This report considers the technical features of smart cards and how they affect the way in which smart cards might be used in the health sector. This is an important issue since the government has highlighted smart cards as a likely means of improving patients' access to the NHS. We seek to contribute to the debate by undertaking a review of the technology and predicting technical development o...

The smart grid is the emerging energy system wherein the application of information technology, tools and techniques that make the grid run more efficiently. It possesses demand response capacity to help balance electrical consumption with supply. The challenges and opportunities of emerging and future smart grids can be addressed by cloud computing. To focus on these requirements, we provide a...

With energy monitoring and control playing an increasingly important role in home energy management, Smart Meters are the key technology for the smart house deployment. Smart Meters collect data from devices to databases for analysis and billing purposes, do data logging, power quality and real time monitoring, offering the knowledge of energy consumption in order to control the flow of energy ...

Smart Products pose a new class of IT artifacts based on sensors, ID-tags, haptic user interfaces, and other technologies usually subsumed under the notion of 'ubiquitous computing'. Such devices differ in many ways from traditional computers, e.g., with regard to their physical shape, computing power, and interaction paradigms. While a substantial body of literature already exists on underlyin...

The system of smart home can provide a kind of easier, ordered and effective life style to human, and must be the development tendency for future inhabitancy mode. Therefore, a smart home system solution is proposed in this paper. Firstly, this paper analyzes the characteristics of ZigBee technology, device types, network topologies and ZigBee protocol specification. Secondly, a design scheme o...

The recent introduction of smart glasses through media spurred new concepts of service support systems. Especially in the domain of Technical Customer Services (TCS), the opportunity to access information hands-free provides additional benefits. However, due to the novelty of the technology besides various technical issues the question of usefulness is of vital importance. To date, little resea...

The smart grid is a promising technology of the next-generation electrical systems which involves wireless networks. Such Long Term Evolution (LTE), which has been proposed and developed by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), is expected to be a preferable technology due to its high data rate and low delay. Due to the fact that smart grid requires real-time communications, scheduling...

Long Term Evolution (LTE) is expanding its utilization in unlicensed band by deploying LTE Unlicensed (LTEU) and Licensed Assisted Access LTE (LTE-LAA) technology. Smart Grid can take the advantages of unlicensed bands for achieving two-way communication between smart meters and utility data centers by using LTE-U/LTE-LAA. However, both schemes must co-exist with the incumbent Wi-Fi system. In ...

To create applications for smart environments we can select from a huge variety of sensors that measure environmental parameters or detect activities of different actors within the premises. Capacitive proximity sensors use weak electric fields to recognize conductive objects, such as the human body. They can be unobtrusively applied or even provide information when hidden from view. In the pas...

This purpose of this research was the usage of NFC Technology which installed on the smart phones under the android operation system. It was used for paying bills which used at computer labs of computer science and technology program like printing charges: A4 color, and black and white. By using the android smart phones that supported with NFC Technology, students could touch onto the ACR122U d...