Can System Engineering: From Theory to Practical Applications
Can System Engineering: From Theory to Practical Applications
System Level Policies for Fault Tolerance Issues in the FERMI Project
Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI Systems
The flooding time synchronization protocol
SenSys '04 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Embedded networked sensor systems
PERCOMW '05 Proceedings of the Third IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops
Deploying a Wireless Sensor Network on an Active Volcano
IEEE Internet Computing
Health monitoring of civil infrastructures using wireless sensor networks
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Information processing in sensor networks
A wireless sensor network for structural health monitoring: performance and experience
EmNets '05 Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE workshop on Embedded Networked Sensors
Design and evaluation of a hybrid sensor network for cane toad monitoring
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
BikeNet: A mobile sensing system for cyclist experience mapping
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
SensorScope: Application-specific sensor network for environmental monitoring
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
The Tenet architecture for tiered sensor networks
ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
IEEE Communications Magazine
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High-frequency sampling is not only a prerogative of high-energy physics or machinery diagnostic monitoring: critical environmental and structural health monitoring applications also have such a challenging constraint. Moreover, such unique design constraints are often coupled with the requirement of high synchronism among the distributed acquisition units, minimal energy consumption, and large communication bandwidth. Such severe constraints have led scholars to suggest wired centralized monitoring solutions, which have only recently been complemented with wireless technologies. This article suggests a hybrid wireless-wired monitoring system combining the advantages of wireless and wired technologies within a distributed high-frequency-sampling framework. The suggested architecture satisfies the mentioned constraints, thanks to an ad-hoc design of the hardware, the availability of efficient energy management policies, and up-to-date harvesting mechanisms. At the same time, the architecture supports adaptation capabilities by relying on the remote reprogrammability of key application parameters. The proposed architecture has been successfully deployed in the Swiss-Italian Alps to monitor the collapse of rock faces in three geographical areas.