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Power quality has an essential relevance for industrial economies. Server farmsand highly accurate automation processes are directly dependent on the powerquality of the power grid. To guarantee a standard of quality, power is measuredby power quality monitoring (PQM) units. However, standard PQM systems usingservers for data processing are too expensive for the installation on smallpower plants,...
Continuous monitoring of vital health parameters has become essential with the increase in the number of people who require those. These include elders, post-surgery patients, heart patients, and even healthy people who have high health conscious. The extent of medical support required by such people varies from person to person. Monitoring of multiple parameters include heart rate, temperature, pressure,...
System test plays a very important role in the product development cycle of a safety-critical device, such as an insulin pump. Given the significant risk of this device, fault-injection should be performed to validate dependable implementation under abnormal circumstances, namely: data corruption, bit flips, incorrect signal assertions and more. Clearly, a robust testbed is essential to create the...
With the advent of Internet of Things (IoT), there is wide application and necessity for different kinds of data monitoring, be it in medical field, industrial field or research field. Hence there is a lot of data to be handled which is heterogeneous in nature. Combining data acquisition and data processing into a single system is a more efficient way of handling data. Spectrum estimation is one key...
An efficient UWB Vital Sign Monitoring System has been developed to provide a remote noncontact monitoring of respiratory and heart rate, which can be easily extended to estimation of pulse wave velocity for blood pressure measurements. The microcontroller and UWB radar based monitor provides a timely alarm in case of any sleep abnormalities, which is different from conventional sound and video based...
The Micro Telecommunications Computing Architecture (MTCA) standard is a modern platform that is gaining popularity in the area of High Energy Physics (HEP) experiments. The standard provides extensive management, monitoring and diagnostics functionalities. The hardware control and monitoring is based on the Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI), that was initially developed for supervision...
In this paper we present the design, implementation, and testing of an evaluation tool for the ongoing development of the Prosthetic Device Communication Protocol (PDCP) which is an open protocol and is featured in the University of New Brunswick's most recent prosthetic limb research project, the UNB Hand System. This prosthetic device utilizes the CAN bus hardware with the PDCP for passing command...
In this paper we present a Wireless Sensor Network for professional applications and two examples for measurements in infrastructure applications, including ground vibration monitoring and pile driving, and one M2M application for measuring deformations in train wheels. There are two different types of sensor nodes designed to fill the requirements of the applications: one with a microcontroller and...
This paper addresses the hardware and software platforms for the control system of industrial robots, which are developed for high-reliability, easy-expansibility and high-openness. In order to get high-reliability, the hardware of controller consists of microcontroller ARM (advanced RISC machines) and FPGA, the software system consists of a real-time operating system which manages robot hardware,...
Since it is possible to use x86 based modules in embedded projects, the complexity of the Embedded World has increased dramatically. This paper describes the results of our current research work, which is aimed at helping the OEM customer of embedded modules, as well as the developers, to track down errors. The paper shows it is possible to monitor the electric power consumption of an embedded module...
With the tremendous advancements in low cost, power efficient hardware and the recent interest in biomedical embedded systems, numerous traditional biomedical systems can be replaced with smaller embedded systems that do real-time analysis to provide bio-feedback to the users. This paper presents a prototype of an embedded system which is capable of real-time data collection, using analog and digital...
Neuromorphic engineering tries to mimic biological information processing. Address-event representation (AER) is a neuromorphic communication protocol for spiking neurons between different chips. We present a new way to drive robotic platforms using spiking neurons. We have simulated spiking control models for DC motors, and developed a mobile robot (Eddie) controlled only by spikes. We apply AER...
To enable devices to communicate with each other over a serial data bus without data loss, as well as to enable faster devices to communicate with slower ones, the I2C(Inter IC) protocol was put forward by Philips Semiconductors in January 2000. Ever since, there has been families of I2C enabled microcontrollers like the PIC18F452 from Atmel and TMS470 from Texas Instruments. However, configuring...
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