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Developing laboratory experiments to teach students the problems related to the corrosion of metallic artifacts is a challenging problem. Corrosion processes develop over weeks with sudden corrosion rate changes so students should be able to look after the specimens on a regular basis and this is often not compatible with their other duties. This project tries to address this problem by arranging...
Developing surveillance and monitoring systems can be quite challenging at times, since the systems should be designed with consideration of the environment to be monitored. Good surveillance systems need to have dynamic features, e.g. monitoring cameras that are mobile and can move around the area being monitored. One scenario that requires such mobile monitoring is the surveillance of a large building...
The home of the future should be a smart one, to support us in our daily life. Up to now only a few security incidents in that area are known. Depending on different security analyses, this fact is rather a result of the low spread of Smart Home products than the success of such systems security. Given that Smart Homes become more and more popular, we will consider current incidents and analyses to...
As in any other field of activity and research, the Conservation-Restoration of monuments and artworks field has benefitted from the continuous advances in science, especially for the investigation and monitoring techniques. The recent developments in the information technology have also improved the means and precision of studying and preserving the Cultural Heritage. This paper describes a part...
This paper presents a new approach for real-time collaborations in adaptive manufacturing, including web-based remote monitoring and control of an industrial robot, and active collision avoidance for human-robot collaborations. It is enabled by using virtual 3D models driven by real sensor data and depth images of human operators. The objectives of this research are to significantly reduce network...
Nowadays, the Internet has dramatically changed the way people take the normal course of actions. By the recent growth of the Internet, connecting different objects to users through mobile phones and computers is no longer a dream. Aviation industry is one of the areas which have a strong potential to benefit from the Internet of Things. Among many problems related to air travel, delayed and lost...
The extended period many people now spend looking at computer screens is thought to affect eyesight over the long term. In this paper we are concerned with developing and initial evaluation of a wireless camera-based tracking system providing quantitative assessment of computer screen interaction. The system utilizes a stereo camera system and wireless XBee based infrared markers and enables unobtrusive...
This paper presents the design and implementation of an Embedded Laboratory Security Monitoring System (ELSMS). The system includes a web server which acquires video information through camera, and Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) which gets environmental parameters through sensors and sends them to the web server. Users can access the Monitoring Server (MS) through PCs or Wireless Mobile Terminals(WMT)...
Generally, boiler and gas utility management is dependent on human. This facility has been installed over a wide area in the shipyard. The operators usually maintain and monitor the systems for their best conditions. It is also difficult to manage the installed facilities because of a long distance. The main problem is that maintenance costs and time have been increased. Therefore, we need to introduce...
In this paper, we propose an efficient approach for real-time eye-gaze detection from images acquired from a web camera. The measured data is sufficient to describe the eye movement, because the web camera is stationary with respect to the head. First, the image is binarized with a dynamic threshold. Then geometry features of the eye image are extracted from binary image. Next using estimation method...
It is difficult to get awareness of user's context from sensors such kind of video cameras, RFID-Tags, GPS, PC-monitoring and another ubiquitous devices. On the other hand, it is difficult to understanding what information is got in computers for user. We are in the network-age since 1995. We use PC, smart phone, iPad and other digital gadget which are connected to the Internet every time anywhere...
This paper proposes a usability testing method that alters a given usability testing method to make it less costly and time consuming for the investigator. The usage of user-centred methods is motivated and a combination of two user-centred methods suggested. Furthermore this method is combined with other techniques to additionally detect the state of satisfaction within the user. User based factors...
By analyzing the problem of the current monitoring system, the design solutions of the integrated remote monitoring system based on Internet / GPRS is proposed. The system is integrated multiple monitoring ways and it can monitor multiple locations simultaneously. By phone software, short message and Web browser, users can view video, temperature and humidity, smoke, infrared intrusion and other information...
To enable remote monitoring and diagnosis of patients located far from medical facilities, a prototype Internet based telemedicine system is developed. The developed telemedicine system establishes an audio-visual connection as well as a data path from the patient's home to the medical personnel's office through a web browser interface. A remote controlled wireless camera installed on the patient...
In this study, a vision monitoring system that is applicable to the maintenance of data centers was developed and applied to data center status extraction. The vision monitoring system, which is intended to complement system monitoring tools, such as IPMI and Nagios, has the additional benefit of enabling continuous monitoring of the external status of data centers. This system, which is based on...
Development of inexpensive, automated ground methods is necessary to advance precision plant phenology monitoring across large spatial extents. We propose the use of free, publicly available, Internet-connected cameras, often associated with nonscientific monitoring, to monitor plant phenology at continental scales. We provide a methodology to detect changes in vegetation greenness and determine timing...
Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are getting increasingly attractive as a means to bridge between the physical and the virtual world. The current trends in communication see vast advances in wireless connectivity, leading to dynamic and complicated systems on top of which applications must be built. The task of designing these applications with such systems thus becomes much more complex. One common...
Qinghai Lake Natural Protection Zone is a sanctuary for migratory birds, but also a focal point in global concerns of avian influenza. In order to support the research about migratory birds, we planned to set up a remote monitoring system in Qinghai Lake. The development of this system refers to some techniques about GIS(geographic information system), J2EE and ActiveX. This web video monitor system...
In this paper we use both an embedded system and double Webcams to design an embedded monitor system for breath detection (EMSFBD) which monitors and records the patient's breath and sends the information to a specific server through the Internet. Our design uses image processing methods to monitor and record human breath fluctuation and to calculate the breath rate. If the breath rate is too low,...
This paper briefly introduces data acquisition approaches of tunnel deformation with the assistance of video camera, camera, georobot, three-dimensional laser scanner and other acquisition equipments of graph and image, proposes mathematical process flow of multimedia deformation monitoring data and discusses storage, query and calling, analysis and management methods of multimedia deformation monitoring...
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