Wireless Sensor Systems

Registration and refreshments

Chairman’s welcome

Professor Habib Rashvand

Editor-in-Chief, IET WSS Journal & Director of Adv. Coms, School of Engineering, University of Warwick, UK

Keynote speaker

Sensors in cyber-physical emergency systems

Professor Erol Gelenbe
Professor in the Denis Gabor Chair and Head of Intelligent Systems and Networks, Imperial College, London

Session 1a

(Observation I) Global resource and monitoring geological activities, weather and toxins 

Room: Lecture Theatre
Chair: Dr Abolfazal Falahati, Iran University of Science and Technology 

Session 1b

(Architectures I) Innovative architectures for new sensors and actuators

Room: Lutyens Room
Chair: Dr Kuei-Fang Hsiao, Ming Chuan University 

1.a.1
Wireless sensor network for underwater communication

A A Abdou, A Shaw, A Mason, A Al-Shamma'a, S Wylie, J Cullen, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

1.b.1
Reinforcement learning based ALOHA for multi-hop wireless sensor networks with informed receiving

Y Chu, P D Mitchell, D Grace, University of York, UK

1.a.2
A wireless sensor network system deployment for detecting stick slip motion in glaciers

K Martinez, P J Basford, D D Jager, J K Hart
University of Southampton, UK

1.a.3
Adaptive leading edge detection for WSN localisation inside industrial processes

M A Antoniou, P N Green, The University of Manchester, UK

Refreshments 

Session 2a

(Resource Management I) Sensors in scarce resource management, energy harvesting and cloud computing

Room: Lecture Theatre
Chair: Dr Tahmina Ajmal, University of Bedfordshire  

Session 2b

(Applications I) New applications sensors in healthcare, surveillance and traffic

Room: Lutyens Room
Chair: Dr Abolfazal Falahati, Iran University of Science and Technology 

2.a.1
An enterprise service bus (ESB) and Google gadget based micro-injection moulding process monitoring system

U Raza, B Whiteside, F Hu, University of Bradford, UK

2.b.1
Self-calibrated wireless sleep sensing system for brain injury diagnostics

F Schwaner, A Abedi, M J Hayes, University of Maine, USA
E Mougharbel, Arizona State University, USA

2.a.2
Vibration-powered sensing system for engine condition monitoring

A S Weddell, G V Merrett, S Barrow, B M Al-Hashimi
University of Southampton, UK

2.b.2
Using sensor enabled augmented reality for healthcare

K F Hsiao, Ming-Chuan University, Taiwan
H F Rashvand, University of Warwick, UK

 5.a.1 
Networkable carbon monoxide control system for nomadic indoor cooking environment 

A James, P O Idogho, Auchi Polytechnic, Nigeria, H F Rashvand, University of Warwick, UK

2.b.3
A distributed particle swarm optimisation based localisation scheme in underground tunnels

Y Qin, C Zhou, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
F Wang, S-H Yang, Loughborough University, UK

Lunch

Session 4a

(Architectures II) Innovative architectures for new sensor and actuators  

Room: Lecture Theatre
Chair: Celestine Iwendi, University of Aberdeen 

Session 4b

(Unstructured Networking I) Unstructured networking, ad hoc networking, relaying and ubiquitous sensing access

Room: Lutyens Room
Chair: Dr Ali Abedi, University of Maine 

4.a.1
An adaptable physical layer for wireless sensor networks

D J P Crutchley, P N Green, University of Manchester, UK

4.b.1
Development of a multi-purpose wireless network for the structural health monitoring of a suspension bridge

G R Edwards, TWI Ltd, UK

4.a.2
Routing algorithm of WSN under interference environment

D Salvatore, S H Yang, Loughborough University, UK

4.b.2
Privacy - the forgotten challenge in sensor and distributed systems

C W Cadzow, Cadzow Communications Consulting Ltd, UK

4.a.3
An experimental wireless sensor system based on low cost, low power wireless nodes

Y Li, P R Gould, Multiple Access Communications Ltd UK

4.a.4
DRMA-CR: Distributed reservation multiple access with consecutive requests for wireless sensor networks

K Lee, P D Mitchell, D Grace, University of York, UK

4.b.4
Security infrastructure in open wireless sensor and cellular mobility architectures

A M Nejad, S M Shobeiri, PN University of Tehran, Iran

Refreshments

Quality research paper lecture 

Professor Habib Rashvand, University of Warwick, UK