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This paper presents a technique to integrate wireless field devices using WirelessHART and ISA100.11a technologies into a condition monitoring system based on Wonderware InTouch software. The proposed integration brings the data from a field site with digital multi-device networking for automatic data collection to support the condition monitoring of instruments or smart connected equipment in preparation...
Most underwater deployments rely on acoustics for enabling communication. The equipment for underwater communication is usually very expensive. Simulations of underwater systems are insufficient for many researchers. An open source platform built with commercially available hardware at low rates along with customizable software modules may prove to be very useful for researcher. This paper particularly...
This paper describes the MEDA instrument and its different subsystems, including the proposed data management architecture (hardware and software) supporting MEDA data acquisition, storage, processing and transmission. Mission planning and operations are based on Observation Tables that allow the instrument to operate completely autonomously during the mission (i.e. even when the rover computers are...
The transition from a model-driven to a requirements-driven approach in the software development for programmable logic controllers will allow the developers to focus on the proper definition of the problem which needs to be solved and let the computer find a suitable solution for it automatically. This article presents a domain specific language intended to support this transition. The main focus...
This paper contains presentation of the flexible control system for an autonomous UAV (unmanned air vehicle). The complete description of hardware and software solutions used to realize autonomous flight are presented in this work. Main objective of the research was to develop software which provides ease of adjustment and extendibility to drone system with different equipment. Presented system is...
In the present industrial world, Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are playing a vital role. A Programmable Logic Controller is a solid state user programmable control system with functions to control logic, sequencing, timing, arithmetic data manipulation and counting capabilities. As the applications are becoming more and more complex, the single-core PLCs are unable to meet the high speed execution...
The Internet of Things (IoT) continues to expand in terms of the number of connected devices. To handle the data produced by those devices, gateways are deployed to collect data, possibly to analyze it, and finally to send it to the cloud or to the end-user to support new services. This process involves complex software that is deployed on those gateways. Moreover, the dynamicity due to new services,...
Vacuum technology is a very widespread area. Nowadays, a broad variety of applications can be found to be using vacuum and vacuum related monitoring. Vacuum profile for different applications can be different, but whatever that may be, monitoring it is an essential part of any such application. Thus, this paper describes the development of one such vacuum profile monitoring system that can be re-purposed...
Harassment, based on photos available on social media and other electronic media, has become a major problem in developing countries where internet usage has emerged without adaptation to privacy, awareness etc. We have developed a software sensing layer on top of existing software that would exploit the social connections and use that information to make sure certain images are revealed or not across...
The ever growing demands of software solutions have led to the development of Large-Scale Distributed Systems, which bring together a wide pool of services and resources. Their composition and deployment come in different solutions tailored to users' requests based on business models, functionality, quality of service and costs. Bridging different parts into one software solution is brittle due to...
We live in the post-informational era. Nowadays technologies transform many segments of human life. The Internet of things is becoming one of the most important information technologies that can change and has already changed the lives of people around the world. Under the Internet of Things (IoT) is understood the concept of a computer network that unites the most diverse devices, between which interaction...
In this paper, we propose using an approach based on the system-level programming language SystemJ extended with service oriented features, called SOSJ, to design dynamic interoperable software systems. The approach abstracts and integrates the worlds of automation and robotics systems by using a simple service interface based on abstract objects within SOSJ. We demonstrate our approach in a real-life...
In this study we present a mobile application for geoscience. It refers to a digital field book for automating data collection and outcrop/core description, and optimizing the final data processing. Sensors were developed for semi-automatic data collection, real time calculations, measurements of dip angles and dip directions, geographic location, among others. Field tests were performed comparing...
A new radiometry and design framework has been introduced in the latest Digital Imaging and Remote Sensing Image Generation model (DIRSIG5) that allows for faster simulations while streamlining the generation of high-fidelity radiometric data. The same framework that allows for improved computational performance has also modularized simulation components to allow for extensive interchangeability based...
Self-monitoring enables patients to become more active participants in their health care, home pulse oximetry can provide objective data for determining health status and the possible need for medical consultation or interventions. Pulse oximetry is a non-invasive and continuous method for monitoring the blood oxygen saturation level. Pulse oximetry has gained acceptance in the medical community caused...
This work presents a use case on multimodal urban paths in a smart mobility context. The proposed solution builds on the experience already matured and developed by the authors in different fields: crowdsourcing and sensing done by users to gather data related to urban barriers and facilities, computation of personalized paths for users with special needs, and integration of open data provided by...
Identifying fall risk can prevent injuries in the elderly as well as reduce the related financial burden. A balance assessment, Timed Up and Go (TUG), has been widely applied to estimate fall risk. However, the standardized TUG usually excludes complex factors (e.g. slopes and obstacles) falling short of representing challenges in environments that many older adults navigate. Having information on...
Changes in the world's weather due to human activities have already shown its negative impact on agriculture, food production, carbon neutrality initiatives and the environment. In order to support Costa Rica's commitment to becoming the first carbon neutral country by 2021, a local group of multidisciplinary researchers have proposed, developed and tested a general system with Internet of Things...
During the past 60 years scientific research proposed many techniques to control robotic hand prostheses with surface electromyography (sEMG). Few of them have been implemented in commercial systems also due to limited robustness that may be improved with multimodal data. This paper presents the first acquisition setup, acquisition protocol and dataset including sEMG, eye tracking and computer vision...
A new generation of medical devices emerges to supportincreasingly more complex medical decisions and procedures.These Medical Devices (MD) combine data fromnovel sensors and existing modalities like scanners withelaborate software processing to assist caregivers in the sameway Flight Management Systems help a pilot flying planes.For instance, Blue Ortho’s MD allows performing TotalKnee Arthroplasty...
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