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This study aims to design a web technology based Emergency System (SmartER) system, which will enable the doctors and nurses to perform the patient related procedures more quickly and smoothly in the emergency departments. SmartER is not just software, it is planned as a system that includes a monitor screen to be mounted on the wall, a barcode bracelet for the patients, mobile devices to be used...
Web service based simulation tools will be an important aspect of discrete-event modeling and simulation (M&S) in Internet of things (IoT) systems. However, efforts to develop this kind of M&S tools are significant and it is difficult to have a tool suite that offer the modeling and the simulation of ubiquitous systems. The combination of the DEVSimPy environment and the DEVSimPy-mob hybrid...
In Today's world Mobile devices are the important handheld devices spreading throughout the world, and it is necessary to integrate web services into the mobile device. We introduce a simple approach for dynamically invoking web service methods from mobile devices with minimal user intervention that only involves entering a search phrase and values for the method parameters. This energy efficient...
Digital technologies enable indoor location management for determining and tracking the position of a person through various sensing mechanisms. This emerging area has a wide range of applications in the service industry to improve business processes. Location management is aided by the proliferation of mobile devices which open many exciting possibilities with their rich sensor set. We present a...
The Mobile-Edge Computing standard promises co-locating edge servers with mobile phone base stations. Web services running on this new ecosystem will have to address the challenges of this new model in order to see its benefits. In this work, we briefly discuss design guidelines for scaling strongly consistent geo-distributed databases to the MEC environment. Following these guidelines, we present...
Use of Mobile devices and internet developed gradually into a ubiquitous network and web has taken an increasingly central role in our communication. Recently the emergence of intelligent, sophisticated attacks like DOS (Denial of Service) makes web services more vulnerable than ever. To handle the DOS attacks, CAPTCHAs are used as one of the standard security technology. CAPTCHAs generate grade tests...
This paper presents a mobile application called MobiCrop that aids crop farmers in the application of pesticides. The requirement of the application is to have a monitoring station where updates are constantly being pushed to the farmers who are geographically dispersed. This requirement creates the need to deploy a mobile distributed architecture rather than a standalone app that has become the standard...
Mobile technology is increasingly being adopted in the agricultural space as a measure to assist farmers in decision. In this regard, the MobiCrop project was initiated by the researchers from the College of Agriculture at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and the Multi-Agent Distributed Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing (MADMUC) Lab. The aim of the project is to enable farmers to have mobile...
Distance learning is an increasingly popular concept, based on the existence of educational institutions that produce online materials and support, and of numerous students that consume these resources at their own pace. In recent years, a number of Course Management Systems appeared and are widely adopted by institutions across the world. As students are subjects to the increasing popularity of mobiles,...
Learning processes and learning mechanisms are constantly evolving. The traditional classroom boards are replaced by Internet technologies, while the old handwritten notes are progressing to electronic notes. Through this evolution offered by new technologies, such as Web 2.0 and mobile and ubiquitous computing, learning agents need to adjust to this new reality. Distance, electronic, and mobile learning...
The paper describes architecture of a prototype networked student information delivery system. Main system functionalities include interactive access to lecture room timetables and group messaging. The system exploits modern mobile technologies to allow flexible usage scenarios. The use of open APIs of telecommunications service delivery platforms in combination with e-mail messaging provides diverse...
Mobile Applications are rapidly emerging as a convenient medium for using a variety of services. In ubiquitous environment, the challenge relies on developing applications that sense and react to environmental changes to provide a value-added user experience. This context awareness property improves application usability. Context information can be related to the environment, user but also to the...
The current growth of mobile devices enabled with GPS receptors, cameras, accelerometers, and Internet access offers new opportunities for new mobile ubiquitous multimedia applications. Such applications help local communities to share resources using geo-location, interactive mapping, augmented reality, and several data representations. This paper presents CityEvents, a mobile solution that provides...
A key application of Near Field Communication (NFC) can be found in the field of Electronic Fare Management. It can radically change existing systems of isolated applications in public transport by providing new approaches for a national or international inter operable fare management. In this paper a scenario for the integration of an electronic ticketing system into an existing public transport...
Due to the advances on mobile technology, it is becoming feasible to host Web Services on a mobile device, making it perceived as potential data collector and provider. Hosting Web Services on mobile devices gains in importance when it comes to deliver real-time contextual data, such as current location or real-time heart rate. In addition to the characteristics of the available network, the usability...
As mobile devices has become widely used, there is also an increasing economic interest in frameworks for service and product payment directly from mobile devices. Such a framework involves software applications running on the device itself. More importantly, the framework involves a flexible back-end in order to cover the wide range of possible transactions. The back end solution proposed in this...
providing non interrupted Web Services from resource limited mobile devices needs to be done in a rather light-weight manner. Processing and communication will drain the battery rapidly, hence, both should be kept at a minimum. This paper describes the outcomes of an investigation into simple offloading mechanisms that facilitate provision of adaptive and distributed Restful mobile web services from...
This paper describes a system developed for the tracking and identification of pilgrims in the Holy areas, in Makkah-Saudi Arabia, during Hajj (Pilgrimage). The area is already covered by a sophisticated 3.5G network by several service providers. Upon request or periodically, the mobile phone sends its UID, latitude, longitude, and time stamp. A server maps the latitude and longitude information on...
A framework to support creation of location based services (LBS) applications using map services is designed and implemented. It provides a means to develop interoperable LBS applications which are independent of service provider, device or data providers. Application developers can use the framework to utilize multiple map servers following Web Map Service (WMS) and Web Feature Service (WFS) standards...
The “Web of Things” vision promotes the integration of smart devices into web, using web technologies and protocols as underlying interaction mechanisms with smart devices. Technically many phones include various sensors and provide a large-scale sensing platform. To make this functionality available to a large number of (web) developers our research aims at easing the creation of applications that...
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