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REVIEW article

Front. Detect. Sci. Technol.
Sec. Data Acquisitions Methods and Readout Electronics
Volume 3 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fdest.2025.1484647
This article is part of the Research Topic Advancements and Challenges in Data Acquisitions and Readout Electronics View all 3 articles

Wi-Fi/LoRa communication systems for fire, seismic-risk mitigation and health monitoring

Provisionally accepted
José Sánchez Del Río Sáez José Sánchez Del Río Sáez 1,2,3*Víctor Aragonés Víctor Aragonés 1Tomás Sánchez Villaluenga Tomás Sánchez Villaluenga 1Luis Davila Luis Davila 1Sofía Paramio Martínez Sofía Paramio Martínez 1Antonio Vázquez-López Antonio Vázquez-López 2Yolanda Ballesteros Yolanda Ballesteros 4Vanesa Martínez Vanesa Martínez 2Jose Luis Jiménez Jose Luis Jiménez 2Abdulmalik Yusuf Abdulmalik Yusuf 2Xiaolu Li Xiaolu Li 2Xiang Ao Xiang Ao 2Jie Xiu Jie Xiu 2DE-YI WANG DE-YI WANG 2
  • 1 Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), E.T.S. de Ingeniería y Diseño Industrial, Madrid, Spain
  • 2 Imdea Materials Institute, Madrid, Spain
  • 3 Mechanical Engineering Department, Comillas Pontifical University, Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • 4 Mechanical Engineering Department, Institute for Research in Technology, Universidad Pontificia de Comillas, Madrid, Spain

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    This article summarizes work performed by the authors in developing, during the last two years, several portable and wireless sensor systems that allowed analysis of signals collected from multiple sensors based on the Internet of Things (IoT) in emergency contexts. These include fires and earthquakes, situations in which citizens suffer from poor health, participation of individuals in highly physical sports, or cases of materials used in buildings and other structures being subjected to high stress due to natural catastrophes other than the aforementioned fires and earthquakes. Novel material sensors like MXene paper or wallpaper-based ones used as fire detectors and operating remotely via Wi-Fi and LoRa are presented. Furthermore, a Wi-Fi communication system, physically connected to a commercial micro-controller, monitored temperature and luminosity data. Other devices, such as IoT wireless systems operating under LoRa protocol in the 868 MHz and 2.4 GHz band region and using RFM95 radio modules as possible risk advisers are described. For the latter, the sensors integrated were triboelectric energy nanogenerators (TENGS). In addition, TENG smart masks with LoRa emitters were used and played an important role in risk mitigation. As novel systems, an STM32 LoRa board allowed monitoring of health (heart rate and oxygen saturation) of athletes involved in combat sports, with a nano-IoT Arduino 33 chip being used for monitoring the electrical resistance change of some composite materials. Some of these developments, and especially this last one, can play an important role in structural health monitoring (SHM) by examining mechanical properties during service operations in the aviation or aerospace fields. A comparison of these systems allowed them to be classified according to the most fitting application.

    Keywords: Triboelectric sensors, energy generation, Seismic sensors, fire retardancy, IoT, LORA, wireless communications, Risk mitigation

    Received: 22 Aug 2024; Accepted: 09 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Sánchez Del Río Sáez, Aragonés, Sánchez Villaluenga, Davila, Paramio Martínez, Vázquez-López, Ballesteros, Martínez, Jiménez, Yusuf, Li, Ao, Xiu and WANG. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: José Sánchez Del Río Sáez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), E.T.S. de Ingeniería y Diseño Industrial, Madrid, Spain

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