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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.
Wireless technologies and the growth of popularity of portable devices such as smartphones and tablets have created a variety of opportunities in the modern world. Wireless communications are changing the world because wireless devices are convenient, easy to use and can provide interconnectivity in virtually any place. Each day's people were obese with simplicity of their activities. So, we created...
Internet of Things (IoT) can be perceived as enabling user-specific interoperable communication services by integration of sensing and actuation technologies with other leading technologies, such as telecommunication, networking, security and cloud computing etc. Application of the ubiquitous IoT technologies to augment healthcare systems inadvertently exposes the latter to unpredictable, disruptive...
This paper presents a case study of wireless sensor network (WSN) system for remote soil moisture monitoring. The development of this system is driven by the needs for having realtime data collection and remote monitoring access capabilities which are lacking in the conventional soil monitoring techniques. Our proposed system is developed using commercially available IRIS motes based on the IEEE 802...
Assisted living and home monitoring systems are gradually becoming a necessity, considering the current trends in population ageing and older adults' desire to continue living independently in their homes and their communities for as long as possible. This paper presents our current achievements regarding the implementation of a cyber-physical system for assisted living and home monitoring, developed...
The authors present a novel on-line partial discharge (OLPD) high voltage (HV) insulation condition monitoring (CM) solution for complete HV network monitoring of petrochemical refining facilities. Continuous, (24/7) OLPD insulation monitoring of the HV insulation condition of cables, switchgear, transformers and rotating machines (operating at 3000 V and above) provides operators with an early warning...
Physical activity represents a key element for elderly people to maintain a healthy life. This paper presents a game for supporting and stimulating elderly people in performing physical activity. The game is composed of different type of exercises that are selected based on the user's profile and health status. The results are presented to the user in multiple ways that are correlated with his/her...
As the average age of the citizens increases, cities must provide new services for the emerging problem. The City4Age project aims to provide meaningful interventions to address the problems related to Mild Cognitive Impairment and Frailty in elderly citizens. As part of the City4Age project we have developed a flexible and scalable data capturing and management infrastructure which combines both...
Detecting how elderly people interact with their surrounding environment, especially with domestic electrical appliances, is an important parameter to assess Mild Cognitive Impairments and frailty issues. This paper proposes an innovative approach for monitoring elderly behavior by detecting home appliance's usage. It is based on an unobtrusive smart meter that periodically measures the global power...
The authors propose a method for continuous monitoring of railway switch point blades based on radio frequency identification technology (RFID). Unlike the known monitoring methods, the method proposed allows to significantly expand the set of fixed diagnostic situations, as well as to control the mechanical parameters of moving elements of the switch. This paper describes the architecture of the...
Air and Water are the most important resources of the planet that we use daily for sustaining life. Air quality affects all living creatures, from trees and plants to animals and people. Air quality, especially in the trend of more industrialized cities and with a rapid growing population of cars, is degrading. Continuous monitoring allows the national administrations to take measures in order to...
The ubiquitous growth of Internet of Things (IoT) and its medical applications has improved the effectiveness in remote health monitoring systems of elderly people or patients who need long-term personal care. Nowadays, chronic illnesses, such as, stroke, heart disease, diabetes, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases are major causes of death, in many parts of the world. In this paper, we propose a...
Sensor driven data is used to fuel today's Smart Home industry with big data, real-time monitoring and control; providing the occupants with wellbeing, security and convenience. Two sectors have seen increased growth within the Smart Home platform, Assisted Living and Energy Management applications. By converging these two sectors and sharing data within a single platform, houses can begin to become...
Wind power has become the most important component of renewable energy with advances in technology in recent years. Reducing operations and maintenance cost effectively and detecting the fault timely for wind turbines are critical to expand wind power use. Due to difficult access and harsh environment, offshore wind turbines have more urgent need for reducing operations and maintenance costs. This...
Efficient use of electric energy by users is one of the critical ways for increasing energy efficiency, reducing cost of power generation and supply, and environmental concerns. As part of remedial measures to address issues of energy use, many technologies for demand reduction ranging from energy saving devices through a variety of energy management systems have emerged to help users manage and control...
The use of smartphones increasingly inseparable from human life. However, many users are using smartphones too often, so that they forget the time and consciously or unconsciously looked too close and too tilted to the screen of their smartphone. This bad habit that commonly done by smartphone users to correct the eye vision of what they were seeing on their smartphone's screen are highly unhealthy,...
This paper presents a water quality monitoring system using low power hardware based in the Internet of Things. Six sensor nodes for water quality monitoring in pisciculture are installed in three region of the Peruvian amazon. The sensor node is a modular hardware composed by control, communication and sensor module that measure parameters such as pH, conductivity and temperature. All data information...
This paper presents a method for observational learning in autonomous agents. A formalism based on deep learning implementations of variational methods and Bayesian filtering theory is presented. It is explained how the proposed method is capable of modeling the environment to mimic behaviors in an observed interaction by building internal representations and discovering temporal and causal relations...
A hydrological sensor network is a comprehensive monitoring system which consists of varieties of hydrological stations. The spatial optimization of the deployment of these gauging stations is critical for obtaining hydrological information effectively, given that sensing resources are often limited. In this paper, we consider the hydrological station siting problem as a continuous location problem...
The significant advance of the Internet allows the inclusion of concepts like IoT (Internet of Things) and Cloud Computing. Nowadays, the deployment of systems and platforms of IoT and cloud facilitate the monitoring and remote management in different areas. However, The structural health monitoring presents networks with centralized topology, deployment of local data and a poor acquisition of seismic...
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