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Our research work aims to develop a monitoring and control system in potentially explosive environments using microcontrollers. The paper presents a micro-system designed and achieved within the Metrology Laboratory of S.C. SIP S.A. It describes the user interface software structure built and used with the acquisition and transfer modules as well as managing the signals received in a SQL SERVER 2008...
In the paper, principles of constructing systems and functional abilities of information support of human-operators (IOSS) of power units of nuclear power plants (NPP) and their place within the system of upper unit-level of automated process control systems (APCS) of NPP. The purpose of implementation of the NPP IOSS is preventing or decreasing the frequency and heaviness of operator errors appearing...
Swarm of drones are increasingly deployed to perform a variety of critical missions such as surveillance, rescue in disaster areas etc. To guarantee success of a mission, the controlling software should pursue two goals. Firstly, it should ensure safety, i.e., guarantee collision avoidance. Secondly, it should prevent a premature depletion of the batteries of the drones by minimizing their travel...
Safety-critical systems in domains such as aviation, railway, and automotive are often subject to a formal process of safety certification. The goal of this process is to ensure that these systems will operate safely without posing risks to the user, the public, or the environment [1]. It is typically expensive and time consuming for companies to certify their software. Therefore, any attempt to automate...
Real-time applications are usually well-defined and operate based on a particular system model. However, in practical scenarios, the applications can perform differently because of the uncertainties in the environment. The system can use video streams to capture sequential real-time information of its surroundings. The system also needs to identify various constraints that have significant effects...
Electric power supply installations must ensure a permanent power feed to the train traffic security installations. Any damage to the power feed components lead to delays in train traffic. This work proposed a modern computer-based diagnosis method based on diagnosis charts, both created by the authors. Running the hereby proposed software package and following its indications, the failure cause can...
Aimed at the disadvantages of traditional monitoring system, an underground pipeline security early warning system based on wireless sensor network was designed. The system employed a dynamic cluster head election of the clustered network structure, taking CC2530 as the core of wireless sensor nodes. The sensor nodes stored and analyzed the data, using a new type of optical fiber temperature sensor...
Monitoring of dynamic industrial process has been increasingly important due to more and more strict safety and reliability requirements. Popular methods like time lagged arrangement-based and subspace-based approaches exhibit good performance in fault detection, however, they suffer from difficulty in accurately isolating faulty variables and diagnosing fault types. To alleviate this difficulty,...
Health care systems have started using advanced technologies, such as Sensor Networks and Internet of Things (IoT), to make health care solutions affordable and easier to access. However, elderly patients who are unconvinced about its dependability hesitate to use the immense facilities provided by the advanced technology. A remedy to this problem is to make the health care system dependable and patient-centric...
For strengthening the effective supervision of key vehicles' illegal driving which are not in accordance with the prescribed routes, and to prevent and reduce the road accidents, this paper puts forward a method of the active discrimination of key vehicle's not-according-to-the-prescribed-routes based on the gate system's passing through information. Through analyzing key vehicles' passing records...
The vehicle software has many errors potentially because of the increased complexity of the electrical / electronic system of the vehicle. And in accordance with the ISO26262 standard, functional safety requirements for vehicle electronic modules are increasing. Therefore, in this paper, we analyze the failure modes which are required in ISO26262 Part 5, 6. And we propose design guidelines to meet...
The drilling process is generally costly and time consuming and prone to serious hazards. Cost-efficiency and enhanced safety measures are vital for any drilling operation. Recent studies indicate that poor reliability in the drilling process resulted in as much as 30% loss of production time. Improved sensor technology with process automation can improve process performance and safety. During drilling...
The article describes the security systems at all stages of the construction of buildings and structures, the analysis at the sites during operation risk monitoring measures, taking into account possible emergencies.
Lithium-ion batteries have had a great impact in the automotive industry and in the large scale energy storage worldwide. This success is generating a growing interest for them in industrial stationary applications. Since Lithium-ion batteries have inherently different characteristics than the usual lead-acid and nickel-cadmium batteries, we need to operate a paradigm shift if we want to properly...
In order to assess the microshock risk, the automatic detection of currents during surgery is important. To this aim, a prototype, called Protegemed, was designed. In order to introduce the device in Italian operating rooms the compliance assessment with international standards is essential. The results of some electrical safety tests and the identification of a measuring method to detect the microshock...
Current manually-operated SOS systems used in Rallying are ineffective when driver and co-driver cannot push the SOS button due to loss of consciousness after the impact. The SafeRally service proposes a low-cost pilot monitoring system, to associate with existing tracking systems, able to automatically notify a serious accident, when both the driver and the co-driver cannot request help by themselves...
In this paper a system for increasing children's safety is proposed. The focus is on the daily route from home to school and vice versa, assuming the use of school buses. IoT paradigm is exploited together with different localization techniques i.e. RFID and GPS, in order to design a solution for parents willing to make certain of their child's following the main steps to school or home, i.e. taking...
Nutraceutical products are functional foods consumed by many for its proclaimed benefits to health. Most nutraceutical products are not pharmaceutical drugs, hence has been treated as food. This made nutraceutical regulation more difficult since they do not fall under the jurisdiction of pharmaceutical regulatory authorities. Accordingly, Control of Drugs and Cosmetics Regulation 1984 and related...
With the rapid construction of UHV AC/DC power grid, the integration characteristics of power grid are becoming more and more prominent, and real-time operation control of dispatching is significantly becoming more and more difficult. The existing monitoring and control model based on the system model data cannot meet the requirements for the development of UHV power grid. Based on the existing achievements...
Social events like carnival parades are major activities for modern urban life. However, public authorities should tackle a series of challenges in order to successfully manage such spectacles that take place in specific time periods and urban areas inside a city. Such challenges mainly concern crowd management and resource planning operations. Local public authorities should be able to take fast...
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