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Because of the ambiguity and contradicting nature of multi-sensor data, a data-fusion method based on the cloud model and improved evidence theory is proposed. To complete the conversion from quantitative to qualitative data, the cloud model is employed to construct the basic probability assignment (BPA) function of the evidence corresponding to each data source. To address the issue that traditional evidence theory produces results that do not correspond to the facts when fusing conflicting evidence, the three measures of the Jousselme distance, cosine similarity, and the Jaccard coefficient are combined to measure the similarity of the evidence. The Hellinger distance of the interval is used to calculate the credibility of the evidence. The similarity and credibility are combined to improve the evidence, and the fusion is performed according to Dempster\u2019s rule to finally obtain the results. The numerical example results show that the proposed improved evidence theory method has better convergence and focus, and the confidence in the correct proposition is up to 100%. Applying the proposed multi-sensor data-fusion method to early indoor fire detection, the method improves the accuracy by 0.9\u20136.4% and reduces the false alarm rate by 0.7\u201310.2% compared with traditional and other improved evidence theories, proving its validity and feasibility, which provides a certain reference value for multi-sensor information fusion.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s22155902","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,9]],"date-time":"2022-08-09T04:16:55Z","timestamp":1660018615000},"page":"5902","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":18,"title":["A Multi-Sensor Data-Fusion Method Based on Cloud Model and Improved Evidence Theory"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"22","author":[{"given":"Xinjian","family":"Xiang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kehan","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Bingqiang","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ying","family":"Cao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Automation and Electrical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou 310023, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,8,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Jiang, W., Zhuang, M., and Xie, C. 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