Advances in flow and level measurements enhance process knowledge, control J obs in research, process development, process design, process technology, automation , operations, or maintenance depend upon the ability to see, trend, analyze, diagnose, and collect the information from measurements. Ultimately, what you want to know as an engineer or technician is " why. " Modern instruments have ma...

1 SUMMARY Possibilities of new applications of smart devices arise with the development of new generation wind turbines. Rotor up-scaling implies a need to control dynamic characteristics of loads transferred from blades to the hub and tower. The motivation for this work was to demonstrate an approach to control dynamic reaction force resulting from a wind blow. A controllable gas spring was ch...

The energy system is undergoing a radical transformation. The coupling of the energy system with advanced information and communication technologies is making it possible to monitor and control in real-time generation, transport, distribution and consumption of energy. In this context, a key enabler is represented by smart meters, devices able to monitor in near real-time the consumption of ene...

In the domain of smart cards, secured devices must be protected against high level attack potential [1]. According to norms such as the Common Criteria [2], the vulnerability analysis must cover the current state-of-the-art in term of attacks. Nowadays, a very classical type of attack is fault injection, conducted by means of laser based techniques. We propose a global approach, called Lazart, ...

in this paper the active vibration control of a four-story shear frame instrumented with piezoelectric actuators is presented. the piezoelectric actuators are hosted on the columns in two manners and the produced controlling forces by actuators are considered in the equation of motion. the smart structure modeling and control design is carried out using matlab software in state space form. subs...

As much as possible, it is important that the smart grid is secure from cyber-attacks. A vital part of ensuring the security of smart grids is to perform a cybersecurity risk assessment that methodically examines the impact and likelihood of cyber-attacks. Based on the outcomes of a risk assessment, security requirements and controls can be determined that inform architectural choices and addre...

environmental control is the control, operation, and monitoring of an environment via intermediary technology such as a computer. Typically this means control of a domestic home. Within the scope of COGAIN, this environmental control concerns the control of the personal environment of a person (with or without a disability). This defines environmental control as the control of a home or domesti...

Dynamic and heterogeneous smart spaces cause challenges for security because it is impossible to anticipate all the possible changes at design-time. Self-adaptive security is an applicable solution for this challenge. This paper presents an architectural approach for security adaptation in smart spaces. The approach combines an adaptation loop, Information Security Measuring Ontology (ISMO) and...

As modern power grids move towards becoming a smart grid, there is an increasing reliance on the data that is transmitted and processed by ICT systems. This reliance introduces new digital attack vectors. Many of the proposed approaches that aim to address this problem largely focus on applying well-known ICT security solutions. However, what is needed are approaches that meet the complex conce...