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Most electric power companies employs power meter reader to collect data on the customer's energy consumption. Usually, this task is carried out manually, which can lead to high cost and errors, causing financial losses. Some approaches trying to minimize these problems, such as: discover the minimal route or use a car to perform the readings. However, errors associated the manual readings can still...
The technology based ubiquitous patient monitoring is regarded as a viable solution for managing the chronic diseases and medical emergencies in order to economize the healthcare services. The reliability of end to end communication between patients and healthcare services in wireless patient monitoring is the critical requirement in such systems irrespective of time and location dependencies. In...
We propose a new sensing device that can simultaneously monitor urban traffic congestion and another phenomenon of interest (flash floods on the present case). This sensing device is based on the combination of an ultrasonic rangefinder with one or multiple remote temperature sensors. We show an implementation of this device, and illustrate its performance in both traffic flow sensing. Field data...
Floods are the most common type of natural disaster, causing thousands of casualties every year. Among these events, urban flash floods are particularly deadly because of the short timescales on which they occur, and because of the high concentration of population in cities. Since most flash flood casualties are caused by a lack of information, it is critical to generate accurate and detailed warnings...
For the purpose of identifying as much as possible vehicles by means of short range vehicle-roadside communication, a kind of integrated multi-mode roadside unit (RSU) is proposed and designed to access 800/900 MHz passive, 2.4 GHz active, and 5.8 GHz semi-active onboard units. Furthermore, we present a deploying scheme of the RSUs in the scene of multi-lane free flow so as to realize comprehensive...
Wireless sensors are used in most of the in real time applications for collecting physical information. The impossible measurements in typical ways have currently become attainable using the wireless technology. In this technology, the measurement of air quality is one of the difficult areas for the researchers. The main source of atmosphere pollution happens due to vehicles. The high inflow of vehicles...
In viewing the common unreliability problem in wireless communications, the CWQ calculus (a Calculus for Wireless sensor networks from Quality perspective) was recently proposed for modeling and reasoning about WSNs(Wireless Sensor Networks) and their applications from a quality perspective. The CWQ calculus ensures that sensor nodes, even though in an unreliable communication network, can behave...
The lifetime of wireless sensor networks are constrained by its limited battery capacity. Therefore, the lifetime is widely regard as a bottleneck of technique of wireless sensor network. Recently, the emerging breakthrough in wireless power transfer technique is expected to eliminate the power constraint bottleneck. In this paper, we propose an intelligent wireless charging vehicle (IWCV) strategy...
A cup-shaped in-vehicle wireless charging system that allows free alignment for charging portable devices is proposed in this paper. A 3D transmitter coil structure is designed to provide the sufficient magnetic flux density perpendicular to each charging surface. By adding the flexible ferrite sheet surrounding the structure, the leakage of magnetic flux is eliminated to meet the electromagnetic...
The ARTEMIS 1 project DEWI ("Dependable Embedded Wireless Infrastructure") focusses on the area of wireless sensor / actuator networks and wireless communication. With its four industrial domains (Aeronautics, Automotive, Rail, and Building) and 21 clearly industry-driven use cases / applications, DEWI will provide and demonstrate key solutions for wireless seamless connectivity and interoperability...
Usually in busy life styles as we experience today the time management has become a critical challenge. The extensive use of the technology made it easier to keep-up with the dynamical nature of life styles and accomplish daily requirements. When it comes to transportation, personal transportation has become a more popular. The main issue when we use our own transportation is the limitation of parking...
High occupancy toll (HOT) lanes increase the utilization of resources by allowing voluntarily users who are willing to pay a premium to access the high occupancy vehicle (HOV) lanes. The payment method for enabling HOT lanes is based on communication between a vehicle transponder and roadside communication systems. They can operate dynamically for a fixed or variable toll rate depending on peak or...
Overtaking traffic on undivided roadways is one of the major causes of accidents that results in fatalities and severe injuries. This is especially true in developing countries such as India, where roads are narrow, yet traffic is heavy and fast. The primary cause of such accidents is the inability of drivers to gauge the speed and distance of oncoming traffic as well as the impairment of vision due...
It is estimated that the breakthrough in the broad deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) could come from smart cars. Indeed, we have seen multi-facet advances around cars: new material, in vehicle infotainment, driverless cars, smart transportation, electrical vehicles, etc. However, in-vehicle-networking has been mainly by wire, the wiring for a car is largely pre-built during the design phase....
As we see in our regular life the accidents taking place by rash driving and lack of concentration on the traffic information boards. In order to assure safer and smarter driving, various driving assistance systems are increasingly considered in research. Current vehicle driving assistance systems uses number of technologies such as radar, image processing, RFID, IR, computer vision etc. These technologies...
With the rapid increase in urban population and hence the automobiles, parking has emerged as a resource with fair amount of energy consumption, air pollution and traffic congestion in almost every major city around the globe. Therefore, its efficient management in terms of both energy and space is not only necessitated to save a lot of energy, but also plays a pivotal role to obtain environment friendly...
Due to the rising number of electronic control units (ECU) in a vehicle and the growing complexity of the related software installed, a fast and efficient system for updating software is needed. Wireless software updates similar to firmware over the air updates for smartphones can be a suitable solution to solve this issue. In this paper we propose a wireless update system based on an IEEE 802.11s...
Car parking has become a serious problem of everyday occurrence for educational institutions with the decreasing parking supply, increasing enrollments and high percentage of vehicle ownership, in result causing congestion, time and money wastage. This problem is getting worse and more frustrating in Jazan University due to the fact that majority of students, faculty and staff members own cars and...
Future device to device communication using the LTE system bring new opportunities for application development. In the case of wireless sensor networks, unmanned aerial vehicles with LTE capabilities could be used to increase the network lifetime, while ensuring high transfer rates between LTE capable sensor nodes and the aerial vehicles. In this article we propose a hybrid heuristic algorithm able...
Vehicular ad hoc network is an emerging tremendous technology that facilitates ubiquitous wireless communication between vehicles and possibly with road side infrastructure to providing safety, driver assistance and comfort. Real-time vehicular information gathering is a significant and crucial part in vehicular communication about vehicle position and velocity, etc. For broadcasting and gathering...
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