The Transmission Control Protocol.

Photoplethysmography and its application in clinical physiological measurement

The design process will be affected in several ways. Without careful attention, the ADC interfacing could produce substandard results. Additional devices such as terminators, attenuators, and delay lines may need to be added to match signal levels and to provide signal isolation. The standard will also help incorporate evaluation considerations and test methods into the design and implementation processes.

IEEE Standard for Terminology and Test Methods for Analog-to-Digital Converters

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Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are applicable in numerous domains, including industrial automation where WSNs may be used for monitoring and control of industrial plants and equipment. However, the requirements in the industrial systems differ from the general WSN requirements. In recent years, standards have been defined by several industrial alliances. These standards are specified as frameworks with modifiable parts that can be defined based on the particular application of WSN. However, limited work has been done on defining industry-specific protocols that could be used as a part of these standards. In this survey, we discuss representative protocols that meet some of the requirements of the industrial applications. Since the industrial applications domain in itself is a vast area, we divide them into classes with similar requirements. We discuss these industrial classes, set of common requirements and various state-of-the-art WSN standards proposed to satisfy these requirements. We then present a broader view towards the WSN solution by discussing important functions like medium access control, routing, and transport in detail to give some insight into specific requirements and the classification of protocols based on certain factors. We list and discuss representative protocols for each of these functions that address requirements defined in the industrial classes. Security function is discussed in brief, mainly in relation to industrial standards. Finally, we identify unsolved challenges that are encountered during design of protocols and standards. In addition some new challenges are introduced and discussed.

An Industrial Perspective on Wireless Sensor Networks — A Survey of Requirements, Protocols, and Challenges

Ultrasonic sensor measurements are mostly based on the determination of the time of flight (TOF). The authors present the development of a digital algorithm for pulse-echo measurement applications, based on the use of a cross-correlation function to determine the TOF. Some experimental results are presented, and the possibility of realizing a low-cost real-time measurement system is considered. >

Digital time-of-flight measurement for ultrasonic sensors

Performances in network-based synchronization depend on several related factors, including the instability of local clocks, the rate at which timing information is exchanged, and the accuracy of the resulting correction estimates. This paper analyzes these effects and their relationships, showing how these may affect the design of an IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol synchronization scheme. This paper introduces a state-variable clock model for which realistic parameters can be obtained for different kinds of clocks from experimental measurements of Allan variance plots. A Kalman-filter-based clock servo employing this model is developed, and a simulation analysis of the behavior of clock regulation and the effect of parameter variations on its performances is presented.

Performance Analysis of Kalman-Filter-Based Clock Synchronization in IEEE 1588 Networks

Synchrophasor measurements, performed by phasor measurement units (PMUs), are becoming increasingly important for power system network monitoring. Synchrophasor standards define test signals for verification of PMU compliance, and set acceptance limits in each test condition for two performance classes ( $P$ and $M$ ). Several PMU algorithms have been proposed to deal with steady-state and dynamic operating conditions identified by the standard. Research and discussion arising from design, implementation, testing and characterization of PMUs evidenced that some disturbances, such as interharmonic interfering signals, can seriously degrade synchrophasor measurement accuracy. In this paper, a new compressive sensing (CS) approach is introduced and applied to synchrophasor measurements using a CS Taylor–Fourier (TF) multifrequency (CSTFM) model. The aim is to exploit, in a joint method, the properties of CS and the TF transform to identify the most relevant components of the signal, even under dynamic conditions, and to model them in the estimation procedure, thus limiting the impact of harmonic and interhamonic interferences. The CSTFM approach is verified using composite tests derived from the test conditions of the synchrophasor standard and simulation results are presented to show its potentialities.

Compressive Sensing of a Taylor-Fourier Multifrequency Model for Synchrophasor Estimation

Measurement in power systems and, particularly, in smart grids and smart microgrids is often concerned with harmonic analysis of voltage and current waveforms. The use of Fourier-based algorithms is widespread, and the limits following from the fundamental time-versus-frequency tradeoff that relates observation time to frequency resolution are well understood. This paper presents the application of an algorithm based on the principles of compressive sensing that can achieve an order-of-magnitude resolution improvement without significantly extending total observation time. For harmonic analysis in power systems, this means that accurate results can be obtained using shorter observation intervals, which allow to effectively track changes and reduce the effect of transients on measurements. The application of the algorithm to harmonics and interharmonics, as well as to phasor measurement, is considered and analyzed.

Resolution Enhancement by Compressive Sensing in Power Quality and Phasor Measurement

An analysis of the frequency domain approach in the test of analog-to-digital convertors (ADCs) is presented. Following the introduction of a spectral analysis algorithm based on the use of windows with minimum sidelobe energy, expressions are given to determine ADC performance parameters. Corrections are introduced to improve accuracy in practical cases, and simulation results are presented to support the discussion. The approach presented is sufficiently precise in the characterization of a device, even with data records of comparatively small size. Provided the appropriate correction factors are taken into account in some determinations, the accuracy is not dissimilar to that of other test methods, with the advantage that both data acquisition and data processing procedures are fairly simple. >

Claudio Narduzzi

Papers

Digital time-of-flight measurement for ultrasonic sensors

Performance Analysis of Kalman-Filter-Based Clock Synchronization in IEEE 1588 Networks

Compressive Sensing of a Taylor-Fourier Multifrequency Model for Synchrophasor Estimation

Resolution Enhancement by Compressive Sensing in Power Quality and Phasor Measurement

A/D converter performance analysis by a frequency-domain approach