Automated irrigation system using a wireless sensor network and GPRS module

J Gutiérrez, JF Villa-Medina… - IEEE transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
An automated irrigation system was developed to optimize water use for agricultural crops.
The system has a distributed wireless network of soil-moisture and temperature sensors …

Microclimatic challenges in global change biology

KA Potter, H Arthur Woods… - Global change …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Despite decades of work on climate change biology, the scientific community remains
uncertain about where and when most species distributions will respond to altered climates …

Shimmer, Cooja and Contiki: A new toolset for the simulation of on-node signal processing algorithms

P Kugler, P Nordhus, B Eskofier - 2013 IEEE international …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wearable sensors are widely used for data collection in many applications. Ssensor nodes
have also been applied for real-time applications, eg for ECG analysis or activity and fall …

Detection and prevention of selective forwarding-based denial-of-service attacks in WSNs

Y Cho, G Qu - International Journal of Distributed Sensor …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Designing wireless sensor networks (WSNs) that can work reliably in the presence of inside
packet drop attackers is very challenging. Current trust mechanisms and avoidance …

Compression in wearable sensor nodes: Impacts of node topology

SA Imtiaz, AJ Casson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wearable sensor nodes monitoring the human body must operate autonomously for very
long periods of time. Online and low-power data compression embedded within the sensor …

Towards a vibration energy harvesting WSN demonstration testbed

S Baghaee, H Ulusan, S Chamanian… - … workshop on digital …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents initial results toward the implementation of a wireless sensor network
(WSN) demonstration testbed powered up by vibration energy, as part of the E-CROPS …

Modulo: A modular sensor network node optimised for research and product development

CP Kruger, AM Abu-Mahfouz… - 2013 IST-Africa …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The paper identifies several key challenges that were experienced by the authors while
doing research and development work relating to wireless sensor networks. Some key …

Towards residential smart grid: a practical design of wireless sensor network and Mini-Web server based low cost home energy monitoring system

MT Vo, MT Nguyen, TD Nguyen, CT Le… - 2013 International …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Power grid is reaching its limitations, smart-grid technology will be necessary in the near
future to increase the efficiency and reliability. Wireless sensor network (WSN) is a potential …

Embedded memory design using memristor: Retention time versus write energy

Y Halawani, B Mohammad, D Homouz… - 2013 IEEE 20th …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Memristor is a good candidate for replacing CMOS-based flash and DRAM due to its
superior scalability, low read energy and non-volatility characteristics. Relatively longer write …

[PDF][PDF] Wireless data acquisition for apiology applications

LA Rice - 2013 - libres.uncg.edu
ABSTRACT WIRELESS DATA ACQUISITION FOR APIOLOGY APPLICATIONS Luke
Aldridge Rice, BS, Appalachian State University MS, Appalachian State University …