Smart Sensors and Sensing Technology

Part I. Sensors and Sensors Network

1. Analysis of Hardware Encryption Versus Software Encryption on Wireless Sensor Network Motes
Michael Healy, Thomas Newe, Elfed Lewis

2. Development and Experiment of Networked Control Systems with Congestion Control
Takehito Azuma, Shinsaku Saijo

3. Data Messaging and Control in Sensor-Actuator Networks using PowerBus Technology
Moi-Tin Chew, Serge Demidenko, Yoke-Fei Ng

Part II. Gas/Bio Sensors

4. Remarks on Emotion Recognition Using Breath Gas Sensing System
Kazuhiko Takahashi, Iwao Sugimoto

5. Electrochemically Synthesised Pd- and Au-Nanoparticles as Sensing Layers in NOx-Sensitive Field Effect Devices
K. Buchholt, E. Ieva, L. Torsi, N. Cioffi, L. Colaianni, F. Söderlind, P.O. Käll, A. Lloyd Spetz

6. Phthalocyanine Functionalized Hybrids as Receptors for Enhanced Gas/Bio Sensing
Al. Palaniappan, Shabbir Moochhala, Francis E.H. Tay, Moawia O. Ahmed, Nicky C.L. Phua

7. A Comparison of the Gas Sensing Properties of Purified and Platinum Decorated Chemical Vapour Deposition Grown Multi Walled Carbon Nanotubes
R.E. Pearce, M. Andersson, J. Belmonte, I. Gracia, M.M. Stevens, K. Buchholt, J. Shaw, M.S.P. Shaffer, A. Lloyd Spetz

8. Electrical Sensing of Biochemicals using Macroporous Silicon
C. RoyChaudhuri, J. Kanungo, R. Dev Das, S.K. Dutta, S. RoyChaudhuri, S. Majhi, H. Saha

Part III. Saw Sensors

9. Combined Infrared and Acoustic Beacon Tracker and its Application on an Autonomous Following Vehicle
Graham M. Brooker, Craig Lobsey, Kate McWilliams

10. Electrostatic Microactuator Design Using Surface Acoustic Wave Devices
Don W. Dissanayake, Said F. Al-Sarawi, Derek Abbott

11. Wide Band Linearization of a Millimetre-Wave, Linear Frequency Modulated Radar Employing a Surface Acoustic Wave, Delay Line Discriminator
David G. Johnson, Graham M. Brooker

Part IV. Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors

12. Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors and Piezoelectric Actuators in Co-Located Configuration for Active Vibration Control Applications
C. Ambrosino, G. Diodati, A. Laudati, G. Breglio, M. Giordano, A. Cutolo, A. Cusano

13. A Transmit Reflect Detection System for Fibre Bragg Grating Acoustic Emission and Transmission Sensors
Graham Wild, Steven Hinckley

Part V. Magnetic Sensor

14. A Real-Time Tracking System for an Endoscopic Capsule using Multiple Magnetic Sensors
Syed Mahfuzul Aziz, Milos Grcic, Tharshan Vaithianathan

Part VI. Ultrasonic

15. High Frequency Ultrasonic Wave Propagation in Porous Aluminium
A. Dawson, P. Harris, G. Gouws

Part VII. Capacitive Sensors

16. Capacitance-Based Sensing of Material Moisture in Bulk Solids: Applications and Restrictions
Anton Fuchs, Hubert Zangl, Gert Holler

Part VIII. Sensors Based on CNT

17. The Design and Performance of Tactile/Proximity Sensors Made of Carbon Microcoils
X. Chen, S. Yang, N. Sawada, S. Motojima

Part IX. Novel Sensors Techniques

18. Post-Earthquake Pipeline Leak Detection Technologies
Winncy Y. Du, Scott W. Yelich

19. Multiple-Rangefinders Calibration Based on Light-Section Method Using Spheres
Yusuke Yachide, Makoto Ikeda, Kunihiro Asada

20. An Adaptive Wiener Filter for Automatic Speech Recognition in a Car Environment with Non-Stationary Noise
Ziming Qi, Tom Moir

21. 3D-Shape Recognition Based Tactile Sensor
Somrak Petchartee, Gareth Monkman, Anan Suebsomran

22. Development of A Low Cost Compact Low Profile Phase Array Antenna for RFID Applications
Nemai Chandra Karmakar, Sushim Mukul Roy, Muhammad Saqib Ikram

23. Implementation and Characterization of a Novel Acoustic Imaging through Beamformers for Automotive Applications
Aimé Lay-Ekuakille, Giuseppe Vendramin, Amerigo Trotta

24. Development of a Smart Home for Elder-People Based on Wireless Sensors
Anuroop Gaddam, Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay, Gourab Sen Gupta

25. Optimisation of the Nelder-Mead Simplex Method for Its Implementation in A Self-Mixing Laser Displacement Sensor
Usman Zabit, Francis Bony, Thierry Bosch

Keywords: Engineering, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Electronic and Computer Engineering, Information Systems and Communication Service, Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics), Control Engineering, Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering