Principles and applications of ubiquitous sensing / Waltenegus Dargie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dargie, Waltenegus, author.

Series:

New York Academy of Sciences Ser.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Detectors.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 pages) : illustrations, graphs

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, England : Wiley, 2017.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Applications which use wireless sensors are increasing in number. The emergence of wireless sensor networks has also motivated the integration of a large number of small and lightweight nodes which integrate sensors, processors, and wireless transceivers. Existing books on wireless sensor networks mainly focus on protocols and networks and pay little attention to the sensors themselves which the author believes is the main focus. Without adequate knowledge of sensors as well as how they can be designed, realized and used, books on wireless sensor networks become too theoretical and irrelevant. The purpose of this book is to intimately acquaint readers with the technique of sensing (resistive, capacitive, inductive, magnetic, inertial, etc.) and existing sensor technologies. It also discusses how the sensors are used in a wide application domain and how new sensors can be designed and used in a novel way.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Table of Contents

Preface

About the Companion Website

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1: Introduction

1.1 System Overview

1.2 Example: A Wireless Electrocardiogram

1.3 Organisation of the Book

Chapter 2: Applications

2.1 Civil Infrastructure Monitoring

2.2 Medical Diagnosis and Monitoring

2.3 Water-quality Monitoring

References

Chapter 3: Conditioning Circuits

3.1 Voltage and Current Sources

3.2 Transfer Function

3.3 Impedance Matching

3.4 Filters

3.5 Amplification

Chapter 4: Electrical Sensing

4.1 Resistive Sensing

4.2 Capacitive Sensing

4.3 Inductive Sensing

4.4 Thermoelectric Effect

Chapter 5: Ultrasonic Sensing

5.1 Ultrasonic Wave Propagation

5.2 Wave Equation

5.3 Factors Affecting Ultrasonic Wave Propagation

Chapter 6: Optical Sensing

6.1 Photoelectric Effect

6.2 Compton Effect

6.3 Pair Production

6.4 Raman Scattering

6.5 Surface Plasmon Resonance

Chapter 7: Magnetic Sensing

7.1 Superconducting Quantum Interference Devices

7.2 Anisotropic Magnetoresistive Sensing

7.3 Giant Magnetoresistance

7.4 Tunnelling Magnetoresistance

7.5 Hall-effect Sensing

Chapter 8: Medical Sensing

8.1 Excitable Cells and Biopotentials

8.2 Cardiac Action Potentials

8.3 Brain Action Potentials

Chapter 9: Microelectromechanical Systems

9.1 Miniaturisation and Scaling

9.2 Technology

9.3 Micromachining

9.4 System Integration

9.5 Micromechanical Sensors

Chapter 10: Energy Harvesting

10.1 Factors Affecting the Choice of an Energy Source

10.2 Architecture

10.3 Prototypes

Chapter 11: Sensor Selection and Integration

11.1 Sensor Selection.

11.2 Example: Temperature Sensor Selection

11.3 Sensor Integration

Chapter 12: Estimation

12.1 Sensor Error as a Random Variable

12.2 Zero-offset Error

12.3 Conversion Error

12.4 Accumulation of Error

12.5 Combining Evidence

Index

End User License Agreement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-119-09133-0

1-119-09131-4

OCLC:

962447611