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Nowadays, home appliances manufacturers are increasingly relying on wireless sensor network and single chip embedded technologies to build smart environment. Many existing systems are already in the market, however, they were designed without envisioning the need of residents with special needs. This work presents a framework that enables the integration and control of devices within a smart home...
Recently, new Information Systems are being introduced to users on regular basis. At a certain point, users might deal with several systems producing overwhelming amount of information and resources. This is challenging on many levels, as the user has to look for information and resources in different Information Systems. One of the most important challenges here is the way to manage the resources...
A lot of images and photos are being produced today using our personal devices such as cameras, smart phones and tablets. Taking many shots is becoming more frequent due to costless processing of pictures production. In this paper, we are investigating compression of a group of similar photos or images all together instead of separate compressions. In our technique, we considered applying blurring...
Electroencephalogram is one of the most clinically and a scientifically utilized signal recorded from human brain and is powerful source of providing valuable insight of the brain dynamics, playing a prominent role in diagnosis of brain diseases and many cognitive processes. Epilepsy is a persistent, constantly recurring neurological brain disorder characterized by abnormal electrical activity in...
There are several algorithms and methods that could be applied to perform the character recognition stage of an automatic number plate recognition system; however, the constraints of having a high recognition rate and real-time processing should be taken into consideration. In this paper four algorithms applied to Qatari number plates are presented and compared. The proposed algorithms are based on...
Besides required courses which are compulsory for each student to be taken, universities also offer elective courses chosen by the students themselves. In their undergraduate study, since students are not guided about the elective courses, they lack information about the description and content of the course and generally fail to take the appropriate ones for their course of study. As a solution,...
The concept of a Smart City highlights the need to enhance quality, interconnection and performance of various urban services with the use of information and communication technologies (ICT). Smart City technologies promote cloud-based and Internet of Things (IoT) based services in which real-world user interfaces use smart phones, sensors and RFIDs. Cloud computing and IoT are presently two most...
The IEEE 802.15.4 is designed for low data rate low power wireless personal area networks (LR-WPANs). LR-WPANs are envisioned for a variety of wireless sensor applications: health monitoring, commercial, agriculture, home and industrial automation. A significant feature of IEEE 802.15.4 is the very low duty cycle operation to preserve sensor node's energy. In this paper, we propose a delay mitigation...
This paper presents a control strategy for a standalone wind energy conversion system. A Dynamometer based wind turbine emulator is connected to a permanent magnet synchronous generator, whose output is fed to a rectifier. The bidirectional converter placed between battery and dc-link voltage, is used to charge/discharge the battery according to the generated power and to keep dc link voltage constant...
Pets need special treatment and special care. Due to nowadays busy life style, this task is not as simple as it used to be. The goal of this work is to introduce, design and implement a smart pet house. The objective is to allow pets' owners to automate simple things, like monitoring, lighting, feeding and air conditioning controls. Implementing smart pet houses will assure pets' owners an increased...
The presence of the non-linear charges is the most important issue in examining the microgrids. These charges cause the harmonic network, reduce the quality of the power, and cause the difficulty in controlling the frequency, because there is a part of power in other frequencies with no control. This paper investigates the designing the parallel active filter in order to improve the power quality...
Real-time three-dimensional imaging is widely used in the different areas such as medical, industrial and engineering applications. One of the most effective non-contact measurement techniques includes structured light patterns projected on the surface of object to obtain its three-dimensional depth. The fringe pattern is now known as the traditional structured light one. In most common phase extracting...
This paper presents a control strategy for solar energy conversion system for DC microgrid. The energy system includes a storage device for standalone applications. Incremental conductance method has been adopted for maximum power point tracking in order to improve the efficiency of the system. The bidirectional converter, placed between the battery and the DC-link voltage, is controlled to charge/discharge...
In this study, we present our implementation of using a motion controller to control the motion of a drone via simple human gestures. We have used the Leap as the motion controller and the Parrot AR DRONE 2.0 for this implementation. The Parrot AR DRONE is an off the shelf quad rotor having an on board Wi-Fi system. The AR DRONE is connected to the ground station via Wi-Fi and the Leap is connected...
Smart City is a concept for which no standard definition has been adopted either in theoretical researches or in empirical projects. Several definitions and classifications, different from each other, have been proposed. However, all definitions agree on the fact that a smart city is an urban space that tends to improve the daily life (work, school, etc.) of its citizens (broadly defined). This is...
This paper bring a description of ‘HSCoT’, an efficient high level synthesis tool generating register transfer level (RTL) specifications for applications written entirely in C language and an associate reliable approach for speeding applications execution. It's based on dependency data flow graph construction and aims to explore maximally the inherent intrinsic parallelism of application. Application...
In modern cloud data centers, tens of thousands of virtual machines are monitored and managed every day. Cloud service providers task is revealed to be complex and time consuming. In order to make it easier, researchers focused on minimizing the number of virtual machine instances to be monitored in fine grain. This is achieved by clustering virtual machines in classes of similar behavior. Projection...
Despite the technological advances of IT Clouds, few efforts have been dedicated to assist the cloud application and services developers during the creation process, that goes from the development to the execution phase with the adaptation of the behavior and the optimized allocation of system resources. The CloudWave EU project, has the objective of contributing to these underdeveloped concepts by...
The evolution in the latest technologies, energy consumption management requires special attention while implementing a system. The Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is one of such evolving technologies. We have seen enormous progress in research in the field of WSN over the recent years. The innovations in the luxury systems like home automation technologies has made comfort one of the key factor in...
BIRADS, Breast Imaging, Reporting and Data System, is a standard for preparing mammogram reports and it reduces confusion during mammogram image evaluation. In some cases, classifying BIRADS is a quite challenging task to the radiologist due to inter or intra personal variability. Therefore, this paper is aimed to develop a BIRADS classification model based on Type-2 Fuzzy Logic using mammogram data...
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