Parametric identification requires a good know-how and an accurate analysis. The most popular methods consist in using simply the least squares techniques because of their simplicity. However, these techniques are not intrinsically robust. An alternative consists in helping them with an appropriate data treatment. Another choice consists in applying a robust identification method. This paper fo...

In order to automatically monitor farmers' activities, we propose a farm operation monitoring system using "Field Servers" and a wearable device equipped with an RFID reader and motion sensors. Our proposed system helps in recognizing farming operations by analyzing the data from the sensors and detected RFID tags that are attached to various objects such as farming materials, facilities, and m...

RFID system is a wireless technology that can transfer data between tags and readers via radio frequency. In an RFID network, readers are located close to each other to obtain optimal connectivity and sufficient coverage. In such an environment, which is called dense reader environment (DRE).Different types of collisions such as Reader-to-Reader and Reader-to-Tag ones, often lead to serious pro...

processing and recovery is a key functional element in municipal solid waste management system (mswms). reuse, recycle and recovery of valuable components of waste stream are given much attention in mswms in both developed and developing countries. the main concern of municipalities is the sound management of recyclable materials. source separation as a best practice for management of trash and...

Over time, various drivers affecting information technology architecture design have been proposed which favored either more centralization or decentralization. With the advent of RFID and other sensor technologies, the next inflection point heading towards decentralization might arise. This paper aims to improve the understanding of the decentralization debate by investigating the factors that...

While there has traditionally been strong interest in the task of monolingual language identification, research on multilingual language identification is underrepresented in the literature, partly due to a lack of standardised datasets. This paper describes an artificially-generated dataset for multilingual language identification, as used in the 2010 Australasian Language Technology Workshop ...

Significant progress has been made in the field of human language technologies. Various tasks like continuous speech recognition for large vocabulary, speaker and language identification, spoken information inquiry, information extraction and cross-language retrieval in restricted domains are today feasible and different prototypes and systems are running. The spoken translation problem on the ...

This paper introduces a novel approach to enhancing safety through RFID technology, location tracking, and monitoring person-object interaction. We design and develop RFID-based wearable devices for (1)tracking people’s locations, (2)monitoring person-object interactions, and (3)tracking objects’ locations. An intelligent object reminder and safety alert system is proposed to relief the common ...

In this paper, we introduce MITes, a flexible kit of wireless sensing devices for pervasive computing research in natural settings. The sensors have been optimized for ease of use, ease of installation, affordability, and robustness to environmental conditions in complex spaces such as homes. The kit includes six environmental sensors: movement, movement tuned for object-usage-detection, light,...