Recently, smartphones have been used as remote controllers for home appliances through connectivity of mobile telecom network or Wi-Fi. To control several home appliances in a room, a mechanism is required for a smartphone to correctly select the target appliance. Through the built-in electronic compass function in the smartphone, we propose a scheme called Point-and-Control (PnC) that allows a...

When a student is away from school for an extended time due to illness, s/he is provided with a tutor or in-hospital classrooms to keep up with studies. This isolates the child from normal classroom experiences. A remote controlled communication system, PEBBLES (Providing Education By Bringing Learning Environments to Students), was developed which allows a remote student to communicate with hi...

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The remote control of robots, known as teleoperation, is a non-trivial task, requiring the operator to make decisions based on the information relayed by the robot about its own status as well as its surroundings. This places the operator under significant cognitive load. A solution to this involves sharing this load between the human operator and automated operators. This paper builds on the i...

The frequency and severity of forest fires, coupled with changes in spatial and temporal precipitation and temperature patterns, are likely to severely affect the characteristics of forest and permafrost patterns in boreal eco-regions. Forest fires, however, are also an ecological factor in how forest ecosystems form and function, as they affect the rate and characteristics of tree recruitment....

The Lean approach has been implemented in many different sectors as a methodology to improve industrial performance at company level. In the latest years this approach has been further developed in literature and in practice to integrate the principles of agility, adaptability and the mass customization paradigm where product and services have to be designed together to meet specific requiremen...

This paper presents a method to reduce the cost of the conventional gel documentation system by employing a much cheaper digital camera instead of the existing expensive one. To adapt the cheaper camera, a computer remote control function which is necessary to the gel document system was added. The gel imaging performance of the camera was qualitatively and quantitatively analyzed in comparison...

The interest on educational remote laboratories has increased, as have the technologies involved in their development and deployment. These laboratories enable students to use real equipment located in the university from the Internet. This way, students can extend their personal learning experience by testing with real equipment what they are studying at home, or performing hands-onlab session...

Watching television is usually a shared experience allowing family or friends that share the same viewing interests to watch, comment and enjoy programs together. The interaction part however is at the opposite end being reduced to the traditional remote control which by itself proves very limited with respect to the sharing part: although the viewing experience is shared among the group, the c...

voltage control is one of the imperative issues in the smart distribution control system. while traditional distribution network is equipped with communication and monitoring equipment, the online voltage control can be perfectly achieved. with using these smart grid technologies, the distribution voltage control schemes should carry out intelligently and cover the undesirable effect of high pe...