Sinkhole development occurs in many areas of the world where soluble rocks crop out. Sinkholes are generally the surface expression of the presence of caves and other groundwater flow conduits in carbonate rocks, which are solutionally enlarged secondary permeability features. Their formation may be either natural or caused by man’s activities. In both cases, heavy consequences have to be regis...

The galvactivator is a glove-like wearable device that senses the wearer's skin conductivity and maps its values to a bright LED display, making the skin conductivity level visible. Increases in skin conductivity tend to be good indicators of physiological arousal --causing the galvactivator display to glow brightly. The new form factor of this sensor frees the wearer from the traditional requi...

Smart city is an attractive way of making the city more livable through intelligent solutions that are enabled by information and communication technology. Regarding the lighting system, it achieves the perfect balance between beautiful city ambience and preserving the darkness that makes cities more livable. As a smart city component, a public lighting system offers much more than light itself...

Twelve kinds of luminous environments were set up with white LED light source by changing the color temperature and illumination. Using feel discriminative index and the reaction time as the evaluation index, the effects of different luminous environments on human psychological feelings were researched, based on Signal Detection Theory and open windows. The results showed that lighting environm...

Face Recognition is widely used in security systems, such as surveillance, gate control systems, and guard robots, due to their user friendliness and convenience compared to other biometric approaches. Secure face recognition systems require advanced technology for face liveness detection, which can identify whether a face belongs to a real client or a portrait. However, with the development of...

L IGHTING ACCOUNTS FOR ABOUT 15 PERCENT OF THE WORLD’S TOTAL ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION, therefore a reduction of energy consumed for lighting will give a significant contribution to better utilization of the natural resources and a reduction of CO2 emissions. Recently, Light Emitting Diodes (LED) have been introduced in street lighting, building lighting, backlighting and automobiles lighting, ow...

Studies of visual effects of road signs have shown that having dynamic imagery, and even better, animation, helps improve road signs as it increases a viewer’s attentiveness. However, currently existing animated imagery signs, which are usually digital billboards, have drawbacks including distraction caused by bright LED lights, large energy consumption, and expensiveness. To overcome the probl...

Water supply system consumes large amount of power load during water treatment and transportation of purified water. Many energy conserving high efficiency materials such as DC motor and LED light have recently been introduced to water supply system for energy conservation. This paper performed empirical analysis on BLDC and AC motors and comparatively analyzed the change in power according to ...

1 ) were arranged in a randomized complete block design, replicated three times. Regardless of the rate, N fertilization decreased bulb dry matter content by about 4% over the control. Pungency measured as pyruvate concentration improved with increase in the rate of N application and reached the highest value of 2.72 μmol ml -1 at a rate of 138 kg N ha -1 . Bulb storability study for eight week...

Although lighting systems powered by Photovoltaic (PV) cells have existed for many years, they are not widely used, especially in lighting for buildings, due to their high initial cost and low conversion efficiency. One of the technical challenges facing PV powered lighting systems has been how to use dc power generated by the PV module to energize common light sources that are designed to oper...