during repetitive tasks (such as running, walking and tapping), music can effect on body movement rhythm. the purpose of this study is investigated the effect of music meter and tempo on cycling speed. therefore, seventeen female physical education students with 22.33±1.22 age, 57.23±10.30 weight, 22.09±3.5 body mass index and 160.55±4.6 height were selected and examined during four sessions (e...

This paper briefs on the smart meter functionality requirements and discusses the challenges it poses to the energy meter design and proposes methods to achieve an architecture which is scalable and modular. Also, the paper discusses the key care about for choosing a Real time operating system for smart meter application and silicon SOC architecture required for implementing the software.

The smart meter is an important intelligent device on the Smart Grid that has the capability to report information related to power consumption, billing and other significant readings. The protection of smart meter communications against attacks is essential to ensure reliable operations of the Smart Grid. In this paper, we give an overview of smart meter applications, and we discuss the securi...

A new miniature Wright peak-flow meter has been designed and produced. The meter is tubular with a spring-loaded piston and a longitudinal slot through which air escapes. Its dynamic characteristics have been carefully designed to make it respond only to peak flow and not to rate of rise. Performance tests on early instruments showed fairly close correlation with the Wright peak-flow meter but ...

Under the background of smart grid’s real-time electricity prices theory, a real-time electricity prices and wireless communication smart meter was designed. The metering chip collects power consumption information. The real-time clock chip records current time. The communication between smart meter and system master station is achieved by the wireless communication module. The “freescale” micr...

Wireless automatic meter reading (AMR) system based on a fixed radio network brings many advantages when compared to other meter reading techniques. After an introduction to the state of the art of AMR systems in general, and particularly of water meter reading system, a wireless automatic water-meter reading system founded on ZigBee technology is presented. Set forth in the text are main chara...

The French Academy units of time and length — the second and the meter — are traditionally considered independent from each other. However, it is a matter of fact that a meter simple pendulum beats virtually the second in each oscillation, a 'surprising' coincidence that has no physical reason. We shortly review the steps that led to the choice of the meter as the ten millionth part of the quad...

Approximately 18 million people suffer from diabetes mellitus, also known as diabetes, only in the United States which is 5% of the total population. It is the seventh leading cause of death. By 2020, the cost associated with diabetic treatment is expected to rise as high as $192 billion (Freer, March 2011). There is no cure for diabetic till date. Measuring glucose level in a diabetic patient ...

In this paper we present results from the METER (MEasuring TExt Reuse) project whose aim is to explore issues pertaining to text reuse and derivation, especially in the context of newspapers using newswire sources. Although the reuse of text by journalists has been studied in linguistics, we are not aware of any investigation using existing computational methods for this particular task. We inv...

A microcontroller based capacitance meter using 89C52 microcontroller for the measurement of capacitance has been design and developed. It is based on the principle of charging and discharging of the capacitor. Atmel’s AT89C52 microcontroller is used in the present study. Further, an LCD module is interfaced with the microcontroller in 4-bit mode, which reduces the hardware complexity. Software...