Development of Advanced Smart Ventilation Controls for Residential Applications

Development of a visual Basic 6.0 based smart application for the design and selection of local exhaust ventilation systems

Introduction: Air pollution in industrial work environments has adverse effects on worker health, for example, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and asthma. These diseases impose direct and indirect costs on society. In hierarchy controls, local exhaust ventilation is considered an "engineering control" to remove or control contaminants released in indoor work environments. It is one of the...

Smart Network Interfaces for Advanced Automotive Applications

The computing integrated in modern vehicles has increased dramatically over the last decade, with many cars having over 50 compute units controlling critical and non-critical functions. These ECUs communicate over increasingly complex and heterogeneous networks, and these systems combined present challenges in terms of scalability, validation, and security. In this article, we present the conce...

Residential ventilation and carcinogenesis

The adverse effects of the most widely recognized greenhouse gas and pollutant on the planet, carbon dioxide, are also the most ubiquitously overlooked when present as a (processed) food ingredient, as a (supercritical) solvent and as an excipient. CO2 is a constituent of carbonated beverages, used as an insufflation gas and to elevate alveolar CO2 concentration in acute respiratory distress sy...

Advanced Algorithms for Location-Based Smart Mobile Augmented Reality Applications

During the last years, the computational capabilities of smart mobile devices have been continuously improved by hardware vendors, raising new opportunities for mobile application engineers. Mobile augmented reality is one scenario demonstrating that smart mobile applications are becoming increasingly mature. In the AREA (Augmented Reality Engine Application) project, we developed a kernel that...

Smart Control of Residential Buildings