Papers – Page 46 – TechConnect Briefs

Priority Based Message Transmission over Unreliable Wireless Links for Safety Critical Monitoring Applications

Fei X., Kemp J., Gaura E.I., Brusey J., Cogent Computing Applied Research Centre, Coventry University, UK

In our prior work, a Body Sensor Network (BSN) system aimed at increasing safety of bomb disposal operatives during missions has been developed. Although this system served well the application at hand in terms of [...]

Wireless sensor networks for space applications

Benhaddou D., University of Houston, US

The application of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) into time-sensitive applications, such as remote healthcare, fire tracking and industrial automation, demands support for emergency services with guaranteed Quality of Service (QoS) bounds. In particular, the continuous [...]

Wireless Sensor Networks for Aerospace Applications- Thermal Monitoring for a Gas Turbine Engine

Goldsmith D., Gaura E., Brusey J., Shuttleworth J., Cogent Computing Applied Research Centre, Coventry University, UK

The paper here reports on the development of a prototype wireless sensor network for thermal monitoring of aircraft gas turbine engines. The prototype acts as a concept demonstrator for the application at hand. Building upon [...]

Detecting CH4 and CO Gases Using Micro-Structural Doping Compound Oxide Films on Si-Substrates

Li Y.F., Ma S.Y., Kish L.B., Ding J.-J., Northwest Normal University, US

Fluctuation-enhanced chemical sensing with commercial gas sensors have already been studied[1-4]. Fig. 1 shows one of the typical fluctuation-enhanced signals of PdxWO3 film sensor. The gas-sensing films used in commercial gas sensors are deposited on [...]

Microfluidic Platforms with Micro- and Nanopore Membranes and in situ Formation of Lipid Bilayer in the Microfluidic Platform

Choi J., Kim N., Park S., Louisiana State University, US

Artificial lipid bilayer membranes have come into the spotlight as topics of fundamental properties of biomaterials, targets for drug discovery and safety screening, and analytic platforms for characterization and orientation discrimination of polynucleotide molecules. Lipid [...]

A Novel Virtual Button User Interface for Determining the Characteristics of an Impulse Input Based on MEMS Inertial Sensors

Zwart A., Effa D., Nieva P., Lancaster-Larocque S., University of Waterloo, CA

This paper introduces a novel application of MEMS accelerometer in consumer electronics device for a ‘Virtual Button’ Technology. MEMS based accelerometers is designed in order to measure low-g acceleration to sense tapping motion on the [...]

Energy Conversion according to Impact loading on Piezoelectric material

Lee J., Kim T., Choi B., Sogang University, KR

Energy harvesting using piezoelectric material has been one of the hottest interests in powering wireless sensor nodes without maintenance and replacement of wired or battery power system in ubiquitous era. Unlike most of the previous [...]

A Multifunctional MWCNT strain sensor: sensing and damping

Li X., Keshri A.K., Agarwal A., Levy C., Florida International University, US

The goal of this work is to develop a new type of multi-functional mechanical strain sensor using multi-walled carbon nanotube (MWCNT) films. This new sensor is potentially to function as free layer damping treatment for [...]

Amperometric Detection of Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B in milk using Magnetic Bead-Based Immunoassay on Disposable Screen Printed Carbon Electrode Strip

Rastogi S.K., Gibbon S., Branen A.L., Branen J.R., Branen A.L., Branen J.R., University of Idaho, US

A novel approach for the sensitive detection of Staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) in milk is reported. The method used sandwich enzyme-linked immunoassay with SEB specific antibodies on magnetic beads. A small cylindrical magnet was fixed, [...]

The Study of Mechanical Stress in NEMS Heterostructures

Xu X., Bogdan B., Lime F., Grenoble institute of technology, FR

Mechanical stress is increasingly applied in microelectronics. For instance, strained silicon technology is widely used to improve carrier mobility and driver current for advanced MOS transistors. For micro-electromechanical systems, piezoresistive effects are widely used in [...]