Smart Solutions, “Smart Aesthetics”?

Smart Hospitals Need Smart Managers

Alstom Grid Smart Distribution Solutions for Smart Utilities

As the Electric Distribution industry enters the Smart Grid era, it is deploying a variety of new technologies (including distributed energy resources) and communications infrastructure to enhance the performance of the distribution grid, improve customer satisfaction and reduce the carbon footprint. On the one hand, these new Smart Grid investments look as though they will pay off as customers...

Smart solutions from the plant kingdom.

Challenges and Solutions of Secure Smart Environments

Security challenges of smart spaces, e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, and smart cities based on Internet connected devices and systems, are related to the main philosophy of smart environments; the freedom to use available devices for the purpose in hand of end-users, and to make it happen easily and hopefully without human-intervention. But what are the security solutions that promote the b...

'Smart' solutions for paroxysmal atrial fibrillation?

Based on the review of Carpenter and Frontera we present a case of a 66-year-old female patient who was implanted with an implantable loop recorder (ILR) (LinQ, Medtronic) due a history of unexplained syncope and symptoms of palpitations. After the procedure the patient was provided with a smartwatch device (E4, Empatica), which measures the photoplethysmography (PPG) signal at the wrist, and a...