BACKGROUND This debate article explores how smart technologies may create a double-edged sword for patient safety and effective therapeutic relationships. Increasing utilization of health monitoring devices by patients will likely become an important aspect of self-care and preventive medicine. It may also help to enhance accurate symptom reports, diagnoses, and prompt referral to specialist ca...

In an ideal pervasive computing environment, a large number of connected smart devices are deployed to collaboratively provision seamless services to users. Pervasive computing is enabled by various advanced technologies, particularly wireless technologies and the Internet. It has become a trend for our future lives. A pervasive computing environment can be extremely heterogeneous. We can imagi...

This report presents the findings of a series of interviews to investigate how security issues and novel vulnerabilities are seen and dealt with in the smart grid pilot projects in the Netherlands and Germany. The report is a deliverable of the research project Kwetsbaarheid en veiligheid van Intelligente Distributienetten (KID), conducted within the NGI-Alliander programme Empowering Networks,...

Smart Grid solutions are being driven by the desire for more efficient energy usage worldwide. Nowadays Smart Grid communications network is a heterogeneous network based on many different standards. This paper describes the suitability of Wi-Fi technology for use in the Smart Grid backhaul.

Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) technology has rapidly become a significant component of modern electronics. It offers solution to the rising need of low power-consuming, space-saving and better display devices thereby, paving the way for significant economic opportunities. However, the environmental impact of the end of life of the LCD products should be judiciously assessed, so that they do not ...

Smart home is a relatively new technology. Originally, smart home technology was used to control environmental systems such as lighting and heating; but recently the use of smart technology has been developed so that almost any electrical component within the home can be included in the system. Complex smart home applications include three levels of control: local control, discrete-event contro...

Smart technologies play a key role in sustainable economic growth. They transform houses, offices, factories, and even cities into autonomic, self-controlled systems acting often without human intervention and thus sparing people routine connected with information collecting and processing. The paper gives an overview of a novel Wi-Fi technology, currently under development, which aims to organ...

Security in smart grid is challenging. Smart Grid is recognized as two way communication technology. There are numerous communication, intelligent, monitoring and electrical elements employed in power grid that makes it smart. These elements regularly generates cum real timely talks the critical information like monitoring data, customer energy consumption, grid status, demand response etc amon...

The increasing usage of computer technology in our everyday life and especially in our homes and the increasing demand for sustainable life style concepts raise the question of how to combine these two trends. Can we make smart homes sustainable or sustainable homes smart? This paper discusses current trends and challenges arising with these questions and proposes a sustainable smart home appro...

Multi-application smart card technology facilitates applications to securely share their data and functionality. The security enforcement and assurance in application sharing is provided by the smart card firewall. The firewall mechanism is well defined and studied in the Issuer Centric Smart Card Ownership Model (ICOM), in which a smart card is under total control of its issuer. However, it is...