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An Autonomous And Adaptable Wireless Device For Flood Monitoring, Valerio Plessi, Filippo Bastianini, Sahra Sedigh
An Autonomous And Adaptable Wireless Device For Flood Monitoring, Valerio Plessi, Filippo Bastianini, Sahra Sedigh
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Wireless devices can be used to monitor and record a broad range of phenomena. Their advantages include ease of installation and maintenance and considerable reduction in wiring costs. The addition of battery power and radio communication to such wireless devices can result in a completely The operating environment of monitoring systems is often hostile, due to temperature fluctuations, humidity, electromagnetic noise, and other interfering phenomena. The system should be able to adapt to changing conditions to maintain dependability in its operations This paper presents the case study of adapting a flood detection device to the environmental threat of submersion.
A General Purpose Framework For Wireless Sensor Network Applications, Ayman Z. Faza, Sahra Sedigh
A General Purpose Framework For Wireless Sensor Network Applications, Ayman Z. Faza, Sahra Sedigh
Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works
Wireless sensor networks are becoming a basis for a rapidly increasing range of applications. Habitat, flood, and wildfire monitoring are interesting examples of such applications. Each application has different requirements in terms of node functionalities, network size, complexity and cost; therefore, it is worthwhile time investment to design and implement a general purpose framework for wireless sensor networks that would be adaptable to any monitoring application of interest with a minimum amount of effort. In this manuscript, we propose a basic structure for such a framework and highlight a number of challenges anticipated during the course of this doctoral research.
Non-Unity Active Pfc Methods For Filter Size Optimization, Yongxiang Chen, Jonathan W. Kimball, Philip T. Krein
Non-Unity Active Pfc Methods For Filter Size Optimization, Yongxiang Chen, Jonathan W. Kimball, Philip T. Krein
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Active power factor correction seeks to obtain unity power factor and sinusoidal line currents. Optimized nonsinusoidal line currents reduce filter capacitor requirements with a nonunity target power factor. Implementation methods are presented that permit reduced power factor to be traded off against filter size in a nearly optimum manner. A simple waveform shape can reduce filter component size by about 40% in active PFC converters at the same level of complexity as in conventional PFC designs while yielding power factor as high as 0.9. Two approximate methods to generate appropriate shapes are presented. They offer direct practical implementation of nonunity …