Competitiveness in industry requires smooth, efficient, and high-quality operation. For some industrial applications or process control and monitoring applications, it is necessary to achieve high availability and reliability because, for example, the failure of availability in industrial production can have serious consequences for the operation and profitability of the company, as well as for the safety of employees and the surrounding environment. At present, many new technologies that use data obtained from various sensors for evaluation or decision-making require the minimization of data processing latency to meet the needs of real-time applications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWith the development of MEMS sensors, the magnetometer has increasingly become a part of various wearable devices. The magnetometer measures the intensity of the magnetic field in all three axes, resulting in a 3D vector-direction and power. Calibration must be done before using a magnetometer, especially in wearable electronics, due to the low quality of the sensor and high proximity to other electromagnetic emission sources.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFApplications of safety-related control systems demand reliable and credible inputs from physical sensors, therefore there is a need to extend their capabilities to provide a validated input with high availability. Our main idea is to insert virtual sensors between physical sensors and the control system's logic. The created solution can validate the values of real sensors and with the use of multiple virtual sensors we can achieve high availability in addition, therefore our solution is entitled as a virtual redundant sensor.
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