Smart and responsive environments rely on the ability to detect physical events, such as
appliance use and human activities. Currently, to sense these types of events, one must …

The ability to classify the gender of occupants in a building has far-reaching applications
including security and retail sales. The authors demonstrate the success of machine …

Current sensor technologies enable the passive and continuous monitoring of human
behaviors as well as infrastructures to ensure personal safety and assess individual health …

Indoor localization by means of GNSS or a cellular-based method is known to be difficult.
Potentially, other wireless technologies could address the technical requirements, but they …

In sensed buildings, information related to occupant movement helps optimize important
functionalities such as caregiving, energy management, and security enhancement. Typical …

The present work explores the generation of two-dimensional steady-state flexural waves
that are non-reflective on a thin rectangular plate with free boundary conditions when …

The number of people passing through different indoor areas is useful in various smart
structure applications, including occupancy-based building energy/space management …

Gait analysis is an invaluable tool in diagnosing and monitoring human health. Current
techniques often rely on specialists or expensive gait measurement systems. There is a …

Structural vibration-based human sensing provides an alternative approach for device-free
human monitoring, which is used for healthcare, space and energy usage management, etc …

An algorithm is introduced to solve the general multilateration (source localization) problem
in a dispersive waveguide. The algorithm is designed with the intention of localizing impact …