In this paper we present occupancy estimation techniques using real (motion, door closure) and virtual (PC activity detector) sensors. The techniques considered here are based on the decision tree and artificial neura...
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In this paper we present occupancy estimation techniques using real (motion, door closure) and virtual (PC activity detector) sensors. The techniques considered here are based on the decision tree and artificial neural network models. Results from an experimental test-bed in a four person office room are also presented.
Fire is one of the most serious catastrophic disasters in the coalmine. The early fire detection can help to avoid a disastrous fire. The existing temperature-sensed and smoke-sensed method may respond slowly to early...
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Pre-timed traffic signals are inefficient in optimizing the traffic flow throughout the day, resulting in greater waiting times at the intersections particularly in congested urban areas during peak hours. Traffic act...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479924912
Pre-timed traffic signals are inefficient in optimizing the traffic flow throughout the day, resulting in greater waiting times at the intersections particularly in congested urban areas during peak hours. Traffic actuated signals use real time traffic data obtained from sensors at the intersections to service queues intelligently. We developed a test bed for the real time evaluation of adaptive traffic light control algorithms using the microscopic traffic simulation open source software, SUMO (Simulation of Urban Mobility), and the AVR 32-bit microcontroller. An interface was developed between SUMO and the AVR microcontroller in which we used the simulation data generated by SUMO as an input to the microcontroller which executed the scheduling algorithms and sent commands back to SUMO for changing the states of the traffic signals accordingly. We implemented four scheduling algorithms in SUMO through the AVR microcontroller, the effect of the algorithms on the traffic network was studied using SUMO and execution times of the scheduling algorithms were measured using the AVR microcontroller. Through this interface, scheduling algorithms can be evaluated more effectively and accurately as compared to the case in which the algorithms are fed with data using pseudo random number generators.
Wireless sensor network is a low-rate, scalable wireless network that can be used for environmental monitoring and information collection. People who operate X-ray detection, a common method for nondestructive testing...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479928101
Wireless sensor network is a low-rate, scalable wireless network that can be used for environmental monitoring and information collection. People who operate X-ray detection, a common method for nondestructive testing, would easily be injured without adequate protection. By installing X-ray radiation sensor and body infrared sensor on the sensor network nodes, safety monitoring system of the X-ray field will be formed. The system can be emplaced flexibly and be used easily, so it can effectively protect the staff safety and reduce accidents when X-ray is turned on in the industrial work field.
Localization of sensor nodes is one of the most important issues in Wireless sensornetworks (WSNs), especially for the applications which requiring the accurate position of the sensed information. In most localizatio...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467362481
Localization of sensor nodes is one of the most important issues in Wireless sensornetworks (WSNs), especially for the applications which requiring the accurate position of the sensed information. In most localization algorithms, a certain number of anchor nodes must be deployed to reach the accuracy of positioning. But in plenty of situations, anchor node's quantity always is limited by cost, hardware restrict, and so on. In this paper, a selective virtual anchor node positioning algorithm (SVAN-Hop) is proposed. In SVAN-Hop algorithm, a special method is used to select the unknown nodes, and a fixed weight for virtual anchors and real anchors is used in localization phase. Simulation results show that SVAN-Hop achieves greater location accuracy and coverage.
As long as the deepen application of the Object Network Technology in the facility construction, a hot topics in research is coming out, that is how to achieve mobile operation through convenient and high-efficiency m...
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In this paper, we study the network Lifetime Maximization problem in Mobile healthcare sensor systems (LMM). For the healthecare system, we consider a dynamic scenario where users are mobile at their own wills and per...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781467331227
In this paper, we study the network Lifetime Maximization problem in Mobile healthcare sensor systems (LMM). For the healthecare system, we consider a dynamic scenario where users are mobile at their own wills and periodically report their personal health information (PHI) to a static sink, e.g, a powerful server, for further processing and distributing. The objective is to optimize the network lifetime by flow scheduling. The major difficulty lies in the time-dependent network topologies. Therefore, we propose a novel temporalspatial network modeling method by extending current model with time dimension. Based on this model, we show that if the movement of users are known in advance (i.e, offline case), the problem can be optimally solved in polynomial time by a linear programming. However, the online LMM problem is much more difficult to tackle, since we prove that there exists no online algorithm with a constant performance ratio to the offline optimal algorithm in terms of the network lifetime. We further design simulations to show the performance gap between online and offline LMM. Considering the user mobility within a given scenario follows some certain patterns, we show the potential improvements of using a prediction-based method. This investigation provides certain insights on designing efficient online algorithms for the LMM problem.
Can one trade sensor quality for quantity? While larger networks with greater sensor density promise to allow us to use noisier sensors yet measure subtler phenomena, aggregating data and designing decision rules is c...
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Can one trade sensor quality for quantity? While larger networks with greater sensor density promise to allow us to use noisier sensors yet measure subtler phenomena, aggregating data and designing decision rules is challenging. Motivated by dense, participatory seismic networks, we seek efficient aggregation methods for event detection. We propose to perform aggregation by sparsification: roughly, a sparsifying basis is a linear transformation that aggregates measurements from groups of sensors that tend to co-activate, and each event is observed by only a few groups of sensors. We show how a simple class of sparsifying bases provably improves detection with noisy binary sensors, even when only qualitative information about the network is available. We then describe how detection can be further improved by learning a better sparsifying basis from network observations or simulations. Learning can be done offline, and makes use of powerful off-the-shelf optimization packages. Our approach outperforms state of the art detectors on real measurements from seismic networks with hundreds of sensors, and on simulated epidemics in the Gnutella P2P communication network.
With the elderly population growing around the world, falls increase the risk progressively with age. Those falls can origin injuries that may cause a great dependence and debilitation to the elderly, and even death i...
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An enormous amount of log data is generated by servers and other devices on the network, and server/network administrators analyze the logs to investigate anomalous communications or troubleshoot. However, server/netw...
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ISBN:
(纸本)9781479905478
An enormous amount of log data is generated by servers and other devices on the network, and server/network administrators analyze the logs to investigate anomalous communications or troubleshoot. However, server/network management tasks increase in volume and complexity, resulting in greater burden on the administrator. In this paper, we propose a integrated management system for a sensor network where log data is output from many different kinds of sensors. We consider a server or network device as one of the sensors. We also propose a cross-processing system for several kinds of log data. In particular, we describe the management and collection of logs in our campus networks.
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