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The analysis of multimodal data collected by innovative imaging sensors, Internet of Things (IoT) devices and user interactions, can provide smart and automatic distant monitoring of patients and reveal valuable insights for early detection and/or prevention of events related to their health situation. In this paper, we present a platform called ICT4LIFE which starting from low-level data capturing...
The Internet of Things The internetworking of physical devices, vehicles, buildings, and other items-embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity that enable these objects to collect and exchange data
Personal Health Record (PHR) is an online service model that holds patient's vital parameter data from the sensors worn by the patient. It allows patients to easily share their health information from any location with doctors. An android smartphone fetches vital signs of the patient from the sensors configured with the smartphone. The various vital signs are grouped together on a time to time basis...
This paper discusses on-going research in the ways Global Software Engineering (GSE) teams collaborate for a range of software development tasks. The paper focuses on providing the means for observing and understanding GSE team member collaboration including team coordination and member communication. Initially the paper provides the background on social and human issues relating to GSE collaboration...
The application of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) technology will bring revolutionary changes in maintenance strategy of civil aircraft composite structure from scheduled maintenance to Condition-Based Maintenance (CBM) which means the maintenance job will be applied based on the real time conditions of aircraft structure. Its application would promote the operational safety and maintenance efficiency...
High density wireless sensor networks (HDWSNs) are emerging as promising techniques in a variety of fields such as target detection and tracking, military surveillance, intelligent family, preventing forest fire loss, building monitoring and control, medical diagnostic, etc. HDWSNs composed of a large number of sensors with wireless communication, computation, information acquisition, and self-adaptation...
This paper reviews the technique of electrostatic monitoring. Over the past twenty years, the technique of electrostatic monitoring has been developed and applied to aircraft and engine condition monitoring in a wide range of components. The first successful application was to gas turbine engines where it was used to detect the presence of foreign debris in the gas path. Subsequent research has shown...
We present the Fit4Work system for monitoring and management of physical, mental and environmental stress at the workplace. The system was designed specifically for older workers who are subject to sedentary stressful work in an office environment. It uses commercially available devices and intelligent methods, which utilize machine-learning models to monitor the three aspects of the users' lifestyle,...
Reciprocating compressors are widely used in oil and gas industry for gas transport, lift and injection. Critical reciprocating compressors that operate under high-speed conditions, flow hazardous gases and have a high duty cycle are target rotating equipment on maintenance improvement lists due to downtime risks and safety hazards. Estimating performance deterioration and failure time for reciprocating...
Infrastructure monitoring is an important class of wireless sensor network (WSN) applications. When the topology of a WSN designed for infrastructure monitoring is linear in nature, such as bridges, highways and pipelines, this kind of WSN is known to be linear WSN (LWSN). To achieve the high-reliable infrastructure monitoring services, hybrid LWSN has been designed where a limited number of support...
In this paper, a wavelet-based statistical method is proposed for health monitoring and fault diagnosis. This method integrates the statistical process control technology and the discrete wavelet transform. A statistical indicator based on discrete wavelet transform is constructed, and the X-bar chart is used to monitor the indicator. The fault frequency can be identified in the Hilbert envelope spectrum...
In this paper we study the problem of estimating the cardinality of pairwise set operations (union and intersection) over sets possessed by different data owners, while preserving differential privacy. In our problem setting, a data owner could only communicate with an untrusted server, and thus have to perturb its set data for privacy protection before sharing them with the server. This problem setting...
A wireless sensor network (WSN) can provide a low cost and flexible solution to sensing and monitoring for large distributed applications. To save energy and prolong the network lifetime, the WSN is often partitioned into a set of spatial clusters. Each cluster includes sensor nodes with similar sensing data, and only a few sensor nodes (samplers) report their sensing data to a base node. Then the...
Freshwater monitoring is becoming an essential activity due to limited availability of drinking water and an increasing presence of various pollutants. Tons of toxic waste added to water sources everyday contributes to the decrease in the planet’s biodiversity and even an extinction of many species of animals and marine life. Many millions of birds perish each year due to waterway pollution...
The coordination of resources offered by multiple cloud providers to the end users aims to improve the Quality of Service. However, such systems exhibit a higher complexity and heterogeneity, which need to be handled correctly. In a large network of sensors provided by an Intercloud, the role of the monitoring processes is to identify existing issues and further report them for reconfiguration. Faulty...
Proposals and some implementations of Internet of Things (IoT) systems for healthcare are described. Implications of current European Union legislation, the new General Data Protection Regulation, for the security and reliability of healthcare IoT systems and for the privacy of users of these systems are presented. Analytics of healthcare IoT data for the requirements of evidence based healthcare...
This paper describes an Internet of things (IoT) based track monitoring system for increasing the comfort of rail track transportation. Usually, rail tracks are inspected only at midnight and also the inspection is carried out only once in a month or lesser. Unfortunately, any emergency issues not detected within the stipulated time leads to train derailment and other safety concerns. Hence in-service...
Most mechanical equipment faults are caused by wear. Debris in lubricating oil can directly reflect the condition of the machine. The key of on-line monitoring lies in how to effectively detect wear particles in concentration and size changes, to determine mechanical equipment running state. Due to the small induced voltage when ferromagnetic particles are through the magnetic field. Considering the...
Vacuum technology is a very widespread area. Nowadays, a broad variety of applications can be found to be using vacuum and vacuum related monitoring. Vacuum profile for different applications can be different, but whatever that may be, monitoring it is an essential part of any such application. Thus, this paper describes the development of one such vacuum profile monitoring system that can be re-purposed...
Nowadays the growing microwave environmental contamination including home space can become a real challenge to all the residents. We present new portable devices, which provide a continuous remote monitoring of the microwave home background. These three different designs allow monitoring four main human microwave safety characteristics: SA — specific absorbed energy; MPE — maximum permissible exposure;...
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