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The issues of energy efficiency and energy balance in industrial enterprises are considered. Particular attention is paid to automatic control systems for heat supply in order to achieve energy savings. The experience of development, operation and maintenance phase of monitoring, analysis and control systems at heat supply facilities of enterprises in Vladivostok is given.
Tracing current vs. voltage curve is an important part of the documentation of a Photovoltaic (PV) system to comply to the IEC 62446 standard. In order to get the high accuracy, the PV array would be subjected to an unspecified and large number of voltage perturbations often using specialized measuring instruments. In this paper, we explain how to minimize the tracing-time by performing a pre-defined...
Interior permanent magnet synchronous machine drives are widely employed in electric traction systems and various industrial processes. However, prolonged exposure to high temperatures while operating can demagnetize the permanent magnets to the point of irreversible demagnetization. In addition, direct measurements with infrared sensors or contact-types sensors with wireless communication can be...
Research in the area of internet-of-things, cyberphysical-systems, and smart health often employ sensor systems at residences for continuous monitoring. Such research-oriented residential monitoring systems (RRMSs) usually face two major challenges, long-term reliable operation management and validation of system functionality with minimal human effort. Targeting these two challenges, this paper describes...
Paper proposes a kind of multiple environmental parameters monitoring system for granary that is based on ZigBee network and takes ARM controller as core. With regard to hardware, monitoring circuits for temperature, humidity, CO2 concentration and grain water content are designed. With regard to control program, fuzzy intelligent algorithm is designed and transplanted to ARM controller. The test...
Advances in the information and communication technologies have led to the emergence of Internet of Thing (IoT). IoT allows many physical devices to capture transmit data, through the internet, providing more data interoperability methods. Nowadays IoT plays an important role not only in communication, but also in monitoring, recording, storage and display. Hence the latest trend in Healthcare communication...
Wireless Body Sensor Networks (WBSNs) are a low-cost solution allowing remote patient monitoring and continuous health assessment, thus reducing healthcare expenditure. In such networks, sensor nodes periodically collect vital signs and send them to the coordinator for fusion. However, sensor nodes have limited energy and processing resources and transmission is the most power-hungry task. In this...
This paper presents the design, implementation and test of a watch with the capability to measure multiple physiological signals, such as photoplethysmography (PPG), electrocardiography (ECG), and some physiological parameters extracted from PPG and ECG. Based on the PPG and ECG signals, the pulse rate and heart rate could be extracted respectively. Moreover, the pulse transmit time (PTT) could be...
This paper presents an overview of the Integration and Intelligence for Sustainability concept or better called I2S. The system will be installed in the Campos dos Goytacazes Innovation Hub (PICG) campus of the Instituto Federal Fluminense, and the project aims to integrate the data generated from different subsystems, mainly the renewable energy generation system, energy consumption, water treatment...
The monitoring of the ambient working conditions is a crucial part in occupational medicine. An innovative 3-layer, compact, multi-tasking and efficient wearable system for monitoring environmental conditions including physical and chemical parameters is introduced. It uniquely consists of a microcontroller board with integrated temperature, humidity and barometer sensors (physical parameters-middle...
Nearly 20 million premature and Low Birth Weight infants are born each year in developing countries, 4 million die within their first month. These deaths occur due to the unavailability or unreliability of traditional incubators. Moreover, although Telemedicine is helpful in rural areas, the shortage of healthcare providers have made it inaccessible in both basic healthcare. Thereby, traditional preterm...
This paper deals with the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) problem. The main objective is to limit it by controlling the main reasons that may lead to it. Sudden infant death syndrome is the death without specific reason of a healthy newborn, usually during sleep. Although the causes are unknown, SIDS may be related to abnormalities in the infant's brain that controls breathing and arousal from...
The river pollution has become a prominently environmental problem to human survival. Thus it is in urgent demand for real-time monitoring of river water. However, traditional methods have some disadvantages such as complicated instrument, high cost and cumbersome operation. Herein, we developed wireless conductivity sensor, which forms a monitoring network system based on ZigBee. The node of the...
Because sensor's and electrical techniques is progressing, some physiological instruments, like pulse oximeter oxygen saturation, electrocardiograph, body temperature, and heart rate monitor, have been developed as the wearable apparatuses. Now, the electrical blood pressure monitor all uses a cuff to measure the blood pressure. If the electrical blood pressure monitor wants to become a wearable apparatus,...
Electrical tree growth is a precursor to dielectric breakdown in high voltage polymeric insulation. Partial discharge (PD) has a close relationship with electrical tree propagation and can be both used to understand the aging process, and as a diagnostic tool for asset management. In this paper it is shown that PD patterns change through the early stages of tree growth, and consideration of these...
As the number of devices (things) connected to the Internet (Internet of things: IoT) is growing, achieving robust security and privacy (S&P) is becoming increasingly challenging. With the heavy use of medical things (MT), the S&P in the medical domain poses a serious issue that continues to grow. Due to the criticality and sensitivity of the data in the healthcare domain, ensuring...
The general structure of the electric traction system highlights the complexity and diversity of electrical equipment from the power supply. The return circuit, part of electric traction railway, consists of the running rails, the joint coils and the return feeder to the traction substation. Monitoring of the electrical equipment, existent in the electric traction railway, is a newest concept. The...
The paper describes how different parameters from vacuum circuit breaker influence the closing and opening time. Operational voltage, ambient temperature or hydraulic pressure can introduce delays in opening and closing the circuit breaker. These parameters are motorized through sensors that send all the data to a control unit. The control unit calculates the decision/(time) when to make controlled...
As technology evolves, the Internet of Things (IoT) is gaining more importance for constituting a foundation to reach better connectivity between people and things. For this to happen, certain strategies and processes are considered to enhance and grant optimal interoperability between the heterogenous devices of a typical IoT network. Two major key aspects of these networks are autonomous error recovery...
Subsea power cables forms a major part of tidal energy systems and are damaged easily due to drag of the ship anchors and fishing trolls. This paper addresses both structural health of subsea cable as well as a multi-sensor monitoring techniques for a robust defect detection system. The paper addresses the dominant failure modes and the parameters to identify through appropriate sensor-signal method...
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