IEEE INNOVATIVE PROJECTS
IEEE 2008 INNOVATIVE PROJECTS
1.Development of pedestrian-to-vehicle communication system prototype for pedestrian safety using both wide-area and direct communication
We propose a prototype pedestrian-to-vehicle communication system which uses a cellular phone and wireless communication to improve the safety of pedestrians. One of the effectual measures against pedestrian-to-vehicle accidents is to make each of pedestrians and drivers find the others and recognize the risk from out of sight and with time to spare for avoidance of accidents. A pedestrian-to-vehicle communication system was developed by using a cellular phone and a car navigation system equipped with GPS and wireless communication function. We focused on intersections as a traffic scene to be covered by the system. After data was exchanged via FOMA in a wide area, information could be exchanged between a pedestrian and a vehicle via WLAN 20 m, 100 m away from an intersection to different directions in about 20 ms. And, the system could give an alarm to pedestrians and cars with collision risk.
2.An enhanced parking lot service model using wireless sensor network
This study proposed a sensor network technology based parking lot service model. Before developing a specific business model, target market size was estimated to grasp its potential demand. As a result, over 2 million parking lot spaces in Korea were turned out the expected market for the new service model. A survey was conducted to investigate the unmet desires for the parking lot service. Based on the results, the new sensor-network applied parking lot service model was designed. It would provide enhanced searching function more efficiently for available parking spaces. A break-even analysis was followed to verify the feasibility of the business model by applying an empirical example.
3. Route Selection for Vehicle Navigation and Control
This paper presents an application of neural-fuzzy methodology for the problem of route selection in a typical vehicle navigation and control system. The idea of the primary attributes of a route is discussed, and a neural-fuzzy system is developed to help a user to select a route out of the many possible routes from an origin to the destination. The user may not adopt the recommendation provided by the system and choose an alternate route. One novel feature of the system is that the neural-fuzzy system can adapt itself by changing the weights of the defined fuzzy rules through a training procedure. Two examples are given in this paper to illustrate how the route selection/ranking system can be made adaptive to the past choice or preference of the user. 2008
4. A wireless escape system for industrial accidents using Ad Hoc positioning
The safety of producing is a very important thing in the industry. But in some dangerous factories e.g. coal mines, circumstances are not allowed to deploy wires. So we bring in the Ad Hoc wireless sensor network to measure the key physical elements in the workshop. As soon as there are some signs of the accident or the accident has just happened, the system will know it and give the alarm to workers. Our system uses the AOA (angle of arrival) method with the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) filter to get the position of workers. And we propose an improved divisional Dijkstra algorithm to calculate the escape way for the first time to our acknowledgment
5.RFID based Hospital Automation system
In a health care context, the use RFID (radio frequency identification) technology can be employed for not only bringing down health care costs but also facilitate automating and streamlining patient identification processes in hospitals and use of mobile devices like PDA, smart phones, for design a health care management systems. In this paper, we outline a RFID model for designing a system in the health care. An application of the architecture is described in the area of RFID-based real-time hospital patient management system (HPMS).
6.COAL MINE Detect Rescue Robot Design & Research
Coal mine is a dangerous field, varies fatal factors menace people. Especially after coal mine disaster, rescuer doesn't know mine tunnel situation. It is very dangerous to go into mine tunnel without environment detect because second explosion may occur. Coal mine detect and rescue robot is a kind of mobile robot. It can go into explosion environment and detect gas content, temperature, etc. The date can send to control man in safe field. This paper designs a coal mine detect and rescue robot. It has many characters suitable to mine tunnel. It is compose of mechanic, electric, computer, control, communicate, sensor, etc. It can run in explosion environment, climb ruins, check gas, and carry some food and medicine to people pin down in a disaster. This robot can rescue many people in coal mine disaster.
07. Internet-Enabled Calibration Services: Design of a Secure Calibration System
A growing number of measurements in the commercial and industrial sectors need to refer to traceability to national and international standards. Instrument and reference standard calibration is resource and time consuming. Since many available digital instruments are provided with some communication interfaces and Internet-enabled metrology has rapidly been developing in recent years, it is possible to create an actual remote calibration system with remote control capabilities. This approach addresses a wide range of possible applications that can drive many kinds of different devices and can be easily upgraded. This paper focuses on some of the security problems regarding remotely executed Internet-enabled calibration processes. 2008
8. Automated Phone Capture of Diabetes Patients Readings / Consultant Monitoring via the Web
This paper reports on a collaborative project between clinicians at the Ulster Hospital and researchers at the University of Ulster to produce a Web-based system for monitoring patients with Type 2 diabetes. The typical method of recording measurements of weight, blood sugar, and blood pressure allows for minimal intervention for the consultants as the paper-based records can only be reviewed at three monthly intervals. The new system allows the patients to use their own phone to input and record their measurements using speech, while the web-based view allows consultants to monitor these patients on a daily basis and to respond to alerts generated by the system. Patients could access their own readings in a tabular form and graphically via the Internet.
09.Non Intrusive Monitoring & Diagnostics in Power Systems
This paper describes a transient event classification scheme, system identification techniques, and implementation for use in nonintrusive load monitoring. Together, these techniques form a system that can determine the operating schedule and find parameters of physical models of loads that are connected to an AC or DC power distribution system. The monitoring system requires only off-the-shelf hardware and recognizes individual transients by disaggregating the signal from a minimal number of sensors that are installed at a central location in the distribution system. Implementation details and field tests for AC and DC systems are presented.
10. Automatic System for Measuring & Controlling the Length of a Moving Product in Industries
This paper describes the design and development of a very simple low-cost online system for measuring the length of moving billets in the steel industry. Few photo sensors, digital logic gates, and light-emitting diodes are used to track and display the wide variation in billet length. Not a single amplifier or comparator is used in photo sensor circuit. The comparative study shows its superiority over other costly dimension-measuring systems, viz., shaft encoder, laser Doppler meter, and charge-coupled-device camera. Before, an operator had a risk of an accident while crossing the hot-cobble-prone area for measuring the billet length. However, today, the length of each billet is displayed in a pulpit, thereby increasing the safety. The measuring error in the billet length, ranging from +100 to -100 mm, is reduced to +50 mm. The fluctuation in linear velocity of an incoming billet to a flying shear causes wide variation in its cut lengths. To overcome this severe problem, the speed of the flying shear is adjusted during the tail end of each billet. The benefit of the system is in the tune of Rs 49.5 times 106 (approximately U.S. $1.26 times 106) per annum, whereas the payback period is less than 15 days. Apart from the different steel products like the slab, bloom, and rail, the developed system is also useful in the dimensional measurement of the products in nonferrous industries.
11. Three-Dimensional Password for More Secure Authentication
Current authentication systems suffer from many weaknesses. Textual passwords are commonly used; however, users do not follow their requirements. Users tend to choose meaningful words from dictionaries, which make textual passwords easy to break and vulnerable to dictionary or brute force attacks. Many available graphical passwords have a password space that is less than or equal to the textual password space. Smart cards or tokens can be stolen. Many biometric authentications have been proposed; however, users tend to resist using biometrics because of their intrusiveness and the effect on their privacy. Moreover, biometrics cannot be revoked. In this paper, we present and evaluate our contribution, i.e., the 3-D password. The 3-D password is a multifactor authentication scheme. To be authenticated, we present a 3-D virtual environment where the user navigates and interacts with various objects. The sequence of actions and interactions toward the objects inside the 3-D environment constructs the user's 3-D password. The 3-D password can combine most existing authentication schemes such as textual passwords, graphical passwords, and various types of biometrics into a 3-D virtual environment. The design of the 3-D virtual environment and the type of objects selected determine the 3-D password key space.
12. Train Auto Control System based on OSGi
Many casualties are produced by railway cross accidents every year. Since railway cross currently consists of traffic light and crossing gate, there are difficulties in preventing the accidents. To solve the problem, the system in which train entering railway cross can estimates in advance and handle the situation is emerging and many solution are proposed. However, locomotive engineers control the trains by own decision in the current systems. Therefore, accidents generated by locomotive engineers' error cannot be prevented. In this paper, the auto control system using OSGi and JESS is proposed. The proposed auto control system immediately deals with information of railway cross and train by using interactions of the context aware service components which are equipped on OSGi platform as bundles. Also, information management is easy due to the functions of OSGi. And state of railway cross is estimated more correctly based on collected information through JESS rule engine. If locomotive engineers determine the situation late, alarm message services are provided and trains can be controlled automatically. By using this system, we can deal with urgent situations at the railway cross and prevent railway cross accidents in advance.
13. A Student Experiment Method for Learning the Basics of Embedded Software Development Including HW/SW Co-design
The applications of embedded system are widespread in not only consumer products and industrial machines but also new applications such as ubiquitous networking or sensor networking. There is a great demand for embedded software engineers in the enterprises, and the education of embedded software engineering in university has become important. The embedded software engineers should acquire both hardware (HW) and software (SW) technologies. We propose a student experiment method to nurture embedded SW engineers who understand HW technologies. The method includes embedded SW and HW design experiments, and a HW/SW co-design experiment. The method helps students learn about system modeling, HW/SW trade-off design as well as SW and HW design. We developed these experiments and evaluated them. 2008
14. Designing Fingerprint-Recognition-Based Access Control for Electronic Medical Records Systems (AINAW 2008)
"Medical information" implies all information related with treatment of the patient, and is, by its nature, the most sensitive and important information in terms of the privacy of the individual. Recently, laws, policies, and technological standards are rapidly developing to safely protect the medical information of the individual. This paper proposes a model that applies fingerprint recognition technology to the medical information system, to guarantee a reliable electronic medical record system. The proposed model provides an identification and denial prevention function, by applying fingerprint recognition to the access of doctors, nurses, and other medical staff. The EMR authentication system based on the proposed fingerprint recognition technology enables the user to eliminate the inconvenience of private key management, and provides security authentication that is most suitable for private networks, as external communication is not required. In particular, the reliability of the EMR system can be enhanced through disabling delegation of the private key, which is the most serious problem of electronic signature authentication.
15. DGS: Driving Guidance System Based on Wireless Sensor Network
In this paper, we present DGS, a driving guidance system based on wireless sensor networks (WSN) which guides a driver to drive a car in safety. The system consists of two sub-systems: SMS (speed measurement sub-system) and WPS (weather information providing sub-system). SMS measures the speed of a car and captures the image of the speeding car using a speed camera. WPS provides weather information including the road conditions (icy, wet, etc.) via VMS or a telematics terminal. The paper describes the overall system architecture of DGS from the hardware platform to the application software in the view point of a WSN. We implemented the WSN based SMS of DGS from hardware to application software. The experimental results show that the accuracy of speed measurement is over 99% at 80 kmph and the predicted battery life-time using measured current profiles is about 3 years. We also discuss the lessons acquired from the real-life experiments we performed. We believe that the lessons can be useful in other WSN applications as well as in typical telematics applications. 2008
16. Single access point location tracking for in-home health monitoring
There is a steady increase in the importance placed on location based systems, particularly in the field of elder care. The focus of this paper is on the development of a single access point indoor location tracking system. It is believed that with a single access point localisation system, room-level location accuracy can be reliably achieved. This paper will introduce such a localisation method and provide the basis for its functioning. 2008
17. A Remote-Control Engineering Laboratory
In this paper, a networked control-system laboratory for the remote control of processes is presented. The laboratory allows the students to develop network-based control systems with the use of an architecture consisting of I/O devices, communication modules, and server-client applications implemented with supervisory control and data acquisition environment facilities, and to operate on real pilot plants through an intranet and the Internet. Three examples were presented, demonstrating the potentiality of the laboratory to remotely control the processes and to develop new network-based control-system structures.
18. PAS: A Wireless-Enabled, Cell-Phone-Incorporated Personal Assistant System for Independent and Assisted Living
Advances in networking, sensors, medical devices and smart phones have made it feasible to monitor and provide medical and other assistance to people either in their homes or outside. Aging populations will benefit from reduced costs and improved healthcare through assisted living based on these technologies. However, these systems challenge current state-of-the-art techniques for usability, reliability, and security. In this paper we present the PAS open architecture for assisted living, which allows independently developed third party components to collaborate. Furthermore, we incorporate cell phones in PAS as the local intelligence in order to enhance the robustness and ubiquity. We discuss key technological issues in assisted living systems, such as software architecture layout, power preserving, security and privacy; and results from our pilot study in a real assisted living facility are presented.
19. An Integrated Architecture for Demand Response Communications and Control
In the competitive electricity structure, demand response programs enable customers to react dynamically to changes in electricity prices. The implementation of such programs may reduce energy costs and increase reliability. To fully harness such benefits, existing load controllers and appliances need around-the-clock price information. Advances in the development and deployment of advanced meter infrastructures (AMIs), building automation systems (BASs), and various dedicated embedded control systems provide the capability to effectively address this requirement. In this paper we introduce a meter gateway architecture (MGA) to serve as a foundation for integrated control of loads by energy aggregators, facility hubs, and intelligent appliances. We discuss the requirements that motivate the architecture, describe its design, and illustrate its application to a small system with an intelligent appliance and a legacy appliance using a prototype implementation of an intelligent hub for the MGA and ZigBee wireless communications.
20. Wireless Reprogramming of Vehicle Electronic Control Units
The new generation vehicles will have many sophisticated systems such as drive-by-wire, navigation, traffic congestion control, road guidance, and advance crash warning. Already, dozens of onboard computers control complex vehicle functions. From time to time, an onboard computer needs reprogramming. Currently, dealers manually reprogram software in onboard computers via a wire based electrical connection. Updating software wirelessly is a preferred alternative to the manual method because the vehicle need not be physically present at a repair facility to perform the update. Wireless software reprogramming will save customers' and technicians' time and money. In this paper, we present a wireless download algorithm for reprogramming of vehicles' electronic control units, using current wireless technologies. Our algorithm proposes a hybrid infrastructure that combines wireless unicasting and multicasting data delivery.
21. A tactile System for Informing the Blind on Direction of a Walk
Paper presents the design and preliminary studies on vibrotactile method used to guide a blind person in the urban space. A very simple and effective method has been developed. It contains of two vibrators, especially developed control hardware and software. Properties of the proposed system were examined by visually impaired and normal persons using objective and subjective methods. Preliminary results show that it is possible to optimize the pattern of vibrations to reduce fault recognitions.
22. A Study on the Application of Patient Location Data for Ubiquitous Healthcare System based on LBS
Ubiquitous means the environment that users can receive the medical treatment regardless of the location and time. As the quality of the life has been improved, we are more focusing on our health and people want to be treated with the arising trend of the ubiquitous. Along with the circumstance, the interest of the remote-treatment has been increasing. So, systems are developing that can check their health status and treat them in a distance in a real time. Now, we are asking more services that can detect patients location and utilize this information. We studied the "health care system" that can be operated by detecting the location of the patient in an urgent situation with the previous remote-treatment system that applying "location based services". This system is the service which can help to detect the location of people or things through the portable-equipment based on wireless communication network. With this system we can process and manage data at the hospital or emergency room in a distance by transferring bio-data such as ECG data and pulse data as well as the user's location information. 2008
23. Assurance Evaluation for Test of Communication-Based Train Control System (2007)
This paper proposes an autonomous train control system based on inter-train communication. In this new system, there is no logical central device and trains can communicate with each other autonomously. The train itself produces the position and calculates the permitted track speed. Therefore, the distance between trains can be shortened and a smooth brake pattern can be obtained. For building this system without hindering the current system operations, the gateway-based replacement technology and its test methods are explained. The assurance of test methods has been evaluated by comparing the on-line/off-line properties of the proposed technology.
24. Automatic power meter reading system using GSM network
The development of a GSM automatic power meter reading (GAPMR) system is presented in this paper. The GAPMR system is consists of GSM digital power meters installed in every consumer unit and an electricity ebilling system at the energy provider side. The GSM digital power meter (GPM) is a single phase IEC61036 standard compliance digital kWh power meter with embedded GSM modem which utilize the GSM network to send its power usage reading using short messaging system (SMS) back to the energy provider wirelessly. At the power provider side an ebilling system is used to manage all received SMS meter reading, compute the billing cost, update the database, and to publish billing notification to its respective consumer through SMS, email, Web portal and printed postage mailing. A working prototype of the GAPMR system was build to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of automatic meter reading, billing and notification through the use of GSM network.
25. Get on the digital bus to substation automation
This paper presents next-generation measuring systems with a real-time Ethernet process bus. Digital communication has proven its advantages in high voltage substations from bay control and protection up to the telecommunication interface. The enlarged digital area in substations offers wide ranges and easy adjustment of parameters for in improved fitness of the investment for future demands. 2007
26. Ultra Low power Wireless Weather Station
Currently the appearance of really low power wireless transceivers at very low prices is motivating the development of many wireless applications out of the industrial field, which up to now turn to be large in size and expensive. We present the design of a tiny and low cost Wireless Weather Station to measure accurate temperature (±0.1ºC), relative humidity (±3%), light intensity and atmospheric pressure (±0.8hPa). These direct climatic variables and others indirectly attainable, like the dew-point, wind chill, etc, are readable through a web page. The chosen sensors are factory calibrated and have a digital interface. The Weather Sensor Nodes are able to achieve ultra low power consumption (40µA average), allowing a single supercapacitor to power them for 52 days. 2007
27. Remote laboratory for control engineering degree
This paper presents an innovative web-based control laboratory focused on the necessity of control education community. The usefulness of the remote laboratory proposed in this paper is justified by the opportunity of organizing the remote experiments, saving time and money for the students.
28. Wireless microclimate Sensor
The paper discusses the development of wireless microclimate sensor. The sensor forms the generic component of a microclimate wireless sensor network (WSN). The network is based on IEEE 802.15.4 low power wireless protocol supported by ZigBee stack. The key objective of the network is to support remote monitoring and management of large orchards. The designed sensor together with a locally developed cell modem facilitate the main components for defining a microclimate wireless sensor network that could be accessed remotely. The developed sensor takes care of the critical environmental sensing for the horticultural application needs. It also takes care of energy management and self- replenishment. Preliminary results of the design sensor reflect good performance in coverage of large horticultural fields at a reasonably low cost. Five Sunlight hours a day would keep the sensor functional through its storage mechanism. The architecture allows for both power and location awareness. Identification of the field areas that require attention could be made through either light emission or embedded location awareness algorithm. Range of view for the frost alarm system would be in the region of 500 meters. Initial testing reflects promising results.
29. An Integrated Vision-based Architecture for Home Security System
Automated security systems are a useful addition to today's home where safety is an important issue. Vision-based security systems have the advantage of being easy to set up, inexpensive and non-obtrusive. This paper proposes an integrated dual-level vision-based home security system, which consists of two subsystems - a face recognition module and a motion detection module. The primary face recognition module functions as a user authentication device. On an event of a failure in the primary system, the secondary motion detection module acts as a reliable backup to detect human-related motions within certain locations inside the home. Novel algorithms have been proposed for both subsystems. Several experiments and field tests conducted have shown good performance and feasible implementation in both subsystems. 2007
30. Remote Control using Mobile through Spoken Commands
Year of Publishing : 2007
Mobile phone can serve as powerful tool for world-wide communication for even roaming user. A system is developed to extend the capability of mobile phone for remote monitoring and control of devices. One mobile in this system is dedicated for receiving and executing commands from authentic users and informing status about change in input to the user through SMS. Mobile phone model 6610 is used for experimentation through AT commands protocols. The software algorithm is developed to generate text message from spoken commands of user through extraction of features like Cepstral coefficients, short time energy and zero crossing rate and multi layer feed-forward Neural Network is used for recognition of suitable words. The derived text message is then sent as SMS to the mobile connected to control system through PC. On receiving SMS, the system responds by activating appropriate port bits. The system is also designed to send SMS to specified mobile user if there is a change in the status of the input ports. The various applications of the system are described and further modifications and possibilities are discussed 2007
31. RFID based Intelligent System for Home –Health Care
This paper presents the RFID-based intelligent medication monitoring and daily diet recording systems for long-term personal healthcare at home.
32. Unified Architecture for Large Scale Attested Metering
Year of Publishing : 2007
We introduce a secure architecture called an attested meter/or advanced metering that supports large-scale deployments, flexible configurations, and enhanced protection for consumer privacy and metering integrity. Our study starts with a threat analysis for advanced metering networks and formulates protection requirements for those threats. The attested meter satisfies these through a unified set of system interfaces based on virtual machines and attestation for the software agents of various parties that use the meter. We argue that this combination provides a well-adapted architecture for advanced metering and we take a step towards demonstrating its feasibility with a prototype implementation based on the trusted platform module (TPM) and Xen virtual machine monitor (VMM). This is the first effort to use virtual machines and attestation in an advanced meter 2007
33. Multi Rate Control in Internet based Control System
Year of Publishing : 2007
One of the major challenges in Internet-based control systems is how to overcome the Internet transmission delay. In this paper, we investigate the potential of using the multirate control scheme and the time-delay compensation to overcome the Internet transmission delay. A two-level hierarchy is used for the Internet-based control systems. At the lower level, a local controller is implemented to control the plant at a higher frequency. At the higher level, a remote controller is employed to remotely regulate the desirable set-point at a lower frequency for the local controller. A compensator located at the feedback channel is designed to overcome the time delay occurring in the transmission from the local site to a remote site. Another compensator in the feedforward channel is designed to compensate the time-delay occurring in the control action transmission. The simulation and experimental application results illustrate that the multirate control scheme with the time delay compensation offers a promising way to efficiently reduce the effect of Internet time delay on control performance 2007
34. Smart Parking: An Application of Optical Wireless Sensor Network
Year of Publishing : 2007
Parking problems are commonplace in most major cities. The limited availability of parking results in traffic congestion, air pollution as well as driver frustration. The price for parking expansion is usually prohibitive or extremely high. Recently researchers turned to applying technologies for efficient parking management. In our previous work, we have developed an optical wireless sensor network (WSN) for traffic monitoring. We have demonstrated our system to the public in several exhibitions. It is realized that this simple invention could be applied to monitor vehicles in a parking garage. The system can then inform drivers of the number of available parking spaces and in which area should they be directed to. This kind of system should avoid driver's frustration in trying endlessly to find a parking space in a crowded parking garage. This paper describes our work to modify our original WSN and applies it to parking garages. Problems associated to applying our original WSN to parking garage are explained, and solutions are proposed 2007
35. A data delivery mechanism to support mobile users in wireless sensor
Year of Publishing : 2007
Networks Wireless sensor networks traditionally consist of sensors perceiving data and sinks gathering the data. In addition, users received required information from the sinks via infrastructure networks. The users, however, should receive the information from the sinks through multi hop communications of disseminated sensor nodes if such users move into the sensor networks without infrastructure networks. Unlike the previous works that only considered the mobility of the sinks. Nevertheless, it is difficult for such approaches about the mobility to exploit the existing data-centric routing algorithms and also for the mobile sinks to function as gateways to connect with the infrastructure. To improve the shortcomings, we suggest a novel viewpoint of mobility for wireless sensor networks and propose a novel architecture and mechanism to support the mobility with multiple static sinks in this paper. The multiple static sinks, which are connected with each other via infrastructure, provide high throughput and low latency. Furthermore, they improve hotspot problems and prolong network lifetime. The proposed mechanism finally is evaluated by simulation results about throughput, latency, and network lifetime. 2007
36. Development of intelligent home healthcare box connecting medical equipments & service platform
Year of Publishing : 2007
In this paper, an intelligent computer-aided nursing (ICAN) service system is proposed. In this system, an embedded system connecting biomedical instruments to collect home patient biomedical signals is developed and deployed. The developed embedded system, also called as IHHCB, has functions of collecting and analyzing biomedical signal and Web service. IHHCB cooperating with remote care centers plays an important role to realize a smart home with health-care applications. Through IHHCB, patient enjoys medical information services and on-line interaction with staffs in a care center. Care center has a continuous monitoring of medical measurements for each home patient. The experimental results depict that ICAN effectively enhances the nursing quality of home patient through information and networking technologies. Besides, the performances of deployment are also evaluated. Through the network model, some considerations of service platform deployment are also investigated. The results benefit the development of intelligent home nursing services in the future. 2007
37. Design of Streetlight Monitoring and Control System Based on Wireless Sensor Networks
Year of Publishing : 2007
The remote streetlight monitoring and control system has been applied in urban streetlight. In general, this system monitoring and control scope only reaches the streetlight transformer station. In this work, an experimental system of wireless sensor network was developed to study the feasibility for streetlight monitoring and control system. This system consists of the sensor node, the remote terminal unit and the control center. The sensor node was installed at each lamp pole and used to detect and control lamp. The remote terminal unit serves as relay station between the control center and the sensor nodes. The control center monitors and control all streetlight real time. The hardware of sensor node and remote terminal unit was design. The software was developed for sensor node, remote terminal unit and the control center. The multi-hop used in nodes. The test results show that the system can be used for the streetlight control. The system application in streetlight can extend control scope to each lamp; reduce in streetlight electricity and maintenance cost, and increase availability of streetlight. 2007
38. Adaptive Traffic Light Control with Wireless Sensor Network 2007
39. Secure Biometric Recognition method in Home Network
Year of Publishing : 2006
Convenience is very important element in the home network service. But it is more important that protect home network service users from attackers than the former. And, home network has two features; the one is various communication protocols of home network service constituent devices, and the other is home network service user in the more different age groups than general internet service users. We solve these problems with home server and biometric recognition. That is, home server connects the home appliances to communicate with each other. And biometric recognition gives safety and user convenience. In this paper, we describe a home network service model and propose a user authentication mechanism using biometric recognition. 2006
40. PH Neutralization through Internet
Year of Publishing : 2006
This project uses an IDAC-1 board to sample and control the pH level in a tank. The whole control is performed through the Internet. The experimental arrangement is placed on the task location and the controlling computer is located in a different one. Internet is the transport media. The protocol used in this project is UDP/IP. The pH level is measured by a pH meter and its output is sampled by an A/D converter integrated on the IDAC-1. To change the pH level ON-OFF valves control the free flow of light solutions acid and alkaline. The controlling computer through the Internet acting as client asks for the pH level, the IDAC-1 responds as server with the 10-bit resolution sampling pH meter. If pH is away from the set point the corresponding valve opens, neutralizing this way the solution. The whole procedure is logged in a file on the controlling computer. This application can give the ability to the Internet user to monitor and control the pH of a solution anywhere in the Word Wide Web (WWW) 2006
41. Remote Target Monitoring in Embedded Systems Lab Courses using a Sensor Network
Year of Publishing : 2006
This paper describes an architecture for remote monitoring of a distributed embedded system via Internet. The data at the target system is gathered with a time-triggered sensor network which transmits the measured values to a local target server. The sensor network approach makes the system easily adaptable to different embedded target systems. The sensor network is connected to a target server that communicates via Internet with visualization and programming tools at the monitoring computer. The visualization clients provide a live display of the parameters of the observed system. The target server acts as a gateway between target system and monitoring clients and provides security and authentication features for connecting monitoring clients. One target server is able to serve for multiple target systems. As a case study, the presented system will be used in an embedded systems lab course where students are requested to implement various applications on an embedded target board. Using the remote monitoring feature, a student is able to do the work from his or her home place. 2006
42. A Wireless Vending Machine System Based on GSM
Year of Publishing : 2006
A wireless vending machine system based on the GSM network is developed in this paper. First of all, several methods by which we may realize wireless data communication of GSM network are analyzed and compared, the overall structure of vending machine system based on USSD is given an in-depth introduction. Furthermore, control modules which realize data transmission and control function of terminal device, middleware which connects application and BOSS (business operation support system), and transaction software embedded in USSD platform, are also developed respectively. Finally, the operating support system of wireless vending machine system is formed, which can not only integrate vending machines, USSD platform and payment system together, but also manage sale information, logistic information and consumer information on-line. The vending machine system presented in the paper has been put into use in several provinces and cities for more than two years. All performance indexes of the system are satisfying. 2006
43. Bluetooth Based Wireless Remote Device Controlling and Data Acquisition
Year of Publishing : 2006
IrDA has been used for controlling devices and machines wirelessly at home, office and industry so far. The most disadvantageous part in this case is the line of sight and only point to point communication where Bluetooth had opened the door far wider to these points. Because it doesn’t have line of sight problem and it is capable of both point to point and point to multipoint wireless communication. Moreover, attachment facility of low cost, commercial microcontroller as the host controller interface had facilitated straight and effective development. This paper will present an application model for Bluetooth wireless remote controller mostly suitable for short range uses. The contribution is the developed system where the design has been simulated with real-time implementation to test the stability of the overall system. The system is built up of generally available Bluetooth components. Performance analysis has been carried out to make sure of keeping the operational flexibility to be within acceptable range. The laboratory prototype came up with the experimentation, covers most of the general uses and sophisticated digital and analog devices ones as well. 2006
44. Monitoring and Transmission of Heavy Vehicles Parameters using Fixed Cellular Terminal
Year of Publishing : 2006
At present any consignment carried by a vehicle has to travel incommunicado till it reaches the destination. So, both the fleet owner and the persons sending or procuring the consignment have to sit keeping their fingers crossed till the fleet arrives. To track the path of the vehicle and to monitor the various parameters like fuel consumption, kilometers covered and the amount of load in the vehicle an intelligent device would come handy to solve the problem for the fleet operators and the clients. This paper aims at designing an intelligent device, which has two parts: the transmitter and the receiver. The transmitter is set up in the truck and it consists of a microcontroller to which the GPS and the GSM modem are connected. The analog signals from the transducers, which are used to detect the amount of load and the fuel in the truck, are sent to the microcontroller. The microcontroller acquires the position of the truck from the GPS and sends it to the receiver along with the analog values, through the GSM modem using SMS. The receiver consists of a computer to which a GSM modem is connected by its serial port. The SMS is received by the GSM modem and is sent to the computer, which makes use of a map plotting software to plot the position of the truck along with its parameters. 2006
45. Autonomous Traveling Control of the "TAO Aicle" Intelligent Wheelchair
46. Preliminary Design of Remotely Used and Monitored Medication Dispenser
Year of Publishing : 2006
Physicians are often considered as the final pathway for nearly all professional decisions about the use of health resources. Yet with respect to drugs, pharmacists are in many cases the final link between the medication and the patient. This approach of medication intake can be hazardous to the patient. Several mechanical as well as automatic medication dispensers incorporating alarm and automatic opening and closing mechanisms have been developed in the past. Current automatic dispensers incorporate features such as alarms, dose missed indicators followed by the access to the next dose, and simultaneous access to medication of different types. We are developing medication dispensing methods suitable for use in remote dispensing for opioid dependent patients. These include remote patient monitoring, facial image processing, and background processing techniques for monitoring and assessing the patient. 2006
47. Bluetooth Remote Control
Year of Publishing : 2006
The aim of this paper is to present our "Bluetooth Remote Control" Application which is based on client-server application. The client application runs on mobile phone and the server application runs on PC using J2ME and J2SE respectively. This application can be used to control PCs via mobile phone. For example it can open the Internet Explorer, Media player, Power Point, MSN messenger and control the mouse. The application can be also used to control electrical devices using the parallel (LPT) port of PC. 2006
48. Safety Driving Support System Using RFID for Prevention of Pedestrian-involved Accidents
We are currently studying the application of RFID technology to ITS with the aim of reducing traffic accidents near intersections. In this paper, we report on an experimental system that senses the presence of pedestrians as well as their position then sends the data to an on-board device which alerts the driver. Additionally, we describe an inter-vehicle multi-hop broadcasting transmission system in which each vehicle includes a repeater function for provision of the alert information to vehicles further away
49. APAMAT: A Prescription Algebra for Medication Authoring Tool
Year of Publishing : 2006
We describe here the prescription algebra and its implementation for medication authoring tools. The tools are parts of medication use process, which consists of prescription entry systems, medication authoring tool, medication scheduling specification, medication scheduler, and programmable pill dispenser. A medication authoring tool aids the pharmacists to collect and integrate prescriptions, to verify drug-drug interactions amongst prescriptions one took for the prescribed duration, and to generate the scheduling specifications for pill dispensers. We design a prescription algebra for medication authoring tool to correctly complete its work. We have implemented the platform-independent medication authoring tool using JAVA. The screen snapshot are shown in the paper. 2006
50. Design of a SIP-based real-time visitor conversation & door control architecture using a home gateway
Year of Publishing : 2006
Though typical video door phone systems can be used to talk to the visitors at the door, they have some shortcomings: the resident should stay in house and he/she is not informed of any visitor information on his/her return to home. To overcome these limitations, we propose an architecture supporting user mobility, with which the resident at anywhere can view and converse with a visitor at the front door using PCs, PDA's and home servers with Internet connections. We implemented the proposed architecture using SIP (session initiation protocol) and a home gateway system connected to a conventional intercom or a video door phone system. 2006
51. Networked Remote Meter-Reading System Based on Wireless Communication Technology
Year of Publishing : 2006
A networked remote meter-reading system based on Bluetooth wireless communication technology and GSM is presented in this paper. The remote meter-reading system employs distributed structure, which consists of measure meters, sensors, intelligent terminals, management centre and wireless communication network. The intelligent terminal which designed based on embedded system and Bluetooth technology is used to realize acquisition information submitted from meters and sensors control the energy-consuming devices moreover in residence. The message communicated between the intelligent terminal and management centre by dint of GSM network. The structure and function of this meter-reading system are described and the system's hardware and software detailed. The meter-reading task can be finished at the management centre of residence area by using this system. The system has many significant excellences, such as wireless, low-workload, great quantity of data transmission, high-veracity and low-expenses. The using of embedded system improves the stability of wireless data transmission. The remote meter-reading system which can be propitious to administer energy-source and continuous development have abroad application foreground 2006
52. Body area network for wireless patient Monitoring
Patient data monitoring is a key issue for health and disease management. The use of wireless sensors within a body area network (BAN) makes this task seamless and easy. A BAN system is presented, which allows the connectivity of a wide range of heterogeneous body sensors to a portable hub device that is connectable to external networks (IEEE 802.11, GPRS). This BAN is based on the use of Zigbee/IEEE 802.15.4 standard technology and off-the-shelf modules. It is currently being used at the European level for the detection and the prediction of the human physiological state in relation to wakefulness, fatigue, and stress applications in which users carrying out daily activities are monitored in an unobtrusive and comfortable way. Characterised by its low power consumption, low cost, and ability to connect a wide range of heterogeneous sensors, this system can substantially improve the performance of different services, especially those that are health related.
1.Development of pedestrian-to-vehicle communication system prototype for pedestrian safety using both wide-area and direct communication
We propose a prototype pedestrian-to-vehicle communication system which uses a cellular phone and wireless communication to improve the safety of pedestrians. One of the effectual measures against pedestrian-to-vehicle accidents is to make each of pedestrians and drivers find the others and recognize the risk from out of sight and with time to spare for avoidance of accidents. A pedestrian-to-vehicle communication system was developed by using a cellular phone and a car navigation system equipped with GPS and wireless communication function. We focused on intersections as a traffic scene to be covered by the system. After data was exchanged via FOMA in a wide area, information could be exchanged between a pedestrian and a vehicle via WLAN 20 m, 100 m away from an intersection to different directions in about 20 ms. And, the system could give an alarm to pedestrians and cars with collision risk.
2.An enhanced parking lot service model using wireless sensor network
This study proposed a sensor network technology based parking lot service model. Before developing a specific business model, target market size was estimated to grasp its potential demand. As a result, over 2 million parking lot spaces in Korea were turned out the expected market for the new service model. A survey was conducted to investigate the unmet desires for the parking lot service. Based on the results, the new sensor-network applied parking lot service model was designed. It would provide enhanced searching function more efficiently for available parking spaces. A break-even analysis was followed to verify the feasibility of the business model by applying an empirical example.
3. Route Selection for Vehicle Navigation and Control
This paper presents an application of neural-fuzzy methodology for the problem of route selection in a typical vehicle navigation and control system. The idea of the primary attributes of a route is discussed, and a neural-fuzzy system is developed to help a user to select a route out of the many possible routes from an origin to the destination. The user may not adopt the recommendation provided by the system and choose an alternate route. One novel feature of the system is that the neural-fuzzy system can adapt itself by changing the weights of the defined fuzzy rules through a training procedure. Two examples are given in this paper to illustrate how the route selection/ranking system can be made adaptive to the past choice or preference of the user. 2008
4. A wireless escape system for industrial accidents using Ad Hoc positioning
The safety of producing is a very important thing in the industry. But in some dangerous factories e.g. coal mines, circumstances are not allowed to deploy wires. So we bring in the Ad Hoc wireless sensor network to measure the key physical elements in the workshop. As soon as there are some signs of the accident or the accident has just happened, the system will know it and give the alarm to workers. Our system uses the AOA (angle of arrival) method with the RSSI (Received Signal Strength Indicator) filter to get the position of workers. And we propose an improved divisional Dijkstra algorithm to calculate the escape way for the first time to our acknowledgment
5.RFID based Hospital Automation system
In a health care context, the use RFID (radio frequency identification) technology can be employed for not only bringing down health care costs but also facilitate automating and streamlining patient identification processes in hospitals and use of mobile devices like PDA, smart phones, for design a health care management systems. In this paper, we outline a RFID model for designing a system in the health care. An application of the architecture is described in the area of RFID-based real-time hospital patient management system (HPMS).
6.COAL MINE Detect Rescue Robot Design & Research
Coal mine is a dangerous field, varies fatal factors menace people. Especially after coal mine disaster, rescuer doesn't know mine tunnel situation. It is very dangerous to go into mine tunnel without environment detect because second explosion may occur. Coal mine detect and rescue robot is a kind of mobile robot. It can go into explosion environment and detect gas content, temperature, etc. The date can send to control man in safe field. This paper designs a coal mine detect and rescue robot. It has many characters suitable to mine tunnel. It is compose of mechanic, electric, computer, control, communicate, sensor, etc. It can run in explosion environment, climb ruins, check gas, and carry some food and medicine to people pin down in a disaster. This robot can rescue many people in coal mine disaster.
07. Internet-Enabled Calibration Services: Design of a Secure Calibration System
A growing number of measurements in the commercial and industrial sectors need to refer to traceability to national and international standards. Instrument and reference standard calibration is resource and time consuming. Since many available digital instruments are provided with some communication interfaces and Internet-enabled metrology has rapidly been developing in recent years, it is possible to create an actual remote calibration system with remote control capabilities. This approach addresses a wide range of possible applications that can drive many kinds of different devices and can be easily upgraded. This paper focuses on some of the security problems regarding remotely executed Internet-enabled calibration processes. 2008
8. Automated Phone Capture of Diabetes Patients Readings / Consultant Monitoring via the Web
This paper reports on a collaborative project between clinicians at the Ulster Hospital and researchers at the University of Ulster to produce a Web-based system for monitoring patients with Type 2 diabetes. The typical method of recording measurements of weight, blood sugar, and blood pressure allows for minimal intervention for the consultants as the paper-based records can only be reviewed at three monthly intervals. The new system allows the patients to use their own phone to input and record their measurements using speech, while the web-based view allows consultants to monitor these patients on a daily basis and to respond to alerts generated by the system. Patients could access their own readings in a tabular form and graphically via the Internet.
09.Non Intrusive Monitoring & Diagnostics in Power Systems
This paper describes a transient event classification scheme, system identification techniques, and implementation for use in nonintrusive load monitoring. Together, these techniques form a system that can determine the operating schedule and find parameters of physical models of loads that are connected to an AC or DC power distribution system. The monitoring system requires only off-the-shelf hardware and recognizes individual transients by disaggregating the signal from a minimal number of sensors that are installed at a central location in the distribution system. Implementation details and field tests for AC and DC systems are presented.
10. Automatic System for Measuring & Controlling the Length of a Moving Product in Industries
This paper describes the design and development of a very simple low-cost online system for measuring the length of moving billets in the steel industry. Few photo sensors, digital logic gates, and light-emitting diodes are used to track and display the wide variation in billet length. Not a single amplifier or comparator is used in photo sensor circuit. The comparative study shows its superiority over other costly dimension-measuring systems, viz., shaft encoder, laser Doppler meter, and charge-coupled-device camera. Before, an operator had a risk of an accident while crossing the hot-cobble-prone area for measuring the billet length. However, today, the length of each billet is displayed in a pulpit, thereby increasing the safety. The measuring error in the billet length, ranging from +100 to -100 mm, is reduced to +50 mm. The fluctuation in linear velocity of an incoming billet to a flying shear causes wide variation in its cut lengths. To overcome this severe problem, the speed of the flying shear is adjusted during the tail end of each billet. The benefit of the system is in the tune of Rs 49.5 times 106 (approximately U.S. $1.26 times 106) per annum, whereas the payback period is less than 15 days. Apart from the different steel products like the slab, bloom, and rail, the developed system is also useful in the dimensional measurement of the products in nonferrous industries.
11. Three-Dimensional Password for More Secure Authentication
Current authentication systems suffer from many weaknesses. Textual passwords are commonly used; however, users do not follow their requirements. Users tend to choose meaningful words from dictionaries, which make textual passwords easy to break and vulnerable to dictionary or brute force attacks. Many available graphical passwords have a password space that is less than or equal to the textual password space. Smart cards or tokens can be stolen. Many biometric authentications have been proposed; however, users tend to resist using biometrics because of their intrusiveness and the effect on their privacy. Moreover, biometrics cannot be revoked. In this paper, we present and evaluate our contribution, i.e., the 3-D password. The 3-D password is a multifactor authentication scheme. To be authenticated, we present a 3-D virtual environment where the user navigates and interacts with various objects. The sequence of actions and interactions toward the objects inside the 3-D environment constructs the user's 3-D password. The 3-D password can combine most existing authentication schemes such as textual passwords, graphical passwords, and various types of biometrics into a 3-D virtual environment. The design of the 3-D virtual environment and the type of objects selected determine the 3-D password key space.
12. Train Auto Control System based on OSGi
Many casualties are produced by railway cross accidents every year. Since railway cross currently consists of traffic light and crossing gate, there are difficulties in preventing the accidents. To solve the problem, the system in which train entering railway cross can estimates in advance and handle the situation is emerging and many solution are proposed. However, locomotive engineers control the trains by own decision in the current systems. Therefore, accidents generated by locomotive engineers' error cannot be prevented. In this paper, the auto control system using OSGi and JESS is proposed. The proposed auto control system immediately deals with information of railway cross and train by using interactions of the context aware service components which are equipped on OSGi platform as bundles. Also, information management is easy due to the functions of OSGi. And state of railway cross is estimated more correctly based on collected information through JESS rule engine. If locomotive engineers determine the situation late, alarm message services are provided and trains can be controlled automatically. By using this system, we can deal with urgent situations at the railway cross and prevent railway cross accidents in advance.
13. A Student Experiment Method for Learning the Basics of Embedded Software Development Including HW/SW Co-design
The applications of embedded system are widespread in not only consumer products and industrial machines but also new applications such as ubiquitous networking or sensor networking. There is a great demand for embedded software engineers in the enterprises, and the education of embedded software engineering in university has become important. The embedded software engineers should acquire both hardware (HW) and software (SW) technologies. We propose a student experiment method to nurture embedded SW engineers who understand HW technologies. The method includes embedded SW and HW design experiments, and a HW/SW co-design experiment. The method helps students learn about system modeling, HW/SW trade-off design as well as SW and HW design. We developed these experiments and evaluated them. 2008
14. Designing Fingerprint-Recognition-Based Access Control for Electronic Medical Records Systems (AINAW 2008)
"Medical information" implies all information related with treatment of the patient, and is, by its nature, the most sensitive and important information in terms of the privacy of the individual. Recently, laws, policies, and technological standards are rapidly developing to safely protect the medical information of the individual. This paper proposes a model that applies fingerprint recognition technology to the medical information system, to guarantee a reliable electronic medical record system. The proposed model provides an identification and denial prevention function, by applying fingerprint recognition to the access of doctors, nurses, and other medical staff. The EMR authentication system based on the proposed fingerprint recognition technology enables the user to eliminate the inconvenience of private key management, and provides security authentication that is most suitable for private networks, as external communication is not required. In particular, the reliability of the EMR system can be enhanced through disabling delegation of the private key, which is the most serious problem of electronic signature authentication.
15. DGS: Driving Guidance System Based on Wireless Sensor Network
In this paper, we present DGS, a driving guidance system based on wireless sensor networks (WSN) which guides a driver to drive a car in safety. The system consists of two sub-systems: SMS (speed measurement sub-system) and WPS (weather information providing sub-system). SMS measures the speed of a car and captures the image of the speeding car using a speed camera. WPS provides weather information including the road conditions (icy, wet, etc.) via VMS or a telematics terminal. The paper describes the overall system architecture of DGS from the hardware platform to the application software in the view point of a WSN. We implemented the WSN based SMS of DGS from hardware to application software. The experimental results show that the accuracy of speed measurement is over 99% at 80 kmph and the predicted battery life-time using measured current profiles is about 3 years. We also discuss the lessons acquired from the real-life experiments we performed. We believe that the lessons can be useful in other WSN applications as well as in typical telematics applications. 2008
16. Single access point location tracking for in-home health monitoring
There is a steady increase in the importance placed on location based systems, particularly in the field of elder care. The focus of this paper is on the development of a single access point indoor location tracking system. It is believed that with a single access point localisation system, room-level location accuracy can be reliably achieved. This paper will introduce such a localisation method and provide the basis for its functioning. 2008
17. A Remote-Control Engineering Laboratory
In this paper, a networked control-system laboratory for the remote control of processes is presented. The laboratory allows the students to develop network-based control systems with the use of an architecture consisting of I/O devices, communication modules, and server-client applications implemented with supervisory control and data acquisition environment facilities, and to operate on real pilot plants through an intranet and the Internet. Three examples were presented, demonstrating the potentiality of the laboratory to remotely control the processes and to develop new network-based control-system structures.
18. PAS: A Wireless-Enabled, Cell-Phone-Incorporated Personal Assistant System for Independent and Assisted Living
Advances in networking, sensors, medical devices and smart phones have made it feasible to monitor and provide medical and other assistance to people either in their homes or outside. Aging populations will benefit from reduced costs and improved healthcare through assisted living based on these technologies. However, these systems challenge current state-of-the-art techniques for usability, reliability, and security. In this paper we present the PAS open architecture for assisted living, which allows independently developed third party components to collaborate. Furthermore, we incorporate cell phones in PAS as the local intelligence in order to enhance the robustness and ubiquity. We discuss key technological issues in assisted living systems, such as software architecture layout, power preserving, security and privacy; and results from our pilot study in a real assisted living facility are presented.
19. An Integrated Architecture for Demand Response Communications and Control
In the competitive electricity structure, demand response programs enable customers to react dynamically to changes in electricity prices. The implementation of such programs may reduce energy costs and increase reliability. To fully harness such benefits, existing load controllers and appliances need around-the-clock price information. Advances in the development and deployment of advanced meter infrastructures (AMIs), building automation systems (BASs), and various dedicated embedded control systems provide the capability to effectively address this requirement. In this paper we introduce a meter gateway architecture (MGA) to serve as a foundation for integrated control of loads by energy aggregators, facility hubs, and intelligent appliances. We discuss the requirements that motivate the architecture, describe its design, and illustrate its application to a small system with an intelligent appliance and a legacy appliance using a prototype implementation of an intelligent hub for the MGA and ZigBee wireless communications.
20. Wireless Reprogramming of Vehicle Electronic Control Units
The new generation vehicles will have many sophisticated systems such as drive-by-wire, navigation, traffic congestion control, road guidance, and advance crash warning. Already, dozens of onboard computers control complex vehicle functions. From time to time, an onboard computer needs reprogramming. Currently, dealers manually reprogram software in onboard computers via a wire based electrical connection. Updating software wirelessly is a preferred alternative to the manual method because the vehicle need not be physically present at a repair facility to perform the update. Wireless software reprogramming will save customers' and technicians' time and money. In this paper, we present a wireless download algorithm for reprogramming of vehicles' electronic control units, using current wireless technologies. Our algorithm proposes a hybrid infrastructure that combines wireless unicasting and multicasting data delivery.
21. A tactile System for Informing the Blind on Direction of a Walk
Paper presents the design and preliminary studies on vibrotactile method used to guide a blind person in the urban space. A very simple and effective method has been developed. It contains of two vibrators, especially developed control hardware and software. Properties of the proposed system were examined by visually impaired and normal persons using objective and subjective methods. Preliminary results show that it is possible to optimize the pattern of vibrations to reduce fault recognitions.
22. A Study on the Application of Patient Location Data for Ubiquitous Healthcare System based on LBS
Ubiquitous means the environment that users can receive the medical treatment regardless of the location and time. As the quality of the life has been improved, we are more focusing on our health and people want to be treated with the arising trend of the ubiquitous. Along with the circumstance, the interest of the remote-treatment has been increasing. So, systems are developing that can check their health status and treat them in a distance in a real time. Now, we are asking more services that can detect patients location and utilize this information. We studied the "health care system" that can be operated by detecting the location of the patient in an urgent situation with the previous remote-treatment system that applying "location based services". This system is the service which can help to detect the location of people or things through the portable-equipment based on wireless communication network. With this system we can process and manage data at the hospital or emergency room in a distance by transferring bio-data such as ECG data and pulse data as well as the user's location information. 2008
23. Assurance Evaluation for Test of Communication-Based Train Control System (2007)
This paper proposes an autonomous train control system based on inter-train communication. In this new system, there is no logical central device and trains can communicate with each other autonomously. The train itself produces the position and calculates the permitted track speed. Therefore, the distance between trains can be shortened and a smooth brake pattern can be obtained. For building this system without hindering the current system operations, the gateway-based replacement technology and its test methods are explained. The assurance of test methods has been evaluated by comparing the on-line/off-line properties of the proposed technology.
24. Automatic power meter reading system using GSM network
The development of a GSM automatic power meter reading (GAPMR) system is presented in this paper. The GAPMR system is consists of GSM digital power meters installed in every consumer unit and an electricity ebilling system at the energy provider side. The GSM digital power meter (GPM) is a single phase IEC61036 standard compliance digital kWh power meter with embedded GSM modem which utilize the GSM network to send its power usage reading using short messaging system (SMS) back to the energy provider wirelessly. At the power provider side an ebilling system is used to manage all received SMS meter reading, compute the billing cost, update the database, and to publish billing notification to its respective consumer through SMS, email, Web portal and printed postage mailing. A working prototype of the GAPMR system was build to demonstrate the effectiveness and efficiency of automatic meter reading, billing and notification through the use of GSM network.
25. Get on the digital bus to substation automation
This paper presents next-generation measuring systems with a real-time Ethernet process bus. Digital communication has proven its advantages in high voltage substations from bay control and protection up to the telecommunication interface. The enlarged digital area in substations offers wide ranges and easy adjustment of parameters for in improved fitness of the investment for future demands. 2007
26. Ultra Low power Wireless Weather Station
Currently the appearance of really low power wireless transceivers at very low prices is motivating the development of many wireless applications out of the industrial field, which up to now turn to be large in size and expensive. We present the design of a tiny and low cost Wireless Weather Station to measure accurate temperature (±0.1ºC), relative humidity (±3%), light intensity and atmospheric pressure (±0.8hPa). These direct climatic variables and others indirectly attainable, like the dew-point, wind chill, etc, are readable through a web page. The chosen sensors are factory calibrated and have a digital interface. The Weather Sensor Nodes are able to achieve ultra low power consumption (40µA average), allowing a single supercapacitor to power them for 52 days. 2007
27. Remote laboratory for control engineering degree
This paper presents an innovative web-based control laboratory focused on the necessity of control education community. The usefulness of the remote laboratory proposed in this paper is justified by the opportunity of organizing the remote experiments, saving time and money for the students.
28. Wireless microclimate Sensor
The paper discusses the development of wireless microclimate sensor. The sensor forms the generic component of a microclimate wireless sensor network (WSN). The network is based on IEEE 802.15.4 low power wireless protocol supported by ZigBee stack. The key objective of the network is to support remote monitoring and management of large orchards. The designed sensor together with a locally developed cell modem facilitate the main components for defining a microclimate wireless sensor network that could be accessed remotely. The developed sensor takes care of the critical environmental sensing for the horticultural application needs. It also takes care of energy management and self- replenishment. Preliminary results of the design sensor reflect good performance in coverage of large horticultural fields at a reasonably low cost. Five Sunlight hours a day would keep the sensor functional through its storage mechanism. The architecture allows for both power and location awareness. Identification of the field areas that require attention could be made through either light emission or embedded location awareness algorithm. Range of view for the frost alarm system would be in the region of 500 meters. Initial testing reflects promising results.
29. An Integrated Vision-based Architecture for Home Security System
Automated security systems are a useful addition to today's home where safety is an important issue. Vision-based security systems have the advantage of being easy to set up, inexpensive and non-obtrusive. This paper proposes an integrated dual-level vision-based home security system, which consists of two subsystems - a face recognition module and a motion detection module. The primary face recognition module functions as a user authentication device. On an event of a failure in the primary system, the secondary motion detection module acts as a reliable backup to detect human-related motions within certain locations inside the home. Novel algorithms have been proposed for both subsystems. Several experiments and field tests conducted have shown good performance and feasible implementation in both subsystems. 2007
30. Remote Control using Mobile through Spoken Commands
Year of Publishing : 2007
Mobile phone can serve as powerful tool for world-wide communication for even roaming user. A system is developed to extend the capability of mobile phone for remote monitoring and control of devices. One mobile in this system is dedicated for receiving and executing commands from authentic users and informing status about change in input to the user through SMS. Mobile phone model 6610 is used for experimentation through AT commands protocols. The software algorithm is developed to generate text message from spoken commands of user through extraction of features like Cepstral coefficients, short time energy and zero crossing rate and multi layer feed-forward Neural Network is used for recognition of suitable words. The derived text message is then sent as SMS to the mobile connected to control system through PC. On receiving SMS, the system responds by activating appropriate port bits. The system is also designed to send SMS to specified mobile user if there is a change in the status of the input ports. The various applications of the system are described and further modifications and possibilities are discussed 2007
31. RFID based Intelligent System for Home –Health Care
This paper presents the RFID-based intelligent medication monitoring and daily diet recording systems for long-term personal healthcare at home.
32. Unified Architecture for Large Scale Attested Metering
Year of Publishing : 2007
We introduce a secure architecture called an attested meter/or advanced metering that supports large-scale deployments, flexible configurations, and enhanced protection for consumer privacy and metering integrity. Our study starts with a threat analysis for advanced metering networks and formulates protection requirements for those threats. The attested meter satisfies these through a unified set of system interfaces based on virtual machines and attestation for the software agents of various parties that use the meter. We argue that this combination provides a well-adapted architecture for advanced metering and we take a step towards demonstrating its feasibility with a prototype implementation based on the trusted platform module (TPM) and Xen virtual machine monitor (VMM). This is the first effort to use virtual machines and attestation in an advanced meter 2007
33. Multi Rate Control in Internet based Control System
Year of Publishing : 2007
One of the major challenges in Internet-based control systems is how to overcome the Internet transmission delay. In this paper, we investigate the potential of using the multirate control scheme and the time-delay compensation to overcome the Internet transmission delay. A two-level hierarchy is used for the Internet-based control systems. At the lower level, a local controller is implemented to control the plant at a higher frequency. At the higher level, a remote controller is employed to remotely regulate the desirable set-point at a lower frequency for the local controller. A compensator located at the feedback channel is designed to overcome the time delay occurring in the transmission from the local site to a remote site. Another compensator in the feedforward channel is designed to compensate the time-delay occurring in the control action transmission. The simulation and experimental application results illustrate that the multirate control scheme with the time delay compensation offers a promising way to efficiently reduce the effect of Internet time delay on control performance 2007
34. Smart Parking: An Application of Optical Wireless Sensor Network
Year of Publishing : 2007
Parking problems are commonplace in most major cities. The limited availability of parking results in traffic congestion, air pollution as well as driver frustration. The price for parking expansion is usually prohibitive or extremely high. Recently researchers turned to applying technologies for efficient parking management. In our previous work, we have developed an optical wireless sensor network (WSN) for traffic monitoring. We have demonstrated our system to the public in several exhibitions. It is realized that this simple invention could be applied to monitor vehicles in a parking garage. The system can then inform drivers of the number of available parking spaces and in which area should they be directed to. This kind of system should avoid driver's frustration in trying endlessly to find a parking space in a crowded parking garage. This paper describes our work to modify our original WSN and applies it to parking garages. Problems associated to applying our original WSN to parking garage are explained, and solutions are proposed 2007
35. A data delivery mechanism to support mobile users in wireless sensor
Year of Publishing : 2007
Networks Wireless sensor networks traditionally consist of sensors perceiving data and sinks gathering the data. In addition, users received required information from the sinks via infrastructure networks. The users, however, should receive the information from the sinks through multi hop communications of disseminated sensor nodes if such users move into the sensor networks without infrastructure networks. Unlike the previous works that only considered the mobility of the sinks. Nevertheless, it is difficult for such approaches about the mobility to exploit the existing data-centric routing algorithms and also for the mobile sinks to function as gateways to connect with the infrastructure. To improve the shortcomings, we suggest a novel viewpoint of mobility for wireless sensor networks and propose a novel architecture and mechanism to support the mobility with multiple static sinks in this paper. The multiple static sinks, which are connected with each other via infrastructure, provide high throughput and low latency. Furthermore, they improve hotspot problems and prolong network lifetime. The proposed mechanism finally is evaluated by simulation results about throughput, latency, and network lifetime. 2007
36. Development of intelligent home healthcare box connecting medical equipments & service platform
Year of Publishing : 2007
In this paper, an intelligent computer-aided nursing (ICAN) service system is proposed. In this system, an embedded system connecting biomedical instruments to collect home patient biomedical signals is developed and deployed. The developed embedded system, also called as IHHCB, has functions of collecting and analyzing biomedical signal and Web service. IHHCB cooperating with remote care centers plays an important role to realize a smart home with health-care applications. Through IHHCB, patient enjoys medical information services and on-line interaction with staffs in a care center. Care center has a continuous monitoring of medical measurements for each home patient. The experimental results depict that ICAN effectively enhances the nursing quality of home patient through information and networking technologies. Besides, the performances of deployment are also evaluated. Through the network model, some considerations of service platform deployment are also investigated. The results benefit the development of intelligent home nursing services in the future. 2007
37. Design of Streetlight Monitoring and Control System Based on Wireless Sensor Networks
Year of Publishing : 2007
The remote streetlight monitoring and control system has been applied in urban streetlight. In general, this system monitoring and control scope only reaches the streetlight transformer station. In this work, an experimental system of wireless sensor network was developed to study the feasibility for streetlight monitoring and control system. This system consists of the sensor node, the remote terminal unit and the control center. The sensor node was installed at each lamp pole and used to detect and control lamp. The remote terminal unit serves as relay station between the control center and the sensor nodes. The control center monitors and control all streetlight real time. The hardware of sensor node and remote terminal unit was design. The software was developed for sensor node, remote terminal unit and the control center. The multi-hop used in nodes. The test results show that the system can be used for the streetlight control. The system application in streetlight can extend control scope to each lamp; reduce in streetlight electricity and maintenance cost, and increase availability of streetlight. 2007
38. Adaptive Traffic Light Control with Wireless Sensor Network 2007
39. Secure Biometric Recognition method in Home Network
Year of Publishing : 2006
Convenience is very important element in the home network service. But it is more important that protect home network service users from attackers than the former. And, home network has two features; the one is various communication protocols of home network service constituent devices, and the other is home network service user in the more different age groups than general internet service users. We solve these problems with home server and biometric recognition. That is, home server connects the home appliances to communicate with each other. And biometric recognition gives safety and user convenience. In this paper, we describe a home network service model and propose a user authentication mechanism using biometric recognition. 2006
40. PH Neutralization through Internet
Year of Publishing : 2006
This project uses an IDAC-1 board to sample and control the pH level in a tank. The whole control is performed through the Internet. The experimental arrangement is placed on the task location and the controlling computer is located in a different one. Internet is the transport media. The protocol used in this project is UDP/IP. The pH level is measured by a pH meter and its output is sampled by an A/D converter integrated on the IDAC-1. To change the pH level ON-OFF valves control the free flow of light solutions acid and alkaline. The controlling computer through the Internet acting as client asks for the pH level, the IDAC-1 responds as server with the 10-bit resolution sampling pH meter. If pH is away from the set point the corresponding valve opens, neutralizing this way the solution. The whole procedure is logged in a file on the controlling computer. This application can give the ability to the Internet user to monitor and control the pH of a solution anywhere in the Word Wide Web (WWW) 2006
41. Remote Target Monitoring in Embedded Systems Lab Courses using a Sensor Network
Year of Publishing : 2006
This paper describes an architecture for remote monitoring of a distributed embedded system via Internet. The data at the target system is gathered with a time-triggered sensor network which transmits the measured values to a local target server. The sensor network approach makes the system easily adaptable to different embedded target systems. The sensor network is connected to a target server that communicates via Internet with visualization and programming tools at the monitoring computer. The visualization clients provide a live display of the parameters of the observed system. The target server acts as a gateway between target system and monitoring clients and provides security and authentication features for connecting monitoring clients. One target server is able to serve for multiple target systems. As a case study, the presented system will be used in an embedded systems lab course where students are requested to implement various applications on an embedded target board. Using the remote monitoring feature, a student is able to do the work from his or her home place. 2006
42. A Wireless Vending Machine System Based on GSM
Year of Publishing : 2006
A wireless vending machine system based on the GSM network is developed in this paper. First of all, several methods by which we may realize wireless data communication of GSM network are analyzed and compared, the overall structure of vending machine system based on USSD is given an in-depth introduction. Furthermore, control modules which realize data transmission and control function of terminal device, middleware which connects application and BOSS (business operation support system), and transaction software embedded in USSD platform, are also developed respectively. Finally, the operating support system of wireless vending machine system is formed, which can not only integrate vending machines, USSD platform and payment system together, but also manage sale information, logistic information and consumer information on-line. The vending machine system presented in the paper has been put into use in several provinces and cities for more than two years. All performance indexes of the system are satisfying. 2006
43. Bluetooth Based Wireless Remote Device Controlling and Data Acquisition
Year of Publishing : 2006
IrDA has been used for controlling devices and machines wirelessly at home, office and industry so far. The most disadvantageous part in this case is the line of sight and only point to point communication where Bluetooth had opened the door far wider to these points. Because it doesn’t have line of sight problem and it is capable of both point to point and point to multipoint wireless communication. Moreover, attachment facility of low cost, commercial microcontroller as the host controller interface had facilitated straight and effective development. This paper will present an application model for Bluetooth wireless remote controller mostly suitable for short range uses. The contribution is the developed system where the design has been simulated with real-time implementation to test the stability of the overall system. The system is built up of generally available Bluetooth components. Performance analysis has been carried out to make sure of keeping the operational flexibility to be within acceptable range. The laboratory prototype came up with the experimentation, covers most of the general uses and sophisticated digital and analog devices ones as well. 2006
44. Monitoring and Transmission of Heavy Vehicles Parameters using Fixed Cellular Terminal
Year of Publishing : 2006
At present any consignment carried by a vehicle has to travel incommunicado till it reaches the destination. So, both the fleet owner and the persons sending or procuring the consignment have to sit keeping their fingers crossed till the fleet arrives. To track the path of the vehicle and to monitor the various parameters like fuel consumption, kilometers covered and the amount of load in the vehicle an intelligent device would come handy to solve the problem for the fleet operators and the clients. This paper aims at designing an intelligent device, which has two parts: the transmitter and the receiver. The transmitter is set up in the truck and it consists of a microcontroller to which the GPS and the GSM modem are connected. The analog signals from the transducers, which are used to detect the amount of load and the fuel in the truck, are sent to the microcontroller. The microcontroller acquires the position of the truck from the GPS and sends it to the receiver along with the analog values, through the GSM modem using SMS. The receiver consists of a computer to which a GSM modem is connected by its serial port. The SMS is received by the GSM modem and is sent to the computer, which makes use of a map plotting software to plot the position of the truck along with its parameters. 2006
45. Autonomous Traveling Control of the "TAO Aicle" Intelligent Wheelchair
46. Preliminary Design of Remotely Used and Monitored Medication Dispenser
Year of Publishing : 2006
Physicians are often considered as the final pathway for nearly all professional decisions about the use of health resources. Yet with respect to drugs, pharmacists are in many cases the final link between the medication and the patient. This approach of medication intake can be hazardous to the patient. Several mechanical as well as automatic medication dispensers incorporating alarm and automatic opening and closing mechanisms have been developed in the past. Current automatic dispensers incorporate features such as alarms, dose missed indicators followed by the access to the next dose, and simultaneous access to medication of different types. We are developing medication dispensing methods suitable for use in remote dispensing for opioid dependent patients. These include remote patient monitoring, facial image processing, and background processing techniques for monitoring and assessing the patient. 2006
47. Bluetooth Remote Control
Year of Publishing : 2006
The aim of this paper is to present our "Bluetooth Remote Control" Application which is based on client-server application. The client application runs on mobile phone and the server application runs on PC using J2ME and J2SE respectively. This application can be used to control PCs via mobile phone. For example it can open the Internet Explorer, Media player, Power Point, MSN messenger and control the mouse. The application can be also used to control electrical devices using the parallel (LPT) port of PC. 2006
48. Safety Driving Support System Using RFID for Prevention of Pedestrian-involved Accidents
We are currently studying the application of RFID technology to ITS with the aim of reducing traffic accidents near intersections. In this paper, we report on an experimental system that senses the presence of pedestrians as well as their position then sends the data to an on-board device which alerts the driver. Additionally, we describe an inter-vehicle multi-hop broadcasting transmission system in which each vehicle includes a repeater function for provision of the alert information to vehicles further away
49. APAMAT: A Prescription Algebra for Medication Authoring Tool
Year of Publishing : 2006
We describe here the prescription algebra and its implementation for medication authoring tools. The tools are parts of medication use process, which consists of prescription entry systems, medication authoring tool, medication scheduling specification, medication scheduler, and programmable pill dispenser. A medication authoring tool aids the pharmacists to collect and integrate prescriptions, to verify drug-drug interactions amongst prescriptions one took for the prescribed duration, and to generate the scheduling specifications for pill dispensers. We design a prescription algebra for medication authoring tool to correctly complete its work. We have implemented the platform-independent medication authoring tool using JAVA. The screen snapshot are shown in the paper. 2006
50. Design of a SIP-based real-time visitor conversation & door control architecture using a home gateway
Year of Publishing : 2006
Though typical video door phone systems can be used to talk to the visitors at the door, they have some shortcomings: the resident should stay in house and he/she is not informed of any visitor information on his/her return to home. To overcome these limitations, we propose an architecture supporting user mobility, with which the resident at anywhere can view and converse with a visitor at the front door using PCs, PDA's and home servers with Internet connections. We implemented the proposed architecture using SIP (session initiation protocol) and a home gateway system connected to a conventional intercom or a video door phone system. 2006
51. Networked Remote Meter-Reading System Based on Wireless Communication Technology
Year of Publishing : 2006
A networked remote meter-reading system based on Bluetooth wireless communication technology and GSM is presented in this paper. The remote meter-reading system employs distributed structure, which consists of measure meters, sensors, intelligent terminals, management centre and wireless communication network. The intelligent terminal which designed based on embedded system and Bluetooth technology is used to realize acquisition information submitted from meters and sensors control the energy-consuming devices moreover in residence. The message communicated between the intelligent terminal and management centre by dint of GSM network. The structure and function of this meter-reading system are described and the system's hardware and software detailed. The meter-reading task can be finished at the management centre of residence area by using this system. The system has many significant excellences, such as wireless, low-workload, great quantity of data transmission, high-veracity and low-expenses. The using of embedded system improves the stability of wireless data transmission. The remote meter-reading system which can be propitious to administer energy-source and continuous development have abroad application foreground 2006
52. Body area network for wireless patient Monitoring
Patient data monitoring is a key issue for health and disease management. The use of wireless sensors within a body area network (BAN) makes this task seamless and easy. A BAN system is presented, which allows the connectivity of a wide range of heterogeneous body sensors to a portable hub device that is connectable to external networks (IEEE 802.11, GPRS). This BAN is based on the use of Zigbee/IEEE 802.15.4 standard technology and off-the-shelf modules. It is currently being used at the European level for the detection and the prediction of the human physiological state in relation to wakefulness, fatigue, and stress applications in which users carrying out daily activities are monitored in an unobtrusive and comfortable way. Characterised by its low power consumption, low cost, and ability to connect a wide range of heterogeneous sensors, this system can substantially improve the performance of different services, especially those that are health related.
