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Ambient backscatter communication, where energy and wireless carrier are extracted from existing radio signals, are very attractive to the Internet of Things. This technology is emerging as an enabler for battery-less sensor nodes that can operate ...

The specification and implementation of network protocols are difficult tasks. This is particularly the case for WSN nodes which are typically implemented on low power microcontrollers with limited processing capabilities. Those platforms do not have ...

We present a heterogeneous system architecture for event-triggered wireless sensing capable of supporting high spatial resolution. The key differentiator between the proposed architecture and alternative state-of-the-art approaches is the ability to ...

Positioning with vision sensors is gaining its popularity, since it is more accurate, and requires much less bootstrapping and training effort. However, one of the major limitations of the existing solutions is the expensive visual processing pipeline: ...

The Amazon Rainforest degradation is a worldwide concern. The forest has been endangered by the illegal wood extraction without control even in the preservation areas. This human behavior endangers the flora and the animals that lose their natural ...

In this article, we address a sleep scheduling scheme that ensures a coverage degree requirement based on the dangerous levels of the toxic gas leakage area, while maintaining the global network connectivity with minimal awake-nodes compared to other ...

Internet of Things (IoT) application development is technically challenging and complex due to several factors such as the presence of different IoT protocols, interoperability issues, lack of industry standards and dealing with the heterogeneity that ...

Visible Light Communication (VLC) is an emerging communication channel serving as a complement to traditional wireless communication. Visible light has many advantages over other communication channels like its inability to penetrate opaque objects. ...

The paper introduces the WSN Localization Task Repository -- wsnloc.eu, service structure and our motivations why it was created.

In this article, we propose a new scheme DeGas to determine the boundary area of the toxic gas with planarization algorithm. This detected boundary area will ensure safe area around the toxic gas and will provide a decision reference for evacuation and ...

Using wireless communication instead of laying cables promises high cost savings in many applications. Motivated by the intended deployment of wireless networks in solar tower power plants with up to hundreds of thousands of possible clients, this ...

As mobile computing platforms become more prevalent, there comes a growing need for highly accurate knowledge of the positions of the devices in the network. In outdoor environments such as UAV's, self driving cars, and precision agriculture, the use of ...

In recent years the usage of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) for industrial applications (robotics, process automation, monitoring and control of critical systems) is gaining momentum [1].

The idea of Internet of Things has grown into multiple dimensions, encompassing also the industrial world leading to initiatives like Factories of the Future (FoF) or Industrial Internet. Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSAN) play an important ...

At least since the terms Internet of Things, Factories of the Future or Industrial Internet gave distinction to the modern world of communication, there is a special need for efficient test- and debug tools targeting research and development of embedded ...

We present a system utilizing off-the-shelf hardware components and a software framework, which is able to perform radio frequency localization with high accuracy in the order of a few meters. The architecture consists of highly synchronized receivers ...

Significant energy wasted in private homes each year. Most of the times, the residents do not know the cause of energy waste in their homes. We designed several activities to encourage the homeowners to learn about how energy is used at their homes and ...

Real-time applications in wireless sensor networks require that packets should reach to a sink within the time deadline. To satisfy the requirements, existing studies exploit nodes whose speed is higher than the desired delivery speed decided by the ...

The one of the major difficulties in deploying a wireless sensor to monitor debris flow in the real world is power consumption. Frequently replacing the battery of a sensor that is located in a remote mountainous area is not practical. In this study we ...

Indoor positioning is one of the key technologies for enabling location-aware applications. To the best of our knowledge, existing indoor positioning technologies are aimed at providing very high-accuracy location information, but are hindered by the ...

Taking advantages of off-the-shelf cloud platform services, rather than maintaining a private database for logging the data from sensors, can significantly reduce labor and equipment costs for using a reliable database system. In this study, we present ...

In this Demo, we present the design and implementation of a novel human localization and tracking system based on pyroelectric infrared(PIR) sensors. It is a new approach to setup several low-cost sensors to improve the simplicity of deployment. We ...

Long lifetime is the most pursued goal in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). As communication is typically the most energy consuming task, a lot of effort has been devoted to design energy efficient communication protocols using duty-cycling in the last ...

Probe vehicles consist in mobile traffic sensor networks that evolve with the flow of vehicles, transmitting velocity and position measurements along their path, generated using GPSs. To address the urban positioning issues of GPSs, we propose to ...

With the advent of Internet of Things (IoT) Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) seem to play key a role in the connectivity of smart objects. The limited resources of WSN devices and the increased demand for new and more sophisticated services call for new ...

This paper presents a demo of an extension developed to support an existing programming abstraction for IoT: mT-Res. mT-Res is an extension of the T-Res programming abstraction, which allows users to write applications using a web framework independent ...

The combination of low-power design, energy harvesting and ultra-low-power wake-up radios is paving the way for perpetual operation of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In this work we present the MagoNode++, a novel WSN platform supporting energy ...

This paper shows the evaluation results with the new mesh topology for the Bluetooth Low Energy standard in IoT scenarios where users send values from different monitorization parameters. In this experimentation we have discovered as the user ...

This paper proposes an architecture for Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSAN) using the new standard Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE). This architecture can be used as reference for the deployment of real and flexible monitoring platforms based on ...

Most existing indoor localization systems are battery-powered and use the changes in Radio Frequency (RF) signals to localize objects. In this paper, we present LocaLight: a battery-free indoor localization system that localizes objects using visible ...