**Meet the editor**

Dr. Ondrej Krejcar received his Master of Science in Control and Information Systems at Department of Measurement and Control, VSB Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic in 2002. He also received a Ph.D. in Technical Cybernetics at same department in 2008 and completed his habilitation in 2011 at faculty of electrical engineering and computer science on same

university. He is currently an Associated Professor at University of Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic and a Research Associate Professor at Centre for Applied Cybernetics on VSB TU Ostrava, Czech Republic. His research interests cover a wide area from mobile and embedded devices, wireless networks with sensors and software framework architectures. As a result of his research in mentioned areas he wrote over 10 journal papers, more than 30 Lecture Notes chapters and more than 60 other conference papers. He was a member of working group on the 5th EU FP – TRANSCAT and several other projects.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 1 **Optical Fiber Sensors 3** 

Chapter 2 **Communication Strategies** 

Chapter 4 **Ubiquitous Piezoelectric** 

Chapter 5 **Telemetry Data** 

**Part 2 Telemetry Data Mining 93** 

Yosuke Fukushima

**Part 3 Biomedical Telemetry 115** 

Jin-Ho Cho and Sang Hyo Woo

Chapter 3 **Inductively Coupled Telemetry in Spinal** 

**Sensor Network (UPSN)-Based** 

Seunghee Park and Dong-Jin Kim

Chapter 6 **Radio-Telemetry in Biomedical Research -** 

**in Animal Models of Hypertension,** 

Pierre Dumas, Dan Chiche, Johanne Tremblay, Ondřej Šeda, Junzheng Peng and Pavel Hamet

Marcelo M. Werneck and Regina Célia S. B. Allil

Ji-Tzuoh Lin, Douglas Jackson, Julia Aebersold, Kevin Walsh, John Naber and William Hnat

**for Various Types of Swallowable Telemetry Capsules 41** 

**Fusion Application Using Capacitive Strain Sensors 57** 

**Concrete Curing Monitoring for u-Construction 75** 

**Mining with SVM for Satellite Monitoring 95** 

**Radio-Telemetry Blood Pressure Measurements** 

**How It Revolutionized Hypertension Research 117** 

**Part 1 Sensors 1** 
