Electronics for Sensors

The aim of this Special Issue is to explore new advanced solutions in electronic systems and interfaces to be employed in sensors, describing best practices, implementations, and applications. The selected papers in particular concern photomultiplier tubes (PMTs) and silicon photomultipliers (SiPMs) interfaces and applications, techniques for monitoring radiation levels, electronics for biomedical applications, design and applications of time-to-digital converters, interfaces for image sensors, and general-purpose theory and topologies for electronic interfaces

A Microcontroller-Based Radiation Monitoring and Warning System

Part 6: Third Intelligent Systems for Quality of Life Information Services Workshop (ISQL 2012)International audienceThe quality of life is influenced by the environment quality and one of the major factors that require a continuous monitoring is the level of radiation. This paper presents a microcontroller-based system designated for monitoring the release of subatomic high frequency particles in the gamma ray area. Unlike the related scientific literature, where experiments are based on desktop computers for data processing and remote transmission, this work presents an independent standalone microcontroller-based system which incorporates the standard internet protocols. The measurement data, as well as warning signals, are sent to the decision making factors via a communication channel (such as internet, mobile phone or radio amateur band). Some experimental results are also discussed in the paper