Smart cities aim to provide interconnected and personalized services to improve quality of life. They utilize sensors, data analytics and smart technologies across domains like energy, transportation and living to optimize resource use, services and sustainability. Key elements include smart infrastructure, utilities, industries, living and governance that work together through a smart operating system and middleware to benefit citizens.
Hotel Management International - Summer 2014 issue
Ikusi draws on its 60 years´ experience to provide hotels with a package of high-quality, tailored coverage, reliable equipment and customer assitance.
Plataforma para mejorar el transporte público de GipuzkoaIkusi Velatia
Ikusi implanta su plataforma Spider de movilidad para mejorar la calidad del transporte público coordinado por la Autoridad Territorial del Transporte de Gipuzkoa
El documento presenta los resultados de un análisis retrospectivo de 76 pacientes que acudieron por primera vez a una consulta de psiquiatría pediátrica en 2011. La mayoría eran niños en edad escolar y de sexo masculino que presentaban problemas de comportamiento como agresividad e inquietud. Muchos tenían dificultades académicas como fracaso o retraso escolar. También se observó una alta tasa de disfunción familiar. El documento concluye que los problemas de conducta son la razón más común para consultas psiquiátricas ped
The document discusses a smart environment solution that provides a platform for monitoring and managing various environmental parameters across a large city area. The solution collects data from sensors measuring air quality levels, gases, temperature, noise and more. This data is transmitted to a municipal management center where it is stored, processed and displayed to provide real-time insights into the city's environmental conditions. The benefits include helping cities become more sustainable, raising public awareness of environmental issues, and increasing citizen satisfaction.
Hotel Management International - Summer 2014 issue
Ikusi draws on its 60 years´ experience to provide hotels with a package of high-quality, tailored coverage, reliable equipment and customer assitance.
Plataforma para mejorar el transporte público de GipuzkoaIkusi Velatia
Ikusi implanta su plataforma Spider de movilidad para mejorar la calidad del transporte público coordinado por la Autoridad Territorial del Transporte de Gipuzkoa
El documento presenta los resultados de un análisis retrospectivo de 76 pacientes que acudieron por primera vez a una consulta de psiquiatría pediátrica en 2011. La mayoría eran niños en edad escolar y de sexo masculino que presentaban problemas de comportamiento como agresividad e inquietud. Muchos tenían dificultades académicas como fracaso o retraso escolar. También se observó una alta tasa de disfunción familiar. El documento concluye que los problemas de conducta son la razón más común para consultas psiquiátricas ped
The document discusses a smart environment solution that provides a platform for monitoring and managing various environmental parameters across a large city area. The solution collects data from sensors measuring air quality levels, gases, temperature, noise and more. This data is transmitted to a municipal management center where it is stored, processed and displayed to provide real-time insights into the city's environmental conditions. The benefits include helping cities become more sustainable, raising public awareness of environmental issues, and increasing citizen satisfaction.
Ikusi is a technology solutions company based in Spain that works with customers in transportation, utilities, and public sector. They partnered with Cisco to develop secure Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to help customers drive business growth and expand market reach. Through the partnership, Ikusi can offer complete IoT solutions using Cisco's security products and partner ecosystem. This has helped Ikusi build new revenue streams and better meet customer needs around the world.
El documento habla sobre la importancia de la continuidad del negocio y la necesidad de sistemas de seguridad física y lógica para prevenir incidentes y garantizar que las empresas puedan recuperarse rápidamente de cualquier interrupción. Menciona que más del 40% de las empresas en Latinoamérica han sufrido ciberataques y el 10% han tenido pérdidas económicas de más de $250,000 dólares. También discute soluciones tecnológicas como sistemas de gestión de incidentes y auditorías que pueden ayud
Spider is a smart city platform that collects data from different city systems and sensors, analyzes the data in real-time, and enables automatic responses to events. It provides city managers with a holistic view of what is happening across different departments to improve management and coordination. Spider converts city data into valuable information to help decision makers improve services, increase efficiency, and enhance citizen satisfaction.
Ikusi in Annual show case Passenger Terminal World Ikusi Velatia
This document is the 2017 annual showcase published by UKIP Media & Events Ltd for Passenger Terminal World. It highlights that passenger numbers are projected to double to 7.2 billion by 2035. It then provides short profiles for several companies that provide products and services relevant to airport terminals, including Foxstream (video content analysis software), Green Furniture (sustainable furniture designs), HOK (airport design firm), Ikusi (airport solutions and services), INECO (infrastructure engineering), INTOS (interior contracting), JBT Corporation (airport equipment), K+P Koch+Partner (airport planning and architecture), and L-3 Security (security screening solutions).
Este documento describe los principales instrumentos de gestión ambiental. Explica que existen cuatro categorías de instrumentos: regulación directa, instrumentos administrativos, instrumentos económicos e información, educación e investigación. Dentro de cada categoría, detalla los diferentes instrumentos, como normas y sanciones, licencias ambientales, sistemas de cargo e impuestos, y programas de educación ambiental, respectivamente. Además, brinda una clasificación más específica de los instrumentos preventivos, correctivos y auxiliares utilizados en la gestión ambiental de
La huella ecológica mide la superficie de tierra y mar necesaria para satisfacer las necesidades de consumo de un individuo usando la tecnología actual. Se calcula comparando la biocapacidad, o superficie disponible para producción, con el consumo de recursos como alimentos, madera y energía. A nivel mundial, la huella ecológica global excede la biocapacidad de la Tierra, mientras que a nivel nacional, la huella de un peruano promedio se encuentra dentro de los límites sostenibles, a difer
El documento describe los pasos del proceso de evaluación de impacto ambiental y los instrumentos de gestión ambiental requeridos. Explica los procedimientos para la exploración, perforación, transporte, refinación y comercialización de hidrocarburos, así como los posibles impactos ambientales y su manejo. También cubre aspectos relacionados a la evaluación ambiental de proyectos de distribución eléctrica, vías de comunicación y sus instalaciones auxiliares.
La seguridad electrónica y la ley de protección de infraestructuras críticasIkusi Velatia
Este documento describe tres niveles de madurez en la seguridad de infraestructuras críticas. El nivel básico es reactivo y los sistemas no se comunican. El segundo nivel permite detección temprana y control de procesos. El tercer nivel convierte la seguridad en un activo estratégico donde la información entre sistemas impulsa el negocio. Se argumenta que abordar la seguridad con un enfoque orientado al negocio es la opción más ventajosa para el crecimiento empresarial.
Este documento describe diferentes instrumentos de gestión ambiental como instrumentos regulatorios (de comando y control), instrumentos económicos, y mecanismos voluntarios. Los instrumentos regulatorios se basan en estándares y requisitos obligatorios, mientras que los instrumentos económicos crean incentivos mediante señales de precios. Ambos tipos de instrumentos, junto con la promoción del cumplimiento y aplicación de la ley ambiental, son parte esencial de los regímenes de gestión ambiental.
Smart city merupakan konsep pengembangan kota berdasarkan teknologi informasi untuk kepentingan masyarakat secara efektif dan efisien, mencakup unsur-unsur seperti smart government, smart mobility, smart environment, dan lainnya. Implementasi smart city di Indonesia fokus pada tata kelola dan pengembangan kota cerdas seperti Surabaya.
Makalah ini membahas konsep smart city. Smart city adalah konsep kota cerdas yang mengelola sumber daya secara efisien dan memberikan informasi yang tepat kepada masyarakat. Tujuan smart city adalah untuk meningkatkan kualitas hidup dengan mengelola infrastruktur, ekonomi, lingkungan, dan sumber daya manusia secara cerdas. Faktor pendukung terwujudnya smart city antara lain teknologi informasi, dukungan pemerintah, infrastruktur
Las tres oraciones resumen lo siguiente: El documento introduce la gestión ambiental y su estructura, incluyendo la relación entre el hombre y la naturaleza, la evolución del pensamiento ambiental, y los fundamentos de la gestión ambiental. Explica cómo un sistema de gestión ambiental permite identificar y gestionar los impactos ambientales de una organización y cumplir con los requisitos legales.
El documento describe los conceptos y principios básicos de la gestión ambiental. Explica que la gestión ambiental busca lograr una alta calidad ambiental mediante acciones sobre las actividades humanas y los factores ambientales. También describe los agentes involucrados, líneas de acción, instrumentos y sistemas de gestión ambiental.
This document provides an introduction and overview of digital signal processing. It defines signals and how they can be classified as continuous or discrete, continuous or discrete valued. It describes how analog signals are converted to digital signals through sampling and quantization. It explains that digital signal processing involves passing signals through systems to process the signals. It outlines some key advantages of digital signal processing over analog processing, such as flexibility, accuracy, and easy storage. Finally, it provides some examples of applications of digital signal processing like voice recognition, telecommunications, consumer electronics, imaging, and more.
Future Position X is a leading European cluster for innovative use of geographical information. It brings together research labs, markets, and networks to create new solutions for tomorrow's society and emerging markets. This drives growth through new services, products, companies, and jobs.
Ambient Intelligence and City of Tomorrow : My Vision for services and uses of a connected city.
February 2013
A city is a place where human beings gather to meet their daily needs of life.
A city is a place of life and it is itself alive. A city develops itself over time, A city grows and becomes more complex.
In the city there are multiplicities of needs: uses, services, flows, which are diversified: housing, education, mobility, culture, health, environment, safety, energy, waste management, communication …
Each city is changing in its own context and at its own pace. Those are themselves diverse and evolving. Contexts can be of different natures: cultural, geopolitical, historical, religious, human…
Those contexts also shape many of the city’s characteristics.
In any case, vital human needs are to be met. Indeed, mankind always looks to meet new needs to ensure a better quality of life, a better comfort and progress.
In our vision, our cities, in fact are Complex Systems… The City will go towards transverse, open, scalable, adaptive ecosystems, allowing mankind to blossom.
Why is a city a complex system?
Because a city is alive, A city, like any living, changes over time.
The city we know today will not be the city of tomorrow and it is different from yesterday’s.
The city has a metabolism and many rich ecosystems. The city is very heterogeneous. Like any complex system, we never have a global view of how it evolves. The city is fragile and must adapt to changes all the time.
For us, the city must be described as complex systems with a decomposition into many systems, many subsystems and many components. Their interactions dictate their dynamics, their global behavior, their actions now and in the future.
Therefore, urban planning is limited by the own nature of its complexity.
In any complex system, its development is driven by the action of two vectors: necessity and chance.
In the city, needs are uses and functions, chance is hazard and risk.
In the city these vectors of complexity are constantly present and growing. The city is in permanent movement; In fact, the city is fragile, very fragile. Fragility is one of its features
At any time and everywhere in the city many unexpected events of all kind are happening. They demand us to react. They can also be very seriously affecting lives, practices and services.
Resilience is the major key to ensure continuity of services in the city during time of crisis.
In our vision, city has to adapt, learn, grow, be strong, independent, self repairing, and self breeding.
In our vision, in order to develop the city and manage this complexity, new paradigms and news practices are needed. For us AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE is the paradigm.
http://www.moreno-web.net/ambiant-intelligence-and-city-of-tomorrow/
Smart Water Management and Assisted Living Solutions for Smart Cities, powere...hubraum IoT Academy
WINGS ICT Solutions develops software solutions for smart cities and water management using technologies like NB-IoT, AI, and IoT. Their smart water management platform CATARACT uses sensors and analytics to monitor water quality and usage. Their assisted living solutions use environmental, health and home sensors in cities and homes to help monitor and support elderly populations. WINGS has experience piloting these solutions in cities like Paris, Madrid and Athens.
Ikusi is a technology solutions company based in Spain that works with customers in transportation, utilities, and public sector. They partnered with Cisco to develop secure Internet of Things (IoT) solutions to help customers drive business growth and expand market reach. Through the partnership, Ikusi can offer complete IoT solutions using Cisco's security products and partner ecosystem. This has helped Ikusi build new revenue streams and better meet customer needs around the world.
El documento habla sobre la importancia de la continuidad del negocio y la necesidad de sistemas de seguridad física y lógica para prevenir incidentes y garantizar que las empresas puedan recuperarse rápidamente de cualquier interrupción. Menciona que más del 40% de las empresas en Latinoamérica han sufrido ciberataques y el 10% han tenido pérdidas económicas de más de $250,000 dólares. También discute soluciones tecnológicas como sistemas de gestión de incidentes y auditorías que pueden ayud
Spider is a smart city platform that collects data from different city systems and sensors, analyzes the data in real-time, and enables automatic responses to events. It provides city managers with a holistic view of what is happening across different departments to improve management and coordination. Spider converts city data into valuable information to help decision makers improve services, increase efficiency, and enhance citizen satisfaction.
Ikusi in Annual show case Passenger Terminal World Ikusi Velatia
This document is the 2017 annual showcase published by UKIP Media & Events Ltd for Passenger Terminal World. It highlights that passenger numbers are projected to double to 7.2 billion by 2035. It then provides short profiles for several companies that provide products and services relevant to airport terminals, including Foxstream (video content analysis software), Green Furniture (sustainable furniture designs), HOK (airport design firm), Ikusi (airport solutions and services), INECO (infrastructure engineering), INTOS (interior contracting), JBT Corporation (airport equipment), K+P Koch+Partner (airport planning and architecture), and L-3 Security (security screening solutions).
Este documento describe los principales instrumentos de gestión ambiental. Explica que existen cuatro categorías de instrumentos: regulación directa, instrumentos administrativos, instrumentos económicos e información, educación e investigación. Dentro de cada categoría, detalla los diferentes instrumentos, como normas y sanciones, licencias ambientales, sistemas de cargo e impuestos, y programas de educación ambiental, respectivamente. Además, brinda una clasificación más específica de los instrumentos preventivos, correctivos y auxiliares utilizados en la gestión ambiental de
La huella ecológica mide la superficie de tierra y mar necesaria para satisfacer las necesidades de consumo de un individuo usando la tecnología actual. Se calcula comparando la biocapacidad, o superficie disponible para producción, con el consumo de recursos como alimentos, madera y energía. A nivel mundial, la huella ecológica global excede la biocapacidad de la Tierra, mientras que a nivel nacional, la huella de un peruano promedio se encuentra dentro de los límites sostenibles, a difer
El documento describe los pasos del proceso de evaluación de impacto ambiental y los instrumentos de gestión ambiental requeridos. Explica los procedimientos para la exploración, perforación, transporte, refinación y comercialización de hidrocarburos, así como los posibles impactos ambientales y su manejo. También cubre aspectos relacionados a la evaluación ambiental de proyectos de distribución eléctrica, vías de comunicación y sus instalaciones auxiliares.
La seguridad electrónica y la ley de protección de infraestructuras críticasIkusi Velatia
Este documento describe tres niveles de madurez en la seguridad de infraestructuras críticas. El nivel básico es reactivo y los sistemas no se comunican. El segundo nivel permite detección temprana y control de procesos. El tercer nivel convierte la seguridad en un activo estratégico donde la información entre sistemas impulsa el negocio. Se argumenta que abordar la seguridad con un enfoque orientado al negocio es la opción más ventajosa para el crecimiento empresarial.
Este documento describe diferentes instrumentos de gestión ambiental como instrumentos regulatorios (de comando y control), instrumentos económicos, y mecanismos voluntarios. Los instrumentos regulatorios se basan en estándares y requisitos obligatorios, mientras que los instrumentos económicos crean incentivos mediante señales de precios. Ambos tipos de instrumentos, junto con la promoción del cumplimiento y aplicación de la ley ambiental, son parte esencial de los regímenes de gestión ambiental.
Smart city merupakan konsep pengembangan kota berdasarkan teknologi informasi untuk kepentingan masyarakat secara efektif dan efisien, mencakup unsur-unsur seperti smart government, smart mobility, smart environment, dan lainnya. Implementasi smart city di Indonesia fokus pada tata kelola dan pengembangan kota cerdas seperti Surabaya.
Makalah ini membahas konsep smart city. Smart city adalah konsep kota cerdas yang mengelola sumber daya secara efisien dan memberikan informasi yang tepat kepada masyarakat. Tujuan smart city adalah untuk meningkatkan kualitas hidup dengan mengelola infrastruktur, ekonomi, lingkungan, dan sumber daya manusia secara cerdas. Faktor pendukung terwujudnya smart city antara lain teknologi informasi, dukungan pemerintah, infrastruktur
Las tres oraciones resumen lo siguiente: El documento introduce la gestión ambiental y su estructura, incluyendo la relación entre el hombre y la naturaleza, la evolución del pensamiento ambiental, y los fundamentos de la gestión ambiental. Explica cómo un sistema de gestión ambiental permite identificar y gestionar los impactos ambientales de una organización y cumplir con los requisitos legales.
El documento describe los conceptos y principios básicos de la gestión ambiental. Explica que la gestión ambiental busca lograr una alta calidad ambiental mediante acciones sobre las actividades humanas y los factores ambientales. También describe los agentes involucrados, líneas de acción, instrumentos y sistemas de gestión ambiental.
This document provides an introduction and overview of digital signal processing. It defines signals and how they can be classified as continuous or discrete, continuous or discrete valued. It describes how analog signals are converted to digital signals through sampling and quantization. It explains that digital signal processing involves passing signals through systems to process the signals. It outlines some key advantages of digital signal processing over analog processing, such as flexibility, accuracy, and easy storage. Finally, it provides some examples of applications of digital signal processing like voice recognition, telecommunications, consumer electronics, imaging, and more.
Future Position X is a leading European cluster for innovative use of geographical information. It brings together research labs, markets, and networks to create new solutions for tomorrow's society and emerging markets. This drives growth through new services, products, companies, and jobs.
Ambient Intelligence and City of Tomorrow : My Vision for services and uses of a connected city.
February 2013
A city is a place where human beings gather to meet their daily needs of life.
A city is a place of life and it is itself alive. A city develops itself over time, A city grows and becomes more complex.
In the city there are multiplicities of needs: uses, services, flows, which are diversified: housing, education, mobility, culture, health, environment, safety, energy, waste management, communication …
Each city is changing in its own context and at its own pace. Those are themselves diverse and evolving. Contexts can be of different natures: cultural, geopolitical, historical, religious, human…
Those contexts also shape many of the city’s characteristics.
In any case, vital human needs are to be met. Indeed, mankind always looks to meet new needs to ensure a better quality of life, a better comfort and progress.
In our vision, our cities, in fact are Complex Systems… The City will go towards transverse, open, scalable, adaptive ecosystems, allowing mankind to blossom.
Why is a city a complex system?
Because a city is alive, A city, like any living, changes over time.
The city we know today will not be the city of tomorrow and it is different from yesterday’s.
The city has a metabolism and many rich ecosystems. The city is very heterogeneous. Like any complex system, we never have a global view of how it evolves. The city is fragile and must adapt to changes all the time.
For us, the city must be described as complex systems with a decomposition into many systems, many subsystems and many components. Their interactions dictate their dynamics, their global behavior, their actions now and in the future.
Therefore, urban planning is limited by the own nature of its complexity.
In any complex system, its development is driven by the action of two vectors: necessity and chance.
In the city, needs are uses and functions, chance is hazard and risk.
In the city these vectors of complexity are constantly present and growing. The city is in permanent movement; In fact, the city is fragile, very fragile. Fragility is one of its features
At any time and everywhere in the city many unexpected events of all kind are happening. They demand us to react. They can also be very seriously affecting lives, practices and services.
Resilience is the major key to ensure continuity of services in the city during time of crisis.
In our vision, city has to adapt, learn, grow, be strong, independent, self repairing, and self breeding.
In our vision, in order to develop the city and manage this complexity, new paradigms and news practices are needed. For us AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE is the paradigm.
http://www.moreno-web.net/ambiant-intelligence-and-city-of-tomorrow/
Smart Water Management and Assisted Living Solutions for Smart Cities, powere...hubraum IoT Academy
WINGS ICT Solutions develops software solutions for smart cities and water management using technologies like NB-IoT, AI, and IoT. Their smart water management platform CATARACT uses sensors and analytics to monitor water quality and usage. Their assisted living solutions use environmental, health and home sensors in cities and homes to help monitor and support elderly populations. WINGS has experience piloting these solutions in cities like Paris, Madrid and Athens.
Distributed Autonomic Approach to IT Service ManagementYasir Karam
This document proposes an autonomic management framework to address challenges in IT service management. It discusses concepts like autonomic computing and the ITIL framework for IT service management. It then proposes a software framework for a sensor and actuator layer that would enable generation, deployment, discovery and management of sensors and actuators. This would help automate monitoring, control and management of complex IT systems and services in line with business policies.
The document discusses sensors and their use in museums. It begins by defining sensors as miniature devices that capture sensory data like heat, light, and humidity in response to external stimuli. It then outlines how sensors could enhance museum experiences by enabling ubiquitous computing, planned activities, and new interactive paradigms. The rest of the document details sensor frameworks, various sensor types, their properties, and how they could transform user experiences in museums.
This document provides an introduction to digital signal processing (DSP). It defines signal processing and distinguishes between analog signal processing (ASP) and DSP. For DSP, analog signals are first converted to digital using analog-to-digital converters before processing, while for ASP entire processing is done in analog domain. Some key advantages of DSP over ASP include more compact size, accuracy, flexibility, easy storage and modification of digital signals. Additional complexity of analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog conversion is a disadvantage of DSP.
USTS provides smart grid consulting, implementation, and advisory services to utility companies. They are involved in developing smart grid interoperability standards and identifying gaps in current smart grid protocols. USTS is increasing its research and development spending on smart grid technologies to contribute to a more reliable smart grid wireless protocol and provide real-time smart grid applications. Their smart grid services include architecture design, system integration, data management, and security solutions.
Suniel Kumar- Smart Cities and Water ManagementWithTheBest
Water Resource management is critical for smart cities implementation. Smart water; resource management involves design & implementation of systems that will monitor & control the storage, flow and distribution in a efficient manner.
Various aspects of electronics - embedded systems - wireless technologies - protocols are key for designing the end nodes:
- Right type of sensors: flow - pressure - level.
- Microcontroller platforms - features - processing.
- Wireless technologies - GPRS/GSM - Zigbee - BLE - WiFi.
In this presentation, we will be touching upon on the technology options; design criteria for smart water; resource management.
The concepts can be extended for further applications in supply chain, asset tracking, energy management.
Suniel Kumar
The document discusses the Internet of Things (IoT) and its integration into future networks. It describes the SmartSantander project, which aims to deploy an IoT infrastructure in Santander, Spain to support experimental research. The first phase involves deploying 2,000 IoT devices to provide basic experimentation support. SmartSantander provides a test facility for researching IoT architectures, technologies, services and applications in the context of smart cities. It also aims to have real impact by involving end-users, local authorities, and industry in experiments.
Tetradyn Law Enforce Introduction11nov08martindudziak
Large presentation on how TETRADYN products and services bring more and better and for less cost to law enforcement and police agencies, for public safety, homeland security, and counterterrorism.
IRJET- Doctors Assitive System using Augmentated Reality for Critical AnalysisIRJET Journal
This document discusses using augmented reality to assist doctors. It proposes a system that displays important patient medical information on semi-transparent glasses as part of an augmented reality headset. This allows doctors to view the information overlaid on the real world. The system aims to make patient data easily visible, portable, reduce time spent searching for data, and securely perform operations. It describes transmitting sensor data from a patient using sensors like heartbeat, temperature, and pressure sensors connected to a PIC microcontroller. The data is then sent using ZigBee transmission and viewed on the augmented reality glasses by the doctor for critical analysis during treatment.
Sensor Technologies for Smart City services” by Jose M. Hernandez-Munoz The Smart Santander project at Smart Cities & the Future Internet organised by Fireball, Eurocities and ENoLL on January 25th, 2012.
This document describes a digital vocalizer system that uses a data glove with flex sensors and an accelerometer to detect hand gestures. The sensors detect finger bending and hand tilt/position. The Arduino UNO microcontroller converts these detected gestures into corresponding audio words or visual text displayed on an LCD screen. This system aims to help reduce communication barriers between deaf/mute/blind communities and others by translating gestures into audio and visual outputs.
Digital signal processors (DSPs) mathematically manipulate digitized real-world signals like voice and video. DSPs are designed to quickly perform operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Signals are converted to digital format by analog-to-digital converters and processed by the DSP, which then feeds the information back digitally or through digital-to-analog conversion. DSPs are used in applications like audio and video compression, speech recognition, digital communications, and financial and biomedical signal processing.
This project investigates the challenges in mixed signal platforms, such as those embedded in biomedical electronics, micro-systems, sensor networks and wireless communications, from both device and systems perspective. Demonstrators will be developed that cover generic sensor interface/data acquisition, passive telemetry, wireless body area network, wireless sensor networking and wireless wide area networks. The achievements will benefit other Nano-Tera projects focusing on the sensor/actuator side of microsystems, as well as wireless communications SoCs that will challenge the state-of-the-art in integration level, versatility and sophistication of nano CMOS systems.
DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESWSING AND ITS APPLICATIONLokeshBanarse
Digital signal processing (DSP) involves using digital technology to process analog signals. It converts analog signals into digital data that can be manipulated and analyzed. DSP has applications in areas like audio processing, image processing, radar, and mobile phones. The key components of DSP systems are program memory, data memory, a compute engine, and input/output interfaces. DSP emerged in the 1960s and was initially used for applications like radar, sonar, and space exploration. It later expanded into commercial uses with the growth of personal computers and consumer electronics.
IRJET- Fuel Theft Detection Location Tracing using Internet of ThingsIRJET Journal
This document summarizes a research paper on a fuel theft detection and location tracing system using Internet of Things. It discusses how the current framework has low accuracy in detecting fuel theft from vehicle tanks. The proposed system uses a flow sensor to calculate the amount of fuel filled and an ultrasonic sensor to continuously monitor the fuel level. If a sudden drop in fuel level is detected, the system will ring an alarm and notify the vehicle owner. It also allows fraudulent activities to be directly reported to authorities. The system stores historical data for future use.
Similar to Smart Cities: The Making of - Michael M. Hsieh (20)
The app “It Feels Like” provides users a means of viewing their current weather conditions in an adventurous fashion. It takes current local weather information aggregated from Data Canvas nodes and compares this to a database of typical weather conditions from various international cities and finds the match with most similar weather. Once the match is found, “It Feels Like” presents to the user further visual information of the city and the season which it feels like. This could help recollect feelings from an old vacation spot, serve as a guide to possibly the next destination or introduce people to somewhere completely new.
This survey of Swiss academic institutions found that:
1. While social media is now a priority and part of communications strategies, lack of resources is still a major challenge.
2. Facebook and Twitter remain the most widely used and successful channels, but Instagram and Pinterest are growing in popularity.
3. Half of respondents find it difficult to measure the return on investment from social media, but most see its great potential benefits.
The document discusses the benefits of exercise for mental health. Regular physical activity can help reduce anxiety and depression and improve mood and cognitive function. Exercise causes chemical changes in the brain that may help protect against mental illness and improve symptoms for those who already suffer from conditions like anxiety and depression.
The document discusses the University of Lausanne's use of Instagram to engage current and prospective students. It provides statistics on the UNIL Instagram account's followers, posts, and engagement. The goals are to create a positive image of campus life, understand student interests, and build a photo database. Content features daily campus scenes and events. Interaction occurs on Facebook and the university website. Videos and competitions increase participation. Metrics like likes and followers are used to measure success. Future plans include more cross-promotion and collaborative activities with other schools.
How Swiss schools are using social media, what kind of accounts they have, how many followers, and highlights of the best use of social media in Switzerland.
This document summarizes a meeting about social media strategies for Swiss academia. It provides an overview of the institutions represented and their Facebook and Twitter presence. EPFL, ETH Zurich, and UNIGE have the most Twitter followers. HSG's departments are most liked on Facebook. Content tips include featuring students/alumni, using images/videos, and engaging audiences. New presences include UNIL's Facebook page and ECAL/UNIBAS using social media innovatively. Participants are encouraged to try new platforms like Google+ and use analytics. Future webinars and events are announced.
This document summarizes a case study workshop about how to respond to issues that arise on social media. It discusses four cases that university social media managers might encounter and how they responded. One case involves responding to a student Twitter account, @fduproblems, that was used to report issues on campus. The university manager engaged with the anonymous student running the account and found it helped them address real problems while building trust between the university and students.
The document outlines the SNSF's social media strategy and policy. It discusses using social media like Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, and LinkedIn to disseminate information, ensure transparency, and interact with researchers and the public. It provides details on the language policy, current pilot projects, and plans for future development including redesigning the website for better social media integration and expanding monitoring and evaluation measures. The organization, processes, and roles for communication, IT, editing, and publishing are also reviewed.
This document discusses several studies on neural synchronization during viewing of audiovisual content like movies and during natural speech. It summarizes findings that brain responses are highly correlated between individuals viewing the same movie segments. For speech, it finds coupling between production and comprehension regions in speakers and listeners, and that greater coupling predicts better comprehension. It proposes that shared neural responses may underlie communication and discusses applications like using neuroscience to improve filmmaking, psychotherapy or education.
This document discusses how film music constructs emotive narratives through leitmotifs in the genre of film noir. It analyzes a scene from the film Double Indemnity, where Miklos Rozsa uses four leitmotifs to represent musical characters, emotive states, and narrative functions. Specifically, the leitmotifs reflect the protagonist losing his moral compass, trespassing laws and norms, and ultimately reflecting the feeling of guilt through the musical narration of recollection and reflection. The document argues that film music provides an emotive contour that works together with the cinematic narration to give meaning and shape a ritual of recollecting one's actions and feelings in the story.
1. The document discusses research on how the brain processes complex natural stimuli like movies, stories and music. It finds reliable synchronized neural responses across individuals when exposed to such stimuli, indicating shared representations.
2. It examines how the brain integrates information over different timescales, finding a hierarchy of temporal receptive windows in different brain regions. Early auditory cortex responds over short timescales of seconds while prefrontal cortex integrates over longer timescales of paragraphs or more.
3. Open questions remain about the role of the hippocampus in sustaining long temporal windows and how information is represented at event boundaries. The research has implications for theories of working memory and how memory systems represent the real world.
This document discusses two early experimental sound films from 1929 that used music: Fats Waller's sound film made for Edison's kinetophone, which combined the kinetoscope and phonograph; and King Vidor's film that featured music by Irving Berlin. It also lists several films known for their creative use of music including works by David Lynch, Sergei Eisenstein, Martin Scorsese, Orson Welles, and Francis Coppola that were produced between 1938-2002.
This document discusses Gracenote's efforts to analyze music and automatically label songs with mood descriptors to help users discover and navigate music collections. Gracenote analyzed over 30 million songs and generated a sonic mood profile for each using machine learning models trained on a taxonomy of over 10,000 expert-annotated songs. The mood profiles provide scores across 101 mood dimensions and aim to describe the music in terms that parallel how listeners describe their desired listening experiences. The mood labels can be used to power more intuitive music recommendations, playlists, radio stations and discovery experiences for consumers.
Brennon Bortz - A Mobile Physiological Sensing System for Measuring Emotional...swissnex San Francisco
The document describes research from the Music, Sensors and Emotion (MUSE) group at Virginia Tech. The MUSE group uses qualitative and quantitative methods to study the relationship between music and emotion. Key areas of research include measuring gestures and physiological signals during music performance and exploring how emotion is shared between performers and audiences. The group has developed several tools and experiments including MobileMUSE, Emotion in Motion, and the ShEMP framework for shared emotion, music and physiology research.
Eduardo Coutinho - Psychoacoustic cues to emotion in speech prosody and musicswissnex San Francisco
- Listeners can perceive emotional meaning in both music and speech based on acoustic features like tempo, pitch, timbre, and loudness.
- Computational models using recurrent neural networks can successfully predict listeners' continuous ratings of emotion in music and speech from psychoacoustic features alone, with an accuracy around 65%.
- The models are able to generalize and perceive emotion in both familiar and unfamiliar musical genres, suggesting emotions may be communicated universally through acoustic profiles.
Shane Myrbeck - Listening to Design - Immersive Acoustics Modeling in the ARU...swissnex San Francisco
Shane Myrbeck is a senior consultant at Arup who specializes in acoustics, audiovisual design, and immersive audio environments. Arup is a global firm of over 10,000 professionals in various engineering and design disciplines. Myrbeck discussed Arup's acoustic consulting work and the Arup SoundLab, which is used to design and evaluate 3D computer models and immersive soundscapes for new audio environments. He also covered topics such as spatial hearing, ambisonics, and challenges in communicating acoustic concepts to non-experts.
Interactive Socio-Mobile Systems for Active Experience of Audiovisual Content swissnex San Francisco
- The document describes research from the Casa Paganini – InfoMus Research Centre focusing on interactive socio-mobile systems using music and audiovisual content.
- The European SIEMPRE project aims to study social interaction and entrainment in music performance using experiments with string quartets and orchestras.
- Research uses the EyesWeb software platform to record multimodal data on movement, audio, and physiology during music performances to analyze factors like leadership, synchronization, and audience response.
Philippe Dinkel - Artistic versus scientific research: the challenge of the S...swissnex San Francisco
This document discusses the nature of artistic research conducted by musical artists at art universities in Switzerland. It defines artistic research as research done by artists for the arts that involves exploring questions through experimentation and bringing new perspectives. The document outlines four principal areas of inquiry for musical artistic research: musical production, performance, teaching, and music in society. It notes that artistic researchers are likely to investigate questions emerging from their own artistic practice and standards, taking their own perceptions as the object of study, and producing research that can be applied to their artistic work.
This document discusses conceptual metaphors in music through the lens of the Study and Research Group on Musical Metaphors (GERMM). It provides examples of conceptual metaphors that understand musical ideas in terms of other domains, such as architecture, language, and the body. The group aims to study the links between metaphorical language, conceptual metaphors, and our physical and sensory experiences of music through techniques like questionnaires, interviews, motion capture, and neuroimaging. Their research could provide insights into how metaphor, expectation, and embodiment relate to musical meaning and response.
- The document explores the question "What is Operatic Emotion?" through examining portrayals and accounts of Maria Malibran's performances as Desdemona in Rossini's Otello
- Malibran was seen as a preeminent singer and tragedienne who made audiences weep, shudder and suffer as if witnessing a real scene through her emotional performances
- However, some accounts note she sometimes exaggerated emotions to the point of nearing ridiculousness
- The document suggests emotions in opera are cultivated and constructed rather than natural through exploring where emotions belong and how we make them
1. A Perspective
about Smart City
Prepared and Edited by
Michael M. Hsieh, Ph.D.
Registered PRINCE2 Practitioner
Instructor at UC Berkeley Extension
http://extension.berkeley.edu/spos/smartgrid.html
SwissnexSF 2012-Nov-15 All Rights Reserved. 1
2. What Would Be Expected from Smart
Cities?
Smart Economy Smart Mobility
Smart Smart
Governance Smart City Environment
Smart Living Smart People
SwissnexSF 2012-Nov-15 Reference: Oliver Haubensak, 2011 2
3. Trends of Smart Cities
Public Administration Entertainment & Infotainment
Security & Safety On-line Shopping
On-line Marketing
Waste Management
Tourism Consultation
Integrated Water
Resource
Ecologically On-Line &
Integrated Traffic & In-Class
Transportation Education
Public & Private Healthcare
SwissnexSF 2012-Nov-15 Reference: Michael M. Hsieh, 2011 3
4. Intelligence Embedded Everywhere
Smart Energy Grid Smart City Living
• Smart, renewable, and local •Smart Homes
energy generation •Smart Buildings
• Smart sensors (observability) •Eco-friendly
and actuators (controllability) transportation
• Real-time sensor data retrieval•Smart lighting
• Real-time service charge signal•Smart energy
• High speed communication management
• Smart energy storage •Smart ICT
•Smart governance
and services
SwissnexSF 2012-Nov-15 Source of Image: Xcel Energy, 2011 4
5. A Model of SWE-Enabled Home
Sensor Observation Service (SOS) SensorML System
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SwissnexSF 2012-Nov-15 Source of Image: Scott Fairgrieve, 2011 5
6. IoT vs the Railroad to Pacific West of USA
SwissnexSF 2012-Nov-15 Reference: Michael M. Hsieh, 2011 6
7. A Logical Model of a Smart City
Environmental Societal Sustainability Economic
Smart Societal Sustainability •Safety, Privacy, & Viability
•Quality of Life Security •Investment
Objectives & •Energy Efficiency •Culture & Education •Employment
Smart Policies •Pollution Control •Healthcare, Social Care, •Innovation
•Overall Resource & Life Support •Incubation
Management •Social Welfare •Politics
Smart Utilities Smart Living Smart Governance
Smart •Energy •Urban & Suburban •Smart Government
Industries & •Fresh Water Planning & Zoning •Smart Economy
Smart Services •Waste Management •Buildings •Advanced Civics
•Communication •Dwellings •Smart Citizenship
•Transportation •Education
•Recreation
Smart Urban Operating System & Smart Urban Middleware
Observability & Business Dialog Support
Smart Societal
Controllability Intelligence •Communication
Infrastructure •Smart Sensors •Cloud Computing Platforms
•Intelligent Devices •Data Analytics •Web Services
•Smart Actuators •Decision Support •Social Media
SwissnexSF 2012-Nov-15 Reference: Michael M. Hsieh, 2012 7
8. Smart City Offers Personalized Services
SwissnexSF 2012-Nov-15 Source of Image: Frost & Sullivan’s, 2012 8
9. What’s In It For Me?
• Better Interconnected
• Better Overall Service
• Better Informed despite of the Big Data
• Better Engaged
• More Autonomy
• Better Security
• Better Choices
• Better Life
• Wanted by the People, Property of the
People, Service for the People
SwissnexSF 2012-Nov-15 Reference: Michael M. Hsieh, 2011 9
In the future, we may see a rise in smart appliances and devices that are accessible utilizing the IoT. Take your refrigerator for example. It already has a sensor that knows when the door is open or closed and temperature/humidity sensors to ensure that food remains stored in the optimal environment. It has a sensor that tells you when the water filter needs to be changed. In the future, if manufacturers start embedding RFID chips in product packaging, it may even have an RFID reader that knows what products it is currently housing (there are already refrigerators out there that have RFID readers). It is a system of sensors that can be described using SensorML. Information from those sensors could be accessed from an SOS, sensors/actuators could be controlled via an SPS, and alerts could be subscribed to and received via an SAS. If my refrigerator and its associated SWE services were available over the Internet, I could be at the grocery store and use my mobile phone to ask my refrigerator what it contains or doesn’t contain. My refrigerator could alert me when a product has been stored too long and has expired. Or, my refrigerator or some SWE-enabled smart agent acting on my behalf could text me with a grocery list (generated for me based on my habits and current inventory) or e-mail me that I need to purchase a new water filter (via a WNS), or maybe the refrigerator or smart agent could even go to Amazon.com or some other online store and order a new water filter for me. In this case, the use of SWE allows IoT software on my mobile device or within my home to be reusable, assuming that all of the smart appliances in my home are SWE-enabled. This simple use case extends to multiple application areas in the home like power management: smart meters, outlets, and the smart grid. A user utilizing the same SWE Client application from the previous example could access information on home power usage by outlet, retrieve the current temperature and environmental conditions in his/her home, etc. SWE-enabled smart agents could manage the power usage in the home by monitoring environmental/other sensors and adjusting the thermostat and other devices.