Systematic Review of Remote Sensing Prediction Models and Tools for Estimating Surface Soil Moisture Content of an Area by P. Yamakili, M. R. Nicholaus, K. A. Greyson

“…Survey of previous studies have highlighted some general areas and explored RS methods for soil moisture estimation, focusing on both active and passive sensors. Studies have also discussed the principles, strengths, and limitations of different techniques. …”
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Experimental Investigation of Stall Inception Mechanisms of Low Speed Contra Rotating Axial Flow Fan Stage by Tegegn Dejene Toge, A. M. Pradeep

“…Unsteady pressure data from the casing wall mounted sensors are used to understand the stall inception mechanism. …”
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Capped Fluorescent Carbon Dots for Detection of Hemin: Role of Number of –OH Groups of Capping Agent in Fluorescence Quenching by Upama Baruah, Neelam Gogoi, Gitanjali Majumdar, Devasish Chowdhury

“…We have successfully demonstrated the use of capped carbon dot systems, namely, CDs/β-cd, CDs/LMH, and CDs/Suc, as fluorescent sensors for the detection of hemin. The capped carbon dot systems showed quenching of PL intensity in the presence of hemin. …”
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Development and Application of a ZigBee-Based Building Energy Monitoring and Control System by Changhai Peng, Kun Qian

“…In this paper, the authors propose a cost-effective ZigBee-based building energy monitoring and control system (ZBEMCS), which is composed of a gateway, a base station, and sensors. Specifically, a new hardware platform for power sensor nodes is developed to perform both local/remote power parameter measurement and power on/off switching for electric appliances. …”
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Peltier Elements-based Human Brain Hypothermia Treatment by Rabab Talib Abdullah, Sadik Kamel Gharghan, Ahmed J. Abid

“…It mainly consists of temperature sensors for measuring water and patient temperature, a Helmet made of plastic tubes with a thermal coefficient suitable for absorbing heat, cold water is circulated inside the tubes to cool the head, and the cooling is done through Peltier elements in the device. …”
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Optimized Control for Dynamical Performance of the Polishing Robot in Unstructured Environment by Zhong Luo, Shuxian Yang, Yilan Sun, Hongyi Liu

“…The HSIC control strategy is built based on the unstructured environment information measured by ultrasonic sensors, in which the appropriate programs prepared in advance are determined according to the size and sign of both the control error and its change rate. …”
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Design and Prototype of an Automatic Highway Streetlight Intensity Control System. by Wafula, Moses

“…The Smart Street Lighting system utilizes IR sensors to detect approaching vehicles. Upon detection, a sequence of streetlights ahead of the vehicle switches to high intensity, while the lights behind the vehicle dim automatically as it moves away. …”
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Design and Prototyping of a Visitor Counter Guide for Single Entry and Exit. by Iragaba, Apollo

“…This project has devised an alternative system of determining the number of people in a building by employing a microcontroller, an LM7805 voltage regulating chip, double light sensors, and an LCD. The first chapter is the introduction, the problem statement, project objectives, significance and justification, and the scope. …”
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Damage Detection of Structures for Ambient Loading Based on Cross Correlation Function Amplitude and SVM by Lin-sheng Huo, Xu Li, Yeong-Bin Yang, Hong-Nan Li

“…The results show that the proposed method is suitable for the damage identification of skeletal structures with the limited sensors subjected to ambient excitation. As the CCFA based data features are sensitive to damage, the proposed method demonstrates its reliability in the diagnosis of structures with damage, especially for those with minor damage. …”
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Unobtrusive Behavioral and Activity-Related Multimodal Biometrics: The ACTIBIO Authentication Concept by A. Drosou, D. Ioannidis, K. Moustakas, D. Tzovaras

“…Several shortcomings of existing biometric recognition systems are addressed within this project, which have helped in improving existing sensors, in developing new algorithms, and in designing applications, towards creating new, unobtrusive, biometric authentication procedures in security-sensitive, Ambient Intelligence environments. …”
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Robust H∞ Feedback Compensator Design for Linear Parabolic DPSs with Pointwise/Piecewise Control and Pointwise/Piecewise Measurement by Liu Yaqiang, Ren Zhigang, Jin Zengwang

“…A unified Lyapunov direct approach is proposed in consideration of the pointwise/piecewise control and point/piecewise measurement based on the distributions of the actuators and sensors. A new type of Luenberger observer is developed on the continuous interval of space domain to track the state of the system, and an H∞ performance constraint with prescribed H∞ attenuation levels is proposed in this paper. …”
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An improved coarse alignment algorithm for SINS based on rotation modulation by Yong Yang, Donglin Li, Lingbing Kong, Kaijun Xu, Honghui Xiang

“…The proposed approach effectively mitigates the constant bias errors of inertial sensors, significantly improving the overall alignment precision of the SINS.…”
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Humidity Sensing Properties of Surface Modified Polyaniline Metal Oxide Composites by S. C. Nagaraju, Aashis S. Roy, J. B. Prasanna Kumar, Koppalkar R. Anilkumar, G. Ramagopal

“…A fast recovery and response time along with high sensitivity make these composites suitable for humidity sensors.…”
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The Effect of Metal Shielding Layer on Electrostatic Attraction Issue in Glass–Silicon Anodic Bonding by Wenqi Yang, Yong Ruan, Zhiqiang Song

“…Silicon–glass anode bonding is the key technology in the process of wafer-level packaging for MEMS sensors. During the anodic bonding process, the device may experience adhesion failure due to the influence of electric field forces. …”
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Porous Silicon Formation by Electrochemical Etching by Оrest Kuntyi, Galyna Zozulya, Mariana Shepida

“…Porous silicon (PSi) is used as an effective material in biomedicine, sensors, solar cells, electrochemical energy, microelectronics, and nanotechnology. …”
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Contextual Awareness Service of Internet of Things User Interaction Mode in Intelligent Environment by Lingling Song

“…This article first collected a large amount of data through the literature survey method, which laid a sufficient theoretical foundation for the subsequent research; then, using smart sensors, smart interaction technology, and context awareness methods is employed to design and build a context-aware service system based on the user interaction modality of the Internet of Things; in order to test the performance and effect of the situational awareness system, take the elderly home care behavior as the research object, collect the 28-day home behavior of the elderly as sample data, and divide it into 7-day data, 14-day data, 21-day data, and 28-day data, by adopting rule pruning demand reasoning algorithm and evidence theory algorithm to reason about the service demand of the elderly. …”
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Robust model predictive control for polytopic uncertain systems via a high-rate network with the FlexRay protocol by Jianhua Wang, Fuqiang Fan, Yanye Yu, Shuxin Du, Xiaorui Guo

“…During signal measurement, a high-rate network is applied to broadcast the data from the sensors to the controller efficiently. The FRP including the characteristics of event-triggered mechanism and the time-triggered mechanism is embedded into the high-rate network to regulate the data transmission in a circular period which can improve the flexibility of data transmission. …”
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Mechatronic System Based on Bluetooth Communication with a Mobile Application for Automatic Irrigation in Greenhouses by Juan Tasayco, Anthony Villanueva, Ricardo Yauri

“…In this case, temperature and humidity sensors are used that control a water pump, monitor environmental factors, and display data in the mobile application connected via Bluetooth, activating the water pump automatically. …”
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RETRACTED: Preparation and Analysis of Structured Color Janus Droplets Based on Microfluidic 3D Droplet Printing by Chuang Wu, Hanqi Jia, Haithm Yahya Mohammed Almuaalemi, A. S. M. Muhtasim Fuad Sohan, Binfeng Yin

“…This approach holds promising applications for optical devices, sensors, and biomimetic systems.…”
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Aetiology of Vertigo as Seen at the Federal Medical Center Lokoja, North Central Nigeria by Stephen Agbomhekhe Ogah

“…Hence, symptoms of imbalance can arise whenever there is a defect either in these peripheral sensors or the modulating central nervous system. …”
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