T. Nowak, A. Koelpin, F. Dressler, M. Hartmann, Lucila Patino, J. Thielecke
{"title":"Combined localization and data transmission in energy-constrained wireless sensor networks","authors":"T. Nowak, A. Koelpin, F. Dressler, M. Hartmann, Lucila Patino, J. Thielecke","doi":"10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127395","url":null,"abstract":"Many applications demand simultaneous localization and aggregation in wireless sensor networks. For such an application, e.g. wildlife monitoring, a signaling scheme for a combined localization and communication using a common set of subcarriers is proposed. The concept is based on binary offset carrier signals. But, in contrast to Global Navigation Satellite Systems the presented approach makes use of pure subcarrier localization, and thus enables data transmission in short burst signals. The ranging performance is assessed utilizing the Cramér-Rao Lower Bound depending on the amount of data transferred and considering bit errors.","PeriodicalId":293397,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet)","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115353162","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 time to digital converter for use in ultra wide band Radar sensor nodes","authors":"D. Genschow","doi":"10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127419","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127419","url":null,"abstract":"This paper introduces a time to digital converter (TDC) architecture for use with ultra wideband (UWB) radar systems. The basic functionality is interfacing UWB RF-Frontends to standard microcontrollers (μC) without the need of high-speed, high precision analog to digital converters, high performance memories or large high speed logic. The device achieves asynchronous conversion of multiple successive events from time domain to digital domain with picosecond resolution. Primary fields of application include short range, low power UWB Radars like ground penetrating Radars, LIDAR systems or other localization tasks. Secondary fields are ultrasonic measurements and mid range radars. A self-calibration feature is implemented to correct certain nonlinearities and imperfections inherent to the conversion method.","PeriodicalId":293397,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet)","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125526579","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}
M. Sporer, F. Lurz, E. Schluecker, R. Weigel, A. Koelpin
{"title":"Underwater interferometric radar sensor for distance and vibration measurement","authors":"M. Sporer, F. Lurz, E. Schluecker, R. Weigel, A. Koelpin","doi":"10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127405","url":null,"abstract":"With the growing application of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV) and underwater construction, i.e. robotic manipulator and maintenance systems, there is an increasing demand on precise underwater distance sensors. In this paper we present a low-cost, short-range and contactless sensor which uses electromagnetical (EM) waves for measuring distances underwater. The measurement system is based on interferometric radar applying a six-port interferometer and using EM waves at a frequency of 2.4 GHz. Measurement series in fresh water have been carried out showing an precision of below 100 μm up to a distance of 35 mm with only 8 dBm of transmit power. Due to the high measurement rate the system can also be employed for vibration analysis. Additionally, by connecting a commercial 2.4 GHz data transceiver, it is imaginable for the system to be simultaneously used for high data rate communication between, e.g. AUV and unmanned underwater platforms (UUP).","PeriodicalId":293397,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet)","volume":"224 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124445941","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. Mann, S. Erhardt, S. Lindner, F. Lurz, S. Linz, F. Barbon, R. Weigel, A. Koelpin
{"title":"Diode detector design for 61 GHz substrate integrated waveguide Six-Port radar systems","authors":"S. Mann, S. Erhardt, S. Lindner, F. Lurz, S. Linz, F. Barbon, R. Weigel, A. Koelpin","doi":"10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127415","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127415","url":null,"abstract":"Radar sensors play a key role in today's industrial automation. Besides high accuracy, modern radar sensors have to feature high precision as well as challenging update rates. Six-Port wave correlators enable high phase resolution at high frequencies and therefore a high accuracy in radar applications. A low-cost Schottky diode detector applied to a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) Six-Port is presented and measured. Furthermore, a displacement measurement using the SIW structure is performed.","PeriodicalId":293397,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121121077","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}
L. Roselli, C. Mariotti, P. Mezzanotte, F. Alimenti, G. Orecchini, M. Virili, N. Carvalho
{"title":"Review of the present technologies concurrently contributing to the implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm: RFID, Green Electronics, WPT and Energy Harvesting","authors":"L. Roselli, C. Mariotti, P. Mezzanotte, F. Alimenti, G. Orecchini, M. Virili, N. Carvalho","doi":"10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127402","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127402","url":null,"abstract":"This paper summarizes the most important technologies, concurrently participating to build the technological platform needed for a realistic implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm. At the present state of the evolution of IoT, these technologies are mostly: Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID), Green Electronics (GE), Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) and Energy Harvesting (EH). This contribution briefly explains the reason for that, and shows a collection of scientific contributions which can be seen as examples. The deep description of the proposed systems can be found in the relative referenced papers.","PeriodicalId":293397,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet)","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121618793","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}
Abel Rodriguez de la Concepcion, R. Stefanelli, D. Trinchero
{"title":"Ad-hoc multilevel wireless sensor networks for distributed microclimatic diffused monitoring in precision agriculture","authors":"Abel Rodriguez de la Concepcion, R. Stefanelli, D. Trinchero","doi":"10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127408","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents an innovative solution for the realization of wireless sensor networks suitable to characterize the microclimatic behavior in agriculture fields. The nodes are equipped with sensing units to measure several physical parameters. They are designed in order to minimize power consumption, being able to work for a whole season without any energy harvester. The network is implemented at two levels. Data from distributed sensing units are initially collected via a single-hop connection and then forwarded to the Internet gateway via a multi-hop transmission scheme. The two levels use interchangeable ISM frequencies, thanks to the design of dual band loop antennas. In this way, flexibility and scalability can be easily reached. The trial that is currently tested in Montepulciano, Italy, has initially evidences problems originated by package permeability to humidity and water. Once the issue has been solved, reliability has reached 99%.","PeriodicalId":293397,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127086979","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":"Experimental evaluation of a pairwise broadcast synchronization in a low-power Cyber-physical system","authors":"U. Ghoshdastider, R. Viga, Michael Kraft","doi":"10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127399","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127399","url":null,"abstract":"Increasing development of Cyber-physical systems (CPS) has made it possible to enhance the brain-computer interface (BCI) with other multimodal vital sensors e.g. video, acceleration, pulse oximetry (SpO2-Measurment) that allow the neurophysiologist to monitor data in real-time. However to correlate the diverse data from distributed sensor nodes possess a huge challenge in terms of defining a global time in the network and thereby generates a demand for time synchronization in the network. Before employing time synchronization in such a CPS based network it is required to carefully consider number of parameters including precision, security, reliability, processing time, memory requirement and energy costs. In this paper an energy-efficient clock synchronization method using two-way message exchange protocol which was recently proposed and theoretically proved namely pairwise-broadcast synchronization (PBS) and another similar method called timing-sync protocol for sensor networks (TPSN) were implemented. For this purpose a novel autarkic hardware pair was designed to enable the interoperability with existing infrastructure. Bluetooth low energy (BLE) medium was taken into consideration to ease the medical certification procedure and low power consumption. An experimental evaluation of the methods focusing on their reproducibility, precision, and performance overhead was discussed.","PeriodicalId":293397,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133440280","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. Kissinger, Andre Schwarzmeier, F. Grimminger, J. Mena-Carrillo, W. Weber, G. Hofer, G. Fischer, R. Weigel
{"title":"Wireless integrated sensor nodes for indoor monitoring and localization","authors":"D. Kissinger, Andre Schwarzmeier, F. Grimminger, J. Mena-Carrillo, W. Weber, G. Hofer, G. Fischer, R. Weigel","doi":"10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127397","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127397","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents an overview of wireless integrated sensor node realizations for indoor monitoring and localization applications. Depending on the targeted application scenario different wireless sensor node implementations based on either high-performance processors or semi-passive radio-frequency identification (RFID) cores are outlined. The presented high-performance node realization with monitoring and seamless indoor and outdoor localization capability can operate independently for a duration of one day and additionally features wireless charging. Furthermore, a UHF RFID Gen2 sensor tag for indoor localization and fall detection is presented that enables a battery lifetime of approximately one month. Finally, ultra-low-power UHF RFID sensor node concepts based on sub-threshold wake-up receivers are introduced that can achieve operational times of several years for specific low duty cycle scenarios.","PeriodicalId":293397,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet)","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134073374","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}
H. Milosiu, F. Oehler, M. Eppel, Dieter Frühsorger, Thomas Thönes
{"title":"A 7-µW 2.4-GHz wake-up receiver with -80 dBm sensitivity and high co-channel interferer tolerance","authors":"H. Milosiu, F. Oehler, M. Eppel, Dieter Frühsorger, Thomas Thönes","doi":"10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127409","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127409","url":null,"abstract":"An ultra-low power wake-up receiver for 2.4-GHz wireless sensor networks, based on a fast sampling method, is presented. A novel multi-branch receiver architecture covers a wide range of interferer scenarios for highly occupied radio channels. The scalability of current consumption versus data rate at a constant sensitivity is another useful feature that fits a multitude of applications, requiring both short reaction times and ultra-low power consumption. The 2.4-GHz OOK receiver comprises a 3-branch analog superheterodyne front-end and six digital 31-bit correlating decoders. It is fabricated in a 130-nm CMOS technology. The current consumption is 2.9 μA at 2.5 V supply voltage and a reaction time of 30 ms. The receiver sensitivity is -80 dBm. Among other sub-100 μW state-of-the-art receivers, the presented implementation shows the best reported sensitivity.","PeriodicalId":293397,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet)","volume":"118 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126257854","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. Lindner, F. Barbon, S. Linz, F. Lurz, S. Mann, R. Weigel, A. Koelpin
{"title":"ADC depending limitations for Six-Port based distance measurement systems","authors":"S. Lindner, F. Barbon, S. Linz, F. Lurz, S. Mann, R. Weigel, A. Koelpin","doi":"10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127396","url":null,"abstract":"This publication will show some considerations for selecting an appropriate analog-digital-converter (ADC) in Six-Port based radar systems for distance measurements. It will be discussed how the ADC resolution is limiting the overall system range resolution. Furthermore, configurations with non-synchronous sampling of the four baseband signals and their influences on the system performance will be investigated.","PeriodicalId":293397,"journal":{"name":"2015 IEEE Topical Conference on Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128340203","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}