Design and in-the-field performance evaluation of compact FBG sensor system for structural health monitoring applications
Journal Article
Kerrouche, A., Boyle, W., Sun, T., & Grattan, K. (2009)
Design and in-the-field performance evaluation of compact FBG sensor system for structural health monitoring applications. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 151(2), 107-112. doi:10.1016/j.sna.2009.01.021
Over the last few years optical fibre sensor systems have been developed and their use reported for the monitoring of large civil engineering structures. In this way they have...
Metamaterial biosensor for cancer detection
Conference Proceeding
La Spada, L., Bilotti, F., & Vegni, L. (2012)
Metamaterial biosensor for cancer detection. In SENSORS, 2011 IEEEdoi:10.1109/icsens.2011.6127103
In this study a low-cost, compact, and high-performing metamaterial-based biosensor operating in the GHz regime is presented. The sensor is designed to detect the presence of ...
Design and evaluation of optical fibre sensors in civil engineering applications for Structural Health Monitoring
Conference Proceeding
Grattan, K. T. V., Kerrouche, A., Sun, T., Grattan, S., Taylor, S. E., & Basheer, P. A. M. (2009)
Design and evaluation of optical fibre sensors in civil engineering applications for Structural Health Monitoring. In 2009 14th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference. https://doi.org/10.1109/oecc.2009.5222620
A number of studies on the use of optical fibre sensor techniques for structural monitoring are discussed and results obtained, both in the laboratory and in the field, are re...
Graphene-Oxide and Hydrogel Coated FBG-Based pH Sensor for Biomedical Applications
Journal Article
Binetti, L., Stankiewicz, A., & Alwis, L. S. M. (2018)
Graphene-Oxide and Hydrogel Coated FBG-Based pH Sensor for Biomedical Applications. Proceedings, 2(13), 789. https://doi.org/10.3390/proceedings2130789
A hydrogel coated fibre grating-based pH sensor for biomedical applications has been realised, where Graphene Oxide (GO) had been used to enhance the bonding between the coati...
BARBEI: a new adaptive battery aware and reliable beacon enabled technique for IEEE802.15.4 MAC.
Book Chapter
Salayma, M., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Yassein, M. B. (2017)
BARBEI: a new adaptive battery aware and reliable beacon enabled technique for IEEE802.15.4 MAC. In M. Grzenda, J. Furtak, J. Legierski, & A. I. Awad (Eds.), Advances in Networking Systems Architectures, Security, and Applications, (317-335). CHAM: Springer
The IEEE 802.15.4 standard supports both physical and Media Access Con-trol (MAC) layers of low rate Wireless Sensor Network (WSNs). However, this stand-ard considers only the...
Navigating a Speckled World: Interacting with Wireless Sensor Networks
Book Chapter
Leach, M., & Benyon, D. (2010)
Navigating a Speckled World: Interacting with Wireless Sensor Networks. In M. Wachowicz (Ed.), Movement-Aware Applications for Sustainable Mobility, (229-242). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61520-769-5.ch014
The Speckled Computing project is a large multisite research project based in Scotland, UK. The aim of the project is to investigate, prototype, and produce tiny (1mm3) comput...
Enhanced FBG sensor-based system performance assessment for monitoring strain along a prestressed CFRP rod in structural monitoring
Journal Article
Kerrouche, A., Boyle, W., Sun, T., Grattan, K., Schmidt, J., & Täljsten, B. (2009)
Enhanced FBG sensor-based system performance assessment for monitoring strain along a prestressed CFRP rod in structural monitoring. Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 151(2), 127-132. doi:10.1016/j.sna.2009.02.030
Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) sensor-based systems have been widely used for many engineering applications including most recently a number of applications in structural health mo...
Metamaterial resonator arrays for organic and inorganic compound sensing
Conference Proceeding
La Spada, L., Bilotti, F., & Vegni, L. (2011)
Metamaterial resonator arrays for organic and inorganic compound sensing. In Proceedings Volume 8306, Photonics, Devices, and Systems V; 83060I (2011)doi:10.1117/12.912267
In this paper, an electromagnetic metamaterial resonator operating in the terahertz frequency range is presented. By arranging the resonator in a planar array, it is possible ...
A new dynamic weight clustering algorithm for wireless sensor networks
Conference Proceeding
Essa, A., Al-Dubai, A., Romdhani, I., & Eshaftri, M. (2017)
A new dynamic weight clustering algorithm for wireless sensor networks. In S. Yang, J. Gao, Y. Zhang, K. Yang, V. C. M. Leung, & J. Hu (Eds.), Smart Grid Inspired Future Technologies: First International Conference, Liverpool, UK, May 19-20, 2016 SmartGIFT 2016, 195-203
Since sensor nodes have limited energy resources, prolonging network lifetime and improving scalability are essential elements in energy-efficient Wireless Sensor Networks (WS...
Metamaterial-based Sensor Design Working in Infrared Frequency Range
Journal Article
La Spada, L., Bilotti, F., & Vegni, L. (2011)
Metamaterial-based Sensor Design Working in Infrared Frequency Range. Progress in electromagnetics research B: PIER B, 34, 205-223. https://doi.org/10.2528/pierb11060303
In this paper, we propose the design of high sensitivity and selectivity metamaterial-based biosensors operating in the THz regime. The proposed sensors consist of planar arra...