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State-of-the-Art Sensors Technology in Canada 2020-2021

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 2021) | Viewed by 11875

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Sofiène Affes

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Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS), Montreal, QC H5A 1K6, Canada
Interests: wireless sensor networks; internet of things (IoT); sensor transceiver technologies; multi-sensor signal processing; embedded systems
Prof. Dr. Arafat Al-Dweik

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Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Khalifa University, 127788, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Interests: Wireless Communications; Radio Access; Wireless Sensor Networks; Signal Processing; Estimation and Detection
Dr. Ahmad El-Assaf

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IBM, Markham, ON L3R 9Z7, Canada
Interests: Wireless Sensor Networks; Localization; Artificial Intelligence; Machine Learning; Embedded Systems
Prof. Dr. Hossam S. Hassanein

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School of Computing, Queen’s University, Kingston, ON K7L 3N6, Canada
Interests: 5G wireless sensor networks; radio resource management; edge computing; Internet of things; data-centric networks
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Prof. Dr. Dushantha Nalin K. Jayakodi

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Tomsk Polytechnic University, Tomsk 634050, Russia
Interests: Wireless Communications; Wireless Sensor Networks; Radio Access Technologies; PHY layer; Signal Processing
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Dr. George Shaker

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Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
Interests: antennas & propagation; RF engineering; UAV wireless communications; mm-waves; sensors; energy harvesting systems; biomedical engineering; vehicle and UAV wireless communications; navigation systems; telematics systems
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The aim of this Special Issue is to provide a comprehensive overview on the state-of-the-art sensor technology of Canada. Research articles are invited, which will provide a consolidated, up-to-date perspective in this area. The Special Issue will publish full research, review, and other highly-rated manuscripts addressing the above aim. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Acoustic, chemical, electromagnetic, physical, etc. sensors
  • New sensor materials and membranes, etc.
  • Sensor fabrication and packaging issues
  • Hardware integration of sensing devices
  • Embedded sensing systems
  • Operating-condition-dependent designs (e.g., in implants, wearables, e-textiles, e-skins, stretchable electronics, hazardous environments, etc.)
  • Power consumption and powering issues
  • SWIPT and energy harvesting
  • Sensor transceiver designs
  • Wireless sensor networks (WSNs)
  • WSN radio access technologies (WiFi, Bluetooth, Zigbee, LoRa, LTE-M, etc.)
  • WSN propagation issues (RF/mmW/THz/etc. bands, interference, pathloss, etc.)
  • Relaying, cooperation, and collaboration in WSNs
  • Multi-sensor and/or multi-hop communication schemes, beamforming, clustering, etc.
  • Software-defined and/or self-organizing WSNs
  • Discovery, routing, self-healing, etc.
  • QoS, QoE, performance metrics and analysis, etc.
  • Edge and mobile computing
  • Data analytics and big data
  • Localization, tracking, navigation, etc.
  • Remote sensing and geomatics
  • Automation, robotics, mechatronics, haptics, artificial intelligence, etc.
  • Safety, security, health, and environment
  • Smart manufacturing, agriculture, infrastructures, transport, cities, etc.
  • Internet of things (IoT), Internet of everything (IoE), Industry 4.0
  • Decision fusion in WSNs

Prof. Dr. Sofiène Affes
Prof. Dr. Arafat Al-Dweik
Dr. Ahmad El-Assaf
Prof. Dr. Hossam S. Hassanein
Prof. Dr. Nalin Jayakodi
Prof. Dr. George Shaker
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Sensor frontends
  • Sensor integration
  • Sensor networks
  • Sensor apps

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Communication
A Sensitive and Fast Fiber Bragg Grating-Based Investigation of the Biomechanical Dynamics of In Vitro Spinal Cord Injuries
by Satyendra Kumar Mishra, Jean-Marc Mac-Thiong, Éric Wagnac, Yvan Petit and Bora Ung
Sensors 2021, 21(5), 1671; https://doi.org/10.3390/s21051671 - 1 Mar 2021
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To better understand the real-time biomechanics of soft tissues under sudden mechanical loads such as traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI), it is important to improve in vitro models. During a traumatic SCI, the spinal cord suffers high-velocity compression. The evaluation of spinal canal [...] Read more.
To better understand the real-time biomechanics of soft tissues under sudden mechanical loads such as traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI), it is important to improve in vitro models. During a traumatic SCI, the spinal cord suffers high-velocity compression. The evaluation of spinal canal occlusion with a sensor is required in order to investigate the degree of spinal compression and the fast biomechanical processes involved. Unfortunately, available techniques suffer with drawbacks such as the inability to measure transverse compression and impractically large response times. In this work, an optical pressure sensing scheme based on a fiber Bragg grating and a narrow-band filter was designed to detect and demonstrate the transverse compression inside a spinal cord surrogate in real-time. The response time of the proposed scheme was 20 microseconds; a five orders of magnitude enhancement over comparable schemes that depend on costly and slower optical spectral analyzers. We further showed that this improvement in speed comes with a negligible loss in sensitivity. This study is another step towards better understanding the complex biomechanics involved during a traumatic SCI, using a method capable of probing the related internal strains with high-spatiotemporal resolution. Full article
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Review
Ultrafast Laser Processing of Optical Fibers for Sensing Applications
by Stephen J. Mihailov, Cyril Hnatovsky, Nurmemet Abdukerim, Robert B. Walker, Ping Lu, Yanping Xu, Xiaoyi Bao, Huimin Ding, Manny De Silva, David Coulas and Dan Grobnic
Sensors 2021, 21(4), 1447; https://doi.org/10.3390/s21041447 - 19 Feb 2021
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A review of recent progress in the use of infrared femtosecond lasers to fabricate optical fiber sensors that incorporate fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) and random fiber gratings (RFG) is presented. The important advancements in femtosecond laser writing based on the phase mask technique [...] Read more.
A review of recent progress in the use of infrared femtosecond lasers to fabricate optical fiber sensors that incorporate fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) and random fiber gratings (RFG) is presented. The important advancements in femtosecond laser writing based on the phase mask technique now allow through-the-coating (TTC) fabrication of Bragg gratings in ultra-thin fiber filaments, tilted fiber Bragg gratings, and 1000 °C-resistant fiber Bragg gratings with very strong cladding modes. As an example, through-the-coating femtosecond laser writing is used to manufacture distributed fiber Bragg grating sensor arrays for oil pipeline leak detection. The plane-by-plane femtosecond laser writing technique used for the inscription of random fiber gratings is also reviewed and novel applications of the resultant devices in distributed temperature sensing, fiber lasers and fiber laser sensors are discussed. Full article
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A Stable Backup Routing Protocol for Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
by Fan Zhang and Gangqiang Yang
Sensors 2020, 20(23), 6743; https://doi.org/10.3390/s20236743 - 25 Nov 2020
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High-speed mobility and heavy-load traffic in mobile Ad hoc networks (MANET) may result in frequent topology changes and packet loss. To guarantee packet delivery, a novel stable backup routing (SBR) scheme is put forward in this paper, which consists of the establishment of [...] Read more.
High-speed mobility and heavy-load traffic in mobile Ad hoc networks (MANET) may result in frequent topology changes and packet loss. To guarantee packet delivery, a novel stable backup routing (SBR) scheme is put forward in this paper, which consists of the establishment of backup routes and route maintenance. In SBR, backup routes are set up by overhearing MAC signals, and the bit error rate is considered in path selection for improving stability. To repair broken links effectively and reasonably, qualified backup routes are classified into three categories with different priorities, based on which the relevant nodes decide how to reconstruct the forwarding path. Extensive simulations demonstrate that our proposed method outperforms other comparable backup routing mechanisms in terms of packet delivery ratio, average delay and control overhead. Full article
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