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EditorialAdvanced Sensor Technology and Applications in IndustrialControl System 2014

Tai-hoon Kim,1 Sabah Mohammed,2 Ruay-Shiung Chang,3 and Carlos Ramos4

1 University of Tasmania, Centenary Building, Room 350, Private Bag 87, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia2 Lakehead University, 955 Oliver Road, Thunder Bay, ON, Canada P7B 5E13 National Taipei University of Business, No. 321, Sec. 1, Jinan Road, Zhongzheng, Taipei 100, Taiwan4 ISEP/IPP, Rua Dr. Antonio Bernardino de Almeida, 431, 4200-072 Porto, Portugal

Correspondence should be addressed to Tai-hoon Kim; [email protected]

Received 19 August 2014; Accepted 19 August 2014; Published 18 September 2014

Copyright © 2014 Tai-hoon Kim et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License,which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

On behalf of the guest editors and reviewers, it is an honorfor us to introduce you to this special issue, which includesarticles that cover topics of particular interest to researchersin the field of sensor technology and applications in industrialcontrol system.

This issue contains 41 articles coming from various coun-tries, among which are Germany, China, South Korea, India,Greece, Turkey, and Macau. Achieving such a high quality ofpapers would have been impossible without the huge workthat was undertaken by the editorial board members andexternal reviewers. We take this opportunity to thank themfor their great support and cooperation.

Authors proposed a resource and energy efficient dis-tributed image compression algorithm that dynamically con-figured according to the energy levels and the forwardingstrategy that is based on the entropy of the image in “Powerefficient clustering for wireless multimedia sensor network.”

In “Multicarrier spread spectrum communication schemefor cruising sensor network in confined underwater space,”authors proposed a communication scheme which appliesspread spectrum in orthogonal frequency-division multi-plexing (OFDM) to address severe frequency selective fadingchannels.

The paper “Development of a sensor network-based smpssystem: a smart led monitoring application based on wirelesssensor network” proposed a sensor network-based smartSMPS (switch mode power supply) system. The proposedsystem makes power supply stable and efficient by providingoutput current control and sensor network-based monitor-ing.

In the paper “An intrusive analyzer for hadoop systemsbased on wireless sensor networks,” authors proposed anintrusive analyzer that detects interesting events that occurin distributed processing systems with hadoop in wirelesssensor networks.

The paper “Real-time 3D simulation for the trawl fishinggear based on parallel processing of sonar sensor data” pre-sented a three-dimensional (3D) visualization tool that offersreal-time simulations of the trawl fishing gear using parallelprocessing for the particles applying the force vectors.

In the paper “Activity graph feature selection for activitypattern classification,” authors proposed a framework that canclassify activity patterns effectively. The authors extensivelyanalyzed activity models from a classification viewpoint.Experiments showed the proposed method achieves highclassification accuracy compared with existing graph classi-fication techniques.

In the paper “Privacy Protection of the Sensor Systembased on the Android Platform” authors proposed a browser-freemultilevel smart phone privacy protection system, whichis based on the Android sensor platform. In this system,protection was ensured by means of SMS, which turns outto be easy, quick, and convenient.

In “Enhanced service-oriented open sensor web architec-ture with application server based mashup,” authors presentedan improved SOA (service-oriented architecture) based sen-sor web architecture which offers an easy approach to bindsensor data from various sensor service providers as well asother information providers and enables the users to access itas a single, integrated, and searchable service.

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The paper “Power conservation and security enhancementin wireless sensor networks: a priority based approach” pro-posed an approach called priority-based approach (PBA)which empowers the node to choose the most importantpacket based on the priority and the current energy status ofthe forwarding node.

In “Ubiquitous sensor networks and image processingbased environmental monitoring system for fire safety,” authorsproposed the integrated method for reducing the fire risksthrough sensors such as temperature and humidity, ZigBeetechnology, camera control and image processing technolo-gies, and real-time data transmission technology.

The paper “Self-supervised sensor learning and its applica-tion: building 3D semantic maps using terrain classification”proposed a method that enables a robot to classify terrain invarious outdoor environments using terrain information thatit recognizes without the assistance of a user; then, it createsa three-dimensional (3D) semantic map.

A smart phone is the best device on which an ILBVS runsbecause a smart phone has PC level computing power andstorage capacity, and it is a personal belonging that the owneralways carries. Therefore, the paper “Indoor location basedVOD service using smart phone sensors” proposed an efficientway of implementing an indoor location based VOD service(ILBVS) as a smart phone app.

The paper “A hazardous chemical-oriented monitoringand tracking system based on sensor network” provided anew method for the storage and transportation of hazardouschemicals. And a network microsystem for real-time mon-itoring and tracking of hazardous chemicals leak detectionwas designed, too.

In the paper “Design and implementation of a field inspec-tion management system based on wireless sensor networks,”authors presented a design and implementation of a fieldinspection management system based on wireless sensornetworks. In addition, authors proposed security measuresfor preventing information stealing and alteration in theembedded system.

In “Stereoscopic media art that changes based on genderclassification using a depth sensor,” for gender classification ina dark environment such as an exhibition hall, a depth sensorthat discerned between the human head and the body and asupport vector machine (SVM) that classified internal factorswere used.

In the paper “Cyberphysical security for industrial controlsystems based on wireless sensor networks,” authors reviewedthe possible threats posed to the industrial control system(ICS) and made a survey about related researches on thesecurity countermeasures.

In “An error control method with linear block code insensor networks,” the construction of the transformmatchingevaluationmethod has been proposed.Thismethod showed abetter performance than the reunion junction technique.Thelow complexity of the method allowed the use of long linearblock codes in sensor networks.

In “Performance evaluation of a communication protocolfor vital signs sensors used for the monitoring of athletes,”authors presented results of system’s performance evaluationfor the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, including the physical (PHY)

layer and media access control (MAC) sublayer, in orderto collect and store large sets of athletes’ data as well asproviding results about network values such as end-to-enddelay and load and throughput captured from global andobjects statistics.

In “Intercluster ant colony optimization algorithm forwireless sensor network in dense environment,” interclusterant colony optimization algorithm (IC-ACO) was proposedthat relies upon ACO algorithm for routing of data packetsin wireless sensor networks and an attempt was made tominimize the efforts wasted in transferring the redundantdata sent by the sensors which lie in the close proximity ofeach other in a densely deployed wireless sensor network.

In the paper “ANN-based estimation of groundwaterquality using a wireless water quality network,” a wirelesswater quality network was deployed to collect water qualityparameters periodically and an artificial neural network-based estimation method is proposed to estimate groundwa-ter quality.

In the paper “Sensor-based turmeric finger growth char-acteristics monitoring using embedded system under soil,”authors monitored the turmeric finger growth characteristicsusing embedded system a sensor array module with arrayof sensors such as flex sensor, temperature sensor, and pHsensor.

The main idea of the paper “An efficient index buildingalgorithm for selection of aggregator nodes in wireless sensornetworks” was to construct a convex hull over the sensornodes in theWSNs, which enables the speedup of the extrac-tion of a set of sensor nodes that are potential candidates inbecoming an aggregator node.

In the paper “Load balanced congestion adaptive routingfor mobile ad hoc networks,” a congestion adaptive routingalong with load balancing, that is, load balanced conges-tion adaptive routing (LBCAR) has been proposed. Andperformance of the network using LBCAR was analyzedand compared with congestion adaptive routing protocol(CRP) for packet delivery ratio, average end-to-end delay, andnormalized routing overhead.

The paper “The meat freshness monitoring system usingthe smart RFID tag” focused on detecting the temperature,humidity, and gases released by meat. The authors analyzedthe factors affecting the freshness of meat and decided to usea gas sensor as the main detection method.

The authors presented a methodology about BCI (braincomputer interface) based environment system for immer-sion of FPS (first-person shooter) game play in “BCI sensorbased environment changing system for immersion of 3Dgame.” FPS game is a video game genre centered on gun andprojectile weapon-based combat.

In the paper “Automatic sound scene control using imagesensor network,” authors proposed the automatic sound scenecontrol system using the image sensor network for preservingthe constant sound scene without respect to the users’movement.

The paper “An intelligent guardrail context-awarenesssystem based on acceleration sensors in ubiquitous sensornetworks” proposed a guardrail context-awareness systembased on the analysis of acceleration sensors to manage

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guardrails systematically. Guardrails are one of the majorground facilities in a Ubiquitous-city (U-city).

The paper “Underwater sonar signals recognition by incre-mental data streamminingwith conflict analysis” presented analternative data mining strategy suitable for the progressivepurging of noisy data via fast conflict analysis from the datastream without the need to learn from the whole dataset atone time.

In the paper “Nonnegative matrix factorization basedadaptive noise sensing over wireless sensor networks,” anadaptive noise sensing method was proposed to improvethe speech sensing performance of speech-based applicationsoperated over wireless sensor networks.

In “Cluster and location based overlay multicast in mobilead hoc and sensor networks,” authors proposed a novel overlaymulticast protocol over wireless sensor network, CLOM(cluster and location based overlay multicast) which usesboth cluster based approach and location based approach.

The paper “Image obfuscation in the user-friendly sensitivearea with the use of a sensor for smart devices and imageprocessing techniques” aimed to create user-friendly artisticsensibility related to images in the sensitive areas neededfor privacy protection by using a sensor in a smart phoneand image processing techniques such as contour extraction,blurring, blending, and brightness adjustment.

In the paper “A new real-time and guaranteed lifetimeprotocol in wireless sensor networks,” authors presented anew centralized energy and coverage aware node schedulingscheme for WSNs to analyze energy usage as well as balancesenergy consumption among nodes to survive for the precon-figured lifetime.

In “A packet loss concealment technique improving qualityof service for wideband speech coding in wireless sensornetworks,” a packet loss concealment (PLC) algorithm wasproposed to improve the quality of decoded speech whenpacket losses occur in a wireless sensor network. The pro-posed algorithm was mainly based on artificial bandwidthextension (ABE) from narrowband to wideband.

In “Immersive real-acting virtual aquarium with motiontracking sensors,” authors realized a real space-based virtualaquarium equipped with a multiview function that providesimages for users and audiences at the same time throughmotion tracking sensors.

Authors presented a low cost battery-powered 6-degree-of-freedom wireless wand for 3D modeling in free space bytriaxis magnetic, angular rate, gravity (MARG), and visionsensor fusion in the paper “6DOFwireless trackingwand usingMARG and vision sensor fusion.”

To refine the m-commerce process in the NFC-basedmobile environment, authors studied NFC and location-based services and authors proposed a WSN-hosted m-payment system based on these technologies in the paper“Proposed M-payment system using near-field communicationand based on WSN-enabled location-based services for M-commerce.”

The paper “Does human finger’s pressure sensing improveuser text input on mobile device? a study on input performanceimprovement based on human finger’s pressure on mobiledevice” introduced a pressure-sensitive text input system that

provides an easier and faster method for entering Korean inthe rapidly expanding smartphone environment. In order toevaluate the effectiveness of the proposed system, a pressuresensitive text input system is implemented, too.

The paper “An approach to segmenting initial objectmovement in visual sensor networks” suggested a newmethodto extract the initial movement of moving objects in digitalimage data obtained in visual sensor networks. The sug-gested algorithm first received input consecutive images,partitioned them into nonoverlapping square blocks of pix-els, and extracted block-based motion vectors from thereceived images, which represented the movement infor-mation between two adjacent frames, by using the blockmatching algorithm.

In the paper “Trajectory-based road-geometry and crash-risk estimation with smartphone-assisted sensor networks,”authors presented a system for monitoring road geometryand crash risk estimation, based on trajectories created usinga smartphone-aided sensor network.

In a decentralized sensor system, sensing informationof neighbors is fused locally rather than via central controlas enabled by a distribution of intelligent agents with somedegree of decision-making autonomy. A major researchobjective of the paper “Consensus achievement of decen-tralized sensors using adapted particle swarm optimizationalgorithm” was to establish cooperative behavior betweensensors with no external supervision.

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