Molina García, Ángel; Campelo Rivadulla, José Carlos; Blanc Clavero, Sara; Serrano Martín, Juan José; García Sánchez, Tania; Bueso, María C.(MDPI, 2015-07)
This paper proposes and assesses an integrated solution to monitor and diagnose photovoltaic (PV) solar modules based on a decentralized wireless sensor acquisition system. Both DC electrical variables and environmental ...
Capella Hernández, Juan Vicente; Bonastre Pina, Alberto Miguel; Ors Carot, Rafael; Peris Tortajada, Miguel(Elsevier, 2014-05)
This paper is based on our previous work consisting of the development and deployment of a wireless sensor network for the continuous in-line monitoring of the content of nitrates in a river in Eastern Spain. We present ...
[EN] The use of precision agriculture is becoming more and more necessary to provide food for the world's growing population, as well as to reduce environmental impact and enhance the usage of limited natural resources. ...
The first step to detect when a vineyard has any type of deficiency, pest or disease is to observe its stems, its grapes and/or its leaves. To place a sensor in each leaf of every vineyard is obviously not feasible in terms ...
Tavares de Araujo Cesariny Calafate, Carlos Miguel; Lino, Carlos; Díaz Ramírez, Arnoldo; Cano Escribá, Juan Carlos; Manzoni, Pietro(MDPI, 2013-06)
[EN] The use of wireless sensor networks (WSN) in tracking applications is growing
at a fast pace. In these applications, the sensor nodes discover, monitor and track an event
or target object. A significant number of ...
Alrajeh, Nabil Ali; Khan, Shafiullah; Lloret, Jaime; Loo, Jonathan(Old City Publishing, 2014)
[EN] Energy consumption is the important factor when designing any mechanism for wireless sensor network (WSN). Research community is trying to enable energy harvesting mechanisms to provide long term energy source to WSN. ...
Prieto Sancho, Roberto(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2014-09-25)
[EN] Carbon dioxide (CO2), which is produced by animals and their manure, is one of the environmental control parameters inside livestock buildings. This gas can be used as an estimator of the ventilation needs and is also ...
[EN] Energy saving is the most important feature in wireless sensor networks (WSN). An energy saving method is to perform a logical grouping of nodes and add collaboration between them. In this paper, we show a method of ...
Parra-Boronat, Lorena; Sendra, Sandra; Lloret, Jaime; Rodrigues, Joel José Puga Coelho(John Wiley & Sons, 2017)
[EN] The design of monitoring systems for marine areas has increased in the last years. One of the many advantages of wireless sensor networks is the quick process in data acquisition. The information from sensors can be ...
[EN] The monitoring of farming processes can optimize the use of resources and improve its sustainability and profitability. In fish farms, the water quality, tank environment, and fish behavior must be monitored. Wireless ...
Quintanilla Lahiguera, Rubén(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2019-10-11)
[ES] El objetivo de este proyecto es diseñar un sistema de detección de incendios forestales basado en una red inalámbrica de sensores. Para llevarlo a cabo, se realiza un estudio de las redes de sensores, analizando sus ...
[EN] The provision of services based on wireless sensor data is analyzed dynamically. In the proposed scenario, two competing service providers deploy their own wireless sensor networks in order to collect the data and ...
[EN] In this work it is considered a circular Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in a planar structure with uniform distribution of the sensors and with a two-level hierarchical topology. At the lower level, a cluster configuration ...
[EN] Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and sensing devices are considered to be core components of the Internet of Things (IoT). The performance modeling of IoT-WSN is of key importance to better understand, deploy, and ...
Capella Hernández, Juan Vicente; Perles Ivars, Ángel Francisco; Bonastre Pina, Alberto Miguel; Serrano Martín, Juan José(MDPI, 2011)
We present a set of novel low power wireless sensor nodes designed for monitoring wooden masterpieces and historical buildings, in order to perform an early detection of pests. Although our previous star-based system ...
[EN] We present i-Light, a cyber-physical platform that aims to help older adults to live safely within their own homes. The system is the result of an international research project funded by the European Union and is ...
[EN] Location awareness is the key to success to many location-based services applications such as indoor navigation, elderly tracking, emergency management, and so on. Trilateration-based localization using received signal ...
Mehmood, Amjad; Lloret, Jaime; Noman, M.; Song, Houbing(Old City Publishing, 2015)
A wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of large number of spatially distributed, wirelessly connected, self-governing sensor nodes, which are generally deployed in harsh environments. These sensor nodes need energy to ...
Espinosa Zapata, Felipe; Lázaro Galilea, José Luis; Olivares Bueno, Joaquín(Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018-09-24)
[EN] The work shows the sensory, communication and control solutions for the remote guidance of robots in intelligent environments, as derived activity from the ALCOR project. In this type of applications, optimizing shared ...
The attacks on flocks of goats and sheep are causing great economic losses in some countries. The main causes of these are usually wild animals such as wolves, or thefts of young animals. When an animal feels the presence ...