Computer technologies, sensor technologies, fiber optics, high-performance network technologies, mobile devices, wireless sensor networks, and powerful data repositories have permeated all layers of industry and opened the door for unprecedented data analytic capabilities used to improve equipment operation, equipment design, process quality, and product quality. Powerful and inexpensive sensor...

Workspace design has not been keeping up with the evolving needs of mobile workers. Although the economic benefits of mobile work have been expanding for companies, few companies have mobile worker strategies or seriously address how new ways of working require different kinds of physical space, mobile devices, and office equipment. Popular mobile worker “myths” about the work they do, what the...

This article introduces a novel flexible mobile device reconfiguration classes (MDRCs) framework which is expected to be applicable to future generation mass market reconfigurable radio devices. This framework sets the scene for a vision of a smooth evolution of reconfigurability features in mobile devices (MDs), paving the way from the current and mainly static implementation choices toward a ...

The Drive-thru Internet architecture allows exploiting intermittent connectivity by temporarily connecting to IEEE 802.11 WLAN access points at the roadside from moving vehicles. This poses numerous challenges to a mobile user’s equipment: extreme networking characteristics such as short periods of connectivity, unpredictable disconnection times, and vastly varying transmission characteristics....

In this paper, the mobile outdoor gaming system ARQuake is discussed from an implementation point of view. The modifications to the original source code from Id Software are described, with a focus on the changes made for tracking devices, video overlays, firing weapons, and tweaks to the game to improve its visual quality. The game runs under GNU/Linux on a standard laptop mounted to a custom ...

The rapid expansion of mobile networks globally, coupled with the decreasing cost of mobile equipment [1], is allowing global health programs increasingly to utilize mobileand cloud-based technology in their efforts to target important challenges to public health. Our initial electronic data collection system employed personal digital assistants (PDAs) [2,3], but these proved to have significan...

Mobile data traffic has been growing at an increasing rate with the popularity of smartphones, tablets, and other wireless devices. To reduce the load on the network, mobile network operators deploy femtocells to increase their coverage and performance and to eliminate wireless notspots. Femtocells are low-cost devices that connect a new femtocell network architecture to the core telecommunicat...

High energy costs have led to an increasing relevance of energyefficiency over the last few years. While new equipment is mostly designed to be energy-efficient, feasible action is needed to decrease energy consumption of existing equipment on the shop-floor level. As interventions there rely on dependable information and its use at the right time and place, involvement of ICT systems and parti...

—In recent years, there have been major developments in, and deployment of, diverse mobile technology. Security issues in mobile computing are now presenting significant challenges. The ability to move from one network to another, and from one provider to another creating thus vertical and horizontal handoffs, has increased the complexity of mobile security. There are many research groups, such...

The use of mobile head computed tomography (CT) equipment in intensive care is of benefit to unstable patients with brain injury. However, ionising radiation in a ward environment presents difficulties due to the necessity to restrict the exposure to staff and members of the public according to regulation 8(1-2) of the Ionising Radiation Regulations 1999. The methodology for enabling the use of...