The recent technological advances in micro electro-mechanical systems have promoted the
development of a powerful class of sensor-based distributed intelligent systems capable of …

The nervous systems converts the physical quantities sensed by its primary receptors into
trains of events that are then processed in the brain. The unmatched efficiency in information …

The conventional border patrol systems suffer from intensive human involvement. Recently,
unmanned border patrol systems employ high-tech devices, such as unmanned aerial …

Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks (WMSNs) have emerged and shifted the focus from
the typical scalar wireless sensor networks to networks with multimedia devices that are …

Recent developments in low-cost CMOS cameras have created the opportunity of bringing
imaging capabilities to sensor networks. Various visual sensor platforms have been …

The video capture, processing, and communication in wireless video sensor networks
critically depend on the resources of the nodes forming the sensor networks. We provide a …

A power grid has four segments: generation, transmission, distribution and demand. Until
now, utilities have been focusing on streamlining their generation, transmission and …

In this paper, we describe an address-event vision system designed to detect accidental falls
in elderly home care applications. The system raises an alarm when a fall hazard is …

Some new application scenarios for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) such as urban
resilience, smart house/building, smart agriculture and animal farming, among others, can …

Modern cities are subject to periodic or unexpected critical events, which may bring
economic losses or even put people in danger. When some monitoring systems based on …