An important feature provided by the Stargate is its built-in battery monitoring capability. This is achieved through a smart battery monitoring chip, the DS2438, located on the main board. Here the operation of the DS2438 is explained in so far as it applies to its use on the Crossbow’s Stargate platform and the work done at UCSC to improve the Stargate’s support for the battery monitor’s feat...

This paper presents TJass, a smart board that extends regular card playing with computational supports, without modifying players’ habits. The article first presents the functionalities, in particular the learning by trial assistant, and architecture of TJass and further details the hardware implementation and problems encountered. The article concludes with users’ satisfaction comments. ACM Cl...

Wireless smart sensors enable new approaches to improve structural health monitoring (SHM) practices through the use of distributed data processing. Such an approach is scalable to the large number of sensor nodes required for high-fidelity modal analysis and damage detection. While much of the technology associated with smart sensors has been available for nearly a decade, there have been limi...

This paper deals with prepaid smart meters energy management system using ARDUINO microcontroller with labVIEW has been introduced. Smart meters are the key component of the smart grid which helps both the user and supplier to control consumption of energy according to availability of resources. The proposed energy metering system consists of smart meter, zigbee communication and mobile user. Z...

Increases in power demand and consumption are very noticeable. This increase presents a number of challenges to the traditional grid systems. Thus, there is need come up with new solution that copes stringent on energy provides better quality, which gives experience end users. how concept smart grids (SG) came light. SGs have been introduced monitor control produced consumed. In addition this, ...

Multi-socket server boards have emerged to increase the processing power density on the board level and further flatten the data center networks beyond leaf-spine architectures. Scaling however the number of processors per board puts current electronic technologies into challenge, as it requires high bandwidth interconnects and high throughput switches with increased number of ports that are cu...

Opportunities are wide open, all across the board. Smart technologies enable countless new applications, driving a range of end-use market sectors and boosting semiconductor sales. The number of networked devices is growing exponentially and globally. R&D teams rapidly pair devices with services, applications and content. At the same time, private companies — not just government agencies or mil...

logical complexity into simple, colourful diagrams. When used with a touch-sensitive screen such as the SMART Board pictured above, the argument maps become manipulable in a very direct sense. Photo: Michael Silver. This suggests that something else is the key difference between the Reason! approach and traditional approaches. Our hunch at this stage is that it is argument mapping. Exercises co...