IEEE_Ad world – Useless Space, Endless Opportunity - Analysis and Prediction
of Visitors.
Abstract:
Human’s behaviors and
experiences in social spacesare believed to be the result of the processes of
the mind that are influenced by the different features of these spaces. By observing
humans behaviours and experiences, it can be feasible to read their level of
interests, preferences in any social environments. However, making manual large
scale observation of human behaviours using paper-and-pencil based method is a
very difficult and complicated task. In this study, an attractive solution to
this complicated task is discussed. Here, to improve the consumer marketing
designation by counting the number of visitors visited particular ads published
by consumers by developing embedded system. The system captures the visitor
face angle using pi camera to calculate number of visitors looking into their
ads usingMatlab image processing and raspberry pi is used to control the
system.
IEEE_IOT-
INDUSTRIAL CAN ANALYZER FOR PRODUCTION QC.
Abstract: In modern day vehicle, safety for driver and passenger is of prime concern. Hence reducing collisions is one of the several major objectives of any system transporting humans or goods from one place to another. Collisions are very common on road side in today’s fast moving life. Hence it becomes one of the research topics in transportation or automobile industry. Driver and traveler wellbeing is one of the prime worries in advanced vehicle. This demand for an intelligent safe driving system providing safety todriver as well as passengers that assists the driver in handling asituation of sudden probability of collisions, and the information will be sent to the amazon cloud server via GPRS .The server thereby maintain the all details. The proposed system concentrates on the Production and Quality Control department. This model is used for testing of the vehicle unit.
Abstract: In modern day vehicle, safety for driver and passenger is of prime concern. Hence reducing collisions is one of the several major objectives of any system transporting humans or goods from one place to another. Collisions are very common on road side in today’s fast moving life. Hence it becomes one of the research topics in transportation or automobile industry. Driver and traveler wellbeing is one of the prime worries in advanced vehicle. This demand for an intelligent safe driving system providing safety todriver as well as passengers that assists the driver in handling asituation of sudden probability of collisions, and the information will be sent to the amazon cloud server via GPRS .The server thereby maintain the all details. The proposed system concentrates on the Production and Quality Control department. This model is used for testing of the vehicle unit.
IEEE_IoT based Smart Greenhouse
Abstract: This work is primarily
about the improvement of current agricultural practices by using modern
technologies forgetter yield. This work provides a model of a smart greenhouse,
which helps the farmers to carry out the work in a farm automatically without
the use of much manual inspection. Greenhouse, being a closed structure
protects the plants from extreme weather conditions namely: wind, hailstorm,
ultraviolet radiations, and insect and pest attacks. The irrigation of agriculture
field is carried out using automatic drip irrigation, which operates according
to the soil moisture threshold set accordingly so as optimal amount of water is
applied to the plants. Based on data from soil health card, proper amount of
nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other minerals can be applied by using
dripfertigation techniques. Proper water management tanks are constructed and
they are filled with water after measuring the current water level using an
ultrasonic sensor. Plants are also provided the requisite wavelength light
during the night using growing lights. Temperature and air humidity are
controlled by humidity and temperature sensors and a fogger is used to control
the same. A tube well is controlled using GSM module (missedcall or sms). Bee-hive boxes are
deployed for pollination and boxes are monitored using ultrasonic sensors to
measure honey and send mails to the buyers when they are filled. Further, the
readings collected from storage containers are uploaded to cloud service
(Google drive) and can be forwarded to an e-commerce company.
IEEE_Robotic Fire Detector, Extinguisher, Analyzer and Emergency
Alert
Abstract: This paper presents the design and development
of sensor and MAT Lab based fire
detection robot alert and control system. Most consumer grade fire detection
systems relied solely on smoke detectors. The protection provided by these has
been established to be limited by the type of fire present and the detection
technology at use. The problem is further compounded by the lack of adequate
alert and notification mechanisms. A typical system relies on the physical
presence of a human being to act on the alert. In developing countries, poor
planning and addressing negatively affects the fire and rescue crew’s response
time. To address this problem, fire detection robot alert system was implemented using an Renesas micro
controller with inputs from an MQ2 smoke
sensor and thermister. The output of the detection system is sent over SMS
(Short Message Service) using a SIM900 Global System for Mobile Communication
(GSM) module to the house owner or caretaker in real-time. The fire and rescue
crew also get notified in real-time with location information. A comparison
between the efficiency of the notification system employed by standard fire
detectors and the multi-sensor remote based notification approach adopted in
this paper showed significant improvements in the form of timely detection,
alerting and response.
IEEE_Dynamic Solid Waste Collection and Management
Abstract: Solid waste management
is one of major aspect which has to be considered in terms of making urban area
environment healthier. The common dustbins placed by the municipal corporation
are leading no. of health, environmental and social issues. Various causes are
there like improper dustbin placement in city, improper system of collecting
waste by City Corporation, and more specifically people are not aware enough to
use dustbins in proper way. These various major causes are leading serious
problems like, an unhygienic condition, air pollution, and unhealthy
environment creating health disease. Up till now, research has been carried out
by developing a Software Applications for indicating dustbin status, another by
Shortest path method for garbage collecting vehicles by integrating RFID, GSM,
GIS system; but no any active efforts has been taken paying attention towards
managing such waste in atomized way. Considering all these major factors, a
smart solid waste management system is designed that will check status and give
alert of dustbin fullness and more significantly system has a feature to
literate people to use dustbin properly and to automatically sense and clean
garbage present outside the dustbin. Thus presented solution achieves smart
solid waste management satisfying goal of making Indian cities clean, healthy
and hygienic.
IEEE_Design and Implementation of a Fingerprint Based Lock System
for Shared Access
Abstract: Security has always been a major concern for the
households and the office environment, and for this concern various approaches
are in place to address the problem. Most of the major door lock security
systems have several loopholes which could be broken down to gain access to the
desired places, and it creates a concern for a secure lifestyle and proper
working environment. Additionally, terrorism and unauthorized access to places
have become a major issue now-a-days, and there is a need for a secure system
to prevent unauthorized access especially in shared access environment. With
this consideration, a design and prototype of a biometric fingerprint based
door lock system has been presented in this paper. Biometric systems such as
fingerprint provide tools to enforce reliable logs of system transactions and
protect an individual’s right to privacy. The RFID or password based door lock
mechanisms can easily be compromised when the RFID card or passwords are shared
or stolen, thus for facilities with shared access require biometricbasedsecure
system. In the proposed system, fingerprints of the authorized users are
enrolled and verified to provide access to a facility that is used by multiple
users. A user can also be removed and a new user can be enrolled in the system.
We have implemented a centralized control system from where we can control who
can enter in which rooms and who cannot. This is an Arduino UNO device based
flexible working device that provides physical security using the fingerprint
sensor technology.
IEEE_IOT – CLCTO – Co-operative Logistics Cargo Transport
Optimization
Abstract:
The operation of
transportation determines the efficiency of moving products. The progress in
techniques and management principles improves the moving load, delivery speed,
service quality, operation costs, the usage of facilities and energy saving.
Transportation takes a crucial part in the manipulation of logistic. Reviewing
the current condition, a strong system needs a clear frame of logistics and a
proper transport implements and techniques to link the producing procedures.
The objective of the paper is to define the role of transportation in logistics
for the reference of further improvement. This paper specifies a cloud-based on
Co-operative Logistics Cargo Transport Optimization (CLCTO), where embedded
system is designed to overcome the hassles of theft, vehicle breakdown, parking
accident and tracking vehicle by using renesas (R5F100LE) microcontroller and
other embedded sensor modules. The AMAZON (Base Station) is used to store all
the information about the logistics for further use.
IEEE_Blister Testing in Drug Industry
Abstract: Medicines have helped to make our lives easy.
Drug industry is developing industry in terms of production as well as
consumption. Medication has become very important in everyone’s life as we are
affected by so many diseases. But there may be missing tablet in a strip. This
project shows a method to count and display the number of tablets in a strip
while moving on conveyer. We can check for roundness of the tablet to find
broken tablets. If the total number of tablets in a strip is fixed, missing or
empty tablets can be identified.
IEEE_Campus Navigator with Speech Assistance
Abstract: The article suggests a solution for students,
their parents and visitors who receive user based dynamic information. They use
their own smart phones and an embedded device for additional information.
Campus navigator is a mobile application which is based on Blue Tooth. The data
from Bluetooth gets transmitted and it can be monitored in Smartphone. Our
project is more suited for campus environment of manufacture industries,
software companies, college and universities, government campus etc. In this
project we are concentrating on visitor assistance and security for the campus.
Both concepts are achieved successfully. Speech output is embedded in the
project which provides better assistance for the visitor.
IEEE_Posture Analysis - Physial Activity and BehaviourRecognisition
Abstract: A major challenge faced by
parents today is child care. Identifying a threat at its earliest stage would
be the best way to avoid any hazards caused by it. The baby under observation
may not always be in the vicinity of the caregiver. This has given rise to the
design and manufacture of various remote monitoring devices designed for babies.
This project involves the concept of monitoring babies and infants. The system
identifies three different activities and gives out an alarm in case risky
location or behavior encountered. The system consists of microcontroller, LCD
display, MEMS sensor and GSM.
IEEE_ECG_Prototype Development of Monitoring System in Patient
Infusion with Wireless Sensor Network
Abstract:
With high
patient-to-nurse ratio prevalence in India, conventional drip systems for
intravenous infusion is a challenging and stressful task because of continuous
monitoring by nurses or patients' companions. Any mistake or delays in monitoring
in this regard can lead to various problems such as back flow of blood upon
complete draining of bottle, overdose of drugs or excess infusion of
electrolytes and saline. To overcome this problem this project will give
prototype to monitor drip infusion of patient which makes easier to determine
the condition of the infusion without the need to come regularly to find out
the circumstances where it placed infusion.
IEEE_Terrian Mapping - Towards Automated Map Updating for Mobile
Robot Localization
Abstract: The Terrain Mapping Robot (TMR) is a solution to
create a contour map of the terrain without putting a human life in danger.
Terrain Mapping robotics is nowadays a stake to solve different problems in a
complex environment (autonomous vehicle transportation systems in industrial
sites, whether outdoor, in-door, or both, new production systems involving
autonomous robots evolving in free indoor manned environment to name a few). In
order for a robot to evolve in such a complex environment, it is mandatory that
autonomous-robot/vehicle localization be robust, warns if possibly incorrect,
and manages environment changes. Robustness itself is only related to the
degree of available localization time to total operation time and it is certain
that this figure will never be 100%. In localization system outages or failure,
in order to prevent problems, it is therefore mandatory to be able to assess
the degree of confidence on the localization results. TMR’s objective is not to
be confused with that of navigational robots (robots that direct your path such
as GPS navigation for automobiles), its objective is to be placed into a
hazardous area where it will collect terrain information for the path the robot
has taken. It will simply travels along its chosen path with help of ultrasonic
sensor and relay them back to the receiver where a human can make his own
evaluation of the terrain.The main aim of the project is to design a Terrain
Mapping Robot using low cost sensor and non-GPS based navigations system.
Android - Design and Implementation of Automated Blood Bank using
Embedded Systems
Abstract:
Every year the nation
requires about 4 Crore units of blood, out of which only a meager 40 Lakh units
of blood are available. There are multiple blood banks around the world,
however none of them offer thecapability for a direct contact between the donor
and recipient. This is often a serious disadvantage notably in cases wherever
there is associate degree pressing would like of blood. This project aims to
beat this communication barrier by providing an immediate link between the
donor.
Raspberry-Pi Based Embedded Blood Donating Application
Abstract:
The paper “Raspberry-Pi
Based Embedded Blood Donating Application” proposed to bring the voluntary
student blood donors to one place. The mission of this paper is to fulfilevery
blood request by using an android application “student blood donor”. Our aim to
propose this paper is to reduce the time span between the donor and recipient.
By using Raspberry pi 2 and GSM modem SIM900A, we collect all the data base of
the voluntary students blood donor information from educational institution and
fetch the given data as per message request from recipient. The fetched blood
donor data is sent to the recipient and also with addition an IP Address is
attached to the message which allows the recipient to download an app and get
all the information of the student. The vision of this paper is “To provide a
better service of every person who is in search of blood”.
IEEE_Automated Lighting System for Park Pathways
Abstract: Smart park lighting has the potential to save
energy and improve safety within the City of Charlottesville. Standard park
lights remain lit throughout the night regardless of whether or not a user is
present, which causes unnecessary energy waste. The City of Charlottesville has
expressed an interest in retrofitting some of their park lights with an
automated lighting control system. The automated system uses motion sensors to
detect when users are on the path. The system turns the lights on when users
are present, and turns the lights off otherwise. The goal of this project is to
develop a long-term automated control system prototype for the City of
Charlottesville’s path lights and to test it in a City of Charlottesville park.
First and foremost, the system needs to maintain the safety of path travelers
while saving energy. Additionally, the system and installation need to be
relatively low cost. Trenching between poles to lay the underground wiring is
the biggest installation expense for standard light poles. To avoid additional
trenching costs, the poles will communicate wirelessly with their neighbors to
turn on the lights of surrounding poles. The automated lighting system uses
passive infrared (PIR) sensors located on each light pole to detect users on
the path. A microcontroller handles the control logic of reading the sensor and
determining when a light is turned on or off and when to wirelessly tell
neighboring poles to turn on. The lights remain on for a specified timeout
period unless motion is detected again. Parameters such as the timeout period
and the number of neighboring poles that turn on after motion is detected are
wirelessly configurable via a laptop connected to a wireless transceiver. These
parameters will be thoroughly tested to ensure sufficient lighting is provided
to meet user safety needs. The final deliverable is a reproducible automated
lighting prototype with wirelessly configurable parameters installed in a
Charlottesville park.
IEEE_Efficient Remote Control System using SMS Technology for
Outdoor Security Lighting Applications
Abstract:
The aim of this work is
to design and develop a control system using SMS and WiFi technology to
remotely control the outdoor security lights in large organisations. The device
comprises four main units, namely: the mobile phone or a computer system, the
GSM modem, the switching unit and the WiFi module. One feature that makes the
developed system better than other related existing works is its ability to use
two means of control. It makes use of WiFi when the operator is within the
coverage area of the network of about 100 metres to the device, at no cost,
otherwise it uses SMS containing certain codes to control the lamps. A SIM card
is placed in the GSM modem and SMS from the transmitter are sent to that mobile
number. The module is also constantly being monitored by the microcontroller
unit, which in turn processes the information, extracts the message and command
from the GSM modem and WiFi module respectively and then acts accordingly.
Owing to its simplicity, C programming is used to programme the
microcontroller. The developed device when tested with three lighting points
operating on 230V power supply, gives an impressive performance with both SMS
and WiFi technology. The benefit of this work is in its low-cost real-life
practical application.
IEEE_Development of Intelligent Power Wheelchair
Abstract:
Independent mobility is
an important aspect of self-esteem and plays a pivotal role in ”aging in
place”. The smart wheelchair is an effort to provide an independent mobility to
those persons who are unable to travel freely. A smart wheelchair is an
amalgamation of a standard power driving modules and a collection of sensors
with an interfacing section. Input control signal may be given by means of
wireless joystick or touchpad that can be mounted on armrest also.Thisfeature
makes it useful for the disabled persons who are able to control the joystick
and touchpad, and also it can be helpful for the caregiver like a nurse.
Ultrasonic and infrared sensor systems are going to be integrated into this
wheelchair for providing best possible and safe movement.
IEEE_A New Approach for Designing a Smart Glove for Sign Language
Recognition
Abstract: In Arab countries, the hearing impaired people
exceeds 10 million. In Egypt, the number of hearing-impaired people is around 4
million. So Sign language is important for facilitating communication between
hearing impaired and the rest of society, but not all the rest of society know
this language so, a new approach is suggested for designing a smart glove that
can be used as a part of an electronic system to translate the sign language
into a spoken or written language. This design covers all Arabic sign language signs
(words level) by using a little number of sensors as possible. The design is
driven by statistical analysis for all words of Arabic sign language in terms
of single hand, double hands movement, single stage, multi-stage movement
signs, fingers angle, and orientation. This paper covers the statistical
analysis results and explains the proposed design using simulation model.
Smart Traffic Control System Using Image Processing
Abstract: The fact is that, the population of city and
numbers of vehicles on the road are increasing day by day. With increasing
urban population and hence the number of vehicles, need of controlling streets,
highways and roads is major issue. The main reason behind today’s traffic
problem is the techniques that are used for traffic management. Today’s traffic
management system has no emphasis on live trafficscenario, which leads to
inefficient traffic managementsystems. This project has been implemented by
using the Mat lab software and it aims to prevent heavy traffic congestion.
Moreover, for implementing this project Image processing technique is used. At
first, film of a lane is captured by a camera. A web camera is placed in a
traffic lane that will capture images of the road on which we want to control
traffic. Then these images are efficiently processed to know the traffic
density. According to the processed data from mat lab, the controller will send
the command to the traffic LEDs to show particular time on the signal to manage
traffic.
IEEE_Wearable Enabling Human Cloud Integration in Next Generation
Healthcare Systems
Abstract: With the rapid development
of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, and big data, more comprehensive
and powerful applications become available. Meanwhile, people pay more
attention to higher QoE and QoS in a “terminal- cloud” integrated system.
Specifically, both advanced terminal technologies (e.g., smart clothing) and
advanced cloud technologies (e.g., big data analytics and cognitive computing
in clouds) are expected to provide people with more reliable and intelligent
services. Therefore, in this article we propose a Wearable 2.0 healthcare
system to improve QoE and QoS of the next generation healthcare system. In the
proposed system, washable smart clothing, which consists of sensors, electrodes,
and wires, is the critical component to collect users’ physiological data and
receive the analysis results of users’ health and emotional status provided by
cloud-based machine intelligence.
Anti-Piracy Screen
Abstract:
During recent years, a
few countries have put in place online antipiracy laws and there has been some
major enforcement actions against violators. This raises the question that to
what extent antipiracy actions have been effective in deterring online piracy?
This is a challenging issue to explore because of the difficulty to capture
user behavior, and to identify the subtle effect of various underlying (and
potentially opposing) causes. In this system, we tackle this question by
examining the impact of two major antipiracy actions. We capture snapshots of
Bit Torrent publishers at proper times relative to the targeted antipiracy
event and use the trends in the number and the level of activity of these
publishers to assess their reaction to these events.
IEEE_Movie Piracy Tracking
using Temporal Psychovisual
Abstract: Nowadays, camcorder piracy has great impact on
the motion picture industry. Although some watermarking technologies can track
the movie pirate, the video content viewed in the theater may be affected and
they cannot obstruct the need of pirated movie because the watermarks in
pirated moves are invisible. This paper presents a new method to defeat
camcorder piracy and realize content protection in the theater using a new
paradigm of information display technology, called Temporal Psychovisual
Modulation (TPVM), which utilizes the differences between the human-eye
perception and digital camera imageformingto stack an invisible pattern on
digital screen and projector. The images formed in human vision are continuous
integration of the light field, while discrete sampling is used in digital
video acquisition which has “blackout” period in each sampling cycle. Based on
this difference, we can decompose a movie into a set of display frames with
specific patterns and broadcast them out at high speed so that the audience
cannot notice any disturbance, while the video frames captured by camcorder
will contain highly objectionable artifacts (i.e., the patterns). The pattern
embedded in the movies can also serves as tracking information to reveal the
one responsibility for the camcorder piracy.
Talking Energy Meter
Abstract: Among the most desirable feature of energy meter
is simple circuit and ability to display the load power consumption in precise
manner. Such these things can be achieved /fulfill by using a talking energy
(kwh) meter having an advancement in energy meter which is become an attractive
interface between user and meter. It has the potential to replace the
conventionally used energy meter. Talking energy meter is a new type of energy
meter having the ability to provide output in attractive manner. The purpose of
this project is to build a KWH (Kilo Watt Hour) meter that can alert the users
with voice messages. An Energy meter or KWH meter is a device that measures the
amount of electrical energy supplied to or produced by a residence, business or
machine. Electricity is a clean, convenient way to deliver energy. The
electricity meter is howelectricity providers measure billable services. The
idea behind this project is to construct the Energy Meterthat is useful for
illiterates and the busy people who cannot concentrate on the energy meter
readings because of their busy schedule. This system helps the users by
alerting them about the peak loads (max energy consumption), power status
(ON/OFF), billing status etc. The voice alerts could be in any local language.
Hence this system can be used across the world.
IOT - Bellandur Lake - Analysis and Metering of Industrial Waste
Water
Abstract: Industrial wastes generated through various
industrial operations are different and complex. These wastes on discharge
affect the normal life of a stream or normal functioning of sewerage and sewage
treatment plants, unless pre-treated at the source point itself. The waste water
from industries have high proportion of suspended solids, dissolved organic and
inorganic solids, BOD, alkalinity or acidity and their different constituents
may not be in same proportion as they exist in a normal domestic sewage. This
industrial waste water cannot always be treated easily by the normal methods
used for treating domestic waste and certain specially designed methods or
sequence of methods may be necessary. The treatment of effluents before
discharge is necessary to reduce pollution and hence the project is proposed.
In this project the analysis and metering of water is been carried out randomly
by collecting water samples at different time using sensors and storing the
measured values in a cloud via GPRS for
further use by the government.
IOT-Industrial Breath Exhale
Abstract: Now a days Air quality is affected by various
economic and industrial activities which alter the composition of air and
affect the environment locally, regionally and globally.Both natural and/or
anthropogenic activities introduce air pollutants which can be solid (large or
sub-molecular), liquid or gas into the atmosphere that pose problem to human
health and other life forms on earth.The hazardous wastes (gas/air)generated
from industrial processes need to be properly treated and disposed to avoid
contamination of soil, surface and ground water. For ascertaining the nature
and extent of mitigative measures, the hazardous wastes are required to be
analysed and characterised.Hence the project has been proposed , in this
project the analysis of exhaled gas/air from industries is done and uploading
the measured values to the cloud/server.
IEEE 2013: Indoor Localization
on Mobile Phone Platforms Using Embedded Inertial Sensors
IEEE 2013 Transactions on Navigation and Communication
Abstract—Indoor
localization techniques are commonly based on measuring the Wi-Fi received
signal strength (RSS) and the method of "fingerprinting". The
accuracy depends on density of recorded fingerprints in the radio map (RM)
database. Building and updating RM is expensive and labour-intensive. Taking
advantage of ubiquity of smart phones with embedded inertial sensors yields an
economic and easy-to-deploy indoor localization system. In this work, the
accelerometer and digital compass are used to recognize the user’s dynamic
activities and walking directions. And the particle filter integrates the
building map constraints and inertial measurements to estimate user’s location.
On this basis, an indoor localization system with no dense wireless site survey
requirements is proposed and evaluated.
IEEE 2013: Low Power Wireless Sensor
Network for Building Monitoring
IEEE 2013 Transactions on Sensors Journal
Abstract—A
wireless sensor network is proposed for monitoring buildings to assess
earthquake damage. The sensor nodes use custom-developed capacitive micro
electromechanical systems strain and 3-D acceleration sensors and a low power
readout application-specified integrated circuit for a battery life of up to 12
years. The strain sensors are mounted at the base of the building to measure
the settlement and plastic hinge activation of the building after an
earthquake. They measure periodically or on-demand from the base station. The
accelerometers are mounted at every floor of the building to measure the
seismic response of the building during an earthquake. They record during an
earthquake event using a combination of the local acceleration data and remote
triggering from the base station based on the acceleration data from multiple
sensors across the building. A low power network architecture was implemented
over an 802.15.4 MAC in the 900-MHz band. A custom patch antenna was designed
in this frequency band to obtain robust links in real-world conditions. The
modules have been validated in a full-scale laboratory setup with simulated
earthquakes.
IEEE 2013: Management of
Mechanical Vibration and Temperature in Small Wind Turbines Using Zigbee
Wireless Network
IEEE 2013 Transactions on Latin America
Abstract— This
paper presents the development of a methodology to manage the mechanic
vibration and temperature from Small Wind Turbine (SWT). The objective with
this research is propose a new diagnostic and protection tool through analysis
and monitoring signals of vibration and temperature from wind Turbines,
aiming predict a need of preventive maintenance and mostly avoids catastrophic
failures. For this feature the system will be composed of a Triple Axis
accelerometer that will identify vibration, thermocouples to identify the
temperatures at critical points of wind turbine, a micro controller hardware
which will make acquisition and processing of signals from sensors and finally a
wireless transmission system using technology ZigBee. The post processing is
performed remotely through a computer that receives the data submitted via
wireless network presenting them to the user via graphical interface. The
software of User friendly interface will have the functionality plus online
display of received data also the possibility of storing and reporting data
rates of vibration and temperature obtained during monitoring. Finally
featuring the prototype of the hardware and software as well as some results
obtained in experimental scale.
IEEE 2013: Real-time swimmers' feedback
based on smart infrared (SSIR) optical wireless sensor
IEEE 2013 Transactions on Systems Conference
Abstract—An IrDA link based on a serial
infrared transceiver has been designed and implemented for real-time swimmers’
feedback. A wrist-mounted accelerometer provided stroke information to the
transmitter. The signal was detected using a photodiode detector. Both the
transmitter and receiver units measured 27 × 19 mm. Propagation experiments in
air and under water were performed in a glass tank (91 × 39 × 45 cm) to
validate the system. The maximum link length in air was 2 m and in still water
70 cm. In water with bubbles, the range reduced to 50 cm. This distance is
sufficient for wrist–head communications during swimming. The information
transmitted was the time duration of one complete stroke, which was updated
every stroke and presented to the swimmer using an RGB LED mounted on the
goggles. The hardware, software and implementation methods for the IrDA system
are described.
IEEE 2013: Use of Ultrasonic Signal
Coding and PIR Sensors to Enhance the
Sensing Reliability of an Embedded Surveillance System
IEEE 2013 Transactions on Systems Conference
Abstract—In this
paper we design and implement an embedded surveillance system by use of
ultrasonic signal coding of ultrasonic sensors with multiple pyroelectric infrared
sensors (PIR) to detect an intruder in a home or a storehouse. The PIR sensors
are placed on the ceiling, and the ultrasonic sensor module
consists of a transmitter and a receiver which are placed in a line direction;
however, ultrasonic sensors with the same frequency are subject to interference
by crosstalk with each other and have a high miss rate. To overcome these
disadvantages of the ultrasonic sensor, our design reduces the miss rate from
the environmental interference by using an ultrasonic coding signal. Both
ultrasonic sensors and PIR sensors are managed by the majority voting mechanism
(MVM).
IEEE 2013: Implementation of Automatic
Gas Monitoring in a Domestic Energy Management System
IEEE 2013 Transactions on Consumers Electronics
Abstract — A domestic energy management system
foundation is an intelligent platform that integrates various provides
effective positive behaviour change by offering end persuasive strategies in
order to reason and represent energy users direct and ambient feedback based on
their monitored feedback information to reach effect positive behavior
changes. Energy consumption and
experiences. DEHEMS, as a wide The DEHEMS project applies User Driven
Innovation scale domestic energy monitoring and managing system (UDI) [3] as
the basis for system development. Users differs from others by enabling
real-time and historical participate early-on in the project to improve and
refine the electricity monitoring and feedback. However, there is also a system
design so that it achieves higher coherence and user requirement to be able to
monitor and report domestic gas satisfaction. The five cities of Manchester,
Birmingham and consumption in order to
reason and represent more complete
Bristol in the UK and Plovdiv and Ivanovo in Bulgaria form energy
feedback information to achieve effect positive
the Living Labs for the DEHEMS test bed. Living Labs are a behavior
changes. In this paper, we present the gas network of EU-wide user groups that
enable experimentation monitoring system in DEHEMS, that implements automatic
and co-creation with real users in real life environments. Retrieval of gas readings. We describe how the
system is In addition to the implementation of electricity monitoring at
designed, integrated within the DEHEMS architecture, as well as its
implementation and deployment
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IEEE 2013:Online Monitoring of
Geological CO2Storage and Leakage Based on Wireless Sensor Networks
IEEE 2013 Transactions on Sensor Journal
Abstract— A remote online carbon dioxide (CO2)
concentration monitoring system is developed, based on the technologies of
wireless sensor networks, in allusion to the gas leakage monitoring requirement
for CO2 capture and storage. The remote online CO2monitoring system consists of
monitoring equipment, a data canter server, and the clients. The monitoring
equipment is composed of a central processing unit (CPU), air environment sensors
array, global positioning system (GPS) receiver module, secure digital memory
card (SD) storage module, liquid crystal display (LCD) module, and general
packet radio service (GPRS) wireless transmission module. The sensors array of
CO2, temper-ature, humidity, and light intensity are used to collect data and the
GPS receiver module is adopted to collect location and time information. The
CPU automatically stores the collected data in the SD card data storage module
and displays them on the LCD display module in real-time. Afterwards, the GPRS
module continuously wirelessly transmits the collected information to the data centre
server. The online monitoring WebGIS clients are developed using a PHP
programming language, which runs on the Apache web server. MySQL is utilized as
the database because of its speed and reliability, and the stunning
cross-browser web maps are created, optimized, and deployed with the Open Layers
JavaScript web-mapping library. Finally, an experiment executed in Xuzhou city,
Jiangsu province, China is introduced to demonstrate the implementation and
application
IEEE 2013: Intelligent Household LED
Lighting System Considering Energy Efficiency and User Satisfaction
IEEE 2013 Transactions on Consumers Electronics
Abstract — Saving energy has become one of the most
important issues these days. The most waste of energy is caused by the
inefficient use of the consumer electronics. Particularly, a light accounts for a great
part of the total energy consumption. Various light control systems are introduced
in current markets, because the installed lighting systems are outdated and
energy-inefficient. However, due to architectural limitations, the existing
light control systems cannot be successfully applied to home and office
buildings. Therefore, this paper
proposes an intelligent household LED lighting system considering energy
efficiency and user satisfaction. The proposed system utilizes multi sensors
and wireless communication technology in order to control an LED light
according to the user’s state and the surroundings. The proposed LED lighting system can
autonomously adjust the minimum light intensity value to enhance both energy
efficiency and user satisfaction. We designed and implemented the proposed
system in the test bed and measured total power consumption to verify the
performance. The proposed LED lighting system reduces total power consumption
of the test bed up to 21.9%
IEEE 2013: Hardware Demonstration of a
Home Energy Management System for Demand Response Applications
IEEE 2013 Transactions on Smart Grid
Abstract—A Home Energy Management
(HEM) system plays a concept is thoroughly discussed in [5], in which we
describe al-crucial role in realizing residential Demand Response (DR)
pro-gorithm to manage multiple power-intensive loads in a house to grams in the
smart grid environment. It provides a homeowner the ability to automatically
perform smart load controls based on meet certain peak reduction
targets, taking into account home-utility signals, customer’s preference and
load priority. This paper owner preset load priority and comfort level
preference. In this presents the hardware demonstration of the proposed HEM
system case, a homeowner has the freedom to choose what loads to for managing
end-use appliances. The HEM’s communication time delay to perform load control
is analyzed, along with its residual manage and for how long. This is different
from pre-set load energy consumption
IEEE 2012: Traffic
Management for Automated Highway Systems Using Model-Based Predictive Control
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT
TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
Abstract—We present an integrated traffic
management and control approach for automated highway systems (AHS). The AHS
consist of interacting roadside controllers and intelligent vehicles that are
organized in platoons with short intraplatoon distances and larger distances
between platoons. All vehicles are assumed to be fully automated, i.e.,
throttle, braking, and steering commands are determined by an automated onboard
controller. The proposed control approach is based on a hierarchical traffic
control architecture for AHS, and it also takes the connection and transition
between the nonautomated part of the road network and the AHS into account. In
particular, we combine dynamic speed limits and lane allocation for the
platoons on the AHS highways with access control for the on-ramps using ramp
metering, and we propose a model-based predictive control approach to determine
optimal speed limits and lane allocations, as well as optimal release times for
the platoons at the on-ramps. To illustrate the potential of the proposed
traffic control method, we apply it to a simple simulation example.
IEEE 2012: A Robust
Real-Time Embedded Vision System on an Unmanned Rotorcraft for Ground Target
Following
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS
Abstract—In this paper, we present the
systematic design and implementation of a robust real-time embedded vision
system for an unmanned rotorcraft for ground target following. The hardware
construction of the vision system is presented, and an onboard software
systemis developed based on amultithread tech-nique capable of coordinating
multiple tasks. To realize the au-tonomous ground target following, a
sophisticated feature-basedvision algorithm is proposed by using an onboard
color cameraand navigation sensors. The vision feedback is integrated with theflight
control system to guide the unmanned rotorcraft to follow aground target in
flight. The overall vision system has been testedin actual flight missions, and
the results obtained show that theoverall system is very robust and efficient.
IEEE 2012: Low-Cost
Capacitive Humidity Sensor for Application Within Flexible RFID LabelsBased on Micro controller Systems
IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT
Abstract—This paper reports on the fabrication
of a capacitive type relative humidity (RH) sensor using screen printing
processes for electrode film deposition. The applied measurement method based
on microcontrollers is also reported. In this specific case, the
microcontroller is used to measure RH by means of a capacitive sensor with a
simple low-cost electronic system. In addition, a comparison between two different
types of polyester substrates [Melinex (DuPont) and CG3460 (3M)] is shown. Both
polyester substrates have similar properties, and only the thickness is
different (175 μm for Melinex and 100 μm for CG3460). A nonlineal response has
been obtained in this type of sensors. In order to linearize the response and
reduce the external hardware, an artificial neural network embedded into the
microcontroller has been used.
IEEE 2012: Magic
Mirror Table for Social-Emotion Alleviation in the Smart Home
IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
Abstract —In this paper, we propose a prototype of smart
furniture for the smart home—a magic mirror table. The proposed system has a
camera to capture the viewer’s facial expression. By analyzing the expressions,
the system is able to determine the emotion of the viewer. If the viewer is in
a negative emotion, the system then speaks positive sentences and plays the
viewer’s favorite music to alleviate his/her emotion. The experimental results
confirm that the system is able to relieve the sad mood of the viewer. In addition,
the proposed system can serve as a calendar for event reminding.
IEEE 2012: Building
Lighting Automation through the Integration of DALI with
Wireless Sensor Networks
IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
Abstract — This paper focuses on the integration of Digital
Addressable Lighting Interface (DALI) devices in wireless sensor networks.
Since different manufacturers usually deal with one aspect of building
automation - e.g. heating ventilation and air conditioning, lighting control,
different kinds of alarms, etc. - final building automation system has
different subsystems which are finally taken to an integrated building
management system. The cost of this process is consequently increased due to additional
hardware investment. Our main purpose is to provide the end consumer with an
economical fully centralized system in which home appliances are managed by an
IEEE 802.15.4-based wireless sensor network. Not only is it necessary to focus
on the initial investment, but maintenance and energy consumption costs must
also be considered. This paper explains the developed system along with a brief
introduction to usual building automation protocols. Finally it presents future
work in this field1.
IEEE 2012: Minimum
Fuel Control Strategy in Automated Car-Following Scenarios
IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY
Abstract—Fuel consumption of traditional ground
vehicles is significantly affected by how the vehicles are driven. This paper
focuses on the servo-loop control design of a Pulse-and-Gliding (PnG) strategy
to minimize fuel consumption in automated car following. A switching-based
framework is proposed for real-time implementation. The corresponding
controller was synthesized for ideal conditions and subsequently enhanced to
compensate for practical factors such as powertrain dynamics, speed variations,
and plant uncertainties. Simulations in both uniform and naturalistic traffic
flows demonstrate that, compared with a linear quadratic (LQ)-based benchmark
controller, the PnG controller improves fuel economy up to 20%. The significant
fuel saving is achieved while maintaining precise range bounds so that the
negative impact on safety/traffic flow is contained. The developed algorithm
can potentially be embedded in adaptive cruise control systems to achieve
fuel-saving function.
IEEE 2012: An Open
Traffic Light Control Model for Reducing Vehicles’ CO2 Emissions Based on ETC
Vehicles
IEEE TRANSACTIONS
ON VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY
Abstract—Usually, vehicles’ stop-and-go driving
will consume more fuel and emit more CO2 than constant speed driving. To reduce
vehicles’ CO2 emissions, vehicles’ travel should be smoothed by reducing the
stop-and-go times. In this paper, a threetier structure is proposed to realize
dynamic traffic light control for smoothing vehicles’ travel. In tier-1, an
electronic toll collection (ETC) system is employed for collecting road traffic
flow data and calculating the recommended speed. In tier-2, radio antennas are
installed near the traffic lights. Road traffic flow information can be
obtained by wireless communication between the antennas and ETC devices. In
tier-3, a branch-and-bound-based real-time traffic light control algorithm is
designed to smooth vehicles’ travels. After smoothing vehicles’ travels, more
vehicles can pass intersections with less waiting time and fewer short-time
stops; therefore, the vehicles’ CO2 emissions can be reduced. Simulation
results indicate that the proposed scheme performs much better than the
adaptive fuzzy traffic light control method: The average waiting time,
short-time stop times, and CO2 emissions are greatly reduced, and the nonstop
passing rate is greatly improved.
IEEE 2012: A Robust
Real-Time Embedded Vision System on an Unmanned Rotorcraft for Ground Target
Following
IEEE
TRANSACTIONS
ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS
Abstract—In this paper, we present the
systematic design and implementation of a robust real-time embedded vision
system for an unmanned rotorcraft for ground target following. The hardware
construction of the vision system is presented, and an onboard software system
is developed based on a multithread technique capable of coordinating multiple
tasks. To realize the autonomous ground target following, a sophisticated
feature-based vision algorithm is proposed by using an onboard color camera and
navigation sensors. The vision feedback is integrated with the flight control
system to guide the unmanned rotorcraft to follow a ground target in flight.
The overall vision system has been tested in actual flight missions, and the
results obtained show that the overall system is very robust and efficient.
IEEE 2012: Design
and Realization of a Framework for Human–System Interaction in Smart Homes
IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS,
MAN AND CYBERNETICS
Abstract—The current smart home is a
ubiquitous computing environment consisting of multiple autonomous spaces, and
its advantage is that a service interacting with home users can be set with
different configurations in space, hardware, software, and quality. As well as
being smart technologically speaking, a smart home should also never forget to
retain the “home nature” when it is serving its users. In this paper, we first
analyze the relationship among services, spaces, and users, and then we propose
a framework as well as a corresponding algorithm to model their interaction
relationship. Later, we also realize the human–system interaction framework to
implement a smart home system and develop “pervasive applications” to
demonstrate how to utilize our framework to fulfill the human-centric interaction
requirement of a smart home. Finally, our preliminary evaluations show that our
proposed work can enhance the performance of the human–system interaction in a
smart home environment.
IEEE 2012: Novel
Design Solutions for Remote Access, Acquire and Control of Laboratory
Experiments on DC Machines
IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON INSTRUMENTATION AND MEASUREMENT
Abstract—Laboratory experiments are
integral part of science and engineering education. Automation is changing the
nature of these laboratories, and the focus of the system designer is on the
availability of various interfacing tools to access the laboratory hardware
remotely with the integration of computer supported learning environment. This
paper presents the novel design techniques to access experiments on electrical
machines remotely through the Web using virtual instrumentation (VI) tools. The
general Web-interface architecture is presented to facilitate control and
measurement of experimentation parameters online with complete isolation from
the electrical line voltage. LabVIEW supported VI tools are used to create the
Web-based automation and control of the experiment hardware. The custom-built
electrical hardware is designed to interface the Web server with the
experimental resources and to support user-friendly interface to access the
data online. The safety issues while operating the electrical machines online
are addressed through the control logic designed by the graphical code. The
designed system exploits the data acquisition and the LabVIEW features to
extend the dcmotor and generator experimentation online along with the acquired
data that are presented in virtual meters as well as in graphical plots.
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IEEE 2012: New
Real-Time Structural Health Monitoring Micro system for Aircraft Propeller
Blades
IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON AEROSPACE AND ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS MAGAZINE
Abstract
--- Blade Brief
History - Blades are sophisticated requiring high engineering performance in
terms of aerodynamics and mechanical design. Archimedes was the first to build
an ancestor to the propeller when he constructed a screw for lifting water.
Nineteen centuries later, the air screw was developed by Leonardo Da Vinci, who
envisioned its use in a rudimentary helicopter. It was not until 1 884 that
mechanically controlled flight arrived on the scene: the airship "La
France " was powered by an electric motor and a 1-meter propeller. The
first controlled "heavier-than-air " airplane was constructed by the
Wright brothers in 1 903 ; they understood that a blade is like a twisted wing.
The aeronautics industry was soon born and the number of aircraft types quickly
multiplied. Made of wood or metal, blade enhancements were developed to
increase performance
in air battles: in-flight adjustable and reversible pitch, and electrical blade
de-icing. In the last ten years, more noticeable innovation was the development
of composite structures: new Airbus A400M is propelled by four 8-blade composite
propellers which counter-rotate (i.e., on the same wing, each propeller rotates
in opposite directions). Today propellers are used almost exclusively by small planes or special
purpose aircraft like the A400M. Yet
project will enable the subsequent development of a real-time blade
monitoring system.
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IEEE 2012: An
Intelligent V2I-Based Traffic Management System
IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS
Abstract—Vehicles equipped with
intelligent systems designed to prevent accidents, such as collision warning
systems (CWSs) or lane-keeping assistance (LKA), are now on the market. The
next step in reducing road accidents is to coordinate such vehicles in advance
not only to avoid collisions but to improve traffic flow as well. To this end,
vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications are essential to properly manage
traffic situations. This paper describes the AUTOPIA approach toward an
intelligent traffic management system based on V2I communications. A
fuzzy-based control algorithm that takes into account each vehicle’s safe and
comfortable distance and speed adjustment for collision avoidance and better
traffic flow has been developed. The proposed solution was validated by an
IEEE-802.11p-based communications study. The entire system showed good
performance in testing in real– world scenarios, first by computer simulation
and then with real vehicles.
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IEEE 2012: Performance Of Ethernet Protocol Conversion On An
Arm-7 Embedded Processor.
IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRICAL AND COMPUTER ENGINEERING
Abstract—
This
paper designed a research on real web access functionality is embedded in a
device to enable low cost widely accessible and enhanced user interface
functions for the device. A web server in the device provides access to the
user interface functions for the device through a web page. A web server can be
embedded into any appliance and connected to the Internet so the appliance can
be monitored and controlled from remote places through the browser in a
desktop. This project is focused on developing real-time services for switched Ethernet
networks, keeping the Ethernet and TCP/IP Internet communication standards.
Many applications are in home automation, medical diagnosis, process control,
security and surveillance systems, card readers, building controls and
robotics, using internet browser from anywhere around the world. This paper
describes in detail the implementation of a ARM based embedded Ethernet LAN
controller. control.Finally, the web server uses standard TCP/IP protocols,
such as HTTP to manage the web pages through which we can monitor and control
the interfaced devices.
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IEEE 2012: Sensor
Network Based Oilwell Health Monitoring and Intelligent
Control
IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON SENSORS JOURNAL
Abstract—Most oil
pumping units (OPUs) have been using manual control in the oilfield. This
existing oil-pumping system, a high power-consuming process, has the
incapability of OPU’s structural health monitoring. In this paper, a sensor
network based intelligent control is proposed for power economy and efficient
oilwell health monitoring. The proposed sensor network consists of three-level
sensors: 1) several types of basic sensors, such as load sensor, angular
sensor, voltage sensor, current sensor and oil pressure sensor, which are the
first level sensors (FLS), are used for oilwell data sensing; 2) our developed
intelligent sensors (IS), which belong to the second level sensor, are designed
mainly for an oilwell’s data elementary processing, main fault
alarm/indication, typical data storage/indication, data/status transmission up
to the third level sensor (TLS), data/status transmission between IS, and
command transmission down to the OPU motor; and 3) our developed
software-defined (SD) control centers with an embedded database, i.e., the TLS,
are designed for hundreds of oilwells data storage/management, data processing,
malfunction detection, malfunction alarm/indication, stroke-adjustment command
transmission down to a specific IS for power economy and the malfunction report
to the maintenance staff via global system for mobile communications (GSM)
short message service (SMS). Experiment results at the Chinese Petroleum’s
Changqing Oilfield demonstrate our proposed sensor network based system.
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IEEE 2012: Robotics
For Environmental Monitoring
IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE
Abstract—obotic systems are increasingly being
utilized as fundamental data-gathering tools by scientists, allowing new
perspectives and a greater understanding of the planet and its environmental
processes. Today’s robots are already exploring our deep oceans, tracking
harmful algal blooms and pollution spread, monitoring climate variables, and
even studying remote volcanoes. This article collates and discusses the
significant advancements and applications of marine, terrestrial, and airborne
robotic systems developed for environmental monitoring during the last two
decades. Emerging research trends for achieving large-scale environmental
monitoring are also reviewed, including cooperative robotic teams, robot and
wireless sensor network (WSN) interaction, adaptive sampling and model-aided
path planning. These trends offer efficient and precise measurement of
environmental processes at unprecedented scales that will push the frontiers of
robotic and natural sciences.
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IEEE 2012: PN-WSNA-Based
Eye–Hand–Leg Coordination with a FIRA HuroCup Basketball Game
IEEE
TRANSACTIONS ON MECHATRONICS, IEEE/ASME
Abstract—Biped humanoid robots present
perception and locomotion capabilities similar to those of human beings.
Eye–hand–leg coordination is a basic and required capability for a healthy
person, and eye—hand–leg coordination performs various skilloriented tasks. In
this paper, the skill-oriented tasks for playing a basketball game were
implemented for a child-size humanoid robot (HuroEvolution) through the use of
eye–hand–leg coordination. The “eye” function is responsible for active
perceptions in environments, the “hand” function is for gripping and
manipulating objects to perform specific tasks, and the “leg” function is used
to transport the biped robot to a desired location for the execution of tasks.
Coordination among the eye, hand, and leg was achieved using predefined
scenarios for various skill-oriented tasks. To utilize flexible and systematic
skill-oriented task implementations, a Petri net-based wireless sensor node
architecture (PN-WSNA) was employed in this project to define the task
scenarios. The control scenario of eye–hand–leg coordination was realized by
aggregating fundamentalPN-WSNAscenario modules for fast realizations.The
coordination model can be further evaluated theoretically to investigate its
propensity for avoiding system deadlocks. Finally, the skill-oriented
eye–hand–leg coordination tasks for realizing the Federation of International
Robot-Soccer Association HuroCup League basketball games were successfully
demonstrated to validate our approaches.
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IEEE PROCEEDING OF THE
5TH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON MECHATRONICS AND ITS APPLICATIONS (ISMA08) MAY 29,
2008
Abstract: In this paper we propose a
multifaceted online e-voting system. The proposed system is capable of handling
electronic ballots with multiple scopes at the same time, e.g., presidential,
municipal, parliamentary, amongst others. The system caters for integrity of an
election process in terms of the functional and non-functional requirements.
The functional requirements embedded in the design of the proposed system
warrant well-secured identification and authentication processes for the voter
through the use of combined simple biometrics. The design of the system
guarantees that no votes in favor of a given candidate are lost, due to
improper tallying of the voting counts, with the proper incorporation of system
FLAG’s. Transparency of voting follows through in all phases of an election
process to assure the voter that his/her vote went in favor of his/her
candidate of choice. Besides its main functional properties, the proposed
system is designed to cater for several essential nonfunctional requirements.
Of utmost importance are the requirements for correctness, robustness,
coherence, consistency, and security. To verify the robustness and reliability
of the proposed system, intensive computer simulations were run under varying
voting environments, viz. voter density, voter inter-arrival times, introduced
acts of malice, etc. Results of the simulations show that security and performance
of the system are according to
expectations. These results provide the proper grounds that would guide
the decision maker in customizing the proposed system to fit his particular
voting need.
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS
ON SOUTHEASTCON 2010 PROCEEDINGS
Abstract—There are many remote airfields that
are not connected to the power grid. Providing adequate lighting to these
airfields is necessary and challenging. The Federal Aviation Administration
(FAA) has sponsored a research project, Remote Airfield Lighting Systems (RALS),
through the Center for General Aviation Research (CGAR). The findings from
the RALS research specified a light that
had low power needs and a color/intensity to meet the requirements for airfield
identification and landing. To make these lights more appropriate to wide
spread applications, the research team is conducting an exemplary operational
test. In this paper, we discuss the new functions added to these lights for the
operational test, including both automatically/remotely switching on/off the lights
and smart charging of the batteries using solar panels under the control of a
microcontroller. In addition, we consider future new functions such as low cost
pilot controlled lighting as well as wireless networking for health monitoring
and controlling of the lighting system.
These new functions can greatly improve the convenience of the usage of RALS
while keeping the same low cost.
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IEEE 2010 SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MACHINE LEARNING
AND COMPUTING
Abstract—In this paper, design of a low cost
autonomous vehicle based on neural network for navigation in unknown environments is presented. The
vehicle is equipped with four ultrasonic sensors for hurdle distance measurement, a wheel encoder for
measuring distance traveled, a compass for heading information, a GPS receiver for goal position information,
a GSM modem for changing destination place on run time and a nonvolatile RAM for storing
waypoint data; all interfaced to a low cost AT89C52 microcontroller. The microcontroller
processes the information acquired from the sensors and generates robot motion
commands accordingly through neural network. The neural network running inside the
microcontroller is a multilayer feed-forward network with back-propagation
training algorithm. The network is trained offline with tangent-sigmoid as
activation function for neurons and is implemented in real time with piecewise
linear approximation of tangent-sigmoid function. Results have shown that up to
twenty neurons can be implemented in hidden layer with this technique. The
vehicle is tested with varying destination places in outdoor environments
containing stationary as well as moving obstacles and is found to reach the set
targets successfully.
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ONADVANCED COMPUTER CONTROL (ICACC)
Abstract—With ARM7 as the core, the new
intelligent mobile vehicle checking system integrated a lot of hardware modules
such as video capture, GPS posi-tioning and wireless transmission, the design
of the system software used the embedded software developing platform based on
ADS integrated development environ-ment. By the hardware/software co-design,
the new intelligent mobile vehicle checking system implemented the functions of
video capturing, intelligent plate distinguishing, GPS positioning and wireless
transmit-ssion, met the traffic auditing department’s needs about Mobile
Vehicle Checking.
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRONICS
COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY
Abstract--Wireless based industrial automation is a prime concern in our
day-to-day life. The approach to Zigbee Based Wireless Network for Industrial
Applications standardized nowadays. In this paper, we have tried to increase
these standards by combining new design techniques to wireless industrial
automation. The personal computer based wireless network for industrial
application using Zigbee can be adopted at micro and macro Industries, it has
various types of Processors and Microcontrollers. Here Microcontrollers, Temperature
Sensors, Zero crossing detector, Voltage regulators are used. The system is
fully controlled by the Personal Computer through Visual Basics GUI (Graphical User
Interface).The GUI is developed based on application by the user. All the
processor and controllers are interconnected to personal computer through
Zigbee. The rsonal Computer will continuously monitor all the Data from remote processing
unit and compare with value preloaded process structure. If any error is found
the personal computer takes necessary action. Here star topology four node
Zigbee network is tried. The first Zigbee is connected to the personal computer it acts as full function
devices and is used to send and receive
data from other nodes. The second, third and fourth Zigbee are reduced function
devices and they are used to control the speed of DC motor, temperature control
and lamp illumination control respectively. All the Zigbee’s are interconnected
with processing unit through RS232 protocol.
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IEEE 2011 CONTROL AND
SYSTEM GRADUATE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM
Abstract- Stand alone global positioning system receivers are widely
used nowadays to accurately locating one’s position. By using stand alone GPS
receivers the distance between two locations on earth can also be measured.
This project is aim to design and implement a low cost Global Positioning
System suitable to be used for hiking, climbing and sailing activities. The function
of the GPS is to locate the position of user. The effects of line of sights in
relation to different experimented locations are also studied. In this project,
the hardware used is PIC18F4520 integrated with GPS receiver typed FV-M8. The
GPS modules will generate the coordinates of latitude and longitude as well as the
bearing angles between two positions. The algorithm to calculate the distance
between two positions was developed by using PIC C Compiler. The written
algorithm extracted the data from the GPS receiver via the RS232 communication.
Microcontroller is used to parse the NMEA data sentences and execute the
algorithm. Finally, the output is displayed to a LCD display unit. System testing
conducted showed that for a few chosen different locations, geographical view
and weather conditions, overall results give an average of 10 % different compared
with ideal theoretical calculated results.
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRIC
INFORMATION AND CONTROL ENGINEERING
AbstractAccording to the status that most of
supermarkets can’t effectively monitor the temperature and humidity around food
of fresh area in our country Currently, the thesis designs a hierarchical
topology central monitoring system based on ZigBee wireless sensor
network(WSN).In the system, the temperature and humidity of surveyed area can
be automatically monitored and controlled. The monitoring nodes, with the
CC2430 chip and THS11, can collect and upload temperature and humidity data to the
Management Centre, which displays and processes the data ,through the central
node and the RS-232 interface. If the collected data exceeds the threshold, it
automatically starts the alarm system and the regulating system; while the data
is lower than the standard value, regulating system could be automatically shut
down. Nodes work in the regular query power saving mode. Power is obtained from
button cells conversion through MAX687.The results reveal that this WSN system
has the potential for field applications
due to its low cost, low power and flexible networking construction.
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IEEE 2011PROCEEDINGS OF ICETECT
Abstract— The paper describes the performance and functional
characteristics of PIC18LF4620 based wireless sensor node in monitoring the
parameters such as CO2, Oxygen, temperature, humidity and light around the
pipeline structure. The system is deployed to monitor any deviations in these parameters
with the standard atmospheric values
eventually alert the user even to a remote location. The proposed system is a Battery operated wireless sensor
node which is interfaced with the external sensors to measure the parameters
listed above. The distance range between sensor node and coordinator node is
also tested. The signal conditioning module associated with detailed calibration
procedure for the individual sensor is also described. Zigbee protocol stack is
implemented to enable wireless transmission and performance of the same is
evaluated.
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND ELECTRONIC INFORMATION
Abstract—This paper discussed a kind of design of vehicle
location system based on ARM. The architecture and working theory of this
system is introduced in details, and introduces the vehicle location system
which uses the ARM microprocessor LPC2129 as a control unit to combinative with
GPS LR9548 and GSM TC35 modules. Explores location solution, mapmatching
and data compress that associated with the positioning, shows a program flowchart
and predicts the trend of the vehicle location system in the future.
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IEEE PROCEEDING OF THE STUDENTS' TECHNOLOGY
SYMPOSIUM
Abstract-This paper evaluates the development of a Low-cost security system using
small PIR (Pyroelectric Infrared) sensor built around a microcontroller. The
low-power PIR detectors take advantage of pyroelectricity to detect a human
body that is a constant source of Passive Infrared (radiation in the infrared region).
The system senses the signal generated by PIR sensor detecting the presence of individuals
not at thermal equilibrium with the surrounding environment. Detecting the
presence of any unauthorized person in any specific time interval, it triggers
an alarm & sets up a call to a predefined number through a GSM modem. This
highly reactive approach has low computational requirement, therefore it is
well-suited to surveillance, industrial applications and smart environments.
Tests performed gave promising results.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ELECTRIC INFORMATION AND CONTROL ENGINEERING
Abstract—To reduce the theft rate of the car and meet the intellectualized
auto-guard demand of people,we proposed an auto-guard system which combined the
radio frequency identify technology and the global mobile communication network.
The system took Texas Instruments Company's car-used microcontroller STM8AF51AA
as the control core.NXP Semiconductors Company's radio reader IC MF RC522 could
identify the car owner quickly and then realized the function of keyless entry
and keyless start-up. At the same time. The infrared sensors and vibration
sensors completed the monitoring function.GSM module SIM300DZ of Simcom company
finished setting and dismissing the prevention of message or call and controlled
the car’s states remotely through AT instructions.It has showed in practice
that compared with the traditional autoguard system,this system could not only
identify the owner singly,but also improve the security and reliability.So it
has achieved the unity between intellectualized safeguard and remote control.
IEEE 2011 PROCEEDINGS OF ICETECT
ABSTRACT: Every year thousands of people die because
of earthquake occurs in a dangerous place or during a defenseless sleep. Here’s a
GSM-based seismic alert system that could warn before an earthquake strikes. Earthquakes
strike without warning. The resulting damage can be minimized and lives can be
saved if people living in the earthquake-prone area are already prepared to
survive the strike. This requires a warning before strong ground motion from
the earthquake arrival. Such a warning system is possible because of energy
wave released at the epicenter of the earth quake travels slower than light.
The warning signal from the earthquake epicenter can be transmitted to different
places using satellite communication network, fiber-optics network, pager
service, Cell phone services or a combination of these. The satellite-based
network is ideal when an alert system has to cover a large country like India.
For earthquake-prone states like Gujarat, a seismic alert system using the
global system for mobile communication network spread throughout the state is proposed
here. This system does not try to find the epicenter or fault line caused by
the earthquake. It simply monitors the earth vibrations and generates alert
signal when the level of earth vibrations crosses a threshold.
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER
ELECTRONICS
Abstract — In this paper we design and implement
a home embedded surveillance system with ultra-low alert power. Traditional
surveillance systems suffer from an unnecessary waste of power and the
shortcomings of memory conditions in the absence of invasion. In this design we
use Pyroelectric Infrared sensors (PIR) and pressure sensors as the alert group
in windows and doors where an intruder must pass through. These low-power alert
sensors wake up the MCU (Micro Controller Unit) which has power management for
the ultrasonic sensors and PIR sensors indoors. This state transition method
saves a large number of sensors required for the alert power. We also use the
Majority Voting Mechanism (MVM) to manage the sensor groups to enhance the
probability of multiple sensors sensing. After the MCU sends the sensor signals to the embedded
system, the program starts the Web camera. Our sensing experiment shows that we
reduce the system’s power consumption1.
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2011 THIRD
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MEASURING TECHNOLOGY AND MECHATRONICS AUTOMATION
Abstract—A kind of the real-time temperature
monitoring system is developed to safeguard the safety of the joint less rail. The
design of hardware and software of the system is introduced. The temperature
data collected from sensors of the department of the system is sent to the
central department by GSM modules in the way of SMS. GSM module of the central department
receive the data and transfer to PC through the PCI multi-serial-port card. The
graphical programming software Lab VIEW is used for data decoded, processing, storage,
display in PC. If the temperature is out of limits, the software will send SMS
or call people related for monitoring and alarm the temperature of the joint
less rail.
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IEEE 2011: Design of a Wireless Medical Monitoring System
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTER AND MANAGEMENT
Abstract—This paper provides the design of a Medical Monitoring Terminal use C8051F021 MCU and CC2420 RF chip based on Zigbee technology. The Monitoring Terminal can detect the patient’s real-time body temperature, heart rate and other physiological information’s, and transmit them to the control center.
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IEEE 2011 PROCEEDING
OF THE STUDENTS' TECHNOLOGY SYMPOSIUM
Abstract- In this work, low-cost, portable
microcontroller based electronic queue control (EQC) systems have been
developed for the purpose of controlling queue in banking, hotel reservation counter,
ticket counter, insurance company, customer service center etc. The aim of the
designed systems is to maintain a queue with order and efficiency. Two
different queue control systems have been implemented with slightly different
features. In EQC system-I, a general display has been used for displaying token
number and service counter number whereas in EQC system-2, each token number
has been displayed individually in each service counter with separate displays.
In the both systems, each customer has to collect a token and then will be
served whenever the token number is displayed. The systems were designed around
a 16F72 IC, a low-cost 8-bit PIC microcontroller and entirely software
controlled. The control programs have been developed using the PIC assembly
language. Finally, the systems have been tested under different conditions to
evaluate their performance.
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS CONFERENCE
(SYSCON)
Abstract— Renewable energy solutions are
becoming increasingly popular. Photovoltaic (solar) systems are but one example.
Maximizing power output from a solar system is desirable to increase
efficiency. In order to maximize power output from solar panels, one needs to
keep the panels aligned with the sun. As such, a means of tracking the sun is
required. This is definitely a more cost effective solution than purchasing additional
solar panels. It has been estimated that the yield from solar panels can be
increased by 30 to 60 percent by utilizing a tracking system instead of a
stationary array. In this paper, a prototype for a micro controller-based Multi-function solar tracking system is described, which will keep the solar
panels aligned with the sun in order to maximize efficiency. The maximum power
point tracking (MPPT) data can be transmitted in real time to other solar
systems in need of this data.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOUTHEASTCON, PROCEEDINGS
Abstract—The main purpose of this effort is to design an autonomous all terrain
vehicle which uses a CAN bus. The paper describes the operation and advantages
of the CAN protocol in automobiles. The ATV used for this design is a Honda
Four Tax Rancher AT and a brief explanation of the parts in the ATV is Provided.
The Rennes’s RX62N microcontroller is used as a CAN controller which creates a single
two wire bus through which electronic control units (ECU) in the automobiles
communicate. The working of the CAN protocol on the RX62N has been explained
with the help of pseudo code.
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The 8th Annual IEEE
Consumer Communications and Networking Conference – Demos
Abstract—This demonstration shows a process to collect
critical video clips from car black boxes using smart phones. Critical video
clips in the black box are hashed to provide data integrity before being
transmitted to the police server. Without VANET infrastructure, smart phones
are very useful communication media for car black boxes.
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS
Abstract —This paper describes more efficient home energy management
system to reduce power consumption in home area. We consider the room easily
controllable with an IR remote control of a home device. The room has automatic
standby power cut-off outlets, a light, and a ZigBee hub. The ZigBee hub has an
IR code learning function and educates the IR remote control signal of a home
device connected to the power outlet. Then the power outlets and the light in
the room can be controlled with an IR remote control. A typical automatic
standby power cut-off outlet has a waiting time before cutting off the electric
power. It consumes standby power during that time. To eliminate the waiting
time, we turn off the home device and the power outlet simultaneously with an
IR remote control through the ZigBee hub. This method actively reduces the
standby power. The proposed HEMS provides easy way to add, delete, and move
home devices to other power outlets. When a home device is moved to the different
outlet, the energy information of the home device is kept consistently and
seamlessly regardless of location change.The proposed architecture gives more
efficient energy-saving HEMS1.
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IEEE 2011(IJACSA) INTERNATIONAL
JOURNAL OF ADVANCED COMPUTER SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS,
Abstract—The objective of this paper is to
minimize human casualties in terrorist attack such as 26/11. The combat robot
[1] has been designed to tackle such a cruel terror attacks. This robot is
radio operated, self- powered, and has all the controls like a normal car. A
wireless camera has been installed on it, so that it can monitor enemy remotely
when required. It can silently enter into enemy area and send us all the
information through its’ tiny Camera eyes. This spy robot can be used in star
hotels, shopping malls, jewellary show rooms, etc where there can be threat
from intruders or terrorists. Since human life is always precious, these robots
are the replacement of fighters against terrorist in war areas.
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IEEE DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONIC ENGINEERING, NATIONAL KAOHSIUNG
FIRST UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Abstract-- In this paper, a solar illumination system with three-stage battery
charger and dimming control function is proposed. The system structure is
divided into two parts. One is three-stage battery charger, which contains PV
module, buck-boost converter, charger-discharge controller and lead-acid
battery. The other is dimming control of LED module, which contains a 40W LED
module, boost converter and controller. Average-current dimming method is used
to adjust the luminance of LED module and reduced the power loss of converter.
Finally, in this paper, an 80W charger and a 40W LED dimming control is implemented to verify the feasibility of the
proposed system.
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IEEE 2010: Vision-Based Automated Parking System]
10th International Conference on Information Science, Signal Processing and their Applications (ISSPA 2010)
Abstract - This paper describes an approach to overcome a situation of monitoring and managing a parking area using a vision based automated parking system. With the rapid increase of cars the need to find available parking space in the most efficient manner, to avoid traffic congestion in a parking area, is becoming a necessity in car park management. Current car park management is dependent on either human personnel keeping track of the available car park spaces or a sensor based system that monitors the availability of each car park space or the overall number of available car park spaces. In both situations, the information available was only the total number of car park spaces available and not the actual location available. In addition, the installation and maintenance cost of a sensor based system is dependent on the number of sensors used in a car park. This paper shows a vision based system that is able to detect and indicate the available parking spaces in a car park. The methods utilized to detect available car park spaces were based on coordinates to indicate the regions of interest and a car classifier. This paper shows that the initial work done here has an accuracy that ranges from 90% to 100% for a 4 space car park. The work done indicated that the application of a vision based car park management system would be able to detect and indicate the available car park spaces
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS AND APPLICATIONS
Abstract—This paper presents a bi-directional converter applied in electric bike. The main structure is a cascade buck-boost converter, which transfers the energy stored in battery for driving motor, and can recycle the energy resulted from the back electromotive force (BEMF) to charge battery by changing the operation mode. Moreover, the proposed converter can also serve as a charger by connecting with AC line directly. Besides, the single-chip DSP TMS320F2812 is adopted as a control core to manage the switching behaviors of each mode and to detect the battery capacity. In this paper, the equivalent models of each mode and complete design considerations are all detailed. All the experimental results are used to demonstrate the feasibility.
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IEEE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EMERGING TRENDS IN ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY, ICETET-2009
ABSTRACT : Present Traffic Light Controllers (TLC) are based on microcontroller and microprocessor. These TLC have limitations because it uses the pre-defined hardware, which is functioning according to the program that does not have the flexibility of modification on real time basis. Due to the fixed time intervals of green, orange and red signals the waiting time is more and car uses more fuel. To make traffic light controlling more efficient, we exploit the emergence of new technique called as “Intelligent traffic light controller”. This makes the use of Sensor Networks along with Embedded Technology. The timings of Red, Green lights at each crossing of road will be intelligently decided based on the total traffic on all adjacent roads. Thus, optimization of traffic light switching increases road capacity and traffic flow, and can prevent traffic congestions. GSM cell phone interface is also provided for users those who wish to obtain the latest position of traffic on congested roads. This is a unique feature of this project which is very useful to car drivers to take an alternate route in case of congestion. The various performance evaluation criteria are average waiting time, average distance traveled by vehicles, switching frequency of green light at a junction, efficient emergency mode operation and satisfactory operation of SMS using GSM Mobile. The performance of the Intelligent Traffic light Controller is compared with the Fixed Mode Traffic Light Controller. It is observed that the proposed Intelligent Traffic Light Controller is more efficient than the conventional controller in respect of less waiting time, more distance traveled by average vehicles and efficient operation during emergency mode and GSM interface. Moreover, the designed system has simple architecture, fast response time, user friendliness and scope for further expansion. Keywords: Intelligent Traffic Light Controller, embedded system, Performance Evaluation, Microcontroller based system.
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