Konstantinos Tzortzakis, Konstantinos Papafotis, P. Sotiriadis
{"title":"Wireless self powered environmental monitoring system for smart cities based on LoRa","authors":"Konstantinos Tzortzakis, Konstantinos Papafotis, P. Sotiriadis","doi":"10.1109/PACET.2017.8259970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACET.2017.8259970","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents the design and implementation of a wireless sensor network based on the LoRa protocol. Sensor nodes with embedded temperature, humidity, luminance, carbon monoxide, methane, alcohol and smoke detection sensors transmit the collected data to a base station (gateway) using LoRa. The base station collects all the data and uploads them to the cloud using GPRS, where data gathered is stored and processed in order to be accessible to users.","PeriodicalId":171095,"journal":{"name":"2017 Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126105131","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}
D. Voglitsis, Dimitris Baros, N. Papanikolaou, E. Mitronikas
{"title":"Survey of the effects originating from the integration of a new regenerative braking system in electric lifts' drives","authors":"D. Voglitsis, Dimitris Baros, N. Papanikolaou, E. Mitronikas","doi":"10.1109/PACET.2017.8259956","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACET.2017.8259956","url":null,"abstract":"In the frame of LESS project, funded by the NSRF 2007–2013, a new regenerative braking system for elevators has been designed and prototyped. The main feature of this system is that it is controlled by a fuzzy controller, accommodating its integration to a wide range of commercial inverter drives for lifts. In the present work, an extended analysis is presented, for the possibility to interconnect the regenerative braking system to a local microgrid, emphasizing on the effects that may emerge to the design and the normal operation of both the microgrid and the braking system. Moreover, the impact of this newly developed braking system will be assessed, in terms of driving system power quality at its connection point with the distribution network. Simulation and experimental results are presented, confirming the main outcomes of this work.","PeriodicalId":171095,"journal":{"name":"2017 Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET)","volume":"28 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121837834","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}
Nikolaos Baxevanakis, Ioannis Georgakopoulos, P. Sotiriadis
{"title":"Rail-to-rail operational amplifier with stabilized frequency response and constant-gm input stage","authors":"Nikolaos Baxevanakis, Ioannis Georgakopoulos, P. Sotiriadis","doi":"10.1109/PACET.2017.8259966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACET.2017.8259966","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a 3 V input and output Rail-to-Rail operational amplifer is designed in a 0.6 pm CMOS technology. It uses a complementary differential input stage, a simple class-A output stage and two current compensation networks. The first provides constant transconductance at the input by varying the square root of the input pairs' tail currents. The second ensures an almost constant frequency response throughout the entire common mode range of operation. Simulations show a maximum variation of only 9 % and 30 % for PM and GM respectively. Large-signal step response achieves a 0.1 % settling time lower than 32 ns, while its quiescent power consumption is 3.7mW.","PeriodicalId":171095,"journal":{"name":"2017 Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET)","volume":"47 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131512343","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}
Ioannis Georgakopoulos, N. Hadjigeorgiou, P. Sotiriadis
{"title":"A CMOS closed loop AMR sensor architecture","authors":"Ioannis Georgakopoulos, N. Hadjigeorgiou, P. Sotiriadis","doi":"10.1109/PACET.2017.8259975","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACET.2017.8259975","url":null,"abstract":"A fully analog, closed loop, signal conditioning circuit is presented for the readout of Anisotropic MagnetoResistance magnetic sensors. The architecture is based on a fully differential design, consisting of an instrumentation amplifier with chopping to achieve low output noise, followed by a transconductor. The output current of the transconductor is directly fed back to the sensor, through a dedicated on-chip inductor for magnetic field offsetting purposes, closing this way a negative feedback loop. The proposed design has been implemented and simulated in TSMC 180nm 5 V CMOS process.","PeriodicalId":171095,"journal":{"name":"2017 Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130299145","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}
C. Votis, Giorgos Tatsis, V. Christofilakis, P. Kostarakis, V. Tritakis, C. Repapis
{"title":"Analog front end of the extremely low frequency station at Ioannina in Greece for the measurement of Schumann resonances","authors":"C. Votis, Giorgos Tatsis, V. Christofilakis, P. Kostarakis, V. Tritakis, C. Repapis","doi":"10.1109/PACET.2017.8259989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACET.2017.8259989","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper A portable detection system for Schumann resonances (SR) measurements is presented. SR are ELF natural electromagnetic eigenmodes in Earth-ionosphere cavity. These electromagnetic waves have been suggested to monitor climate, electrical activity in the atmosphere and other earth — atmosphere phenomena providing observations of great importance. In the present work, we studied the antenna structure and the electronic set-up to achieve high sensitivity and long term monitoring of SR magnetic field components. The corresponding calculated and measured results focus on the whole system performance enhancement. A series of measurements taken in a spot at the prefecture of Ioannina Greece, indicate that our measurement set-up can reliably measure up to 6 harmonics in SR spectrum, efficiently.","PeriodicalId":171095,"journal":{"name":"2017 Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128485630","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. Angelopoulos, Georgios Theodoros Kalampokis, M. Dasygenis
{"title":"An Internet of Things humanoid robot teleoperated by an open source Android application","authors":"G. Angelopoulos, Georgios Theodoros Kalampokis, M. Dasygenis","doi":"10.1109/PACET.2017.8259978","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACET.2017.8259978","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human interaction. Nowadays the use of IoT in industrial robots is very popular contrary to humanoid robots. There have been a few attempts that combine IoT with humanoid robots but they have limited features. This paper proposes a novel open source platform Android application for controlling a humanoid robot, with more features than other research projects, in remote areas either behind NAT (Network Address Translation) or without it. The user can view what the robot is seeing through the Android application and can also move it. Additionally, our system has the ability to deliver real-time audio through our application. We envision that our proposed system is not only an attractive solution for many telerobotic applications but also an extensive educational tool in special needs education.","PeriodicalId":171095,"journal":{"name":"2017 Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET)","volume":"104 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122624780","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}
I. Gkionis, D. Argyropoulos, F. Farmakis, N. Georgoulas, M. Vakalopoulou-Paschalidou, C. Elmasides
{"title":"Carbon fiber electrodes enhanced with graphene oxide for supercapacitors","authors":"I. Gkionis, D. Argyropoulos, F. Farmakis, N. Georgoulas, M. Vakalopoulou-Paschalidou, C. Elmasides","doi":"10.1109/PACET.2017.8259987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACET.2017.8259987","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, supercapacitors are very effective on a wide range of applications. Data backup, power fail alarms and generally embedded systems require high power density storage components with small dimensions. Graphene-based electrodes are very promising so as to construct thin film lightweight supercapacitors with high specific power. In this contribution, the development and electrochemical characterization of graphene-based electrodes with different fabrication parameters is conferred. In particular, both activated and un-activated carbon fiber was used as substrate and reduced graphene oxide as the active material. It was found that the activation of the carbon fiber offers superior performance in terms of gravimetric capacitance. Finally, Electric Double Layer Capacitors (EDLC's) with gravimetric capacitance of 2.12 F/g, energy density of 244.46 mWh/kg and power density of 54.6 W/kg after 600 charging-discarging cycles were fabricated.","PeriodicalId":171095,"journal":{"name":"2017 Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129311006","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}
A. Koutinos, G. Ioannopoulos, M. Chryssomallis, G. Kyriacou
{"title":"Quadruple-fed supershape patch radiator with enhanced bandwidth operation","authors":"A. Koutinos, G. Ioannopoulos, M. Chryssomallis, G. Kyriacou","doi":"10.1109/PACET.2017.8259990","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACET.2017.8259990","url":null,"abstract":"Multiple feeding technique is herein used to provide wideband operation for a super-shaped patch radiator. Four symmetrical feeding points are exploited to create an overlapping loss pattern, yielding a functional bandwidth of 2 GHz. The initial hypothesis is evaluated in terms of all appropriate antenna characteristics such as Return Loss, VSWR, input impedance, efficiency and corresponding radiation patterns.","PeriodicalId":171095,"journal":{"name":"2017 Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET)","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123173964","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}
S. Menounou, A. Stassinakis, H. Nistazakis, G. Tombras, H. Sandalidis
{"title":"Coverage area estimation for high performance eSSK visible light communication systems","authors":"S. Menounou, A. Stassinakis, H. Nistazakis, G. Tombras, H. Sandalidis","doi":"10.1109/PACET.2017.8259983","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACET.2017.8259983","url":null,"abstract":"The coverage area of an indoor visible light communication (VLC) system with multiple transmitters and one receiver using the enhanced space shift keying (eSSK) modulation format is examined in this study. In eSSK scheme, every LED transmits a unique symbol in a specific time slot and the receiver is able to detect the signals from all transmitters. The area where this is possible is very important for a proper operation of the system. The dependence of the coverage area on the fundamental physical parameters is investigated in details.","PeriodicalId":171095,"journal":{"name":"2017 Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131786367","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":"Noise shaping advantages of band-pass multi-step look-ahead sigma-delta modulators over conventional ones in signal synthesis","authors":"Nikos Temenos, Charis Basetas, P. Sotiriadis","doi":"10.1109/PACET.2017.8259968","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PACET.2017.8259968","url":null,"abstract":"Sigma-Delta modulators (SDMs) are capable of shaping the quantization noise out of a specific frequency band defined by their noise transfer function (NTF). A single-bit output SDM pose further advantages in applications that would typically require a multi-bit DAC, since then only a single-bit DAC is required, which is much easier to design and is inherently linear in comparison to a multi-bit one. Look-ahead SDMs have been proposed to enhance the signal-to-noise-and-distortion-ratio (SNDR) and the output bandwidth of conventional single-bit SDMs. Multi-Step Look-Ahead sigma-delta modulators (MSLA SDMs) further reduce the hardware complexity required for the implementation of typical look-ahead SDMs while maintaining their performance advantages. In this work the architecture and the benefits of the MSLA SDMs are showcased. Finally the advantages of the MSLA SDMs over single-bit conventional ones are demonstrated and several hardware implementation choices for design optimization are discussed.","PeriodicalId":171095,"journal":{"name":"2017 Panhellenic Conference on Electronics and Telecommunications (PACET)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128331217","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}