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{"title":"Gas, Temperature, and Humidity Sensors-Based Onion Quality Monitoring System","authors":"Radhika Raina;Kamal Jeet Singh;Suman Kumar","doi":"10.1109/LSENS.2024.3462485","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2024.3462485","url":null,"abstract":"Onions are a valuable cash crop for farmers, providing a reliable source of income; thus, monitoring of the quality of onions kept in storage is an important concern. There are various factors, such as temperature, humidity, and storage period, that are responsible for maintaining the quality of onion. The common factor is, onion emits various gases when it starts rotting. Thus, to address this issue, carbon dioxide (CO\u0000₂\u0000), sulphur dioxide (SO\u0000₂\u0000), hydrogen sulphide (H\u0000₂\u0000S), ammonia (NH\u0000₃\u0000), temperature and humidity (SHT40) sensors are used in the proposed onion quality monitoring system. In this letter, we present the approximate ranges of the sensors through repeated experiments on three types of onions: healthy, those beginning to rot and fully rotted onions. In addition, our experiments and the literature both indicate that H\u0000₂\u0000S gas is the most effective for early rot detection. Moreover, none of the existing literature works have discussed regarding the power consumption of the onion quality monitoring system. Therefore, a novel battery operated, power efficient onion monitoring device is designed, primarily using H\u0000₂\u0000S and SHT40 sensors. This setup has a battery life of approximately 6.03 days with an 11.1 V / 10 Ah battery. When H\u0000₂\u0000S levels exceed a threshold indicating the onset of onion rot, all sensors (CO\u0000₂\u0000, SO\u0000₂\u0000, H\u0000₂\u0000S, NH\u0000₃\u0000, and SHT40) are activated, reducing battery life to 5.41 days.","PeriodicalId":13014,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Sensors Letters","volume":"8 10","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142397407","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":"AI-Enhanced Distance Estimation via Radio Chip Link Quality Metrics and Time-of-Flight Analysis With UWB Technology: A Comparative Evaluation","authors":"Maissa Taktak;Mohamed Khalil Baazaoui;Ilef Ketata;Salwa Sahnoun;Ahmed Fakhfakh;Faouzi Derbel","doi":"10.1109/LSENS.2024.3462600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2024.3462600","url":null,"abstract":"Precise distance estimation is essential in various fields, influencing customary aspects from daily activities to advanced research. In wireless sensor networks (WSN) accurate distance estimation is crucial for different applications, such as localization, energy efficiency, dynamic routing, and coverage optimization. In this letter, we strive to assess distance accurate estimation across various technologies, including a sub-GHz low-power, low-data-rate radio chip, and the ultra-wideband (UWB) transceiver. We utilize a combination of Time-of-Flight (ToF), link quality metrics (LQM), and machine learning (ML) techniques to elucidate the strengths and limitations of each technology.","PeriodicalId":13014,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Sensors Letters","volume":"8 10","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142377120","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":"Smartphone-Integrated POF Speckle Sensor for Heart Rate Variability Monitoring","authors":"Xuandong Liang;Yukun Long;Kaiyuan Xiang;Peiyou Shi;Zhuo Wang;Kun Xiao;Santosh Kumar;Xiaoli Li;Rui Min","doi":"10.1109/LSENS.2024.3461811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2024.3461811","url":null,"abstract":"The crucial role of pulse signals in the field of cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) cannot be overstated, as they provide physiological indicators for cardiovascular health monitoring and disease diagnosis. Pulse signals, as fundamental physiological signals, also offer valuable insights into heart rate variability (HRV) analysis for diagnosing CVDs. The wearable sensors are promising to monitor HRV information. We propose a smartphone-integrated plastic optical fiber (POF) speckle sensor for HRV monitoring, POF with a core diameter of 1000 µm was implemented, which offers the highest signal-to-noise ratio value (11.33 dB) among POFs of this core diameter. HRV tests were conducted, revealing a participant's average heart rate, standard deviation of NN intervals, and Root mean square of successive differences during different motion states. The correlation coefficient between reference R wave to R wave (RR) intervals and measured RR intervals is 0.97018. The results indicate our system holds potential applications in monitoring HRV for prevention and treatment of CVDs.","PeriodicalId":13014,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Sensors Letters","volume":"8 10","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142368498","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":"Design and Fabrication of a Metal Resistance Strain Sensor With Enhanced Sensitivity","authors":"Roberto S. Aga;Lemuel Duncan;Laura Davidson;Fahima Ouchen;Rachel Aga;Emily M. Heckman;Carrie M. Bartsch","doi":"10.1109/LSENS.2024.3460399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2024.3460399","url":null,"abstract":"This letter reports a novel design of a resistance strain sensor and its method of fabrication. The sensor is made of printed silver (Ag), but its sensitivity, which is measured by the gauge factor (GF), surpasses most commercial metal foil strain gauges (COTS). These COTS have a low GF (∼2) because they exhibit a weak piezoresistive effect. As a result, their sensitivity is dominated by the geometric effect. In this design, the GF is not limited by the weak piezoresistive effect in Ag. Its enhanced sensitivity (GF∼55) originates from the junctions that are created when a conductive cross-pattern is laser sintered on a printed Ag pad. The cross-pattern consists of a low-resistivity vertical trace and a high-resistivity horizontal trace. The difference in resistivity is achieved by changing the laser sintering power. The junction that joins the high and the low resistivity traces is a boundary with interfacial resistance. This interfacial resistance exhibits high sensitivity to strain leading to a different design and fabrication of a resistance strain sensor.","PeriodicalId":13014,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Sensors Letters","volume":"8 10","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142359739","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":"Integration of Surface-Mount Devices in Microsystems Using Tracks Consisting of Nanoparticles","authors":"Tina Mitteramskogler;Andreas Fuchsluger;Rafael Ecker;Sebastian Lang;Thomas Wilfinger;Robert Wille;Bernhard Jakoby","doi":"10.1109/LSENS.2024.3460969","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2024.3460969","url":null,"abstract":"The success of semiconductor industry, providing a high- volume, high-accuracy fabrication method of sensor chips, has caused sensors to be omnipresent in everyday consumer products. Typically, these sensors are enclosed into sensor packages and further integrated onto printed circuit boards since, for the connection to the outer world, several length scales have to be bridged. In this work, we show how surface-mount devices (SMDs) can be directly integrated onto poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) chips through the use of open microchannels. To this end, the SMDs are directly placed onto structured PMMA plates with open microchannels connecting them to dedicated liquid reservoirs. When introducing conductive inks to those reservoirs, capillary forces draw the liquid toward the SMDs and ensure the electrical connection between the liquid reservoir and the SMDs themselves. With the addition of crossings and meandering conductive lines, this process can be used for the fabrication of electrical networks out of individual SMD components directly on a PMMA substrate.","PeriodicalId":13014,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Sensors Letters","volume":"8 10","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10680343","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142313146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Outlier-Robust Unscented RTS Smoothing for Independent Sensing Data","authors":"Arslan Majal;Aamir Hussain Chughtai","doi":"10.1109/LSENS.2024.3460975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2024.3460975","url":null,"abstract":"In this letter, we propose a version of the unscented Rauch–Tung–Striebel (RTS) smoother robust to outliers in the observations. We consider a common case where data are collected from independent sensors with additive white Gaussian noise. Our method is primarily motivated by recent arguments and results presented in favor of learning-based outlier-robust state estimators, which assume adaptive residual cost functions in their formulation. We resort to the variational Bayesian (VB) theory to design an algorithm that selectively discards the corrupted measurements unlike other learning-based methods. Moreover, with the assumption that data are obtained from independent sensors, we are able to leverage computational results from advances in the unscented filtering theory that exploit the sparsity in the measurement covariance. For performance bench-marking, we present the Bayesian Cramér–Rao bound for a smoother with perfect outliers detection and rejection capabilities. Numerical experiments under different scenarios showcase performance gains in comparison with similar learning-based smoothers derived with the VB approach.","PeriodicalId":13014,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Sensors Letters","volume":"8 10","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142328426","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":"Assessment of Driver's Stress State Using Smart T-Shirt Textile Electrodes and Multimodal Cross-Attention Networks","authors":"Kaveti Pavan;Ankit Singh;Tomohiko Igasaki;Digvijay S. Pawar;Nagarajan Ganapathy","doi":"10.1109/LSENS.2024.3458931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2024.3458931","url":null,"abstract":"Textile sensors enable noninvasive health monitoring, crucial for ensuring road safety by conducting mental well-being checks for drivers. Assessing driver stress with multimodal data from textile electrodes requires effectively integrating and interpreting diverse physiological signals and kinematic data. In this study, we evaluated textile electrodes and cross-attention mechanisms for assessing driver stress using multimodal data. Electrocardiography and respiration data were collected from 15 healthy volunteers wearing smart shirts in two driving scenarios. Signals were sampled at 256 and 128 Hz, respectively, with vehicle data also recorded. Segmented physiological and vehicle data enter separate networks, 1-D convolutional layers for signals and fully connected layers for vehicle data. Cross-attention fuses physiological data; these features are combined with vehicle data for stress classification using sigmoid. The proposed approach is able to classify driver stress states using multimodal data, achieving an average accuracy of 79\u0000<inline-formula><tex-math>${%}$</tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000 and an average F-score of 75\u0000<inline-formula><tex-math>${%}$</tex-math></inline-formula>\u0000. The integration of a cross-attention mechanism facilitates the capture of intermodality information.","PeriodicalId":13014,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Sensors Letters","volume":"8 10","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142397408","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":"Human Activity Recognition Method Based on Scattering Separation Using Multifrequency Radar Data","authors":"Weiyi Li;Jiangang Liu;Shisheng Guo;Yong Jia","doi":"10.1109/LSENS.2024.3459939","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2024.3459939","url":null,"abstract":"The human body displays typical properties of multiple sca-ttering when targeted by radar, and the strong echo signal scattered from the torso often masks the weak echo signal scattered from the other body parts such as limbs and the head, limiting the performance of activity recognition. To address this issue, a human activity recognition method based on scattering separation using multifrequency radar data is proposed. First, the multifrequency echo data of human activity collected from stepped-frequency continuous wave radar is stacked, followed by principal component analysis to separate the trunk signal and the branch signal into the first two components, which helps in avoiding the interference caused by masking effects. Subsequently, the two time-frequency spectrograms that express the characteristics of human activities jointly are put into two parallel convolutional neural networks to complete feature extraction and classification. Datasets encompassing six activities were gathered using the stepped-frequency radar. Test results demonstrate that this method can enhance the average recognition effectually compared to the approach without scattering separation.","PeriodicalId":13014,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Sensors Letters","volume":"8 10","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142328403","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":"Durability Design and Construction Enhancement of Textile Electrode Shape on Analysis of Its Surface Electromyography Signal","authors":"Subashini J M;L Gethsia Judin;Amirdha S;Sharath Chandra Vislavath;Rohini Palanisamy;Suhasini Sathiyamoorthy;Pandiyarasan Veluswamy","doi":"10.1109/LSENS.2024.3458906","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2024.3458906","url":null,"abstract":"Advances in textile materials research and the health sector have contributed significantly to the invention of various flexible, smart, conductive materials that serve as electrodes for continuous monitoring of human physiological signals, such as electrocardiogram (ECG), EEG, electromyography (EMG), etc. EMG is used to record and evaluate the electrophysiological activity of the human muscle. The surface EMG signals are generally measured with an Ag/AgCl gel electrode. Although a circle-shaped electrode is significantly used, there will be a chance of evidence that another shape may be preferred. Therefore, this study investigated the performance of different electrode shapes, such as circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares, from their sensitivity, stability, and range of the electrode developed from the coated conductive textile material. This acts as an alternative to conventional gel electrodes. The dry electrodes were developed using conductive carbon paint coated with cotton fabric. The area of the electrode is 3.75 cm\u0000²\u0000, where the area is maintained the same for all the shapes. The morphological structure of the material is analyzed using a scanning electron microscope (SEM). The dry electrode resistance for each shape is calculated from IV measurement. The resistance of triangle- and rectangle-shape dry electrode is slightly higher than that of the circle- and square-shaped dry electrode. Even though the triangle-shaped electrode has higher sensitivity than other shapes, the rectangle-shaped electrode shows more deviation in signal range, which is 0.7 to −0.3 mV, while the range of commercial electrodes is 0.1 to −0.2 mV. The circular and square-shaped dry electrode signals are quite similar and within the range of commercial electrodes with less sensitivity value. Further, the circular and square-shaped electrodes are analyzed with different sizes, and it is observed that the larger the surface area, the lower the resistance with reliable signal. The EMG signal acquisition without interconnection is also observed in this research.","PeriodicalId":13014,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Sensors Letters","volume":"8 10","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142397405","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":"Towards Optical Flow in Time-of-Flight Range Imaging Using the Continuous Wavelet Transform","authors":"Jordan J. Wise;Lee Streeter","doi":"10.1109/LSENS.2024.3459871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/LSENS.2024.3459871","url":null,"abstract":"Time-of-flight (ToF) range imaging cameras perform full-field distance measurement, but require multiple frames to be captured sequentially in order to construct a single range image. When motion occurs during data acquisition, artifacts appear that limit the accuracy of range estimates. Analysis of these artifacts finds that they take the form of spatial waves whose frequency encodes motion information. We therefore propose a new technique for measuring motion in Time-of-Flight range imaging based on the continuous wavelet transform (CWT). Synchrosqueezing is explored as a means of improving the accuracy of velocity estimates.","PeriodicalId":13014,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Sensors Letters","volume":"8 10","pages":"1-4"},"PeriodicalIF":2.2,"publicationDate":"2024-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142368460","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}