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The paper presents the impact of connecting Renewable sources to the Smart Grid with regard to improving Power Quality aspects. The impact of integrating renewable sources on Power Quality indices in the grid wes analyzed and the measures for avoiding the negative impact are included in the paper. Challenges coming from the integration of renewables – variability and uncertainty and the correlation...
This paper is focused on the results of the research project simBART. Particular attention is paid on a method for water evaluation in beer production sector. This process, under investigation, can be targeted to small and not industrialised enterprises as well as to those home brewing productions. Experimental analyses are conducted by means of VPeN, a vapour phase e-nose based on a specific sensor...
The complexity of integrated circuits is continuously increasing, leading to a growing demand for methodologies that offer comprehensive mixed-signal verification concepts. However, compared to the highly automated verification methodologies in the digital domain, pre-silicon verification in the analog domain usually implies a substantial amount of manual work and computational effort. In order to...
In the near future Smart Grid will be able to monitor and control key elements in the generation, transmission and distribution of energy to the end-user. This concept is in full development, but it will take a lot of time to achieve "maturity". Activities like consumer education, development of standards, technology improvement need to be carried out so that the concept of Smart Grid takes...
In the era of Internet of Things (IoT), we face the challenges of integrating new IoT systems with the existing systems, which are in services for large scale and economic implementations. In this paper, we explore an approach for integrate wired-wireless systems based on industrial standards, such as Zigbee and DALI for optimizing the energy use as well as timely communicating the vital signals to...
This study investigated a novel method of evaluating visually lossy images based on saccadic eye movements. In each trial, participants with normal vision were asked to indicate any visible changes in the image while their gaze positions were being monitored. The original image was replaced with compressed or blurred versions of the same image 150ms after the onset of each eye fixation, and the parameters...
Nowadays, the civil, business, and industrial electrical power loads in Indonesia are growth rapidly. The main growth is in non-linear load as source of current harmonic which causes serious problem in power quality and safety of electric power system. To solve the problem, power quality monitoring system which is integrated with more effective measurement, control, communication, and supervision...
This paper presents an actigraphy-based approach for sleep/wake detection for insomniacs. Due to its relative unobtrusiveness, actigraphy is often used to estimate overnight sleep-wake patterns in clinical practice. However, its performance has been shown to be limited in subjects with sleep complaints such as insomniacs. Quantifying activity counts on 30-s epoch basis, as usually done in regular...
Blood flow, posture and phenotype (such as age, sex, smoking habit or physical activity) are closely related to vascular health. Episodic monitoring of the vascular system in clinical setting can lead to late diagnose. Inexpensive wearable devices for continuous monitoring of vascular parameters have been widely used, however, they often have limitations in data interpretation: changes in the environment...
In their mission of collecting, analyzing and disseminating statistic data, the National Institutes of Statistics are more and more confronted with personal data management. With the advent of the “Open Data” [1], the need for data diffusion and to establish a link between databases created during the surveys and censuses, are necessary for planning, monitoring and activities evaluation, in a context...
We cover some practices and methods in creating effective cyber security architectures for substation and distribution automation systems and products which are robust enough to withstand cyber-attacks and resilient enough to recover in the event of security compromise and keeping device functional and executing its core functionality even during attack. This is achieved by a defense-in-depth strategy...
Over the last few years, interest in “green computing” consumes motivated research into energy-saving method for activity systems, from network proxies in additional to virtual machine migration to the return of thin clients. The entire world today is speaking green. It's not green with jealousy, but green while in becoming more eco-friendly, environment companionable, energy preservation, efficient...
Preoperative anxiety positively correlates with postoperative levels of pain, analgesic use and length of hospital stay. This preliminary study aimed to determine if the principle of distraction, using a relaxing Virtual Reality (VR) immersion, would reduce preoperative anxiety in patients undergoing arthroscopic knee surgery. Sixty patients were randomised into three groups (Standard care group,...
Whilst there are many attributes that need to be considered for cloud service selection, performance remains one of the most crucial aspects. Thus, we argue for a transparent cloud provider comparison framework in this study. We initiate the development of TCloud: a transparent framework for public cloud service comparison. Our framework helps prospective cloud users to decipher public cloud benchmarking...
Falls are a major problem of later life having severe consequences on quality of life and a significant burden in occidental countries. Many technological solutions have been proposed to assess the risk or to predict falls and the majority is based on accelerometers and gyroscopes. However, very little was done for identifying first time fallers, which are very difficult to recognize. This paper presents...
This project work involves trickle implantation observing framework for use in hospitals. The framework comprises of a drip infusion, sugar level observing gadgets and a monitoring screen. The mixture observing gadget utilizing a pressure sensor (MPX10GP) technology module can identify the trickle implantation rate and a vacant imbuement arrangement sack, and after that, this information is sent to...
Active scanning (AS) is a mechanism provided by the 802.11 standard by which WiFi clients proactively search for access points (APs) in their vicinity. To do so, a client sends out a probe request, in response to which all APs that hear the request send a probe response. Prior works have reported severe degradation in performance of WiFi networks due to excessive AS. In practice, a client triggers...
In recent years, researchers have presented a number of new methods for removing the motion artifacts from the PPG signal during the measurement of SpO2 parameters using a pulse oximeter. The ubiquity in the measurement of SpO2 due to motion artifacts presents the possibility for many new hybrid algorithms. In this paper, we present a review of the work on photoplethysmographic (PPG) signal with respect...
Industrial communication is on its way from field-bus to Ethernet. In an industry 4.0 scenario various applications and branches in automated manufacturing, process industry and intra logistics are affected. Here, Ethernet communication will not be limited to the communication between controllers and devices such as programmable logic controllers (PLC) and sensors and actors, but will also be applied...
This paper proposes a new event detection algorithm for the use in Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring (NILM). This latter is a field where the main concern is to break down, in a non-intrusive manner, the global electrical energy consumption into individual appliances consumption. Detecting events is thus of importance for appliance clustering in event-based NILM systems. A simple and fast algorithm that...
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