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Objectives: The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology, which appears tantalizing in the healthcare domain. Governments encourage smart city initiatives to explore its applications. To determine knowledge, attitudes and practices of healthcare institutions toward IoT applications it is very important to objectively understand effects, to systematically summarize experiences, risks and...
Vehicular communications are gaining one of the largest share of the automotive IoT market. The combination of the automotive sector with the transportation resulted in the emergence of the concept of connected vehicles. Therefore, motivating new proposals for real-time applications for managing traffic and incident alerts to improve the overall mobility and road safety. The growing demand for new...
Electrical energy networks' reliability is driven by both, the quality and the reliability of its electrical equipment, e.g. power transformers. Local failures inside their oil/paper insulation can cause breakdowns and resulting high outage and penalty costs. Power transformers are tested on partial discharge (PD) activity at a factory routine test. Complementary, UHF PD monitoring can be used to...
Health issues are rising progressively due to the ignorance of health monitoring on regular basis which can now be looked after by the fast growing communication technologies and smart devices. In this paper, a robust healthcare model is proposed for continuous monitoring of the patient even when the patient is traveling. Sensitive data is collected from the Internet of Things (IoT) sensors connected...
This paper will describe recent developments in the practical application of multivariate Statistical Process Control (SPC) techniques to improve and automate anomaly detection in complex systems as part of a comprehensive Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) system. The CBM implementation process will be broken down into phases from planning to operation. The operational CBM system includes data acquisition,...
The paper presents the design and implementation of an integrated wireless network that support to the multiparametric geophysical monitoring network of the Campi Flegrei volcanic area. The wireless network is equipped with a tool for real-time monitoring and fault detection. The enhancement of the transmission system with respect to the previously existing one has been realized in view of the increased...
This paper shows the study on telemetric sensing network system for landslide disaster surveillance. The sensing network system consists of Local Sensing Node Network System (LSNNS) and Host System (HS). They are connected by dual way communication. LSNNS is placed at monitoring area (slope of mountains and hills). LSNNS is a network of distributed sensing nodes. HS is placed at a remote location...
Telemetrie Body Area Network (TBAN) system is one of the useful methods to realize improving user's body behavior and monitoring health condition. Not only showing physical parameters, by feedback of vital information to user, TBAN system is extended to the autonomous system closed to user. Getting such information, user is able to improve his body behavior consciously. Moreover, telemetric function...
In this paper we discuss the Internet of Things (IoT) by exploring aspects which go beyond the proliferation of devices and information enabled by: the growth of the Internet, increased miniaturization, prolonged battery life and an IT literate user base. We highlight the role of feedback mechanisms and illustrate this with reference to implemented computer enabled factory control systems. As the...
Ultrasound offers measurements of parameters encountered in harsh environments such as steam generators, heat exchangers and nuclear reactor primary and secondary systems. But there is a lack of piezo-materials tolerant of high temperatures and nuclear irradiation. Another issue is that transducers are needed that can be left in place on curved surfaces such as pipes and valves. The transducers should...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a very promising concept that by connecting numerous devices to the internet and extracting large sums of information (BigData) can enable the realisation of various futuristic scenarios. In order to develop and assess future applications and services, it is necessary the availability of datasets that can be used to train, test and cross validate. Project SCoT (Smart...
In last few decades, as a result of the advances in microelectromechanical systems, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) have gained a considerable attention due to their low-cost, low-power and small-scale sensor nodes which are used to integrate sensing, processing, communicating capabilities to solve many different real world problems. The placement of sensor nodes is a very important step to cover...
This paper identifies that the anycast communication pattern is needed in the Machine Type Communications (MTC), where there could be multiple MTC devices being deployed in the same area for the same type of data, the client only cares about the data being retrieved but not where the data comes from. Currently the MTC server can provide such anycast service, but with large signaling overhead and bandwidth...
Our daily life is characterized by countless human relationships. Every day we go to work, do shopping, partake in leisure time. At the base, there are some choices that lead us to make a series of activities; In which we interact and relate with many people. What influences the choices we make? Answering this question can be a very daunting task. However, it can help us to identify the main key elements...
The advances in wireless low-power sensors and the increasing demand for portable healthcare monitoring systems have inspired the realization of Wireless Body Sensor Networks (WBSNs). IEEE Std. 802.15.6 defines the communication protocol for WBSN applications in terms of physical and medium access layers. The high generality and flexibility of standard requirements poses the question of how WBSN parameters,...
This paper presents new approaches for construction of knowledge-oriented control systems. The AND/OR-graph model is improved for control rules visualization and interactive processing. The knowledge-oriented system for the dispatcher that regulates the safe operation with electrical equipment made it possible to increase the reliability of decisions taken by the dispatcher by 12%.
The paper describes the MANET Cognitive Radio test bed. The proposed architecture consists of a number of CR nodes connected to the RF Switch Matrix, and enables simulation, scenario definition and management. Proposed procedures for Opportunistic Spectrum Access in MANET CR are described as well and chosen results of simulations obtained during laboratory tests are presented. The performance of these...
Climate change and resultant scarcity of water are becoming major challenges for countries around the world. With the advent of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) in the last decade and a relatively new concept of Internet of Things (IoT), embedded systems developers are now working on designing control and automation systems that are lower in cost and more sustainable than the existing telemetry systems...
The paper describes Web SCADA Systems, designed by the authors, for monitoring and automation of control processes in the specialized pyrolysis complexes (SPC) for municipal polymeric waste (MPW) utilization. The functional structure and main components of the generalized SPC Web SCADA system are given. The specific example of the proposed SPC Web SCADA system application is also presented. Considerable...
This paper addresses the problem of damage monitoring system for buried ductile steel pipeline subject to earthquakes. To determine the capacity of a pipeline to perform its mechanical functions face to occasional or incidental damages, such as earthquakes, it is needed to evaluate the structural integrity of pipe and to track relevant environment parameters. This may be performed through intelligent...
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