A low-power FPGA-based architecture for microphone arrays in wireless sensor networks

B da Silva, L Segers, A Braeken, K Steenhaut… - … Symposium on Applied …, 2018 - Springer
Microphone arrays add an extra dimension to sensory information from Wireless Sensor
Networks by determining the direction of the sound instead of only its intensity. Microphone …

FRL: Fast and reconfigurable accelerator for distributed sound source localization

X Ding, C Wang, H Liu, Z Zhang, X Chen… - … on Computer-Aided …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Sound source localization (SSL) has been widely applied in industrial and civil fields. And
with the development of wearable devices and the Internet of Things (IoT), it is attractive to …

Design Exploration and Performance Strategies towards Power‐Efficient FPGA‐Based Architectures for Sound Source Localization

B da Silva, L Segers, A Braeken, K Steenhaut… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Many applications rely on MEMS microphone arrays for locating sound sources prior to their
execution. Those applications not only are executed under real‐time constraints but also are …

The quest for energy-efficient i $ design in ultra-low-power clustered many-cores

I Loi, A Capotondi, D Rossi… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High performance and extreme energy efficiency are strong requirements for a fast-growing
number of edge-node Internet of Things (IoT) applications. While traditional Ultra-Low …

Saving energy in WSNs for acoustic surveillance applications while maintaining QoS

B Thoen, G Ottoy, F Rosas… - 2017 IEEE Sensors …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Wireless acuusuc sensor networks (wasns) are a promising technology for performing
acoustic surveillance because of their flexibility and low cost. However, their …

An accurate AOA localization method based on unreliable sensor detection

Q Yan, J Chen, G Ottoy, B Cox… - 2018 IEEE Sensors …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Least Squares (LS) triangulation is one of the most used methods for AOA (Angle of Arrival)
localization. However, the localization results can be affected by bearing outliers. So it is …

An ultra-low-power omnidirectional MEMS microphone array for wireless acoustic sensors

B Thoen, G Ottoy, L De Strycker - 2017 IEEE SENSORS, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents an omnidirectional ultra low-power MEMS microphone array for use in
low-power distributed wireless sensor networks. The microphone array is used for …

A phase locking test solution for MEMS devices

TM Supon, R Rashidzadeh - 2017 22nd IEEE European Test …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Physical defects in capacitive MEMS devices can change the nominal device capacitance
by a few femtofarads. Detecting such small variations is challenging particularly in the …

Angle of arrival estimation by using stereo ultrasonic technique for local positioning system

W Nonsakhoo, P Sirisawat, S Saiyod… - 2017 IEEE 13th …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human knows the source of the sound when receiving the sound though ears, because the
difference of time is received by left and right ears. The proposed system demonstrates how …

Exploiting partial reconfiguration through PCIe for a microphone array network emulator

B da Silva, A Braeken, F Domínguez… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The current Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) technology enables the deployment
of relatively low‐cost wireless sensor networks composed of MEMS microphone arrays for …