The U.S. Army Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) recently completed a Science and Technology Objective (STO) to develop and demonstrate a compact on-board smart sensor system for monitoring the operational condition of in-service diesel engine oils. The goal of such technologies is to reduce or eliminate the Army’s dependence on traditional oil analysis method...

One of the issues that have gained a lot of attention in recent years is the board gender diversity. Many researchers believe that gender diversity in the board reinforces corporate social responsibility and on the other hand, gender diversity is one of the signs and effects of corporate social responsibility in the board, so there is a mutual relationship between board gender diversity and cor...

It has been fifteen years since the appearance of the Second Edition of this book. A lot has happened since then. The teaching reform movement has become a fact of life. Many of us have had occasion to rethink how and why we teach. Many of us have taken time to learn about the myriad of new (often OnLine) teaching devices that are available today. Among these are MOOCs (massive open online cour...

This paper investigates a critical access control issue in the Internet of Things (IoT). In particular, we propose a smart contract-based framework, which consists of multiple access control contracts (ACCs), one judge contract (JC) and one register contract (RC), to achieve distributed and trustworthy access control for IoT systems. Each ACC provides one access control method for a subject-obj...

This paper presents the design and development of the smart antenna system testbed (SATB). The SATB is developed based on using the novel L-probe fed inverted hybrid E-H (LIEH) microstrip patch element design arranged into 4×1 uniform linear array antenna. This paper reports the development of a software reconfigurable testbed for the implementation and evaluation of digital beamforming algorit...

Understanding the dynamic behavior of civil engineering structures is important to adequately resolve problems related to structural vibration. The dynamic properties of a structure are commonly obtained by conducting a modal survey that can be used for model updating, design verification, and improvement of serviceability. However, particularly for largescale civil structures, modal surveys us...

Spinal disease is a common yet important condition that occurs because of inappropriate posture. Prevention could be achieved by continuous posture monitoring, but most measurement systems cannot be used in daily life due to factors such as burdensome wires and large sensing modules. To improve upon these weaknesses, we developed comfortable "smart wear" for posture measurement using conductive...

Embedded computer vision based smart systems raise challenging issues in many research fields, including real-time vision processing, communication protocols or distributed algorithms. The amount of data generated by cameras using high resolution image sensors requires powerful computing systems to be processed at digital video frame rates. Consequently, the design of efficient and flexible sma...

How traffic congestion is evaluated can significantly affect transport planning decisions. This report describes various factors that affect congestion cost estimates and the evaluation of potential congestion reduction strategies, including analysis scope, baseline speeds, travel time valuation, accident and emission impact analysis, induced travel analysis, and consideration of co-benefits. I...

Structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil infrastructure using wireless smart sensor networks (WSSNs) has received significant public attention in recent years. The benefits of WSSNs are that they are low-cost, easy to install, and provide effective data management via on-board computation. This paper reports on the deployment and evaluation of a state-of-the-art WSSN on the new Jindo Bridge,...