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IFSA Newsletter (ISSN 1726-6017), No.10, October 2014

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1.   Sensors & Transducers journal, Vol.178-179, Issue 9, September 2014: new journals' issues and publication fees for low income and lower middle income countries

2.   Media Planner 2015 with discounted prices

3.   New Sensors Related Books Published by IFSA Publishing, S. L.

4.   High Performance Digital Sensors Design: How to Make it Smarter ? (Tutorial by Dr. Sergey Y. Yurish, SENSORDEVICES' 2014, 16 November 2014, Lisbon, Portugal)

5.   Sensors Related Events sponsored by IFSA: The 2^nd World Congress on Digital Olfaction (DOS' 2014) and 4^th International Conference on Sensor Networks (SENSORNETS' 2015)

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High Performance Digital Sensors Design: How to Make it Smarter ?

Tutorial by Dr. Sergey Y. Yurish (Excelera, S. L., Spain)

SENSORDEVICES' 2014, 16 November 2014, Lisbon, Portugal

This tutorial is devoted to modern developments and trends in the field of design various digital sensors and transducers: physical and chemical.

Digital sensor integration is heavily driven by technology scaling. The main reason for scaling is increased system performance at reduced manufacturing cost. Below the 100 nm technology, the design of analog and mixed-signal circuits becomes perceptibly more difficult. This is particularly true for low supply voltage near 1 V or below. The result is not only an increased design effort, long development time, high risk, cost, and the need for very high volumes, but also growing power consumption. There are many reasons that analog doesn’t scale as readily. However, digital circuits scale very well with scaling standard CMOS technologies. So, the promised trend is the transition from traditional analog informative parameters such as voltage and current to the quasi-digital informative parameters of sensors outputs, for example, frequency, period, duty-cycle, PWM, pulse number. etc. It means the use of frequency (period)-to-digital converters instead of analog-to-digital converters, and implements as many sensor components as possible in the digital form. It lets get over technological limitations at scaling and gives a great opportunity to significantly improve the metrological performance of various sensor systems. Clear, the design of high performance frequency (period)-to-digital converters is not a trivial task of low cost microcontroller use. It needs novel, advanced methods for frequency-time measurements in wide frequency range. One of the aims of this tutorial is to fill-in this gap and demonstrates the easiest way to design the high performance digital sensors.

The tutorial is suitable for engineers and researchers who design and investigate various digital and intelligent sensors, data acquisition, and measurement systems. It should be also useful for sensors manufacturers, graduate and post graduate students. The tutorial is free of charge for all visitors of SENSORDEVICES' 2014 conference form the NetWare' 2014 conferences umbrella.

Sensors Related Events Sponsored by IFSA

1) Digital Olfaction Society World Congress 2014

Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
8-9 December 2014
 

Preliminary Scientific Agenda

Scientific Committee of DOS World Congress 2014 announced the preliminary agenda of the 2nd World Congress of Digital Olfaction Society.
To access to the preliminary agenda, please <click here>


DOS 2014 Demonstrations Program

The Scientific Committee invites all Academic & Industrial Teams to Present the Most Innovative Appliances, Devices, Methods, Ideas in the Digital Olfaction Field
The demonstrations sessions will be held on 9 December and will be divided in two parts:


From 9h00 to 10h30
Before the practical demonstration, we invite each team to present orally their technology and the process of demonstration (10-15 minutes by team).

From 11h00 to 16h00 тАУ Practical Demonstrations
During Demonstrations Session, each team will have a dedicated space to show, demonstrate, explain and discuss about his project.


Among Demonstrations selected by the scientific committee:

Smelling Screen: Generating Spatial Odor Distribution as if an Odor Source Had Been Placed onto an LCD Monitor Screen
Haruka Matsukura & Hiroshi Ishida, Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan

Cross-modal effect on scent and music
Masaaki Iseki & Takamichi Nakamoto, Precision and Intelligence Laboratory, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Digital Olfaction with Computer Controlled Odor Blender
Naohiko Maruyama, ONO-DENKI CO.,LTD
Yuji Nozaki, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

Aroma Shooter - Instantaneous Scent-Switching Aroma Ejector
Dong Wook Kim & Yasui Aiko, Aromajoin Corporation, Japan

Quantitative measurement of detection threshold and discrimination threshold and furthermore the quantitative measurement of masking effect
Junichi Kita, Motoo Kinoshita Shimadzu corporation, Japan

Scent Projector: a method of delivering scented air locally using vortex rings
Daisuke Oishi, Tomoki Kamiya Takuya Nakano & Yasuyuki Yanagida, Meijo University, Japan

You would like to present your innovative devices during DOS Demonstrations 2014 ?

We remind you that you can submit your project and abstract by the online form until October.6.


Pictures, Videos & Abstracts Book of DOS 2013 World Congress

All pictures, videos and abstracts book are available by <clicking here>.


Important Key Dates:

• Early Bird Registration - October 21

• Submissions for Short Oral Presentations - October 6

• Submissions for Demonstrations - October 6

• Submissions for Posters - November 1

We look forward welcoming you in Tokyo for this exciting congress.

Pr Takamichi Nakamoto
Co-Chairman of Scientific Committee
http://www.olfaction-site.com

2) 4^th International Conference on Sensor Networks (SENSORNETS' 2015)

Eseo, Angers, Loire Valley, France,

11-13 February 2015

in conjunction with PhyCS 2015 and PECCS 2015

http://www.sensornets.org/

Selected papers presented at conference venue, will be invited to submit to publication in a special issue of Sensors & Transducers journal.

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