The proceedings contains all accepted papers of both: oral and poster presentations at ASPAI' 2020 conference of authors from 23 countries. The coverage includes artificial neural networks, emerging trends in machine and deep learnings, knowledge-based systems, artificial intelligence, signal, video and image processing.

The proceedings contains all accepted papers SEIA' 2019 conference of authors from 31 countries. The coverage includes gas sensors, optical and fiber optical sensors, biosensors, IoT, sensors networks and applications, and new trends in measurement science: intelligent measurements, environmental measurements and remote sensing.

It is most completed practical guide in the world about how to deal with frequency, period, duty-cycle, time interval, pulse width modulated, phase-shift and pulse number output sensors and transducers and quickly create various low-cost digital sensors and sensor systems for physical, chemical, electrical and non-electrical quantities with high metrological performances and intelligent features. This title comprises 19 Chapters and appendix. Each of chapter can be used independently and contains its own detailed list of references.

The book begins with a brief survey of various gas measurement techniques and continues with fundamental aspects and cutting-edge progress in NDIR gas sensors in their historical development. Providing sufficient background information and details, the book Non-Dispersive Infrared Gas Measurement is an excellent resource for advanced level undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers, instrumentation engineers, applied physicists, chemists, material scientists in gas, chemical, biological, and medical sensors to have a comprehensive understanding of the development of non-dispersive infrared gas sensors and the trends for the future investigation.

The book aims at providing the readers with some of the most recent development of new and advanced materials and their applications as nanosensors. Examples of such materials are ferrocene and cyclodextrines as mediators, ionic liquid crystals, self-assembled monolayers on macro/ nano-structures, perovskite nanomaterials and functionalized carbon materials. The emphasis of the book will be devoted to the difference in properties and its relation to the mechanism of detection and specificity. The book will be useful for scientists and researchers, doctors and students working in medical research, engineers and students.

Nanosensors: Materials and Technologies aims to provide the readers with some of the most recent development of new and advanced materials such as carbon nanotubes, graphene, sol-gel films, self-assembly layers in presence of surface active agents, nano-particles, and conducting polymers in the surface structuring for sensing applications. The emphasis of the presentations is devoted to the difference in properties and its relation to the mechanism of detection and specificity. The present book will find a large audience of specialists and scientists or engineers working in the area of sensors and its technological applications. The Nanosensors: Materials and Technologies will also be useful for researchers working in the field of electrochemical and biosensors since it presents a collection of achievements in different areas of sensors applications.

(Book Series: Advances in Sensors: Reviews, Vol. 1) - contains dozen collected sensor related, advanced state-of-the-art reviews written by 31 experts from academia and industry from 9 countries: Canada, Egypt, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Spain, Taiwan, UK and USA. Coverage includes current developments in sensing nanomaterials, technologies, design, synthesis, modeling and applications of sensors, transducers and wireless sensor networks, signal detection and advanced signal processing, as well as new sensing principles and methods of measurements. This volume is divided into three main sections: physical sensors, chemical sensors and biosensors, and sensor networks including sensor technology, sensor market reviews and applications. Modern Sensors, Transducers and Sensor Networks comprises 12 Chapters. Each of chapter can be used independently and contains its own detailed list of references.

(Book Series: Advances in Sensors: Reviews, Vol. 2) - eighteen chapters with sensor related state-of-the-art reviews and descriptions of the latest achievements written by experts from academia and industry from 12 countries: China, India, Iran, Malaysia, Poland, Singapore, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, Ukraine and USA. This volume is divided into three main parts: physical sensors, biosensors, nanoparticles, MEMS technologies and applications. With this unique combination of information in each volume, the Advances in Sensors: Reviews Book Series will be of value for scientists and engineers in industry and at universities, to sensors developers, distributors, and users.Like the first volume of this Book Series, the second volume also has been organized by topics of high interest. In order to offer a fast and easy reading of the state of the art of each topic, every chapter in this book is independent and self-contained. The eighteen chapters have the similar structure: first an introduction to specific topic under study second particular field description including sensing applications.

(Book Series: Advances in Sensors: Reviews, Vol. 3) - nineteen chapters with sensor related state-of-the-art reviews and descriptions of latest achievements written by 55 authors from academia and industry from 19 countries: Botswana, Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Jordan, Mexico, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Senegal, Serbia, South Africa, South Korea, UK, Ukraine and USA. Coverage includes current developments in physical sensors and transducers, chemical sensors, biosensors, sensing materials, signal conditioning energy harvesters and wireless sensor networks. This book ensures that our readers will stay at the cutting edge of the field and get the right and effective start point and road map for the further researches and developments. By this way, they will be able to save more time for productive research activity and eliminate routine work.

Online Experimentation: Emerging Technologies and IoT describes online experimentation, using fundamentally emergent technologies to build the resources and considering the context of IoT. The contributions of this book show the effectiveness of the use of emergent technologies to develop and build a wide range of experiments and to make them available online, integrating the universe of the IoT, spreading its application in different academic and training contexts, offering an opportunity to break barriers and overcome differences in development all over the world. Written by experts from 15 countries of all continents, Online Experimentation: Emerging Technologies and IoT is suitable for all who is involved in the development design and building of the domain of remote experiments.

Sensors & Signals is the 1st book from the Book Series of the same name published by IFSA Publishing. The book contains 8 chapters written by authors from universities and research centers from 12 countries: Cuba, Czech Republic, Egypt, Malaysia, Morocco, Portugal, Serbia, South Korea, Spain and Turkey. The coverage includes most recent developments in: Virtual instrumentation for analysis of ultrasonic signals Humidity sensors (materials and sensor preparation and characteristics) Fault tolerance issues in Wireless Sensor Networks Localization of target nodes in a 3-D Wireless Sensor Network Opto-elastography imaging technique for tumor localization and characterization Nuclear and geophysical sensors for landmines detection Optimal color space for human skin detection at image recognition Design of narrowband substrate integrated waveguide bandpass filters. Each book's chapter includes a state-of-the-art review and well selected appropriate references at the end. With its distinguished editors and international team of contributors Sensors & Signals is suitable for academic and industrial research scientists, engineers as well as PhD students.

Handbook of Thermometry and Nanothermometry presents and explains of main catchwords in the field of temperature measurements and nanomeasurements. This the first, well illustrated in full color, encyclopedia contains more than 800 articles (vocabulary entries) in thermometry and nanotermometry, and covers nearly every type of temperature measurement device and principles. At the end of book the authors provide a useful list of references for further information. Written by experts, the book at the first place is destined for all who are not acquainted enough with specificity of temperature measurement but are interested in it and study literary sources in this realm. The Handbook of Thermometry and Nanothermometry is a 'must have' guide for both beginners and experienced practitioners who want to learn more about temperature measurements in various applications: engineers, students, researchers, physicists and chemists of all disciplines. In addition, this book will influence the next decade or more of road design in the nanothermometry.

(Book Series: Measurement of Physical and Chemical Quantities, Vol.1) - This book deals with measurement of stresses and strains in mechanical and structural components. This topic is related to such diverse disciplines as physical and mechanical sciences, engineering (mechanical, aeronautical, civil, automotive, nuclear, etc.), materials, electronics, medicine and biology, and uses experimental methodologies to test and evaluate the behaviour and performance of all kinds of materials, structures and mechanical systems. The different subjects exposed in this book are presented in a very simple and easy sequence, which makes it most adequate for engineering students, technicians and professionals, as well as for other users interested in mechanical measurements and related instrumentation.

(Book Series: Measurement of Physical and Chemical Quantities, Vol.2) constitutes one of the most challenging problems in Mechanical and Civil Engineering, crossing very different applications and scales, from biomechanical and mechanical components to long span bridges and aerospace structures. It is the 2nd contribution from the same authors for this book series to be published by IFSA Publishing, focusing on techniques and sensors to measure physical and chemical quantities. Addressed to researchers with different backgrounds, the book presents in an accessible and concise form the various physical principles and associated techniques for displacement measurement. These comprehend the most classical techniques, based on the measurement of variations with displacement of electrical resistance, capacitance and inductance, or else optical techniques using electromagnetic, acoustic or interference wave measurements, still with open fields of research and offering a wide range of applications. Complementarily and in a clear and systematic way, the authors discuss the advantages and limitations of the various techniques and provide information on the ranges of measurements and associated accuracy.

This book presents and considers main trends in the branch of metrology of cyber-physical systems, which are becoming a key element of everyday life. First of all it is destined for engineers, lecturers, students, persons who are not acquainted enough with specificity of cyber-physical systems and their metrology but are interested in it. The authors tried to highlight emergence and development of these systems, combined with the study of their metrology provision and support.

This book on magnetic microwires for magnetic sensors applications is inspired by a rapidly growing interest in the development of functional materials with improved magnetic and magneto-transport properties and in sensitive and inexpensive magnetic sensors. The research is demanded by the last advances in technology and engineering. This book aims to provide most up-to-date information about recent developments in magnetic microwires for advanced technologies and present recent results on the remagnetization process, domain walls dynamics, compositional dependence and processing of glass-coated microwires with amorphous and nanocrystalline character suitable for magnetic sensors applications. We hope this book will stimulate further interest in magnetic materials research and that this book can be of interest for PhD students, postdoctoral students and researchers working in the field of soft magnetic materials and applications.

Sensing and Measurement is the key technology area in the development of these lasers. Advanced sensing and measurement technologies are required to acquire, analyze and transform data into information that is useful to enhance the performance and capabilities of these lasers systems. Beginning with a brief introduction to the basic concepts of sensors and transducers, classification of various sensors, the monograph discusses characteristics of various sensors, sensor signals, signal conditioning and their operations in chemical lasers scenarios. The emphasis is laid more on applicable diagnostic techniques, data processing and hardware selection. Further, design methodology and implementation of customized data acquisition system required for gathering and analyzing information in real time regarding various critical parameters vital for optimal system performance has also been detailed. The goal of this monograph is therefore to enable scientists and technologists working in rather complex area of chemical lasers to achieve the best technical performances. Till now such topics have been covered scantly in open literature and that too in the research papers only.

This book is written for leading edge engineers and researchers, working with non-traditional or smart material based actuators, to help them develop such real world biomedical applications. Electrical, mechanical, mechatronics and control systems engineers will all benefit from the different techniques described in this book. The book may also serve as a reference for advanced research focused undergraduate and postgraduate students. Specifically, this book describes a cluster of research which aims to not only advance the state of art through scientific progress in a specific smart material actuator, namely IPMC, but also serve as a guideline to demonstrate the techniques in which many more issues around developing future smart material actuators can be solved. Traditionally actuators are well known and understood and so designing mechanical devices is almost trivial, however developing ‘smart’ devices for complex medical applications requires designing from a fundamental standpoint. This research-design-development process is described in this book.

MEMS Pressure Sensors: Fabrication and Process Optimization describs the step by step fabrication process sequence along with flow chart for fabrication of micro pressure sensors taking into account various aspects of fabrication and designing of the pressure sensors as well as fabrication process optimization. A complete experimental detail before and after each step of fabrication of the sensor has also been discussed. This leads to the uniqueness of the book. MEMS Pressure Sensors: Fabrication and Process Optimization will greatly benefit undergraduate and postgraduate students of MEMS and NEMS courses. Process engineers and technologists in the microelectronics industry including MEMS-based sensors manufacturers.

Air Gauges: Static and Dynamic Characteristics - presents results of the researches and theoretical investigations on the air gauges performed mostly in the Division of Metrology and Measurement Systems, Poznan University of Technology, Poland: 6 governmental projects were performed successfully by the research team, with 26 patents gained. Further 5 patent applications were initiated, and 4 industrial implementations of innovative devices were made. Tens of the diploma works and two doctoral theses were prepared, with more than hundred publications. Some of the projects involved international cooperation, thanks to the series of CEEPUS programs.

The Handbook of Laboratory Measurements and Instrumentation presents experimental and laboratory activities with an approach as close as possible to reality, even offering remote access to experiments, providing to the reader an excellent tool for learning laboratory techniques and methodologies. The book includes dozens videos, animations and simulations following each of chapters. It makes the title very valued and different from existing books on measurements and instrumentation. This unique methodological book comprises 13 Chapters. Each one presents a clearly defined learning objective, the essential concepts and a step-by-step guide for performing the experimental activity, various complementary multimedia contents and a final synthesis. The set of open questions that closes each module is intended to provide formative assessment.