Mobile devices are becoming increasingly sophisticated and the latest generation of smart phones now incorporates many diverse and powerful sensors, like GPS sensors, light sensors, temperature sensors, direction sensors (i.e., magnetic compasses), and acceleration sensors (i.e., accelerometers). In this project we are trying to build a system that uses phone-based accelerometers, gyroscope and...

Indoor positioning systems have become very popular in recent years as asset and indoor tracking. In order to provide location information for indoor applications and context-aware computing, a lot of research is being done since last decade for development of real-time Indoor location system. This paper provides an overview of developing an Application based on tracking User Info and Location....

A solution to the problem of identification and control of smart structures is presented in this paper. Smart structures with build-in sensors and actuators can actively and adaptively change their physical geometry and properties. As a particular example, a representative dynamic model of a typical fighter vertical tail, identified as the smart fin, is considered. Piezoelectric patches, which ...

Smart living is a trending lifestyle that envisions lower energy consumption, sound public services, and better quality of life for human being. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a compelling platform connecting various sensors around us to the Internet, providing great opportunities for the realization of smart living. Spintronic sensors with superb measuring ability and multiple unique advantag...

In this paper, we describe a distributed crowd-sensing infrastructure that integrates and bridges small scale personalized ad-hoc Internet of Things (IoT) spaces (consisting of personal interconnected smart devices, sensors and actuators dynamically deployed at runtime) to large scale IoT spaces. While a lot of innovation takes place on large scale IoT infrastructures, we focus on a personalize...

Main research activities and results of the project “TETRis – TETRA Innovative Open Source Services” are described that are aimed at enabling innovative services for Smart City/Smart Territory by means of technological tools and intelligent platforms for collecting, representing, managing and exploiting data and information gathered from sensors and devices deployed i...

The Window, a common household feature has great potential to become an automated system implemented in homes across the globe. In this project we designed and constructed a prototype of a marketable Smart Window utilizing the Arduino microcontroller. This open-source platform allowed us to use a variety of sensors to evaluate internal and external conditions and adjust the settings of a room a...

Wireless smart sensor networks (WSSN) facilitate a new paradigm for structural health monitoring (SHM) of civil infrastructure. Conventionally, SHM systems employing wired sensors and centralized data acquisition have been used to characterize the state of a structure; however, widespread implementation has been limited due to high costs and difficulties in installation. WSSN offer a unique opp...

Context-recognition and activity recognition systems in multi-user environments such as smart homes, usually assume to know the number of occupants in the environment. However, being able to count the number of users in the environment is important in order to accurately recognize the activities of (groups of) agents. For smart environments without cameras, the problem of counting the number of...