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- short-paperJune 2024
Towards Designing Self-Powered Biodegradable Sensors For Agricultural Applications
EnvSys '24: Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Advances in Environmental Sensing Systems for Smart CitiesJune 2024, pp 19–24https://doi.org/10.1145/3661813.3661818Farmers grapple with the task of feeding a growing population amidst climate-induced strains on farmland, water, and energy resources. While embedded sensors present advantages over drones and satellites in precision agriculture by providing high-...
- research-articleApril 2024
OpenSEM: an Open Framework for Data-Driven Structural and Environmental Monitoring
BDCAT '23: Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 10th International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and TechnologiesDecember 2023, Article No.: 25, pp 1–2https://doi.org/10.1145/3632366.3632377We propose the OpenSEM hardware/software framework as an holistic tool to build structural and environmental monitoring platforms for public decision makers. After the definition of a minimal set of system requirements, we show in this poster the main ...
- research-articleNovember 2023
Fuzzy based self-tuned move lengths for enhanced performance of gas source localization algorithm
Intelligent Decision Technologies (INTDTEC), Volume 17, Issue 42023, pp 1115–1134https://doi.org/10.3233/IDT-230225The world has witnessed a lot of catastrophes in recent times due to chemical gas leaks. The core problem is untimely or sudden happenings of calamity for which humans are not prepared to take appropriate actions. Hence robotic gas source localization ...
- short-paperNovember 2023
Application of the Reconfigurable Environmental Intelligence Platform for HVAC Control
BuildSys '23: Proceedings of the 10th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and TransportationNovember 2023, pp 288–289https://doi.org/10.1145/3600100.3626264Researchers of varying experience levels need to be able to quickly prototype and deploy sensor networks so that they can collect data and analyze their phenomena of interest as soon as possible. However, custom sensor deployments are subject to several ...
- research-articleOctober 2023
BODOQUE: An Energy-Efficient Flow Monitoring System for Ephemeral Streams
MobiHoc '23: Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth International Symposium on Theory, Algorithmic Foundations, and Protocol Design for Mobile Networks and Mobile ComputingOctober 2023, pp 358–363https://doi.org/10.1145/3565287.3616526Effective environmental monitoring is crucial for managing global environmental challenges and providing the necessary data for Environmental Intelligence (EI). This discipline involves the integration of data from various sources to gain a ...
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- articleDecember 2022
Artificial Neural Networks for Real-Time Data Quality Assurance
ACM SIGAda Ada Letters (SIGADA), Volume 42, Issue 1June 2022, pp 86–89https://doi.org/10.1145/3577949.3577966Wireless Sensor Networks used in aquatic environments for continuous monitoring are typically subject to physical or environmental factors that create anomalies in collected data. A possible approach to identify and correct these anomalies, hence to ...
- research-articleNovember 2022
From Environmental Monitoring to Mitigation Action: Considerations, Challenges, and Opportunities for HCI
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACMHCI), Volume 6, Issue CSCW2Article No.: 368, pp 1–31https://doi.org/10.1145/3555093Noise pollution is among the most consistently cited and highest impact quality-of-life issues in major urban areas across the US, with more than 70 million people estimated to be exposed to noise levels considered harmful. While HCI and CSCW has a ...
- posterOctober 2022
Improving data monitoring systems in biosphere reserves
VINCI '22: Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Visual Information Communication and InteractionAugust 2022, Article No.: 21, pp 1–3https://doi.org/10.1145/3554944.3554965This paper presents the possibilities to improve data monitoring in biosphere reserves. As a reference object, the monitoring system of the UNESCO Biosphere Entlebuch in Switzerland is examined and tested for options to optimize it. Biosphere reserves ...
- research-articleJune 2022
Technical Note—Masking Anstreicher’s linx Bound for Improved Entropy Bounds
Operations Research (OPRH), Volume 72, Issue 2March-April 2024, pp 591–603https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.2022.2324A fundamental NP-hard combinatorial-optimization in the area of statistical designs is the maximum-entropy sampling problem (MESP), which seeks to maximize Shannon's “differential entropy” over all subsets of a prespecified cardinality from a set of n ...
The maximum-entropy sampling problem is the NP-hard problem of maximizing the (log) determinant of an order-s principal submatrix of a given order n covariance matrix C. Exact algorithms are based on a branch-and-bound framework. The problem has wide ...
- research-articleApril 2022
Designing Tools and Interfaces for Ecological Restoration: An Investigation into the Opportunities and Constraints for Technological Interventions
CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsApril 2022, Article No.: 371, pp 1–17https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517664As interest within the HCI community expands beyond urban settings, novel tools and devices are being developed to support more sustainable interactions with natural environments and inform conservation action. Yet little is known about the users of ...
- research-articleDecember 2021
Organization of Environmental Monitoring of the Port Water Area by Processing an Anti-Interference Signal from a Vessel Traffic Control System
Automatic Control and Computer Sciences (ACCS), Volume 55, Issue 8Dec 2021, pp 999–1004https://doi.org/10.3103/S0146411621080204AbstractA crucial task of organizing environmental monitoring of a seaport was considered. The classification of information sources in the environmental monitoring system of the port water area was given. It was shown that it is advisable to use the ...
- research-articleOctober 2021
Atmosphéries and the poetics of the in situ: the role and impact of sensors in data-to-sound transposition installations
AM '21: Proceedings of the 16th International Audio Mostly ConferenceSeptember 2021, pp 48–55https://doi.org/10.1145/3478384.3478422Atmosphéries is a research-creation program which produced a series of art installations originally called “Cloud Harps”, that has known multiple transformations since their first instantiation in 1997. They are made of sculptural wooden “buffets” ...
- research-articleJuly 2021
Research on Water Environment Monitoring Based on the Internet of Things Combined with Neural Network
Optical Memory and Neural Networks (SPOMNN), Volume 30, Issue 3Jul 2021, pp 206–213https://doi.org/10.3103/S1060992X21030048AbstractBased on the Internet of things (IoT), this study analyzed water environment monitoring, designed a water environment monitoring system, collected data with sensors, and proposed an improved Back-Propagation Neural Network (BPNN) method to ...
- research-articleMay 2021
Methods of assessing economic appraisal to harmful emissions impact from atomic power plants on the environment
DTMIS '20: Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference - Digital Transformation on Manufacturing, Infrastructure and ServiceNovember 2020, Article No.: 52, pp 1–7https://doi.org/10.1145/3446434.3446444A various methods for investigating the impact of radioactive releases from nuclear electrical installations to the health of human and also to environment are considered in our article. To understand the relevance a work, the article provides examples ...
- research-articleMay 2020
Algorithm for energy consumption minimisation in wireless sensor network
Wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of spatially distributed miniature size and autonomous nodes along with batteries as a power source. The major bottleneck of WSN is efficient energy utilization. The energy consumption for transmission of signals ...
- research-articleJune 2019
Selecting optimal mobile users for long-term environmental monitoring by crowdsourcing
IWQoS '19: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Quality of ServiceJune 2019, Article No.: 8, pp 1–10https://doi.org/10.1145/3326285.3329043Urban environmental monitoring related to such issues as air pollution and noise helps people understand their living environments and promotes urban construction. It is more and more important nowadays. By crowdsourcing, we can get mobile users at a ...
- extended-abstractMay 2019
SENSEI: Harnessing Community Wisdom for Local Environmental Monitoring in Finland
- Victoria Palacin,
- Síle Ginnane,
- Maria Angela Ferrario,
- Ari Happonen,
- Annika Wolff,
- Sara Piutunen,
- Niina Kupiainen
CHI EA '19: Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsMay 2019, Paper No.: CS01, pp 1–8https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3299047The way people participate in decision making has radically changed over the last few decades. Technology has facilitated the sharing of knowledge, ideas and opinions across social structures and, has allowed grass-root initiatives to flourish. ...
- research-articleMay 2019
Sampling-based incremental information gathering with applications to robotic exploration and environmental monitoring
International Journal of Robotics Research (RBRS), Volume 38, Issue 6May 2019, pp 658–685https://doi.org/10.1177/0278364919844575We propose a sampling-based motion-planning algorithm equipped with an information-theoretic convergence criterion for incremental informative motion planning. The proposed approach allows dense map representations and incorporates the full state ...
- research-articleJanuary 2019
Visual inference of flow flux via free surface PDE model and image sequence assimilation
IET Cyber-Systems and Robotics (CSY2), Volume 1, Issue 1June 2019https://doi.org/10.1049/iet-csr.2018.0002The free‐surface flows, such as flows in rivers, lakes, and tides, play an important role in hydraulic engineering and environmental monitoring. However, due to their complex and changeable characters, the precise evolution procedure is quite difficult to ...
- research-articleNovember 2018
A semantic data model for sensory spatio-temporal environmental concepts
PCI '18: Proceedings of the 22nd Pan-Hellenic Conference on InformaticsNovember 2018, pp 180–185https://doi.org/10.1145/3291533.3291571Nowadays, the well-known Resource Description Framework (RDF) forms a rather general method for web resources' conceptual description or even for generic information modeling. However, RDF's capabilities are challenged once used to effectively represent ...