Title :
Sensor network with energy efficient and low-cost gas sensor nodes for the detection of hazardous substances in the event of a disaster
Author :
Rademacher, Sven ; Schmitt, Katrin ; Mengers, Martin ; Wollenstein, Jurgen
Author_Institution :
Fraunhofer Inst. for Phys. Meas. Tech. IPM, Freiburg, Germany
Abstract :
This paper reports on energy efficient and low-cost gas sensor nodes for spatially resolved, accurate gas measurements in the event of a disaster. This is achieved by the integration of various low-cost and low-power sensors for gas, temperature and humidity combined with intelligent signal processing and information fusion. The relative position of the sensor nodes are needed to perform a spatially resolved gas measurement. For this, a low-cost localization system for the relative positioning of the sensor nodes is implemented. A map can be created, where spatially resolved gas concentrations and the gas sources can be displayed.
Keywords :
gas sensors; humidity sensors; sensor fusion; temperature sensors; wireless sensor networks; disaster; energy efficient gas sensor nodes; hazardous substance detection; humidity sensors; information fusion; intelligent signal processing; low-cost gas sensor nodes; low-cost localization system; low-power sensors; temperature sensors; wireless sensor network; Acoustics; Gas detectors; Robot sensing systems; Spatial resolution; Temperature measurement; Temperature sensors; Ultrasonic variables measurement; gas detectors; indoor environment; microsensor; sensor fusion; wireless sensor network;
Conference_Titel :
Wireless Sensors and Sensor Networks (WiSNet), 2015 IEEE Topical Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
DOI :
10.1109/WISNET.2015.7127410
