{"title":"A parking spot occupancy sensor based on commodity wireless chipsets","authors":"Gerrit Maus, Wiebke Gerth, D. Brückmann","doi":"10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881350","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881350","url":null,"abstract":"An important prerequisite for smart parking management systems are accurate and reliable occupancy sensors for individual parking spots. Since those systems are often equipped with a wireless interface for data exchange, it is reasonable to re-use the involved wireless chipsets for sensing purposes. In this contribution, a parking spot sensor approach is discussed that solely features low-cost wireless communication devices. For this, a 2.45 GHz transmitter receiver pair is installed on the floor in the center of a parking spot. It is shown that the frequency derivative, i. e. the channel dependency, of the Received Signal Strength strongly correlates with the presence of a car on a parking spot. Based on this observation, a linear classifier approach is suggested to predict the state of an observed parking spot. An experimental evaluation of the proposed sensing approach was carried out in both a parking garage and on an open-air parking place. The achieved occupancy detection accuracy of up to 99.0 % is competitive with existing, e. g. radar based, sensing approaches, while featuring a significant cost reduction at the same time.","PeriodicalId":129732,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122240023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
F. Rittweger, P. Schiepel, Jonas Ernsting, K. Riemschneider
{"title":"Sensor Data Communication via Light Guide Body for Monitoring Vehicle Batteries","authors":"F. Rittweger, P. Schiepel, Jonas Ernsting, K. Riemschneider","doi":"10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881250","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881250","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we present a solution for sensor data communication within an electric vehicle battery module, which is based on an optical transmission channel without any optical fibers. Instead, the communication is implemented via a transparent plastic component integrated in the battery package. The development of such a light guide body is discussed. Using this physical layer, the concept of the dedicated sensor network follows the idea of a decentralized signal processing. Thereby, parallel operating cell controllers at each cell are implemented. The solution is compared to the state-of-the-art wired communication as well as to alternative methods. Besides the functional demonstration, the implementation of a double-stack communication protocol is also discussed. This ensures a flexible and scalable integration with different sensors and battery setups in the future.","PeriodicalId":129732,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"14 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114143229","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"In-Process Tool Deflection Measurement in Incremental Sheet Metal Forming","authors":"M. Terlau, A. Freyberg, D. Stöbener, A. Fischer","doi":"10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881345","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881345","url":null,"abstract":"Incremental sheet forming is an economical alternative to deep drawing for forming large sheets in small quantities. However, the shape deviations resulting from a process-force-caused tool deflection limits the measuring accuracy. Therefore, an optical multi-sensor system is proposed to enable the contactless in-process measurement of the tool deflection independent of the machine kinematics for the first time. The presented design study of the sensor system aims to meet the requirement of a maximal measurement uncertainty of 15 µm at a measuring distance of up to 2 m. The multi-sensor system consists of a large number of inexpensive angulation sensors, each of which measures an angle to a light source on the tool. Based on the measured angles of all sensors calibrated to each other, the position of the tool in the three-dimensional manufacturing volume can be calculated by multi-angulation. Via experimental characterization of a realized angulation sensor as well as an uncertainty propagation, the measurement uncertainty achievable with the overall system is estimated. As a result, the multi-sensor concept fulfills all requirements for the measurement of the tool deflection in incremental sheet metal forming.","PeriodicalId":129732,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134300415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Particle doped fiber based sensors for the monitoring of structures","authors":"J. Ortega, T. Gries","doi":"10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881247","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881247","url":null,"abstract":"Many inherently textile based structures can benefit from the integration of sensors for monitoring applications. Although most commonly textile clothing comes to mind, application fields can be extended to other areas such as civil engineering, aerospace engineering and mobility. For the integration of sensors into these structures, the sensors must be filament based, in order to ensure the seamless incorporation into the standard processing methods. In this work, bicomponent thermoplastic filaments are developed. These have the same textile properties as the currently used textiles, with the added functionality that they have an electro-mechanical response to be used as strain sensors. It is shown that bicomponent, conductive filaments can be produced using a pilot spinning line. The resulting filaments can be furthermore used as strain sensors with a gauge factor of 0.013. Despite this small value, the homogeneity of the measurements and versatility of the melt spinning process show promise for this technology.","PeriodicalId":129732,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116108437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ashi Agarwal, Bruce Wallace, R. Goubran, F. Knoefel, N. Thomas
{"title":"Method to Improve Gait Speed Assessment for Low Frame Rate AI Enabled Visual Sensor","authors":"Ashi Agarwal, Bruce Wallace, R. Goubran, F. Knoefel, N. Thomas","doi":"10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881252","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881252","url":null,"abstract":"The research potential of home-based autonomous health assessment has grown in recent times with the decline in caregivers for the aging population. There are several verified methods for automatic gait assessment using various kinds of sensors and cameras, however each of them comes with their own limitations. Previous gait speed assessments using an innovative privacy respecting visual sensor showed potential but were limited by the camera’s asynchronous and low frame rate. This paper extends this work with methods focused on reducing these limitations. This paper proposes a method to estimate the lost or dropped frames originally captured by the visual sensor through linear, quadratic, and cubic regression. Bisection methods are used on these regression polynomials to calculate the time taken for walking a predetermined distance, thence estimating the walking speed. The proposed method successfully regenerates the lost data back to the frame rate of 30 frames/sec whilst reducing the mean percentage error to ~6% and ~11% from ~13% for quadratic and cubic polynomials respectively indicating the quadratic provides better performance. The proposed algorithm also establishes the constancy in gait speed estimation which can be observed as a decrease in standard deviation of absolute error from 0.15 m/sec to 0.04 m/sec.","PeriodicalId":129732,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124091118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G. Cicala, F. Arcadio, L. Zeni, L. Saitta, C. Tosto, M. Fragalá, D. D. Prete, N. Cennamo
{"title":"Plasmonic Sensors based on 3D-printed polymer waveguides covered by a metals bilayer","authors":"G. Cicala, F. Arcadio, L. Zeni, L. Saitta, C. Tosto, M. Fragalá, D. D. Prete, N. Cennamo","doi":"10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881343","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881343","url":null,"abstract":"The design, development, and testing of a 3D-printed plasmonic sensor has been here presented. A silver and gold bilayer has been deposited on a polymer waveguide to improve the performance of the surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor. The developed SPR sensor is very simple to realize, small-size, low-cost, and its sensitivity is sufficient to realize biosensors, exploiting specific receptors in contact with the sensing bilayer. Therefore, the proposed sensing approach could be used to make disposable sensor chips for several application fields, e.g. point-of-care tests and environmental monitoring. Furthermore, numerical and experimental results have demonstrated that the sensor's sensitivity improves when the proposed metals bilayer is used instead of a gold layer.","PeriodicalId":129732,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132094415","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Lightweight Convolutional Neural Network Model for Concrete Damage Classification using Acoustic Emissions","authors":"Yuxuan Zhang, S. Bader, B. Oelmann","doi":"10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881386","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, a convolutional neural network (CNN) model was developed for non-destructive damage classification of concrete materials based on acoustic emission techniques. The raw acoustic emission signal is used as the network model input, while the damage type is used as the output. In the study, 15,000 acoustic emission signals were used as the dataset, of which 12,000 signals were used for training, 1,500 signals for validation, and 1,500 signals for testing. Adaptive moment estimation (Adam) was used as the learning algorithm. Batch normalization and dropout layers were used to solve the overfitting problem generated in earlier versions of the model. The proposed model achieves an accuracy of 99.70% with 20,243 parameters, which provides a significant improvement over previous models. As a result, the classification of damages and decisions based upon them in non-destructive structural health monitoring applications can be improved.","PeriodicalId":129732,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"435 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124245808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sebastian Schaffenroth, Hans-Peter Schmidt, A. Kölpin
{"title":"Measurement setup for industrial communication techniques under electromagnetic interference","authors":"Sebastian Schaffenroth, Hans-Peter Schmidt, A. Kölpin","doi":"10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881364","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881364","url":null,"abstract":"A increasing number of sensor networks are utilising industrial Ethernet standards. Many applications in factory and process automation require real time capabilities. Therefore, robustness is a key feature in industrial communication. The major source of noise are variable speed drives that generate electromagnetic disturbances. In this study, we propose a new application-related approach of testing communication techniques for conducted data transmission in an industrial environment. The approach consists of three configurable parts. The first part is the generation of electromagnetic interference (EMI) by frequency inverters with configurable drive profiles. The second part is EMI coupling to the communication line, which is realized as in-cable coupling and cross-cable coupling. The last part is the communication and measurement system. For each part a concept and a realization is proposed. With exemplary measurements we show the superior possibilities of this experimental approach.","PeriodicalId":129732,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122790238","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Madison Cohen-McFarlane, Fatima Hassan, Pengcheng Xi, Bruce Wallace, R. Goubran, F. Knoefel
{"title":"Impact of face covering models on respiratory sound classification applications","authors":"Madison Cohen-McFarlane, Fatima Hassan, Pengcheng Xi, Bruce Wallace, R. Goubran, F. Knoefel","doi":"10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881371","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881371","url":null,"abstract":"Respiratory sound evaluation and classification has the potential to provide healthcare professionals with information that would otherwise be unavailable, especially in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the adoption of face masks and cough covering best practices, understanding the impact of face coverings on recorded audio measurements is essential. In this paper, system identification has been applied to four face covering states (disposable mask, N95 mask, fabric mask, and elbow covering) leading to four transfer functions that can be applied pre-recorded vocal sounds. As covering a cough with a bent elbow led to the highest level of frequency attenuation, it was used to evaluate three classifiers created using the original uncovered data, the elbow covered modeled data, and a combination of both. Each classifier used YAMNet embeddings to classify between four respiratory sounds. The classifier built using the original uncovered and modeled elbow covered data led to the highest performance when evaluated on either the uncovered or modeled data, with accuracies of 0.72. The application of these models can not only evaluate the robustness of preexisting respiratory classifiers in the presence of face coverings but may also be used as a data augmentation tool for human vocal sounds.","PeriodicalId":129732,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123356868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A low-cost, open-source, and distributed ocean profiling sensor node","authors":"Andrés Rico, Suparnamaaya Prasad, Kent Larson","doi":"10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881243","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SAS54819.2022.9881243","url":null,"abstract":"Ocean exploration is emerging as a critical field of research for understanding and combating climate change. While coastal waters house vital marine ecosystems, such as coral reefs, they are still vastly unexplored. Sensor nodes in coastal waters can give local communities and researchers relevant data for understanding the relationship between climate change, blue-economy activities, and ecosystem degradation. We present and validate a sensor node that can be opportunistically used by non-industrial fishing boats in order to collectively source ocean profiles containing temperature, light, and acidity levels at multiple depths. We describe the complete system architecture and validate our design with deployments in three different types of water bodies. First, we validate the device’s temperature, light, and depth sensors in a submersion within a controlled pool environment. We then evaluate the software-based power cycling for intermittent data acquisition algorithms through a river deployment. Finally, we demonstrate the complete system’s functionality and possible ways to incorporate acidity sensing with an open ocean deployment. In addition to field testing, we describe and test possible architectures for adding networking capabilities through a WiFi-based system. We conclude that the device’s electrical and mechanical characteristics significantly contribute towards enabling low-cost, community-sourced data acquisition for ocean coastal water profiling.","PeriodicalId":129732,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE Sensors Applications Symposium (SAS)","volume":"136 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122777006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}