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Biennial State-of-the-Art Sensors Technology in Japan 2019-2020

A special issue of Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220). This special issue belongs to the section "State-of-the-Art Sensors Technologies".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2020) | Viewed by 2615

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Prof. Dr. Yasuhisa Omura

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Department of Electrical, Electronics and Information Engineering, Kansai University, Suita 564-8680, Japan
Interests: low-energy devices for mobile sensors; quantum devices applicable to biomedical sensing; new applications of photoplethysmogram and pulse oximetry; advanced bio-impedance spectroscopy; electronic materials for sensing and their fabrication technology
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Dear Colleagues,

Historically, it has been considered that sensing belongs to analog technology, and unfortunately, very little information has been processed as a result of this. However, this belief has already become old-fashioned because analog signals consist of much information that has not been processed so far. In addition, some analog signals are intrinsically nonlinear, and it is not easy for us to analyze such signals. However, it will be possible to do that when nonlinear signal models are applied to them. This is a mathematically and technologically challenging topic of study for future applications.

Thus, we still have many potential subjects that should be reconsidered. Interplay between materials, devices, fabrication process, circuits, and signal processing will be of great importance in this century.

This Special Issue strives to provide an overview of state-of-the-art sensor technology in Japan, where this field evolved to a highly innovative and dynamic research area. Research articles covering novel, highly-functional, and intelligent sensor systems and their applications are invited.

Individual topics of interest include but are not limited to:

  • Biosensing devices;
  • Chemical and physical sensor systems;
  • Fiber optic sensing and surface plasmon resonance sensors;
  • Acoustic sensing devices;
  • Micro-integrated sensor devices;
  • Remote sensing devices;
  • Structural health monitoring devices;
  • Environmental analytics;
  • Optical metrology;
  • Medical diagnostics and monitoring;
  • Ambient assisted living and e-health systems;
  • Wearable sensor systems;
  • Mathematical algorithms for signal analysis.

Prof. Dr. Yasuhisa Omura
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • Biosensors
  • Chemical sensors
  • Physical sensors
  • Sensor networks
  • Remote sensors
  • Reliable signal analysis
  • Possible algorithms

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Project Report
Development of KOSEN Weather Station and Provision of Weather Information to Farmers
by Jeyeon Kim, Daichi Minagawa, Daiki Saito, Shinichiro Hoshina and Kazuya Kanda
Sensors 2022, 22(6), 2108; https://doi.org/10.3390/s22062108 - 09 Mar 2022
Cited by 4 | Viewed by 2256
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In recent years, environmental information monitoring in the agricultural field has become an important issue. There is an increasing demand for meteorological information in local areas such as a rice field, a greenhouse, etc., owned by an agricultural worker. Conventional research has been [...] Read more.
In recent years, environmental information monitoring in the agricultural field has become an important issue. There is an increasing demand for meteorological information in local areas such as a rice field, a greenhouse, etc., owned by an agricultural worker. Conventional research has been actively conducted on weather stations in local areas. However, weather stations that are inexpensive, highly accurate, and have achieved stable measurements indoors and outdoors for long periods of time (over a year) are not reported. In addition, there is a lack of research that simultaneously acquires weather information, stores weather information, and provides weather information to farmers. These three functions are important in the agricultural field. In this paper, we discuss the development of a meteorological observation device, the construction of a cloud server for storing meteorological information, and the provision of information to users. First, we develop the novel meteorological observation device (KOSEN-Weather Station), which applies a simple Aßmann’s aspiration psychrometer for highly accurate temperature and humidity measurements. To evaluate the reliability of KOSEN-WS, we compare the weather information measured by KOSEN-WS with that of WXT520. As a result, it is shown that KOSEN-WS is viable. Then, KOSEN-WS is installed in the field, and the stability and durability of KOSEN-WS are examined. As a result, the KOSEN-WS has been operating stably over 19 months and provides weather information to users. Then, it is shown that the KOSEN-WS is able to operate continuously under the environment of −16.5 °C to 44.9 °C. Next, for the storage of meteorological information, we construct the cloud server. Then, a webpage is created to provide easy-to-understand weather information to farmers. Furthermore, to prevent damage to crops, if the current temperature is lower than the set temperature, or if the current temperature is higher than the set temperature, an alert is sent to the farmers. As a result, the system is highly evaluated by agricultural workers and JA staff. From the above results, the effectiveness of this system is shown. Full article
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