TY - CONF A1 - Johann, Sergej A1 - Winkler, Nicolas P. A1 - Bartholmai, Matthias ED - Kourkoulis, S. K. T1 - Multi-sensor system for long-term monitoring with WiFi and LoRaWAN technology T2 - 38th Danubia-Adria Symposium on Advances in Experimental Mechanics - Extended abstracts N2 - In many cases, science falls back on self-developed prototype systems, which are used and developed for the measurement and execution of the tasks. About 80 % of the development is based on the same hardware design, which is used in only one application scenario and then discarded. For the most part, there are also uncalibrated sensors, since it is costly to calibrate a complicated sensor measurement system or the entire measurement chain since access to the sensor systems is not always available. This paper describes a conceptual design to implement a versatile sensor system with the motivation to fuse the data recording and data reception, which can cover large areas with the help of LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) technology. To overcome disadvantages of LoRaWAN, namely the slow data rates, the proposed sensor system can also cover smaller areas with the widespread WiFi technology. An enormous advantage over individual complete systems in the form of a prototype, is the rapid expansion, uncomplicated calibration of the individual sensors and the ecological relief. A modular design is used, where individual stacks with sensors and peripherals can be added separately. The stacks are standalone low-power systems and can be calibrated, maintained, and replaced separately and do not require the entire measurement chain. The measured and sent values are stored locally on the main stack and sent to the data collector (gateway) and evaluated by means of the automated selection between WiFi and LoRaWAN. T2 - 38th Danubia-Adria Symposium on Advances in Experimental Mechanics CY - Athens, Greece DA - 20.09.2022 KW - Multisensor system KW - LoRaWAN KW - WiFi KW - Long term monitoring PY - 2022 SP - 1 EP - 2 AN - OPUS4-56462 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Moufid, M. A1 - Tiebe, Carlo A1 - El Bari, N. A1 - Bartholmai, Matthias A1 - Bouchikhi, B. T1 - Advance in electronic nose technology developed for the detection and discrimination of ethanol, ammonia, and hydrogen sulfide gases T2 - IEEE International symposium on olfaction and electronic nose (ISOEN 2022) N2 - This work focuses on the design and fabrication of low-cost and fast-response of an electronic nose (E-nose) based on semiconductor gas sensors, for discriminating some synthetic gases such as ammonia (NH3), ethanol (C2H5OH), and hydrogen sulfide (H2S). Additionally, the capability of separating different concentration levels of each considered gases was checked. Dataset treatment of E-nose by using Principal Component Analysis (PCA) showed a good discrimination of the different synthetic gases. Furthermore, perfect classification was reached of different concentration levels of the analysed gases by using Discriminant Function Analysis (DFA). In the light of these results, it could be stated that the developed E-nose system constitutes an inexpensive, rapid, simple to use, and efficient tool for synthetic gases detection. T2 - IEEE International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose (ISOEN) CY - Aveiro, Portugal DA - 29.05.2022 KW - Electronic nose KW - Metal oxide semiconductor KW - Chemometric techniques KW - Environmental analysis PY - 2022 SN - 978-1-6654-5860-3 DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/ISOEN54820.2022.9789636 SP - 1 EP - 3 AN - OPUS4-56574 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Moufid, M. A1 - Tiebe, Carlo A1 - El Bari, N. A1 - Bartholmai, Matthias A1 - Bouchikhi, B. T1 - Characterization of Unpleasant Odors in Poultry Houses Using Metal Oxide Semiconductor-Based Gas Sensor Arrays and Pattern Recognition Methods T2 - The 1st International Electronic Conference on Chemical Sensors and Analytical Chemistry) N2 - In this study, the ability of an electronic nose developed to analyze and monitor odor emissions from three poultry farms located in Meknes (Morocco) and Berlin (Germany) was evaluated. Indeed, the potentiality of the electronic nose (e-nose) to differentiate the concentration fractions of hydrogen sulfide, ammonia, and ethanol was investigated. Furthermore, the impact change of relative humidity values (from 15% to 67%) on the responses of the gas sensors was reported and revealed that the effect remained less than 0.6%. Furthermore, the relevant results confirmed that the developed e-nose system was able to perfectly classify and monitor the odorous air of poultry farms. T2 - 1st International Electronic Conference on Chemical Sensors and Analytical Chemistry CY - Online meeting DA - 01.07.2021 KW - Pattern recognition methods KW - Gas sensors KW - Electronic nose KW - poultry odorous air monitoring PY - 2021 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b43-544005 UR - https://csac2021.sciforum.net/ DO - https://doi.org/10.3390/CSAC2021-10481 VL - 5 IS - 52 SP - 1 EP - 7 PB - MDPI AN - OPUS4-54400 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Moufid, M. A1 - Tiebe, Carlo A1 - El Bari, N. A1 - Bartholmai, Matthias A1 - Bouchikhi, B. T1 - Combining of TD-GC-MS and home developed electronic nose for road traffic air monitoring T2 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Design & Test of Integrated Micro & Nano-Systems (DTS) N2 - In this work, we demonstrate the ability of an electronic nose system based on an array of six-semiconductor gas sensors for outdoor air quality monitoring over a day at a traffic road in downtown of Meknes city (Morocco). The response of the sensor array reaches its maximum in the evening of the investigated day which may due to high vehicular traffic or/and human habits resulting in elevated concentrations of pollutants. Dataset treatment by Principal Component Analysis and Discriminant Function Analysis shows a good discrimination between samples collected at different times of the day. Moreover, Support Vector Machines were used and reached a classification success rate of 97.5 %. Thermal Desorption-Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (TD-GC-MS) technique was used to validate the developed e-nose system by identifying the composition of the analyzed air samples. The discrimination obtained by e-nose system was in good agreement with the TD-GC-MS results. This study demonstrates the usefulness of TD-GC-MS and e-nose, providing high accuracy in discriminating outdoor air samples collected at different times. This demonstrates the potential of using the e-nose as a rapid, easy to use and inexpensive environmental monitoring system. T2 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Design & Test of Integrated Micro & Nano-Systems (DTS) CY - Sfax, Tunisia DA - 07.06.2021 KW - GC-MS KW - Electronic nose KW - Gas sensors KW - Urban air monitoring PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/DTS52014.2021.9498110 SP - 1 EP - 6 AN - OPUS4-54401 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Neumann, Patrick P. A1 - Hirschberger, Paul A1 - Bartholmai, Matthias T1 - Flying Ant Robot – Aerial Chemical Trail Detection and Localization T2 - Proceedings of the IEEE Sensors 2021 N2 - This paper presents first advances in the area of aerial chemical trail following. For that purpose, we equipped a palm-size aerial robot, based on the Crazyflie 2.0 quadrocopter, with a small lightweight metal oxide gas sensor for measuring evaporated ethanol from chemical trails. To detect and localize the chemical trail, a novel detection criterion was developed that uses only relative changes in the transient phase of the sensor response, making it more robust in its application. We tested our setup in first crossing-trail experiments showing that our flying ant robot is able to correlate an odor hit with the chemical trail within 0.14 m. Principally, this could enable aerial chemical trail following in the future. T2 - IEEE Sensors 2021 CY - Online meeting DA - 31.10.2021 KW - Nano aerial robot KW - Trail following KW - Trail detection KW - Localization PY - 2021 DO - https://doi.org/10.1109/sensors47087.2021.9639857 SP - 1 EP - 4 PB - IEEE AN - OPUS4-53933 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Neumann, Patrick P. A1 - Hirschberger, Paul A1 - Bartholmai, Matthias ED - Holl, H. T1 - Aerial Chemical-Trail Detection and Localization T2 - 37th Danubia - Adria Symposium on Advances in Experimental Mechanics: Extendet abstracts N2 - This paper presents first advances in the area of aerial chemical trail following. For that purpose, we equipped a palm-size aerial robot, based on the Crazyflie 2.0 quadrocopter, with a small lightweight metal oxide gas sensor for measuring evaporated ethanol from chemical trails. To detect and localize the chemical trail, a novel detection criterion was developed that uses only relative changes in the transient phase of the sensor response, making it more robust in its application. We tested our setup in first crossing-trail experiments showing that our flying ant robot is able to correlate an odor hit with the chemical trail within 0.14 m. Principally, this could enable aerial chemical trail following in the future. T2 - 37th Danubia - Adria Symposium on Advances in Experimental Mechanics CY - Linz, Austria DA - 21.09.2021 KW - Nano aerial robot KW - Trail following KW - Trail detection KW - Localization PY - 2021 SN - 978-3-9504997-0-4 VL - 2021 SP - 39 EP - 40 AN - OPUS4-53409 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Gawlitza, Kornelia A1 - Johann, Sergej A1 - Mansurova, Maria A1 - Kohlhoff, Harald A1 - Tiebe, Carlo A1 - Bell, Jérémy A1 - Bartholmai, Matthias A1 - Rurack, Knut T1 - Semi-automatic Measurement Device for Long-Term Monitoring of Ammonia in Gas Phase T2 - SMSI 2021 Proceedings N2 - In the present paper the development of a semi-automated device for long-term monitoring of gaseous ammonia is described. A sensor material was produced that changes its optical properties in the pres-ence of low concentrations of ammonia in air. The implementation into an electronic device enables precise, simple, economic and fast monitoring of low concentrations of harmful gases, like ammonia, and hence can help to improve the climate monitoring in livestock housing, barns or stables. T2 - SMSI 2021 CY - Online meeting DA - 03.05.2021 KW - Spectroscopy KW - Embedded sensor KW - Environment KW - Air quality PY - 2021 SP - 133 EP - 134 AN - OPUS4-52576 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Bartholmai, Matthias A1 - Johann, Sergej A1 - Kammermeier, Michael A1 - Müller, Maximilian A1 - Strangfeld, Christoph T1 - RFID sensor systems embedded in concrete – systematical investigation of the transmission characteristics T2 - 8th European Workshop On Structural Health Monitoring N2 - Long-term completely embedded sensor systems offer innovative possibilities for structural health monitoring of concrete structures. Measuring of relevant parameters, e.g., temperature, humidity, or indication of corrosion can be performed with low energy sensors. This allows to implement passive RFID sensor systems without cable connection and battery, which are power supplied exclusively by the electromagnetic field from the external reader device. To evaluate characteristics and conditions of this concept, a systematical investigation of the transmission characteristics with variation of relevant parameters, as communication frequency, installation depth, type of concrete, moisture content, etc. is currently carried out in an interdisciplinary research project at BAM. First results are presented in this paper. T2 - 8th European Workshop On Structural Health Monitoring CY - Bilbao, Spain DA - 05.07.2016 KW - Structural health monitoring KW - Embedded sensor KW - Energy harvesting KW - Wireless sensors KW - RFID sensors KW - Transmission characteristics PY - 2016 SP - 1 EP - 5 AN - OPUS4-37129 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Strangfeld, Christoph A1 - Johann, Sergej A1 - Müller, Maximilian A1 - Bartholmai, Matthias T1 - Moisture Measurements with RFID based Sensors in Screed and Concrete T2 - 8th European Workshop On Structural Health Monitoring N2 - To quantify the moisture in concrete, RFID based humidity sensors are embedded. Passive high frequency, ultra-high frequency RFID tags as well as active Bluetooth sensors are tested. After concreting, all sensors measure the corresponding relative humidity to monitor the concrete moisture. Two case studies are performed, embedding in an existing construction, i.e. the duraBASt test bridge, and embedding in cement based mortar in the laboratory. As basis for robust and long-life sensors in alkaline concrete, different casing materials are tested. Furthermore, signal strength measurements and their sensitivity to different moisture levels are performed. T2 - 8th European Workshop On Structural Health Monitoring CY - Bilbao, Spain DA - 05.07.2016 KW - Humidity sensors KW - Moisture measurements KW - RFID based sensors KW - DuraBASt PY - 2016 SP - 1 EP - 10 AN - OPUS4-36817 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER - TY - CONF A1 - Johann, Sergej A1 - Strangfeld, Christoph A1 - Müller, Maximilian A1 - Bartholmai, Matthias ED - Aulova, Alexandra ED - Rogelj Ritonja, Alenka ED - Emri, Igor T1 - RFID sensor systems embedded in concrete - requirements for long-term operation T2 - 33rd Danubia - Adria Symposium on Advances in Experimental Mechanics - Book of abstracts N2 - One of the more difficult tasks for structural health monitoring is the continuous evaluation of the stability and load capacity of the building materials. This knowledge can be won, e.g., by taking material samples at the examining place with the drawback of partly destroying the structure. To avoid this, modern sensor and communication technologies offer promising methods for non-destructive testing. To address the tasks for monitoring of concrete structures, in the presented study, different sensors were combined with RFID transponders and embedded in concrete components. T2 - 33rd Danubia - Adria Symposium on Advances in Experimental Mechanics CY - Portorož, Slovenia DA - 20.09.2016 KW - Structure health monitoring KW - Concrete KW - Embedded KW - RFID sensors PY - 2016 SN - 978-961-94081-0-0 SP - 68 EP - 69 CY - Ljubljana AN - OPUS4-37535 LA - eng AD - Bundesanstalt fuer Materialforschung und -pruefung (BAM), Berlin, Germany ER -