Remote offices and branch offices, like retail stores, bank branches, or manufacturing plants, are crucial assets in company operations and have unique infrastructure challenges. The major challenge is that these locations are geographically distributed, with few or no IT staff members available. This situation can be exacerbated by often difficult operating conditions such as unreliable wide a...

This paper presents an overview of wireless local-area networks (LANs) and wireless personal area networks (PANs), with emphasis on the two most popular standards: IEEE 802.1 1, and Bluetooth. While there are many such surveys in the current literature and online, we attempt here to present wireless LANs and PANS in a unified fashion as a viable alternative to wired LANs, while stressing the re...

Various information and communication technology (ICT) applications have been introduced for use in disaster-stricken areas. Of these, those for healthcare purposes proved useful when used for continually monitoring health conditions and easily using medical and healthcare devices, such as sphygmomanometers, which are familiar to the public. Devices that were easy to understand and use were mor...

Projects focusing on spatio-temporal modelling of the living environment need to manage a wide range of terrain measurements, existing spatial data, time series, results of spatial analysis and inputs/outputs from numerical simulations. Thus, GISs are often used to manage data from remote sensors, to provide advanced spatial analysis and to integrate numerical models. In order to demonstrate th...

The High Performance Storage System (HPSS) is a mature Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) system that was developed around a network-centered architecture, with client access to storage provided through third-party controls. Because of this design, HPSS is able to leverage today's Storage Area Network (SAN) infrastructures to provide cost effective, large-scale storage systems and high perfo...

This study introduces a field oriented controlled (FOC) induction machine based flywheel energy storage (FES) system fed from a 20kHz ac link and Pulse Density Modulated (PDM) Converter. The feasibilty of FES system is investigated both in software and hardware and is demonstrated succesfully in both cases. The investigated system offers a good potential as a temporary energy storage system for...

The possibility of using dawsonite mineral trapping as a carbon capture and storage (CCS) strategy intrigues many. In this study, we used dawsonite-rich (∼10%) CO2 gas reservoir in the Hailar basin northern China natural analogue site, along with numerical modeling, to demonstrate that large amount can be generated sandstone formations, provided sufficient Na-rich feldspar are available. While ...