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The discipline of instrumentation has grown appreciably in recent years because of advances in sensor technology and in the interconnectivity of sensors, computers and control systems. This 4e of the Instrumentation Reference Book embraces the equipment and systems used to detect, track and store data related to physical, chemical, electrical, thermal and mechanical properties of materials, systems and operations. While traditionally a key area within mechanical and industrial engineering, understanding this greater and more complex use of sensing and monitoring controls and systems is

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Advances in sensor technology have yielded sensors with ever-increasing accuracy and higher spatial and temporal resolution—while their size, weight, and cost have decreased by many orders of magnitude. Sensor networks have been developing at a similarly rapid pace, with more and more real-world deployments for various applications. This easy-to-read text focuses on challenges in coverage control—how to efficiently control individual sensors’ sensing unit to achieve network-wide coverage quality. As one of the most fundamental and important research issues in sensor networks, coverage control problems have been intensively studied in recent years. Divided into four parts, this book opens with a general introduction, before presenting three categories of coverage control problems—point coverage, area coverage and barrier coverage—in the following parts. Employing a tutorial-like style, this book examines the fundamental coverage problems in each category and presents the most recent advances and techniques in the field. Topics and features: • Provides an introduction to sensors, sensor nodes, sensor networks, and sensor coverage models • Supplies an informal definition and taxonomy for network-wide coverage control • Explores the node placement optimization problem for coverage configuration before network deployment • Investigates the coverage lifetime maximization problem by controlling coverage characteristics in a randomly deployed network • Discusses the critical sensor-density problem for coverage configuration before network deployment • Examines the sensor-activity scheduling problem of controlling network coverage characteristics in a randomly deployed network • Introduces the node movement strategy problem for sensor networks containing mobile nodes • Presents the challenges of building intrusion barriers and finding penetration paths This useful text/reference for graduate students provides an overview of various coverage-control problems in sensor networks. The problem scenarios, solution techniques, and protocols presented in the text will also be of interest to researchers, developers and professionals. Dr. Bang Wang is a researcher in the Intelligent Systems Center in Singapore, an applied research center jointly set up by Singapore Technologies Engineering and Nanyang Technological University.

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Microelectromechanical systems. --- Electronic apparatus and appliances. --- Microfabrication. --- Electronic apparatus and appliances --- Microelectromechanical systems --- Microfabrication --- 62-039.3 --- Manufacturing processes --- MEMS (Microelectromechanical systems) --- Micro-electro-mechanical systems --- Micro-machinery --- Microelectromechanical devices --- Micromachinery --- Micromachines --- Micromechanical devices --- Micromechanical systems --- Electromechanical devices --- Microtechnology --- Mechatronics --- Electronic devices --- Electronics --- Physical instruments --- Scientific apparatus and instruments --- Electronic instruments --- 62-039.3 Nanomaterials --- Nanomaterials --- Apparatus and appliances

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Low-power sensors and their applications in various fields ranging from military to civilian lives have made tremendous progress in the recent years. Low-power and extended battery life are the key focuses for long term, reliable and easy operation of these sensors. Sensors and Low Power Signal Processing provides a general overview of a sensor’s working principle and a discussion of the emerging sensor technologies including chemical, electro-chemical and MEMS based sensors. Also included is a discussion on design challenges associated with low-power analog circuits and the schemes to overcome them. Finally, a short discussion of some of the simple wireless telemetry schemes best suited for low-power sensor applications and sensor packaging issues is discussed. Applications and sensor prototypes included are environmental monitoring, health care monitoring and issues related to the development of sensor prototypes and associated electronics to achieve high signal-to-noise ratio are also presented. Sensors and Low Power Signal Processing is perfect for engineers in the sensors and signals community dedicated to developing new prototypes and applications for sensor based products. .

Microelectromechanical systems. --- Microelectronics. --- Signal processing --- Low voltage integrated circuits --- Detectors --- Electrical & Computer Engineering --- Electrical Engineering --- Telecommunications --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Detectors. --- Low voltage integrated circuits. --- Signal processing. --- Processing, Signal --- Low power consumption chips --- Low power integrated circuits --- Reduced voltage integrated circuits --- Sensors --- Engineering. --- Electronics. --- Electronic circuits. --- Circuits and Systems. --- Signal, Image and Speech Processing. --- Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation. --- Information measurement --- Signal theory (Telecommunication) --- Integrated circuits --- Low voltage systems --- Engineering instruments --- Physical instruments --- Systems engineering. --- Electrical engineering --- Physical sciences --- Engineering systems --- System engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial engineering --- System analysis --- Design and construction --- Image processing. --- Speech processing systems. --- Computational linguistics --- Electronic systems --- Information theory --- Modulation theory --- Oral communication --- Speech --- Telecommunication --- Singing voice synthesizers --- Pictorial data processing --- Picture processing --- Processing, Image --- Imaging systems --- Optical data processing --- Microminiature electronic equipment --- Microminiaturization (Electronics) --- Electronics --- Microtechnology --- Semiconductors --- Miniature electronic equipment --- Electron-tube circuits --- Electric circuits --- Electron tubes