{"598009":{"#nid":"598009","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Martins Tapped for IEEE UEMCON Best Paper Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ECarlos Martins received the Best Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics, and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON), held October 19-21 at Columbia University in New York City, New York. Martins is a postdoctoral fellow in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe title of Martins\u0026rsquo; award-winning paper is \u0026quot;Novel MI-based (FracBot) Sensor Hardware Design for Monitoring Hydraulic Fractures and Oil Reservoirs,\u0026rdquo; which was coauthored by ECE Ph.D. student Abdallah Alshehri and ECE\u0026rsquo;s Byers Professor in Telecommunications Ian F. Akyildiz. Akyildiz serves as Martins\u0026rsquo; and Alshehri\u0026rsquo;s advisor and leads the Broadband Wireless Networking Lab.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe paper proposes a novel prototype of magnetic induction (MI)-based wireless sensor node (FracBot) to be used as a platform for a new generation of Wireless Underground Sensor Networks (WUSNs) for monitoring hydraulic fractures and unconventional reservoirs and measuring other wellbore parameters.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe research team designed and developed the hardware of the MI-based wireless sensor for short range communication using near field communication (NFC) as a physical layer combined with energy harvesting capability and ultra-low power requirements. The team realized these characteristics using cost-effective and commercial off-the-shelf components and confirmed the performance of the design via theoretical and experimental evaluation, thus showing that the FracBot can operate perpetually with minimum energy radiated conditions.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE postdoctoral fellow\u0026nbsp;Carlos Martins received the Best Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics, and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON), held October 19-21 at Columbia University in New York City, New York.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE postdoctoral fellow\u00a0Carlos Martins received the Best Paper Award at the 2017 IEEE 8th Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics, and Mobile Communication Conference (UEMCON), held October 19-21 at Columbia University in New York City, New York. 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