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The I&M Society offers a selection of Video Tutorials (VTs) that address relevant and important topics of interest to the I&M community. Video Tutorials are classified as belonging to the Expert or Classroom series. Video Tutorials of the Expert series are authored by someone who is recognized as an Expert (academician or practitioner) in his/her field, while a Classroom series Video Tutorial is one

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Dear Readers, Here we are again talking about an amazing subject strongly related to the Instrumentation and Measurement field. This issue of Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine is dedicated to “Measurement and Networking,” a very intriguing topic in the current era of IOT and 5G. (Sensor) Networks are well-suited for a wide panorama of applications, from telemedicine and advanced assistive systems

In the last decades, the role of the networks and communications has rapidly gained momentum thanks to their primary role for worldwide progress and improvement of the quality of life. As a matter of fact, networks and communications represent the fundamental pillars for the development of a number of applications and services: from providing widespread availability of broadband internet access to

The measurement of Human Exposure to Electromagnetic Fields (EMFs) is an important topic in today's scenarios. Indeed, the even more pervasive diffusion of cellular networks (also with incoming 5G technology), as well as short-range and personal wireless devices, has increased interest in human exposure issues. Focusing the attention on cellular systems, although regulators and normative committees

Civil infrastructure systems such as bridges, buildings, dams, pipelines, airports, and heritage structures are complex engineered systems that play a fundamental role for the economic and industrial prosperity of society [1]. In order to build structures that are safe for the community, standardized design methodologies have been developed [1]. However, these structures are often subjected to various

The deployment of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems is a natively interdisciplinary task that involves joint research contributions from sensing technologies, data science and civil engineering. The capability to assess, also from remote stations, the working conditions of industrial plants or the structural integrity of civil buildings is widely requested in many application fields. The technological

The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm refers to the extension of the internet network to the world of physical objects (“things”), embedded with sensors, actuators, and other technologies that allow them to evolve and become smarter and connected (“smart things”) [1]. The physical objects can be anything. The smart objects can sense, monitor, react to the environment, and communicate autonomously the

Radiological threat (i.e., the risk associated with radioactive isotopes) is usually associated with military and civil applications involving either radioactive weapons or other radiological dispersal devices (e.g., deposits in soil or water, nuclear plants and so on) [1]. In recent years, some authors evidenced that limited quantities of radioactive materials can cause heavy damages and losses if

The occurrence of an earthquake has immediate consequences, such as the destruction of buildings. However, the impact can be much more severe and extend over time. The arrival of an earthquake's destructive wave can subsequently: produce a rupture in water distribution pipes, leading to water leakage, when water is even more valuable; break gas pipelines that will continue to lose gas and cause explosions

Digital society has developed to a point where it is nearly impossible for a user to know what it is happening in the background when using the Internet. To understand it, it is necessary to perform network measurements not only at the network layer (e.g., IP, ICMP), but also at the application layer (e.g., HTTP). For example, opening a single website can trigger a cascade of requests to different

Dynamic Spectrum Access (DSA) is becoming a key enabler for wireless communication technologies. Many DSA concepts—such as the Citizens Broadband Radio Service and TV White Space—rely on spectrum databases to identify available radio channels. However, propagation models and other assumptions used by these databases are usually poor for the given scenario, typically leading to over-conservative calculations

I don't know why but I particularly like the title of this issue of the Magazine: Measurements for Advanced Networking & Networks for Advanced Measurements. I find this subject and this apparent dualism very interesting. I speak of apparent dualism because, although it is correct to separate the two topics, measurements for networking and networks for measurements (advanced or not), and treat them

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Native integration is now available between the Keithley DAQ6510 and DMM6500 instruments with Initial State, an IoT dashboard for data streaming and visualization for remote data access. Keithley and Initial State, both Tektronix companies, collaborated to integrate Initial State's data streaming and vi-sualization platform with the Keithley graphical DAQ6510 and DMM6500. This integration gives a DAQ6510

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Dear Readers, It is a real pleasure to introduce this first Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine issue that sums up activities for a selection of Technical Committees (TCs) belonging to the I&M Society. TCs coordinate technical activities in the field of Instrumentation and Measurement, in order to enable the osmosis between society members and the industrial community, leading to best practices

Dear Readers, Technical Committees are the Instrumentation and Measurement Society's “Center of Expertise.” Beginning this year, our IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine will publish a special issue dedicated to introducing technical committees' activities every year. The Instrumentation and Measurement Society currently has twenty-two Technical Committees, and they have been distributed among

Impedance spectroscopy is a measurement method applied in many fields of science and technology, such as electrochemistry, material science, biology and medicine [1]. For impedance spectroscopy (IS), knowledge from several fields of science and technology about measurement procedures, electrochemical and physical phenomena, modeling, signal processing and electronic systems is indispensable. For this

Global trade relies on the ability to reproducibly and accurately communicate the performance of products and to support these attestations. This standardization is essential for accurate, reproducible, reliable, and communicable characterization of the performance of these devices, to support technology and product advancement, product comparison and performance tracking, and device calibration and

Recent developments in the field of telecommunications, and at the same time in the field of smart sensors and instrumentation, have opened new horizons for society, especially for the digital society and smart implementations such as smart cities, smart homes, smart agriculture, smart healthcare, smart transportation, and smart manufacturing through Industry 4.0. To optimize the deployment of new

This contribution relates to the activities of the TC-19 on “Imaging Signals and Systems.” In a rapidly changing global economy, experiencing an unparalleled integration of science and technology, the development of efficient imaging systems is of extreme significance. The scope of TC-19 is to exchange and disseminate knowledge as well as bridge multidisciplinary areas leading to the creation of new

Nanotechnology is, first of all, an issue regarding dimensional aspects that have an impact on all the other considerations. Depending on the interest area, the impact of nanotechnology is observed in design, fabrication process, and utilization. To cope with certification procedures, for instance, and their performance, measurements and instrumentation are key points of this complex mosaic. The IEEE

TC-37-Measurements and Networking (current Chair Prof. Domenico Capriglione, University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, Italy) began six years ago as a proposal of Prof. Leopoldo Angrisani (University of Napoli Federico II, Italy) and Prof. Claudio Narduzzi (University of Padova, Italy) with the main purpose of increasing awareness and interest in networking and to encourage Instrumentation and Measurement

This article provides an overview of TC-41-Traffic Enforcement Technologies. The stated goals of TC-41 are to: • Develop documentary standards, including design of test artifacts, test and measurement procedures, and minimally acceptable performance requirements; and technology guides for traffic enforcement technologies. • Stimulate the interest of the scientific, academic, and industrial communities

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Dear Readers This issue of the Magazine deals with general topics in the field of Instrumentation and Measurement. This is a good opportunity to remind our readership that the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Magazine has the goal of providing overviews of hot and challenging topics in I&M to a wide engineering audience. We really love to spread the knowledge on open problems, which are properly

Today, several applications and technologies require a suitable jitter characterization. For this reason, measurement methods and instruments aimed at quantifying and analyzing jitter continue to be proposed and developed by the research community and manufacturers.

The differences in repeatability measurements between one operator than another will affect the accuracy, precision and hence the uncertainty of the same device measurements. To try to avoid or reduce the variation in repeatability measurements between each operator, a special automated translation stage was designed to improve the accuracy of measurements at defined positions. This automated stage

In recent years, digitalization of traditional manual processes with a tendency towards a sensorized world and person-generated information streams has led to a massive availability and exponential generation of heterogeneous data in most areas of life. This has been facilitated by the cost reduction and capability improvements of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) for storage, processing

In this paper a wireless sensor network (WSN) with low-cost nodes (less than $US 30.00) is presented. The nodes are based on microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) accelerometers and a highly-integrated microcontroller with built-in antenna for Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE). The system was specially designed to analyze unbalance, load, and rotor obstructions in a rotating machine. Two sensor

The measurement of in-cylinder pressure during operation in reciprocating compressors is usually done in a destructive test in which a small bore is machined in the side of the cylinder. This instrumentation process not only impacts the real clearance volume of the compressor but also adds undesired dynamics to the measured value. This paper proposes a novel method for pressure measurement based on

A new digital measurement system is presented in this manuscript. A wearable smart measurement system equipped with monocular augmented reality (AR) glasses and Wi-Fi and Bluetooth modules is designed, which is more suitable for high-altitude measurement occasions than traditional digital multimeters (DMM). The measurement data could be displayed on AR glasses supported by Bluetooth module in real

Timing pulses are used for time and phase synchronization in many applications such as telecommunication networks and timing laboratories. These signals could not perform this task efficiently or accurately if the time delay added by the cables they are passing through were unknown. This article shows that cable delay not only depends on the cable length but also on the specifications of the signal

Reports on the major topics of interest to those in the instrumentation and measurement industry. Presents a listing of the top 20 searched terms in IEEE Xplore in 2020 as well as the top 10 publication topics from the IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement in 2020. Suggests that such term and topic analyses offers a good opportunity to determine future areas of research and development

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Dear Readers, I wish you a very warm welcome to this second special issue of the Magazine on "Instrumentation and Measurement in 2020."

Recent changes to the world's measurement system [1], [2] have been carefully designed to appear to the general public, and even to most of the scientific community, as if nothing substantial has changed. The same units exist, no new ones have been created, and the values of the properties of physical artifacts remain the same for all but the most extreme accuracies. In fact, only the definitions of

In the last few years, hardly a day goes by that we do not hear about the latest advancements and improvements that Artificial Intelligence (AI) has brought to a wide spectrum of domains: from technology and medicine to science and sociology, and many others. AI is one of the core enabling components of the fourth industrial revolution that we are currently witnessing, and the applications of AI are

The full implementation of new ecologies, such as the Internet of Things, the Internet of Food, Precise Agriculture, Smart Grids, Cities, and Homes, just to mention some of the most intriguing ones, requires novel devices. These need to exploit new technologies and need to be capable of providing functionalities that cannot be obtained by conventional silicon-based electronics.

Artificial intelligence, in particular a supervised and unsupervised machine learning approach, has been becoming an interest in the field of measurement and instrumentation. Many problems of classification can be faced by a machine learning approach. We know machine learning is a broad area of artificial intelligence that comprises some other lines of research and activities such as deep learning

Lameness in dairy cattle negatively effects the welfare of affected cows and is the third biggest cause of economic loss to the dairy industry in New Zealand. As the cost and frequency of lameness continues to increase, profitability will further decrease unless a more effective and efficient method of detecting cattle lameness is developed.

The mission of Technical and Standards Activities Committee (TSAC) of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (IMS) is to enable and promote Technical Committees (TCs) as the Society's "Centers of Expertise," and support and promote participation of individual IMS members in Standards Activities. Over the past years, the TSAC has managed 22 active TCs and supported the development of 18 IEEE

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