Smart buildings and autonomous vehicles are expected to see rapid growth and adoption in the coming decades. Americans spend over 90% of their lives in buildings or automobiles, meaning that 90% of their lives could be spent interfacing with intelligent environments. EMBR Labs has developed EMBR Wave, a wearable thermoelectric system, for introducing thermal sensation as a connected mode of int...

In recent years, there is enormous growth of smart systems that have been developed for range of applications. This development is focused on Internet-ofThings (IoT), which will eventually, transform IoT into system of systems. Such smart systems are widely utilized in healthcare; however, the wide scope of such systems is also vulnerable to security and privacy issues. This paper proposes a se...

Smart chemical sensor based on CMOS(complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) compatible SOI(silicon on insulator) microheater platform was realized by facilitating ZnO nanowires growth on the small membrane at the relatively low temperature. Our SOI microheater platform can be operated at the very low power consumption with novel metal oxide sensing materials, like ZnO or SnO2 nanostructured ma...

We discuss how distributed multivendor catalogs can be created and used by multiple retailers. Currently, there are a variety of proprietary approaches to electronic catalogs. These include WWW catalogs built with stovepipe architectures that allow only one catalog to be used at a time. Also, proprietary catalogs are created using EDI 832 transactions that limit flexibility and technological gr...

One of the major factors influencing the phenomenal growth of the smart phone market is the active development applications based on open environments. Despite difficulties in finding and downloading applications due to the small screens and inconvenient interfaces of smart phones, users download applications nearly every day. Such user behavior patterns indicate the significance of smart phone...