2016 International Multidisciplinary Conference on Computer and Energy Science (SpliTech)
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This paper presents an embedded system for access control in restricted area through the integration of two authentication strategies: facial recognition and RFID TAGs. Once face recognition, in an embedded system, is susceptible to failures, the integration with RFID tags aims to increase the robustness of access control system. This system can be easily deployed into enterprise environments, meetings...
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Radio-frequency identification (RFID) is one of the most promising technologies to enable new smart applications in the framework of the Internet of Things (IoT). Nevertheless, from the electromagnetic point of view, the performance of the RFID tags is generally dependent on the context, so that the selection of the most suitable tag for the specific application becomes the key point. In this work,...
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The discrimination of ECG signals is of crucial importance in clinical diagnoses of cardiac diseases. Manual analysis of ECG signals is very complex and time consuming task due to their composite nature. This paper proposes a novel scheme for reliable automatic classification of ECG signals into normal and three different abnormal (arrhythmia affected) categories. The feature extraction is based on...
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A growing number of elderly people in Poland and Europe forces us to look for new solutions for the continuous monitoring of their health state. This approach allows an early action in case of dangerous situations for elderly persons' life (state before a heart attack or a stroke, etc.). The system for continuously monitoring the health state also allows a quick action of first contact doctors in...
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Energy efficiency in mobile computing is one of the most challenges and especially in the wireless data transmission involved in mobile applications. It have attracted much attention from mobile device manufacturers, OS provider's, mobile application programmers and as well network operators. There are many “areas” where such energy improvement can be made but at some extra costs from other side....
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The paper reviews certain integral equation formulations and related numerical solution methods used in studies of biomedical applications of electromagnetic fields related to transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and nerve fiber stimulation. TMS is modeled via the set of coupled surface integral equations (SIEs), while the numerical solution of governing equations is undertaken via an efficient...
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Modern Information and Communication Technologies are definitely a key factor to develop the green and sustainable applications that the so-called "smart city" needs. Effective management of resources, gathering and interpreting data as well as ecological considerations are prerequisites to turn such a vision into reality. The European FP7 project DIMMER address these issues by providing...
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Dynamic selection of services and by extension of service providers are vital in today's liberalized market of energy. On the other hand it is equally important for Service Providers to spot the one QoS Module that offers the best QoS level in a given cost. Type of service, response time, throughput, availability and cost, consist a basic set of attributes that should be taken into consideration when...
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Energy eco-systems are undergoing major modernization process due to demands that are placed on the electrical grid, including environmental compliance, energy efficiency, improved grid reliability and customer-centric relationship management. All this has the effect on energy business from both technical and economic points of view and hence smart changes are needed. The "smarts" in the...
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Smartphones have become devices of choice for conducting studies on health and well-being, especially among young people. When accessing higher education, students frequently experience significant challenges, ranging from adapting to new situations and new social relations to heavier workload than in previous levels of education, short deadlines, teamwork assignments and so on. In this paper we present...
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Studies related to Smart Energy technologies have been highlighted in the last years, specially by significantly contributing to the saving of energy consumption, to the reduction of CO2 emissions and to the diminishing of the paid values in electricity bills. The electrical-thermal analogy can be used in order to simulate heating behavior in real situations and it also may be considered a contributor...
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In response to the limited success of isolated nature protection areas as a way to protect endangered habitats and species as well as biodiversity, there has been a policy shift toward the implementation of ecological networks, in Europe and in the rest of the world. Network behavior can be an emerging feature due to the natural configuration of habitat patches, or it can be induced by the establishment...
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Process Mining is a research area that meets the gap between business processes and various IT systems. Most of the works in this area focus on the control flow perspective, while very few of them address the organizational aspect. The organization perspective of process mining supports the discovery of social network within organization by analyzing events logs recorded during real process execution...
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This paper implements and evaluates experimental procedure for mapping images acquired by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV's). Proposed model requires at least 4 ground control points (GCPs). Aerial images captured using non-metric cameras contain real details of the images. Used non-parametric approach requires a set of corresponding control points obtained from a referenced image and based map. The...
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The rapid aging of the population occurred in recent years has encouraged the development of several solutions aimed to guarantee a healthy and safe lifestyle to the elderly. In this paper, an Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) system has been designed in order to create better living conditions for older people. In this way, people can live independently longer in their own house with an improved quality...
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We present a high dynamic range and high efficiency energy harvesting system. The designed circuit is a dual band architecture able to capture the largest amount of EM radiation in the urban environment being tuned both at GSM and WiFi operating frequencies. The system handles, with a high conversion efficiency, an incoming power typically ranging from −20dBm to 20dBm and rectifies it into a DC voltage...
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Waste recycling and disposal is an increasingly pressing issue for the preservation of the Earth natural environment. A considerable amount of research has been carried on factors influencing household waste recycling behaviors and a plethora of supporting tools have been investigated in the last few years. Despite this, recycling waste is still perceived as a cumbersome task, and people around the...
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The Smart City model is capturing a constantly growing interest worldwide, boosted by several drivers. On the one hand, novel Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) disclose promising scenarios to modern cities in terms of innovation, business opportunities and life-quality improvement. On the other hand, increasing requirements on urban resources (e.g., transportation systems, energy consumption...
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Software-defined networking (SDN), is evolving as a new paradigm for the next generation of network architecture. The separation of control plane and data plane within SDN, brings the flexibility to manage, configure, secure, and optimize network resources using dynamic software programs. From a security point of view SDN has the ability to collect information from the network devices and allow applications...
