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This article presents a real-time control system for an experimental model of a water distribution system. The hardware and software implementation follows the latest trends in IoT and proves that such an architecture can be used for real-time process control in distributed systems. The control of flow is implemented using a multiple-model control algorithm for the pumping station. A method which...
With wearable computing research recently passing the 20-year mark, this survey looks back at how the field developed and explores where it’s headed. According to the authors, wearable computing is entering its most exciting phase yet, as it transitions from demonstrations to the creation of sustained markets and industries, which in turn should drive future research and innovation.
Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortality worldwide and impose a tremendous burden on socio-economic costs. At present, prevention strategies based on personalized lifestyle interventions are considered the best way to contain the epidemics of these diseases. In this view, availability of innovative technological systems able to assist people in self-monitoring and self-coaching is...
Cameras and other sensors are increasingly deployed for private space monitoring applications such as home monitoring, assisted/enhanced living and child monitoring. Since these cameras capture highly sensitive information and transfer it over public communication infrastructures, security and privacy is a major concern. This work presents a secure camera device along with a secure data delivery and...
Thousands of people are dying because of breathing Carbon monoxide (CO) gas every year. In terms of poisons history, it has more unintentionally deaths than any other ones. One of the main resources of generating CO is fuel. Number of vehicles that use LPG are increasing dramatically. Technical problem in LPG injection system sometimes will result in irreversible effects for driver and passengers...
Exploiting camera sensors to conduct intruder detection has attracted a lot of research attention. Different from the traditional sensor with omni-directional sensing model, a camera sensor usually has a specified direction with a fixed sensing angle of sensing area. The sensing quality of coverage is critical to the application of coverage scheme. In this paper, we first investigate the complete...
Real-time DataBase Management Systems (RTDBMS) have been considered as a promising means to manage data for data-centric automotive systems. During the design of an RTDBMS, one must carefully trade off data consistency and timeliness, in order to achieve an acceptable level of both properties. Previously, we have proposed a design process called DAGGERS to facilitate a systematic customization of...
In this paper, after a brief introduction on the proposed plug-and-play (PnP) process monitoring and control system, two online configuration approaches are proposed for the observer-based residual generator. Firstly, an adaptive residual generator is developed based on the adaptive observer scheme. Aiming at higher feasibility and reliability of industrial application, an iterative learning approach...
We propose a new framework combining dynamic sampling rates for healthcare sensors driven by user behavior, and an adaptive MAC scheduling scheme applied to the time-slotted channel hopping (TSCH) protocol in IEEE 802.15.4, which provides high throughput and reliable communications. First, we introduce a system software architecture for machine-learning-assisted healthcare monitoring that detects...
This paper presents a multi-layer distributed performance management model for Internet of Things (IoT) as a service for caregivers. Performance monitoring and control of IoT devices and services are vital functions for e-health systems. Cloud-based IoT systems with centralized data centers further underline the need for distributed management. The main contribution of this paper is a model and prototype...
Sleep positions have an impact on sleep quality and therefore need to be further analyzed. Current research on position tracking includes only the four basic positions. In the context of wearable devices, energy efficiency is still an open issue. This research presents a way to detect eight positions with higher granularity under energy efficient constraints. Generalized Matrix Learning Vector Quantization...
Recently, as the damage of air pollution due to fine dusts, etc. has been continuously increased, there is a growing need for a low-cost air quality monitoring system to observe air pollution information at public facilities or homes. In this paper, we propose an IoT (Internet of Things)-based atmospheric environment monitoring system which can effectively observe air pollution information without...
This paper deals with the Internet of Things solutions and value chain related to the Smart City domain. Characterization of the IoT services and applications including connectivity requirements is proposed and illustrated with two case studies, on smart parking and air quality monitoring based on urban crowd sensing. Regulatory issues, as well as the role of the national regulatory authority for...
Innovative wellness gadgets are the products of convergence of science and technology in this dynamic digital era. It has not been possible before to provide just-in-time intervention to avoid unhealthy behavior. The change in behavior requires the understanding of the behavior theories and then practical implementation of the stages. Transtheoretical model supports to identify the stage of human...
The paper presents a system that uses Laboratory Virtual Instrument Engineering Workbench (LabVIEW) software to monitor, and to control the state of an electrical machine depending on user imposed limits. In this system, the real-time variables of an electrical machine are measured and transferred to a controller (PC) through Data Acquisition Card (DAQ). The NI USB 6009 DAQ is selected for this project...
Water is one of the precious factors in human life. It plays a vital role in the survival and existence of flora and fauna. But, now a days it is been exploited heavily by dumping of human waste, industrial and chemical waste in to the water bodies which is the resultant of water being contaminated with toxic chemicals. Water scarcity and water contamination has been one of the major issues faced...
There has been a growing interest in sweat-based sensors in the past several decades as eccrine sweat contains many metabolites of physiological significance. In particular, perspiration sensing is important not only for wellness monitoring and performance analysis, but also replenishment of metabolically significant ions and metabolites such as Na+, Cl− K+, and glucose. This study aims to develop...
In the decommissioning of the nuclear power plant, especially, for decontamination by radioactive substances caused by 2011 Fukushima nuclear power plant accident has affected the reconstruction after the earthquake, the dose evaluation and validation of the decontamination effect is very important. In order to prepare a novel passive-type dosimeter system which can applied to radiation dose monitoring...
This paper presents the use of a new concept: Internet of Things (IoT), applied to the fermentation process of Cocoa at the Piura's mountain range. A prototype was designed and built with sensors that record the variables of temperature, oxygen and carbon dioxide during the process and send this information to the Internet. Finally a system has been developed that receives this information, visualizes...
Camera-enabled sensors deployed for visual monitoring will cover a region of the target field, providing information for many innovative applications based on wireless sensing. Actually, some areas of the monitored field may have more relevance than others, according to the characteristics of the applications, which may indicate that such areas need better coverage to avoid blind spots and achieve...
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