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Catalina Giraldo-Soto1, Aitor Erkoreka2, Laurent Mora3

  • 1ENEDI Research Group-Faculty of Engineering of Bilbao, University of Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Alameda Urquijo s/n, 48013 Bilbao, Spain. catalina.giraldo@ehu.eus.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
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