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The rise of the Internet of Things and the InstrumentedLifestyle has continued to push the boundaries of howwe can provide health care support people throughouttheir lives. These new technologies require an InformationTechnology based approach to deploying and understandinghealth care delivery in Healthy Aging. To achieve resultsin this specialized Healthcare IT field, a blend of clinicalconcepts,...
Present approaches to achieve k-coverage for Wireless Sensor Networks still rely on centralized techniques. In this paper, we devise a distributed method for this problem, namely Distributed VOronoi based Cooperation scheme (DVOC), where nodes cooperate in hole detection and recovery. In previous Voronoi based schemes, each node only monitors its own critical points. Such methods are inefficient for...
Power Quality is a generic term focusing on several issues, going from reliability to the quality of service provided by the energy supplier. It addresses limiting aspects such as harmonic distortion, flicker, sags, swells and transients… It is important for the students to understand the differences between the large amounts of events that fit into poor power quality category. Moreover it is important...
The aim of this research is to present the results of research project called “Pompei, Knowledge Factory”, whereas the ‘Knowledge Factory’ represents a specific territorial infrastructure that, along with integrating know-how and technologies, may serve as the driver of innovation within the cycle of the protection and regenerative development of the cultural, environmental, landscape and industrial...
This paper discusses an automated fire alarms generating (fire monitoring), electrical power consumption monitoring and electrical power quality monitoring (power monitoring) system. The system is designed for industrial and home usage. This system is capable of detecting fire and sending the alarms via mobile messages to predetermined recipients. The system also distinguishes between an electrical...
This paper presents the Android mobile phone application developed in order to extended data communication range of our wireless health monitoring device. The main scope is to monitor people at risk in real time even if they are outside of their home and wireless home gateway is out of range. Because real-time data acquisition and alerting functions are important goals in this project, the above mentioned...
Software applications for managing building systems have traditionally been provided by control manufacturers in the form of Building Management Systems (BMS) and for maintaining building facilities through the use of Computer-Aided Facility Management (CAFM) applications. With technological advances in smartphones and tablet PCs, along with increased capacity of data communication networks, mobile...
A nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM) system analyzes the changes of voltage and current on an electrical circuit and can disaggregate the usage and power consumption of appliances on the same circuit loop according to different power consumption signatures of the appliances. An NILM system is regarded as one of the most important features for energy monitoring and management in a smart home and building...
This paper proposes the idea of a wireless sensor network with applicability in monitoring systems. The goal of the project is to build a monitoring system capable of data gathering which can benefit from both characteristics of fixed and mobile nodes. The flexibility offered by the mobile nodes increases the performance of the entire data acquisition system.
In this paper we present some results of ongoing work on a case study that combines an employee portal with the monitoring of physical activity of the employee during his working time. The essence of this case study is to show how information about the worker's individual physical activity can be presented online in a comprehensive way together with the actual portal information. This allows not only...
In this paper we present the design and evaluation of a system for deploying highly available and migratable services in shared infrastructures, such as the PlanetLab, where the available resource capacities at a node can fluctuate significantly. A migratable service can monitor its operating conditions and autonomously relocate itself to another node when the available resource capacities at the...
Reduction of operational efforts and complexity are key drivers for RAN Long Term Evolution. It is also of interest to minimise operational effort by introducing self-configuring and self-optimising mechanisms. A self-optimising function shall increase network performance and quality reacting to dynamic processes in the network. To improve the efficiency and performance of the E-UTRAN system, an efficiency...
The monitoring and regulating of the temperature in indoor locations are components of the intelligent climate control which is useful in more and more buildings. Embedded systems are used for implementing such systems. The main target is to obtain desired temperatures in different rooms, optimizing the whole energy consume. The paper describes a system for monitoring and regulating the temperature...
This paper proposed a technique for integration of 3S (GIS, RS and GPS) in urban real estate dynamic monitoring within a mobile environment. The framework of the technique includes two major parts: one is the change detection of buildings from high resolution satellite images, the other one is the dynamic monitoring based on 3S integration within a mobile GIS environment. The processing methods of...
We introduce a ubiquitous sensor network system, called U-FIPI, to monitor the early symptom of fire and intruder in indoor environment. Especially, this system adapts a novel approach to provide bidirectional location- awareness service between various mobile nodes and U-FIPI fixture nodes making it suitable for total service as a new concept of building management system.
Localisation and tracking of nodes in wireless sensor networks is valuable in many applications, and is the primary purpose of the network in applications such as for monitoring emergency service personnel and athletes for performance monitoring. Performing high accuracy tracking using low-cost hardware in difficult radio propagation environments is extremely challenging, and the CSIRSO WASP system...
Small sized devices with communication capability are accepted in real applications recent years and the applications increase business efficiency. We developed an asset tracking application using a wireless sensor network. The application consists of three components: a wireless sensor network, a middleware, and a user interface. The sensor network consists of 21 mobile nodes, 29 reference nodes,...
In this paper we propose "SoTong" system for enhancing family relationship with relation oriented communication. In the relation oriented communications, we focus on the relationship by representation and promotion of relations together with awareness of other's situation for the connectedness and the coexistence. The system captures and analyzes communication channels among modern families...
The objective of this invited talk is to present selected visions of ubiquitous computing and ambient communication based on the notion of the disappearing computer and to reflect on the resulting challenges for designing experiences in future smart environments. Our approach places the human at the centre of our design considerations and is based on exploiting the affordances of real objects by augmenting...
Low-cost wireless routers are changing the way people connect to the Internet. They are also very cheap, albeit quite limited, Linux boxes. These attributes make them ideal candidates for wireless mesh routers. This paper presents a minimally invasive mechanism for redundant multipath routing in kernel-space to achieve high reliability with high throughput in a mesh network. This service is essential...
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