Today’s cities have attracted the largest share of the global human population and have become symbols of advancements in knowledge and technology. They have however also begun to represent a lifestyle detached from nature and geared towards a high level of consumption. To make cities sustainable, they need to provide better living conditions for everybody, access to resource availability and s...

Wearable devices, e.g. smart-watches, are gaining popularity in many fields and in wellness monitoring too. In this paper we propose an IoT application to alert the medical doctor assigned to a critical unit by using a smart-watch. The wearable device improves the efficacy of monitoring patients at risk in hospital units allowing the medical doctor to access information at any time and from any...

This paper studies an emerging technology in network service market: smart routing technology. We focus on the economics issues related to the adoption of this new technology, such as contracting, bandwidth allocation and cost-benefit analysis. This study shows the advantage of deploying smart routers assuming efficient contract and usage, and quantifies the extra benefit they can generate. Int...

Commercial home automation systems are becoming increasingly common, affording the opportunity to study technology-augmented homes in real world contexts. In order to understand how these technologies are being integrated into homes and their effects on inhabitants, we conducted a qualitative study involving smart home professionals who provide such technology, people currently in the process o...

for making life more comfortable, safer and more intelligent, a system for remote monitoring of smart home is proposed based on ARM and ZigBee. This system not only can centralize and monitor family affairs by gathering computer technology, embedded technology, sensor technology, and network communication technology, but also can meet the pursuit of high quality life in the information age by c...

smart card abstract pdf Smart cards are used in information technologies as portable integrated.Abstract: While mobile handheld devices provide productivity benefits, they also pose. Paper describes two novel types of smart card with unconventional form factors. smart card abstract ppt Pdf.ABSTRACT Over the past few years, smart cards have achieved a growing acceptance as a powerful tool for se...

With the world’s science and technology becoming more and more mature and perfect, as well as the environment of supporting policy optimized and application prospects become more extensive, new terms, such as, smart earth, smart city, smart scenic spots, smart hotels, smart services, and smart marketing process have swept the world. The era of smart travel has arrived. However, it must be reali...

The use of technology within the home has gained wide spread acceptance as one possible approach to be used in addressing the challenges of an ageing society. A number of rudimentary assistive solutions are now being deployed in real settings but with the introduction of these technology-orientated services come a number of challenges, which to date are still largely unsolved. At a fundamental ...

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