Browsing Research Articles (Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering) by Subject "Wireless sensor networks"

Browsing Research Articles (Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering) by Subject "Wireless sensor networks"

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  • Actor coordination using info-gap decision theory in wireless sensor and actor networks 
    Chinnappen-Rimer, Suvendi; Hancke, Gerhard P. (Inderscience, 2011)
    Mobile, unmanned, power and resource-rich devices, called actors, deployed within a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) application area, enable faster response times to events. Due to cost constraints, only a few actors can ...
  • Design of a RFID system for real-time tracking of laboratory animals 
    Ramudzuli, Zwivhuya Romeo; Malekian, Reza; Ye, Ning (Springer, 2017-08)
    In this paper, a real-time RFID system capable of tracking laboratory animals for behavior analysis purposes was designed and implemented. Four passive RFID tags based on low frequency (LF) were designed and implemented ...
  • Distributed topology control technique for low interference and energy efficiency in wireless sensor networks 
    Chiwewe, Tapiwa Moses; Hancke, Gerhard P. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2012-02)
    Topology control plays an important role in the design of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks; it is capable of constructing networks that have desirable characteristics such as sparser connectivity, lower transmission ...
  • Dynamic connectivity in wireless underground sensor networks 
    Sun, Zhi; Akyildiz, Ian F.; Hancke, Gerhard P. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2011-12)
    In wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs), due to the dynamic underground channel characteristics and the heterogeneous network architecture, the connectivity analysis is much more complicated than in the terrestrial ...
  • Industrial wireless sensor networks : challenges, design principles, and technical approaches 
    Gungor, Vehbi Cagri; Hancke, Gerhard P. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2009-10)
    In today’s competitive industry marketplace, the companies face growing demands to improve process efficiencies, comply with environmental regulations, and meet corporate financial objectives. Given the increasing age of ...
  • Internet of vehicles based approach for road safety applications using sensor technologies 
    Soni, Nikheel; Malekian, Reza; Andriukaitis, Darius; Navikas, Dangirutis (Springer, 2019-04)
    In this paper, the Internet of Vehicles approach is used to develop a novel low cost sensor based system for road safety applications in intelligent transportation systems. It was found that major hazards that compromise ...
  • Mine safety system using wireless sensor network 
    Henriques, Valdo; Malekian, Reza (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2016)
    This paper describes the work carried out on the design and construction of a mine safety system prototype using a wireless sensor network with the objective of building a safety system to monitor the ambient characteristics ...
  • A review of the topologies used in smart water meter networks : a wireless sensor network application 
    Marais, Jaco Morne; Malekian, Reza; Ye, Ning; Wang, Ruchuan (Hindawi Publishing, 2016)
    This paper presents several proposed and existing smart utility meter systems as well as their communication networks to identify the challenges of creating scalable smart water meter networks. Network simulations are ...
  • SEER : a simple energy efficient routing protocol for wireless sensor networks 
    Hancke, Gerhard P.; Leuschner, C.J. (Charl Jaco) (Computer Society of South Africa, 2007-12)
    The nature of wireless sensor networks necessitates specific design requirements, of which energy efficiency is paramount. In this paper we present SEER (Simple Energy Efficient Routing), a novel routing protocol for ...
  • A web-based office climate control system using wireless sensors 
    Foster, Timothy W.; Bhatt, Deep Vardhan; Hancke, Gerhard P.; Silva, Bruno (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2016-08)
    Conventional heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems usually achieve the desired control level by means of simple ON–OFF control, which can often result in high energy wastage. A potential solution to ...