Synopsis
Nanosensors for Smart Cities covers the fundamental design concepts and emerging applications of nanosensors for the creation of smart city infrastructures. Examples of major applications include logistics management, where nanosensors could be used in active transport tracking devices for smart tracking and tracing, and in agri-food productions, where nanosensors are used in nanochips for identity, and food inspection, and smart storage. This book is essential reading for researchers working in the field of advanced sensors technology, smart city technology and nanotechnology, and stakeholders involved in city management.
Nanomaterials based sensors (nanosensors) can offer many advantages over their microcounterparts, including lower power consumption, high sensitivity, lower concentration of analytes, and smaller interaction distance between object and sensor. With the support of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, neural networks, and ambient-intelligence, sensor systems are becoming smarter.
- Provides information on the fabrication and fundamental design concepts of nanosensors for intelligent systems
- Explores how nanosensors are being used to better monitor and maintain infrastructure services, including street lighting, traffic management and pollution control
- Assesses the challenges for creating nanomaterials-enhanced sensors for mass-market consumer products
About the Authors
Baoguo Han is Professor of Civil Engineering, Dalian University of Technology, China. His research interests include multifunctional/smart materials and structures, high performance concrete and structures, and nanotechnology in civil engineering.
Vijay K. Tomer is a Fulbright-Nehru postdoctoral fellow at Berkeley Sensor & Actuator Center (BSAC), University of California, Berkeley, USA. His research focuses on nanostructures-based gas sensors for environmental monitoring.
Tuan Anh Nguyen is a Senior Principal Research Scientist at the Institute for Tropical Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Hanoi, Vietnam. He received a BS in physics from Hanoi University in 1992, a BS in economics from Hanoi National Economics University in 1997, and a PhD in chemistry from the Paris Diderot University, France, in 2003. He was a Visiting Scientist at Seoul National University, South Korea, in 2004, and the University of Wollongong, Australia, in 2005. He then worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate and Research Scientist at Montana State University, United States in 2006-09. In 2012 he was appointed as the Head of the Microanalysis Department at the Institute for Tropical Technology. His research areas of interest include smart sensors, smart networks, smart hospitals, smart cities, complexiverse, and digital twins. He has edited more than 74 books for Elsevier, 12 books for CRC Press, 1 book for Springer, 1 book for RSC, and 2 books for IGI Global. He is the Editor-in-Chief of Kenkyu Journal of Nanotechnology & Nanoscience.
Dr. Ali Farmani is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Lorestan University in Khorramabad, Iran. His research focuses on optical nanostructured materials.
Pradeep Kumar Singh is Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Jaypee University of Information Technology, India. His research focuses on smart nanosensors for communication technologies.
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