineering (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
Organizing Committee
Dr. Shu-Kun Lin, MDPI AG, Basel, Switzerland
Ms. Lin Li, MDPI Branch Office, Beijing, China
A. Biosensors
Section Chair:
Dr. Stefano Mariani, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Session Chair
Dr. Stefano Mariani, Politecnico di Milano
B. Chemical Sensors
Section Chair:
Dr. Francesco Ciucci, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Session Chair
Dr. Francesco Ciucci
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C. Physical Sensors
Section Chairs:
Dr. Dirk Lehmhus, ISIS Sensorial Materials Scientific Centre, University of Bremen, Germany and Dr. Alberto Vallan, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Session Chairs
Dr. Dirk Lehmhus, Fraunhofer IFAM
Professor Alberto Vallan, Politecnico di Torino
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D. Sensor Networks
Section Chair:
Dr. Stefano Mariani, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Session Chair
Dr. Stefano Mariani, Politecnico di Milano
E. Applications
Section Chair:
Dr. Thomas B. Messervey, CEO and Co-Founder, Research to Market Solution s.r.l., Italy
Session Chair
Dr. Thomas Messervey
P. Posters
In this section, posters can be presented without an accompanying proceedings paper. Posters will be available online on this website during and after the e-conference. However, will not be added to the proceedings of the conference.
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S1. MEMS and NEMS
Section Chairs:
Dr. Stefano Mariani, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Italy and Dr. Marco de Fazio, STMicroelectronics, Genève, Switzerland
The MEMS and NEMS Section is aimed at gathering together contributions on the modelling and analysis of Micro-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (MEMS) and Nano-Electro-Mechanical-Systems (NEMS), and on their real-life applications. Works on the theoretical, numerical and experimental aspects are solicited, especially those stemming from multi-disciplinary approaches.
Contributions are welcome to address the following topics:
- Multi-physics modeling
- Uncertainty quantification at the micro- and nano-scale
- System identification and control
- Sensor optimization
- Damping phenomena
- Stiction and other contact or proximity phenomena
- Effect of emerging materials, like graphene
Applications to be considered include, but are not limited to:
- Inertial sensors
- Physical sensors
- Chemical sensors
- RF switches
- Micromirrors
- Energy harvesters
Session Chairs
Dr. Stefano Mariani, Politecnico di Milano
Dr. Marco De Fazio
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S2. Smart Systems and Structures
Section Chair:
Dr. Stefan Bosse, Department of Computer Science, Workgroup Robotics, University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Trends emerging in engineering and micro-system applications such as the development of sensorial materials show a growing demand for distributed autonomous computing in sensor networks consisting of miniaturized low-power smart sensors embedded in technical structures. A Sensor Network is composed of nodes capable of sensor processing and communication. Smart Systems are composed of more complex networks (and networks of networks) differing significantly in computational power and available resources. They provide higher level information processing that maps the raw sensor data to condensed information. They can provide, for example, Internet connectivity of perceptive systems (body area networks...). These smart systems unite the traditionally separated sensing, aggregation, and application levels, offering a more unified design approach and more generic and unified architectures. Smart systems glue software and hardware components to an extended operational unit.
Smart can be defined on different operational and processing levels and having different goals in mind. One aspect is the adaptivity and reliability in the presence of sensor, communication, node, and network failures that should not compromise the trust and quality of the computed information, for example, the output of a Structural Health Monitoring System (SHM). A Smart System can be considered on node, network, and network of network level. Another aspect of "smartness" is information processing with inaccurate or incomplete models (mechanical, technical, physical) requiring machine learning approaches, either supervised with training at design-time or unsupervised based on reward learning at run-time.
Growing system complexity requires an increase in autonomy of distributed data processing systems, addressed, for example, by the deployment of mobile multi-agent systems carrying and processing information. Self-organizing systems are one major approach to solve complex tasks by decomposing them into smaller and simpler task performed by a large group of individuals.
Smart "Functional" Structures extend classical perceptive systems with actuators responding to changes in the environment or load conditions in real-time, enabling Reactive Perceptive Systems.
Topics included but not limited to are:
- Software engineering for sensing applications and sensor clouds
- Data mining in sensing applications
- Autonomous computing systems
- Multi-agent systems and intelligent computing
- Machine learning supporting sensing applications
- Ubiquitous smart systems and applications
- Sensor cloud, cluster and grid computing
- Internet of Things
- Human-computer, human-sensing, and human-machine interaction
- Machine-to-Machine (M2M) networks
- Service-orientated information processing and computing
- Reliable and fault-tolerant system design and algorithms
- Platform design and architectures
- Active perceptive systems coupling sensing + actuation including robotic systems
Session Chair
Dr. Stefan Bosse, University of Bremen
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S3. Smart Textiles
Section Chair:
Dr. Giuseppe Andreoni, Design Department, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Smart textiles are functionalized textiles for sensing, actuating or interaction. They could be either wearable or environmental, embedded in clothes or in the physical interface of systems and products. The web-conference session aims at collecting researchers and their work about development and applications of smart textiles in a wide range of fields.
Original contributions are solicited on scientific advances of sensors and actuators embedded in or made of smart textiles. Theoretical, numerical and experimental works are welcome, including papers developed with a multi-disciplinary approach.
In particular, participants are invited to submit their contributions in the following areas:
- Methods, materials and technology for smart textiles design
- Metrologic validation of smart textiles sensors and actuators
- Smart textiles sensor for Healthcare (monitoring, rehabilitation, …)
- Actuation properties in smart textiles
- Technological issues in smart textile development and application (miniaturization, power supply, energy harvesting, communication,…)
- Ergonomics of wearable systems
- Design and interaction with smart textiles
Experimental and application oriented papers are also welcome, including but not limited to:
- Sport and fitness applications of smart textiles
- Ultratechnical textiles for safety and protection
- Smart textiles sensor in Healthcare processes (monitoring, rehabilitation, …)
- Wearability studies
- Interaction and emotion analysis with smart textiles
Session Chair
Dr. Giuseppe Andreoni, Politecnico di Milano
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S4. Sports & Sensors
Section Chairs:
Dr. Francesco Braghin, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy and Dr. Manuela Galli, Department of Electronics, Information and Biongineering (DEIB), Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy
The Sports & Sensors session is aimed at sharing scientific researches in sensor technology applied to sports and at collecting valid points of discussion in the standardization of performance indicators.
Original contributions are solicited on scientific and engineering advances in quantitative analysis of sport gestures in athlete, equipment performance and environmental influence.
Experimental works are welcome, including papers developed with a multi-disciplinary approach.
In particular, participants are invited to submit their contributions in the following areas:
- Quantitative evaluation of sportive gesture and performance
- Movement analysis in elite atletes and disabled people
- Indoor and outdoor movement analysis devices developed for sportive applications
- Metabolic analysis in sports
- Equipment monitoring for performance evaluation and interaction with the athlete
- Environmental monitoring and correlation with performance
Application oriented papers are also encouraged, including but not limited to:
- Optoelectronic system
- Force platform
- Baropodometric platform
- EMG system
- Metabolimeter
- Inertial systems
Session Chairs
Professor Manuela Galli
Professor Francesco Braghin
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S5. Factories of the Future
Section Chairs:
Dr. Dirk Lehmhus, ISIS Sensorial Materials Scientific Centre, University of Bremen, Germany and Dr. Thomas B. Messervey, CEO and Co-Founder, Research to Market Solution s.r.l., Italy
Today, production technology is going through a transformation toward increasingly autonomous manufacturing systems and environments. This change is sometimes seen as being fundamental enough to designate it as the fourth industrial revolution captured in the term “Industry 4.0” first coined in Germany, where mechanization, mass production and computerization are considered the three preceding landmark transformations.
In Industry 4.0, factories will increasingly decide autonomously on aspects like production process parameters, process sequences, production logistics etc. In order to be able to do so, these factories will need large amounts of data, from which the information needed in decision-making has to be derived without or with limited intervention of human beings. In parallel, new (or improved) manufacturing capabilities such as flexible manufacturing, mass customization and additive manufacturing bring new possibilities in terms of how products are made.
The present session invites papers to respond to the data driven demands of this next industrial revolution through the implementation of appropriate sensor systems through all phases of the product life-cycle. Results from ongoing or past European Factories of the Future projects and like research programs worldwide are welcome. Possible topics include:
- Development of new sensors for the monitoring of production processes
- Enabling KPI assessment and use via cost effective sensors and meters
- Application of sensor systems in production engineering on various levels, from the individual sensorized tool to heavily sensor-based, fully automated production systems and facilities
- Sensor data evaluation methods tailored for or transferred to applications in production engineering
- Workpiece-based monitoring of production processes, i.e. use of product-integrated sensors to provide feedback to production equipment
- Use of product-integrated sensors for feedback of life cycle data into the product (re) design phase to enable continuous improvement of products, including concrete examples of implementation of such feedback loops both on conceptual and realization level
Given this scope, the session has links to almost all sections of the conference, the common denominator being the fact that the presentations should target advanced manufacturing as application scenario.
Session Chairs
Dr. Thomas Messervey
Dr. Dirk Lehmhus, Fraunhofer IFAM
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S6. Fiber Optic Sensors
Section Chair:
Dr. Alberto Vallan, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
This session is focused on Fiber Optic Sensors (FOS) and related applications. In the sensor market, FOS represent a relevant portion which is rapidly growing thanks to the availability of new optical and electro-optical devices characterized by a low-cost, a reduced power consumption and small dimensions. Session topics concern all the aspects related to the use of optical fibers in the sensor field, such as the development and testing of intrinsic sensors, the usage of fibers for extrinsic sensors or to power non-optical sensing devices, and also original fiber sensor applications and in-field results.
Suggested topics include:
- Fiber optic sensors for structural monitoring
- Health related applications
- High voltage/current/EM-field measurements
- Sensors for harsh environments
- MRI compliant sensors
- Chemical and biochemical sensors
- Fiber Bragg Gratings
- Interferometric sensors
- Polarimetric sensors
- Disposable fiber sensors
- Plastic Optical Fiber (POF) sensors
- Photonic-crystal fibers, microstructured fibers and other innovative fibers for sensing applications
- Quasi-distributed and distributed sensors
- Sensor testing and characterization procedures
- Multiplexing and remote sensing
- Power-over-fiber for sensor applications
- Modeling and correction of systematic effects and influence quantities
Session Chair
Professor Alberto Vallan, Politecnico di Torino
S7. Sensing Technologies for Water Resource Management
Section Chair:
Dr. Thomas B. Messervey, CEO and Co-Founder, Research to Market Solution s.r.l., Italy
The USA documents 237,600 water line breaks each year costing €2.8 billion annually. Normal water leakage instead runs at 7 billion gallons per day (http://www.waterworld.com/articles/print/volume-30/issue-7/editorial-features/patching-up-the-pipes-how-smart-technologies-help-cities-prevent-leaks-and-save-money.html). Globally, 750 million people (1 in 9 people) lack access to safe water (www.water.org). Indeed, most persons would likely be surprised that the water crisis is the #1 global risk based on impact to society (as a measure of devastation), and the #8 global risk based on likelihood (likelihood of occurring within 10 years) as announced by the World Economic Forum, January 2015 (http://reports.weforum.org/global-risks-2015/#frame/20ad6).
The need for water resource management stands at the intersection of several global challenges and cross-cutting themes which include climate change, aging national infrastructure, increased population and urbanization, and government, corporate and individual responsibilities toward the environment and sustainability. Amongst the range of possible solutions to answer the need for better water resource management is ICT (information communication technologies) in the form of sensors, smart meters, and the analytical platforms and software they make possible through the data they provide. In many cases, knowledge transfer and lessons learned can be taken from the energy and gas markets where work started earlier. It is also noteworthy the correlations between energy auditing and water auditing, carbon footprint assessment and water footprint assessment. Water (as a resource) is a next logical extension of ISO50001 (Energy Management Systems) principles.
Session G invites researchers and industrials working in the area of water sensing technologies for water resource management to present their work. A special invitation is extended to the platform www.ict4water.eu which clusters 10 research projects co-funded by the European Union on this topic area. A special invitation is also extended to industrials with new innovative solutions coming to the market. As the problem is global, papers are encouraged from all parts of the world.
Session Chair
Dr. Thomas Messervey