2015 IEEE Student Projects IMPULSE TECHNOLOGIES (9840103301)

1. A Remote Home Security System Based on Wireless Sensor Network & GSM Technology

Abstract— In this paper, a low-power consumption remote home security alarm system developed by applying WSN and GSM technology is presented. It can detect the theft, leaking of raw gas and fire, and send alarm message remotely. The hardware of this system includes the single chip Microcontroller, wireless receiving and sending chip as well as the GSM module.

The system software developed in C51 language has the ability of collecting, wireless receiving and sending data, and can send a piece of alarm short message to the user’s mobile phone when some dangerous condition has been detected.

2. GPS-GSM Integration for Enhancing Public Transportation Management Services
Abstract—
This paper proposes and implements a solution for enhancing public transportation management services based on GPS and GSM . The system consists of four modules: BUS Station Module, In-BUS Module, BASE Station Module and BUS Stop Module. Equipped with PC and GSM modem, BUS Station Module sends the initialization information containing the bus number and license plate number to In-BUS Module and BASE Station Module using SMS. The microcontroller based In-BUS Module consisting mainly of a GPS receiver and GSM modem then starts transmitting its location and number of passengers to BASE Station Module.BASE Station Module equipped with a microcontroller unit and GSM modems interfaced to PCs is designed to keep track record of every bus, processes user request about a particular bus location out of BUS Station and updates buses location on bus stops. BUS Stop Module is installed at every bus stop and consists of a GSM modem, memory unit and dot matrix display all interfaced to a microcontroller. This module receives buses location information coming towards that stop from BASE Station module and displays the information on a dot matrix display. .

3.Identifying Objects Using RF Transmitters and Receivers and Retrieving Data Using GSM
To provide a system for monitoring and locating objects using Radio Frequency (RF) transmitters and receivers, and querying about the objects using mobile phones. An object represents a real world entity. This system is based on RF transmitters that are tagged to the objects of everyday use and have the capability of transmitting signals and a receiver that detects the transmission of the tagged object and stores its corresponding location in the database which is created specifically for information maintenance of the tagged objects. Mobile phones are used to query the location of the tagged object by sending a message to the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) connected to a Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) modem. This GSM modem fetches the location and other relevant information from the database and encapsulates this information into a message which is sent back to the mobile phone that has requested the information.

4.Design of Intelligent Traffic Light Controller Using Embedded System:

Present Traffic Light Controllers (TLC) are based on microcontroller and microprocessor. These TLC have limitations because it uses the pre-defined hardware, which is functioning according to the program that does not have the flexibility of modification on real time basis. Due to the fixed time intervals of green, orange and red signals the waiting time is more and car uses more fuel.
To make traffic light controlling more efficient, we exploit the emergence of new technique called as "Intelligent traffic light controller". This makes the use of Sensor Networks along with Embedded Technology. The timings of Red, Green lights at each crossing of road will be intelligently decided based on the total traffic on all adjacent roads. Thus, optimization of traffic light switching increases road capacity and traffic flow, and can prevent traffic congestions. GSM cell phone interface is also provided for users those who wish to obtain the latest position of traffic on congested roads.

This is a unique feature of this project which is very useful to car drivers to take an alternate route in case of congestion. The various performance evaluation criteria are average waiting time, average distance traveled by vehicles, switching frequency of green light at a junction, efficient emergency mode operation and satisfactory operation of SMS using GSM Mobile. The performance of the Intelligent Traffic Light Controller is compared with the Fixed Mode Traffic Light Controller.
It is observed that the proposed Intelligent Traffic Light Controller is more efficient than the conventional controller in respect of less waiting time, more distance traveled by average vehicles and efficient operation during emergency mode and GSM interface. Moreover, the designed system has simple architecture, fast response time, user friendliness and scope for further expansion.

5.Design of an intelligent SMS based Remote Metering System
Automatic meter reading (AMR) is a state-of-the-art technology for reading electric, gas or water meter readings automatically from a remote place without any human intervention. Remote metering promises fast and accurate billing system.
In this paper, a technique for remotely reading electricity meter readings using short message service (SMS) has been illustrated. Existing global system for mobile communications (GSM) networks have been used for sending and receiving SMS. A prototype of the system has been designed and developed for system exploration and experiment.

6.A Multi-Channel Remote Controller for Home and Office Appliances:

This paper presents the design and implementation of a multi-channel remote controller (MCRC) for home and office appliances. The aim of this work is to integrate several existing remote controller channels in a common platform. The proposed controller supports access to controlled environment via Web Page, Smart-Phone (SP), PDA, GSM network and telephone lines. The suggested controller is more reliable than conventional ones especially during emergency condition such as main server failure and interruption in GSM or Internet network.

The suggested system enables easy and flexible access to controlled devices.The hardware part of the controller contains a home server which is built upon PC and auxiliary microcontrollers. The feasibility of this architecture has been demonstrated with a prototype implementation and presented in details.

7.Remote Monitoring System Of Temperature and Humidity based on GSM:

It is very important that temperature and humidity of environment is monitored for the High-quality environment the quality testing requires. Traditional monitoring system has many shortcomings, such as hard wiring, high transmission bit error rate, high costs and small coverage. This paper proposes a remote monitoring system of temperature and humidity based on GSM.

Temperature sensor, humidity sensor and GSM communication technology are used in the system which performs data acquisition and transmission, and implements remote monitoring. The system is advanced in some fields, such as low transmission bit error rate, low costs and wide range of signal coverage. This paper proposes a new way to implement a remote monitoring system

8.Body Temperature and Electrocardiogram Monitoring Using an SMS-Based Telemedicine System:

A mobile monitoring system utilizing short message service with low-cost hardware equipment has been developed and implemented to enable transmission of the temperature and ECG signal of a patient. Communication between a mobile phone client and a remote smart-phone (or PDA) consultation/server unit is achieved through programming the client using attention commands (at-commands), and the protocol description unit (PDU) mode.

The experimental setup can be operated for monitoring from anywhere covered by the Cellular (GSM) service by exchanging SMS messages with the remote mobile device. At the consultation unit, a dedicated application software is required to manage the follow of SMS messages from the mobile and display the temperature and ECG of the patient.

9.Design&Development of a GSM Based Vehicle Theft Control System:
This paper deals with the design & development of a theft control system for an automobile, which is being used to prevent/control the theft of a vehicle. The developed system makes use of an embedded system based on GSM technology. The designed & developed system is installed in the vehicle. An interfacing mobile is also connected to the microcontroller, which is in turn, connected to the engine. Once, the vehicle is being stolen, the information is being used by the vehicle owner for further processing.
The information is passed onto the central processing insurance system, where by sitting at a remote place, a particular number is dialed by them to the interfacing mobile that is with the hardware kit which is installed in the vehicle. By reading the signals received by the mobile, one can control the ignition of the engine; say to lock it or to stop the engine immediately. Again it will come to the normal condition only after entering a secured password. The owner of the vehicle & the central processing system will know this secured password. The main concept in this design is introducing the mobile communications into the embedded system. The designed unit is very simple & low cost. The entire designed unit is on a single chip.When the vehicle is stolen, owner of vehicle may inform to the central processing system, then they will stop the vehicle by just giving a ring to that secret number and with the help of SIM tracking knows the location of vehicle and informs to the local police or stops it from further movement.

10.ATM Terminal Design is based on fingerprint recognition:
For the traditional ATM terminal customer recognition systems only rely on bank cards, passwords, and such identity verification methods which measures are not perfect and functions are too single. For solving the bugs of traditional ones, the author designs a new ATM terminal customer recognition systems.
The chip of S3C2440 is used for the core of microprocessor in ARM9, furthermore, an improved enhancement algorithm of fingerprint image increase the security that customer use the ATM machine.

11.A NEW Scheme for Management of Cinema Multiplex System in a Cost Effective Way By Using RFID:

Watching movies has been one of the oldest sources of recreation. Standing in long queues for availing tickets has been a problem though. In the present day scenario the possibility of terrorist attacks in movie halls has also increased. In our paper, we have described a novel scheme how the movies can be seen in a multiplex without standing in long queues.

Also, the security of multiplexes can also be increased through our proposed scheme. The number of employees can also be reduced by our proposed scheme.

12.Real-Time Automization Of Agricultural Environment for Social Modernization of Indian Agricultural System:

The paper Describes Real time atomization of agricultural environment for social modernization of Indian agricultural systemÂ¿ using ARM7 and GSM' is focused on automizing the the irrigation system for social walfare of Indian agricultural system and also to provide adequate irrigation in particular area. The set up consists of ARM7TDMI core, which is a 32-bit microprocessor, GSM serves as an important part as it is responsible for controlling the irrigation on field and sends them to the receiver through coded signals. GSM operates through SMSes and is the link between ARM processor and centralized unit. ARM7TDMI is an advanced version of microprocessors and forms the heart of the system.

Our project aims to implement the basic application of automizing the irrigation field by programming the components and building the necessary hardware. This project is used to find the exact field condition. GSM is used to inform the user about the exact field condition. The information is given on user request in form of SMS. ng. GSM modem can be controlled by standard set of AT (Attention) commands. These commands can be used to control majority of the functions of GSM modem.

13.Wireless Fingerprint Attendance System Based on Zigbee Technology:

Aiming at the disadvantages of traditional wire attendance system, a design method of wireless fingerprint attendance system based on ZigBee technology is proposed. The system includes terminal fingerprint acquisition module and attendance management module in computer. It can realize automatically such functions as information acquisition of fingerprint, processing, wireless transmission, fingerprint matching, and attendance management. Considering the fact and topology of ZigBee network, the system designs wireless local area network which is cluster tree network. To resolve the problem of time delay when the image is transmitted by ZigBee technology, the traditional transmission mode is improved.
The realized low-cost and high-performance wireless fingerprint attendance function, which provided a new wireless fingerprint attendance system for enterprises and institutions.

14.Control of Remote Domestic System Using DTMF:

The human mind always needs information of interest to control systems of his/her choice. In the age of electronic systems it is important to be able to control and acquire information from everywhere. Although many methods to remotely control systems have been devised, the methods have the problems such as the need for special devices and software to control the system.
This paper suggests a method for control using the DTMF tone generated when the user pushes mobile phone keypad buttons or when connected to a remote mobile system. The proposed work has been done experimentally and has been verified in real time.

15.Development of Solar Power Based Automatic Sunlight Adjusting System For Home Care:

With increasing population of elder people around the world, the demand of home care system such as sufficient sunlight supplier from natural resource is getting much attention in recent years. This paper has proposed an automatic sunlight adjusting system (ASAS) using solar power for the shutter action control. The proposed system can keep sunlight moderate as desired in the indoor room.

Once the solar battery power is insufficient to support the system, the system power can be switched to AC source immediately using the AC/DC switching system (ASS). This mechanism in deed extends the green power applications and is very feasible for general facilities that require no large power. Real practical performance results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in term of simple, flexible and efficient performance.

16.Distributed Guarding and Alarming System Based on Telephone Automatically Dialing and Remote Communication Technology:
Circumstance data of building such as fire accident smoke, robberpsilas body information, temperature and humidity signal, etc is acquired by different kinds of sensor unit. Single chip microprocessor (SCM) AT89C51 processes data signal collection and realize telephone automatically dialing-alarming when there is unusual condition, as well as it controls wireless transceiver chip nRF905 to complete data transmission between monitor controller and work central station controller.

Upper PC of manager is connected with work central station controller though USB interface, which realizes distributed safety monitor and guarding-alarming system of intelligent building design.The experiment result reveals that system performs well as expected.

This paper mainly introduces component selection, system structure, part of hardware circuit and software program design in detail. This system can be applied into circumstance monitor of grain depot, labor, and library, etc, which has broad application prospect.

17.Smart Digital Door Lock for the Home Automation:
In this paper, we propose a smart digital door lock system for home automation. A digital door lock system is equipment that uses the digital information such as a secret code, semi-conductors, smart card, and finger prints as the method for authentication instead of the legacy key system. In our proposed system, a ZigBee module is embedded in digital door lock and the door lock acts as a central main controller of the overall home automation system.
Technically, our proposed system is the network of sensor nodes and actuators with digital door lock as base station. A door lock system proposed here consists of RFID reader for user authentication, touch LCD, motor module for opening and closing of the door, sensor modules for detecting the condition inside the house, communication module, and control module for controlling other modules. Sensor nodes for environment sensing are deployed at appropriate places at home. Status of individual ZigBee module can be monitored and controlled by the centralized controller, digital door lock.
As the door lock is the first and last thing people come across in entering and leaving the home respectively, the home automation function in digital door lock system enables user to conveniently control and monitor home environment and condition all at once before entering or leaving the house. Furthermore, it also allows users to remotely monitor the condition inside the house through Internet or any other public network. The biggest advantage of our proposed system over existing ones is that it can be easily installed when and where necessary without requirement of any infrastructures and proper planning.

18.Design Of Wireless Embedded Thin Web Server Based on Zigbee:
This paper introduce the hardware and software structure of an embedded thin web server. Different from other wired embed web servers, this embedded thin web server is build on zigbee, a wireless ad hoc network communication technology. An application-layer message format is proposed and a mapping table is built in this paper.Since it has no wire to connect with the remote nodes, this web sever is very flexible and has wide range of adaptability.

19.A Web-Based Distributed Measurement System for Electrical Power Quality Monitoring:

Industries' systems are shifting toward almost entirely sophisticated electronic devices. Power Quality (PQ) analysis is getting importance for the economy because this equipment is highly sensitive to PQ events. Control and supervision of an industrial process has mainly been focused on the electrical protection, and little attention has been paid to the quality of the electrical supplies.
Nowadays, measurement and communications systems have advanced to enable the installation of web-based sensors within a PQ assessment scenario. In this sense, this paper presents an innovative low-cost measurement system, as well as investigates the challenges and trends in the development of distributed PQ measurement systems using smart sensors.

20.Distributed Remote Temperature Monitoring And Acquisition System Based on CAN Bus:
In modem industrial and agricultural production, the working temperature change reflects the operating status of equipments and change of many physical characteristics, so the temperature is an important parameter, which needs to be monitored, especially in the severe environment. The workers can make right judgments and operation by a temperature monitor. So it is the most effective and most economical means of equipment safety monitoring. A temperature remote monitoring embedded system platform is designed in the paper. And the embedded microprocessor AT91SAM7X256 is used as CPU of the system. The system realizes real-time remote data collection monitoring and storage through protocol data conversion of the CAN bus and RS232 bus of the distributed temperature acquisition node.
At the same time, the system realizes the remote temperature monitoring and control through TCP/IP Industrial Ethernet Web. The system platform can be applied to certain equipments of the power system, intelligent agriculture remote monitoring, intelligent furniture monitoring, intelligent warehouse monitoring and so on. The temperature measurement accuracy is within 0.5Â°C. The system is reliable and stable. And there are not communication failures. So it has very good social prospects.

21.A Design of Bi-Verification Vehicle Access Intelligent Control System Based on RFID:
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology is widespread developed and common for vehicle management in intelligent community. However, smart card used as the sole certificate of identification could also be impersonated by criminals when the card is lost or stolen. In this paper, an improvement design to the current widely-used vehicle monitoring systems, which utilize the RFID technology to carry on is presented in details. An embedded system is added to enhance security and stability.
Flash memory is used to enable the system run even when the server is powered off or reset. Besides, an authentication system is designed to ask the driver to input the right user information when a target is moving out of the community during the peak time for car thieves, and an SMS (short message service) reminder will simultaneously be sent to the customer's mobile phone. The newly designed system keeps in good touch with security staff and video monitoring system to reduce the possibility of vehicle theft cases. Our system is proved to have greatly improved the conventional automobile supervising system.

22.Infant Management System Based on RFID and internet Technologies:
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology has been widely accepted in hospitals to track and locate newborn babies. This paper proposes a Web-based management system based on RFID tagging system in neonatal department.
The centralized database system improved infant care and safety, reduced systems and human-based errors and enabled fast sharing of medical information with the clinical staff and families. Besides the system architecture and functions are described, the technologies employed in the development are briefly introduced too.

23.Remote Control System Design Based on Web Server for Digital Home:

In this paper, we studied some new technologies and solutions for remote digital home control system. Although many solutions for remote digital home control system are being developed, few can be applied to real life because of different standard protocol. Each organization emphasizes on different area. Thus, we present a web server based remote control system to connect internet and isolated intelligent home control system, which can be widely used by common families. The web server is more flexible, reliable, and easy maintenance. Field Programming Gate Array (FPGA) is applied in our system as the core controller. This makes the system more efficiency and faster to achieve real-time control. Detailed implementation for client, web server and hardware design is presented in this paper.

The experimental result shows users can not only control home appliances such as air conditioner, video camera and lighting ect., but also check their status in real-time from anywhere through our system.

24.Research and Implement of Ethernet Interface Based on Embedded System:

Embedded systems are pervasive in the infrastructure of our society for diverse tasks such as studying environmental phenomena, mapping and managing large-scale systems, aiding security and other fields, but masses of them do not have the capacity of network interconnection, these greatly limits the use of equipment, control and data exchange performance, therefore we proposed an method of embedded system interface based on Ethernet which combined with the latest computer technology, network technology, communication technology. We introduce the Ethernet technology and embedded system theory, using Ethernet controller CS8900A and S3C2410_net to design the Ethernet interface module, while given the system flow chart.

The system interface will widely use in various applications and has good prospects.

25.A New Intelligent Remote Control System for Home Automation and Reduce Energy Consumption:

This paper presents the design and implementation of an internet-based smart remote control system for home automation, dedicated to power management that adapts power consumption to available power resources according to user comfort and cost criteria. Sensors and home appliances are connected to the designed and implemented control panel and then they are monitored and controlled from every corner of the world through the Internet cloud. The system is scalable and allows additional appliances to be added to it with no major changes to its core.

New communication format is proposed to enable communication between the control panel and the server as well. To verify the principle operation of the design, some home applications are experimentally tested. Experimental results show the efficiency and accuracy of proposed intelligent control system in terms of energy saving and being user friendly.

26.A Novel Technique for Preventing Current Method Electricity-Stealing:

Nowadays, current method electricity-stealing is difficult to prevent. The novel technique proposed improves the structure of current coupling device in single-phase or three-phase electric power measuring equipment, and two high-frequency coupling windings are added to each current coupling device. High-frequency detection signals generated in electric power measuring equipment are injected into current transformer secondary side.

At the same time, the advanced ARM microprocessor is adopted for sampling the high-frequency signals coupled back and real-time computation. It can recognize the normal, opened or shorted state of current transformer secondary side circuit correctly and prevents current method electricity-stealing effectively.

27.An Embedded Electric Meter Based on Blue tooth Data Acquisition:

We design an embedded electric meter based on Bluetooth data acquisition system in view of the complicated cables and accident potential in the process of data acquisition of electric meter. Combined wireless Bluetooth communication technology with data acquisition system, we build wireless data acquisition system based on ARM processor LPC2142 and Bluetooth chip Rok101008 in the embedded electric meter which can reduces the cable connections.

During the design process of embedded electric meter, we select the appropriate shunt, eliminate or reduce the effect of ESD before it connects with sensitive units so as to narrow the broadband circuit and isolate sensitive units, access the varistor in the power supply circuit to eliminate or reduce EFT. The major difference between Bluetooth data acquisition system and other data collector is that it realizes wireless data transmission after the A/D conversion. Furthermore, the system is simpler, integrated, anti-interference, stronger mobility and practicability.

28. Design Of Substation Temperature Monitoring System Based on Wireless Sensor Networks:

Using the features and technology of wireless sensor networks such as distributed and self-organization to build substation temperature monitoring system, which can monitor the temperature of bus bar junction of the high voltage switchgear in substation in real time to prevent fire and other accidents. This system applies ZigBee communication protocol, and uses the CC2430 as RF transceiver.

It has the characteristics of low power consumption, low cost, flexible structure and accurate measurement, and it can achieve the long-distance temperature monitoring of the bus bar junction in real time.

29.Wireless Health Monitoring System For Vibration Detection of Induction Motors:
To avoid unexpected equipment failures and obtain higher accuracy in diagnostic for the predictive maintenance of induction motors, on-line health monitoring system plays an important role to improve the system reliability and availability. Among different techniques of fault detection, work on motor current signature analysis by using only stator current spectra has been well documented. In addition, the recent developments in MEMS technology shows increasing trend in integrating vibration analysis for fault diagnostic. Vibration-based detection by using the accelerometer is gaining popularity due to high reliability, low power consumption, and low cost.
This paper presents the study of vibration due to the rotor imbalance. The technique of vibration detection and observation of vibration signal in the 3-phase induction machine is studied. A novel health monitoring system of electric machine based on wireless sensor network (ZigBee™/IEEE802.15.4 Standard) is proposed and developed in this paper. Experimental results of the proposed severity detection technique of rotor vibration under different levels of imbalance conditions are investigated and discussed.

30.Intelligent Monitoring And overheating Protection system for Motor:
To reduce the damage number and equipment the failure rate of motor, improve the reliability of motor operation, an intelligent motors monitoring protection system has been developed. C8051F020 single chip used to collect reliable electric current and temperature parameters, current of motor overload, overrun, leakage, unbalanced, and none of the electrical and environmental temperature for three-phase were measured and calculated, intelligent determine a variety of work the possibility of failure and timely rule out, implementation of lack phase, over-current, under current, under voltage protection for the motor.
Software is utilizing differential filtering to improve full wave Fourier algorithm and effectively restraining decaying DC component. Thermal model of low voltage motor is also established and it has solved the overheating protection problem of low voltage motor on principle, and thus simplified the hardware design. Practical operation demonstrated that the system is stable and reliable work, easy to operate and function to meet the requirements of the scene.

31.Effective Remote Control Of Electric Motor Using GSM Technology:
The function of a motor protection relay (MPR) is to protect three-phase induction motors and additionally to communicate this data to the system control and data acquisition (SCADA) in a control room. In the case of remote sites e.g. a pump station, the protection relays are used as standalone units. If a trip occurs or settings need to be changed a technician has to visit the remote site and address the problem.
The ideal cost and time effective solution is to remotely perform these tasks via a reliable wireless network. A study was conducted to ascertain the viability of using the standard GSM cellular networks in South Africa to effectively control electric motors and to communicate with MPR's. It was shown that a node controller could be used to store all the data from various electric motors at a single location.

32.Microcontroller Based Smart Charge Controller for Standalone Solar Photovoltaic Power Systems:
This paper presents a cost efficient PV charge controller with the function to disconnect and reconnect battery and load during battery overcharging or under discharging. The proposed charge controller is equipped with LCD to display the temperature, battery voltage and current flow through the battery. Output of these 3 inputs are used to obtain the accurate and efficient disconnecting/ reconnecting action which is capable of protecting the battery and the load whereas LED indicator is featured to show the status of the systems.
The source code for the PIC microcontroller is written in C code which is more user friendly than using assembly language. Furthermore, this smart charge controller is developed to reduce the current market price of charge controller to an affordable level. This project deals with the design of an intelligent charge controller using PIC microcontroller to control and coordinate the activity in charge controller.

33.Design and Implementation of a Socket with Low Standby Power:

Turned-off electric home appliances generally they still
require standby power when they are plugged in. In this paper
we present a way to reduce the standby power of a socket. Our socket supplies the appliances with power when the user turns them on. When the user turns them off, our socket shuts the electric power off and reduces the standby power to zero. Our design uses an MCU which receives signals from a PIR sensor which detects the user when approaching the socket and the appliances. A power detector provides an MCU to control the SSR On/Off when used as an appliance switch for shutting off the standby power.
The components we use are very inexpensive and
consume less than 0.4 W. The MCU monitoring program
provides both automatic detection of the user by the PIR sensor and detection of power consumption.

34.Design and Implementation of a RFID-Based Power Meter and Outage Recording System:
Radio frequency identification (RFID) system is looked upon as one of the top ten important technologies in the 20^th
century. In the upcoming years, the public area applications are the key issue in developing RFID. Power system is innately bulky, wide-spreading, and is, definitely, an extremely important application area of RFID. In the power area, the RFID can be implemented on apparatus management, procedure control, power consumption management and personnel access control.
Additionally, RFID can be applied extensively to customers. By integrating RFID into a power meter and outage recorder, the power consumption data and power reliability information of customers can be fully collected and recorded. This paper tries to design and implement a RFID-based power meter and outage recording system. The microcontroller of Microchip dsPIC30F series is used to develop a small-scale power meter and outage recorder. The proposed RFID system is then embedded into the power meter and records the power data in tag. Due to the uniqueness of RFID tag, the power consumption data and outage information of customers can all be recorded and then be identified in the rear-end processing system. Experimental results show the validity of the proposed system.

35.GSM Based ECG Tele - Alert System:

Cardiac arrest is quoted as the major contributor to sudden and unexpected death rate in the modern stress filled lifestyle around the globe. A system that warns the person about the onset of the disease earlier automatically will be a boon to the society. This is achievable by deploying advances in wireless technology to the existing patient monitoring system.

This paper proposes the development of a module that provides mobility to the doctor and the patient, by adopting a simple and popular technique, detecting the abnormalities in the bio signal of the patient in advance and sending an alert sms to the doctor through Global system for Mobile(GSM) thereby taking suitable precautionary measures thus reducing the critical level of the patient.

36.Preventing Cot Death For Infants in Day Care:

Cot death is the sudden and unexpected death of a baby. After the post-mortem examination, the cause of death remains unexplained and may be registered as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), sudden infant death, sudden unexpected death in infancy, unascertained or cot death.

It is estimated that 1 in 2000 live born infants die as a result of what is commonly referred to as cot death. Of these cases, 20-30% of the deaths occur in licensed day care centres. Due to the current financial crisis it is possible that the number of children left in care will increase as parents have to work longer hours to maintain their standard of living.

It is the intention of this paper to present a prototype system which utilises miniature wireless sensor devices which could allow online monitoring of infants at home, as well as in large day care centres.

37.Development of an Ambulatory Multi-Parameter Monitoring System For Physiological Stress Related Parameters:

This paper presents the hardware overview, design and implementation of a fully wireless ambulatory multi-parameter monitoring system. This mobile ambulatory system is designed to be integrated, wearable, and of low power consumption. The front-end hardware includes sensors and signal-conditioning circuits, integrated into a form factor of 30mmX50mm. Communication is implemented with Bluetooth sensor to form the Body Area Network (BAN).

Physiological stress related parameters measured include heart rate, heart rate variability, skin conductance, body/environmental temperature, respiration rate and depth, and activity. This system can be generalized for other physiological monitoring applications.

38.A Novel MEMS Respiratory Flow Sensor:

A novel CMOS-process-compatible MEMS sensor for monitoring respiration is presented. This resistive flow sensor was manufactured by the TSMC 0.35 Â¿m CMOS/MEMS mixed-signal 2P4M polycide process. The sensor was demonstrated to be sensitive enough to detect the respiratory flow rate, and the relationship between flow rate and sensed voltage is quite linear.

If one can integrate the sensor with its sensing circuit into a single chip, the cost of a pneumotach system can be greatly reduced. Moreover, the proposed sensor is useful in both invasive and noninvasive applications.

39.Design and Simulation of a Multi-Function MEMS Sensor For Health and Usage Monitoring:

Health and usage monitoring as a technique for online test, diagnosis or prognosis of structures and systems has evolved as a key technology for future critical systems. The technology, often referred to as HUMS is usually based around sensors that must be more reliable than the system or structure they are monitoring. This paper proposes a fault tolerant sensor architecture and demonstrates the feasibility of realising this architecture through the design of a dual mode humidity/pressure MEMS sensor with an integrated temperature function.

The sensor has a simple structure, good linearity and sensitivity, and the potential for implementation of built-in-self-test features. We also propose a re-configurable sensor network based on the multi-functional sensor concept that supports both normal operational and fail safe modes. The architecture has the potential to significantly increase system reliability and supports a reduction in the number of sensors required in future HUMS devices. The technique has potential in a wide range of applications, especially within wireless sensor networks.

40.Wireless Wearable Pulse Oximeter for Heath Monitoring Using Zigbee Wireless Sensor Network:

In this work, a portable real-time wireless health monitoring system is developed. The system is used for remote monitoring of patients' heart rate and oxygen saturation in blood. The system was designed and implemented using ZigBee wireless technologies. All pulse oximetry data are transferred within a group of wireless personal area network (WPAN) to database computer server. The sensor modules were designed for low power operation with a program that can adjust power management depending on scenarios of power source and current power operation.

The sensor unit consists of (1) two types of LEDs and photodiode packed in Velcro strip that is facing to a patient's fingertip; (2) Microcontroller unit for interfacing with ZigBee module, processing pulse oximetry data and storing some data before sending to base PC; (3) ZigBee module for communicating the data of pulse oximetry, ZigBee module gets all commands from microcontroller unit and it has a complete ZigBee stack inside and (4) Base node for receiving and storing the data before sending to PC.

41.Drug Management: How to provide Drug on Assigned Time?:

Drug management defined as giving drugs to the patient on assigned time. The aim of these systems is to deliver the correct drug to the patient who needs it. These kinds of systems increase the confidence of the patient by making him/her independent of the nurse.

In this paper, with the use of Mikro Basic software and microcontroller (PIC16F877A), we designed the system which delivers drugs to the patient on assigned time and in three ways (which are chosen with the input switch). One way is by setting the time of each box of drugs. The second is by phone calling on drug delivery time and the other is by sending radio frequencies from control center and receiving them in drug delivery system. Actually, this system is as a reminder for using drugs on time especially for children and aged people.

42.Wireless Transmission Design For Health Monitoring at Neonatal Intensive Care Units:

Health monitoring is crucial for the survival of the ill and fragile infants admitted at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in a hospital. However, the adhesive electrodes and wires cause discomfort to the patients and hamper the parent-child interaction. In this paper, we propose the application of wireless transmission technology for neonatal monitoring at NICU.

To demonstrate the design concept, a prototype wireless transmission system is built using BlueSMiRF and Arduino pro mini. Software is developed for ensure the correct data transmission, detection and display. The system is designed to be suitable for integration into a non-invasive monitoring platform such as a smart neonatal jacket. Experimental results show that the prototype system successfully transmits and receives data from multiple sensors within the range of 20 m.

43.Ambient Intelligent Robot-Sensor Networks for Environmental Surveillance and Remote Sensing:

The paper regards development of an ambient intelligent (aware), multi agent, robot-sensor networks for outdoor surveillance and monitoring of human living and working environments. Heterogeneous robot-sensor system consists of autonomous, ambient aware, robust outdoor mobile robots for performing environmental tasks and networked distributed terrestrial and water sensors integrated into the unique Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS).

The goal is supervision, monitoring and remote sensing of territories and lands. More specifically, the objectives of the paper are addressed to design new methods and technology that integrate enhanced perception, based on heterogeneous sensor system, with advanced cognitive capabilities of mobile robots. Integrated solutions are planned to be validated in a real environment such as park of nature ldquoAda Ciganlijardquo (city of Belgrade), taking full advantage of dynamic ecological system and recent advances in ICT technology and sensor miniaturisation.

44.Autonomous Agricultural Robot and Its Row Guidance:

A vision-based row guidance method is presented to guide a robot platform which is designed independently to drive through the row crops in a field according to the design concept of open architecture. Then, the offset and heading angle of the robot platform are detected in real time to guide the platform on the basis of recognition of a crop row using machine vision. And the control scheme of the platform is proposed to carry out row guidance.

Finally, the preliminary experiments of row guidance were implemented in a vegetable field. Experimental results show that algorithms of row identification and row guidance are effective according to the parameters measured and analyzed such as the heading angle and the offset for row guidance and the difference between the motion trajectory of the robot and the expected trajectory. And the accuracy of row guidance is up to Â± 35 mm, which means that the robot can move with a sufficiently high accuracy.

46.Head Motion Controlled Power WheelChair:

Quadriplegics rely on power wheelchairs for mobility, but the hands-free controller systems currently available are obtrusive and expensive. The objective of this project was to design a power wheelchair with a novel control system for quadriplegics with head and neck mobility. The control system translates the position of the user's head into speed and directional control of the wheelchair.

Head movement was measured using camera-based motion-tracking of an infrared LED array on the back of the user's head. The control system included a standby mode that was activated by pressing the head back against the headrest, which activated the braking system while deactivating the drive train, allowing for manual control of the wheelchair via a rear support system.

47.Wireless Image Communication System For Fire-Fighting Robots:

Recently, it has sometimes been impossible for fire-fighting personnel to access the site of a fire, even as the fire causes tremendous property damage and loss of human life, due to high temperatures or the presence of explosive materials. In such environments, fire-fighting robots can be useful for extinguishing a fire, and they should be controlled by remote operators. In order to help a remote operator who is located far away from the fire-fighting robot, wireless image communication systems have been investigated in this study.

The developed system uses a High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) network to transmit images, showing the view from a fire-fighting robot. The fire-fighting robots and remote controllers are equipped with industrial computers, and image-transmitting and image-receiving programs function according to various protocols to allow communication between the robots and controllers.

48.Design and Fabrication of Holonomic motion robot using DTMF Control Tones:
In this paper, a holonomic motion robot is proposed that can move in any direction on a plain surface which can be controlled by using a GSM or CDMA mobile phone where the medium of communication is DTMF tones. The paper is about the holonomic motion robot that can revolutionize the transport system of the robots and the way we operate it by a small embedded system device.

The robot is an Omni-directional robot which can be manoeuvred by a cell phone and can be used as a compact, quiet, mobile, and durable transport vehicle in cramped environments and in loading and unloading stations which is the main intention of the paper. The main focus was laid on the type of movement the robot makes on the spot and its control using a cell phone.

47.7TH SENSE. A Multipurpose Robot For Military:

In the world that has an enormous potential for conflict, militaries around the world are taking Patton's words very seriously. Right from the ancient times, the foot soldiers has fought and won the battle for the victor. However, over the past decade or so, the infantry's role has changed - the emergence of smart munitions and precision aerial bombardment has resulted in the infantryman entering tough urban combat situations to mop up any remaining resistance.

Tomorrow's heroic soldier isn't going to jump into the battle with just a ballot-proof Kevlar vest, a backpack sized field radio and a commando knife clutched between his teeth[7]. Our system is the first of several such programs that are looking at revamping the infantry soldier's gear. Our system basically has two modes. One mode is the automatic mode and the other mode is user control mode.

The automatic mode uses face recognition technique to combat intruders. In certain unavoidable circumstances the control comes to user who can control the operations of the robot from remote location using a computer. One of the main advantages of our system is that the mode switching can be done very fast with out any delay. It also helps to provide medical aid for needy. Our system can also be used to detect and defuse the bombs. Thus our aim is to provide a robotic system that can combat in wars and other military purposes [8].

48.An Autonomous Robotic System for Load Transportation:

This paper presents an overview of an autonomous robotic system for material handling. The system is being developed by extending the functionalities of traditional AGVs to be able to operate reliably and safely in highly dynamic environments. Traditionally, the reliable functioning of AGVs relies on the availability of adequate infrastructure to support navigation.

In the target environments of our system, such infrastructure is difficult to setup in an efficient way. Additionally, the location of objects to handle are unknown, which requires runtime object detection and tracking. Another requirement to be fulfilled by the system is the ability to generate trajectories dynamically, which is uncommon in industrial AGV systems.

49.Analysis on Four Legged Multipurpose Rope Climbing Robot:

This paper discusses the steady state dynamic behavior of a four legged multipurpose rope climbing robot. The kinematic structure of the robot has been designed to maximize the stability in the rope climbing application while depending on a minimum number of actuators.

The paper presents the derivation of kinematics and dynamics of the robot. Detailed simulations carried out based on the dynamics of the robot demonstrate that state trajectories of the center of mass of the robot stays within dynamically stable bounds for bounded control inputs.

50.Coal Mine Detect and Rescue Robot Technique Research:

Coal mine is a dangerous field, various fatal factors menace people. The rescuers have known the mine tunnel actual situation when a disaster in coal mine occurs. Especially, it is very dangerous to go into the tunnel without detect in advanced because second explosion may occur at any time. Aiming to the task, the rescue robot can be sent to explosion environment and detect gas content and temperature, etc.

Meanwhile the environmental data are sent to the rescuers. This paper introduces a coal mine detect and rescue robot. It is composed of mechanism, control system, communication system and sensors, etc. It can run in explosion environment, climb ruins, check gas, and carry some food and medicine to the miners in disaster. The main problems have weight of the robot body, communication in turn tunnel, explosion-proof structure design. The design of the robot in this paper gives the solutions.

52.Heavy Explosive Removing Robot Control Technique Research:

Explosive removing robot is a kind of unmanned equipment to dispose dangerous explosive instead people. It is very important because there are many explosives threaten the security of the world. This paper introduces research work of a heavy explosive removing robot, 450Kg, lift weight is 50Kg. Main technique include: machinery, electronic, sensor, navigation, motor, computer control communication, remote control, storage batter, etc. Explosive removing robot has move ability and search function and grasp function. It can remove explosive to appoint point when people is in safe place. Explosive removing robot cross ability is strong, press force to ground is small, it is suitable to sand, grass, soft ground. It can adapt varies terrain. Explosive removing robot is water-proof, sand-proof, and vibrate-proof. Adapt low temperature and high temperature. It has a 7 joints long arm to catch explosive. It is easy to control catch work. It can catch object in puddle, under car, in explosion-proof tube, etc. Grasp force is controlled. Main camera is high, suitable to search explosive on unknown field. 5 Cameras ensure search and catch work is easy. It has monitor system to protect robot. It has alarm, auto-stop, and remote control restart functions. If battery is exhaust, a new battery can be instead easily. This heavy explosive removing robot is advantage and reliability. This robot can rescue people before explosive.

53.Mechanical Design and Control System Of a Miniature Surveillance Robot:

Secret surveillance in tightly constrained spaces is demanded in many military and civilian activities, such as cave-in enemy raids and indoor hostage rescue missions. These special applications require a kind of miniature mobile robot to function covertly in highly confined environments.

However, the crucial problem resulted from the small volume of miniature robots is the difficulty of packing locomotion, sensing, computing and power subsystems into constrained space. This paper presents the mechanical design, the control system and the control arithmetic of a miniature autonomous surveillance robot (ldquoBMS-1rdquo) for indoor reconnaissance tasks. Several experiments showed that BMS-1 was useful for covert surveillance in confined spaces and can carry out reconnaissance missions on its own or by teleoperation.

54.Visual Servo Control Of a Three Degree Of Freedom Robotic Arm System:

The remote controlled weapon station (RCWS) is currently highly emphasized in infantry warfare. The future trend will focus on automatic targeting procedure to improve efficiency, and meanwhile to save the operator from hostile fire. In addition to operate the gun turret remotely, it is presently a direction to be integrated with the Unmanned Ground Vehicle (UGV) to serve as surveillance unit in the combat hot zone, such as peace keeping mission.

In this research, an improved targeting algorithm based on visual servo concept, Kalman estimator and fuzzy logic theory is proposed, and a SCORBOT ER5+ robotic system was modified as a platform to demonstrate the result.

55.Design and Implementation of a Stair-Climbing Robot:

Taiwan and other developed countries have being experienced an emergence of a growing aging population. Home-caring robot is an excellent candidate capable of supporting such an aging society. In the paper, a robot is designed to move up-and-down stairs to provide service for the elders. The robot consists of a main body for moving, a front arm and a rear arm for moving up and down stairs. The main body is equipped with two brushless dc motors (BLDCMs) and their drives for locomotion, worm gears for torque amplification, two dc motors to control two arms, and DSP-based board as control center.

The robot is equipped with roller chains attached with rubber blocks used to generate friction with ground and stairs for moving. The distance between any two rubber blocks is properly arranged to fix the stair brink. The moving direction of the robot is steered based on the speed difference of two BLDCMs and the information from ultrasonic sensors. A walking experiment of moving up and down stairs with the rise of 120 mm and depth of 400 mm is shown in the video.

56.CAN Bus Application in Automotive Network Control:

CAN bus automotive network control system hardware flat roof was set up based on DSP56F807. CAN sending and receiving procedure were wrote with C language. The lighting, direct current electromotor, electromagnetic actuator control node tests and can bus PRI intercession test etc were completed in laboratory.

Experimental results prove that this system simulated CAN bus application in automotive network control. Foundation of system installing test is established in the next step.

57.Design Of Automatic Meteological Data Acquisition System Based On ARM and CAN Bus:

Aimed at the current situation that the domestic automatic meteorological data acquisition system is almost based the use of foreign products, a design method of multi-channel meteorological data acquisition system was given which based on ARM and CAN Bus. In the design, it fulfills the acquisition requirements of the analog signals, digital signals and intelligent sensor data through a combination of hardware and software technologies. In order to improve system's real-time answering capability and multi-task processing capability, it is used Â¿main collector + external bus + sub-collector + sensors + peripheral equipmentÂ¿ in structure design of hardware. At the same time, it is transplanted Linux operating system to improve the reliability and scalability of system. It is translated Linux operating system to embedded processor, and making use of Internet to send meteorological data in Linux operating system. Then the complicated cabling project could be omitted, the data were sent without PC, and in favor of constituting Large-scale meteorological monitoring network.

58.Design Of the Measurement Node Of the Grain Quantity Monitoring System Based on the CAN-Bus:

To need the requirement of measuring the grain quantity in the barn, the pressure sensors are mounted on the ground and the wall of the barn, and the grain quantity can be calculated by using these measurement values.

To realize the data transmitting reliability and real time, the design proposal of the measurement node of the CAN-bus by using the chips of AT89C51 and the SJA1000 is put forward, and the design of software and the hardware of the node is given. To verify the effectivity and the reliability of the measurement node, some experiments are done, the results shown that, the measurement error is no more than 3% under the conspicuous level is equal to 0.05, the grain quantity can be measure by this system completely.

59.Implementation Of Interface Between Vehicle Bus Network And On-Vehicle Information System:

With more and more applications of on-vehicle information system, the connection between the information system and vehicle bus network is becoming a trend. The interface between the information system and vehicle bus is an important communication path which contains all kinds of on-vehicle information.

A CAN/LIN-based interface between on-vehicle information system and vehicle bus is presented in this paper, and it can provide basis technology for future applications of on-vehicle information system.

61.Application and Implementation of CAN Bus Technology in Industry Real0time Data Communication:

The real-time data communication of real-time operation system is a difficult point. This paper analyzes the functions and characteristics of embedded real-time operation system VxWorks and CAN field bus, and makes use of CAN field bus to realize the data communication between embedded real-time operation system VxWorks and work-site MCU (micro-controller unit).

The applications of CAN bus can satisfy the reliability and real-time request of data communication completely. The general steps of CAN bus applications offer reference for CAN bus applications in real-time operation system.

62.Distributed Sensor For Steering Wheel Grip Force Measurement in Driver Fatigue Detection:

This paper presents a low-cost and simple distributed force sensor that is particularly suitable for measuring grip force and hand position on a steering wheel. The sensor can be used in automotive active safety systems that aim at detecting driver's fatigue, which is a major issue to prevent road accidents.

The key point of our approach is to design a chain of sensor units, each of them provided with some intelligence and general purpose capabilities, so that it can serve as platform for integrating different kinds of sensors into the steering wheel. A proof-of-concept demonstration of the distributed sensor consisting of 16 units based on capacitive sensing elements has been realised and preliminary results are presented.

63.The Integrated Unit For MEMS Based Pressure Measurement:

The article deals with a custom based integrated measurement unit (IMU), which serves as processing device for MEMS based pressure measurement. The IMU consists of the three elementar stages, measurement stage, processing stage and communication stage. They are implemented on the one single board.

The measurement block has 16-bit resolution with 64 provided measurement ranges to sutisfy appropriate accuracy. The power supply is 5 V, which allows to measure current with 238 nA step within 1 mA measurement range. The communication stage is based upon I2C standard.

64.Wireless measurement and Control System for Environmental Parameters in Greenhouse:

According to the environmental parameters monitoring requirements in greenhouse, a wireless measurement and control system for temperature and humidity is developed. It overcomes the disadvantages of wired monitoring system, such as complicated wiring, and difficult maintenance. The environmental parameters in every greenhouse were measured and controlled by microcontroller.

The hardware and software of the monitoring system are discussed in detail. The experimental results show that the developed monitoring system has the following features, such as simple structure, high reliability, good extensibility and flexible configuration. It can control and adjust automatically the environmental parameters in every greenhouse, and has project practicality and vendibility.

65.Zigbee-Based Vehicle Access Control System:

Vehicle access control system is an important sub-system of the intelligentized residence section. Today, in a growing emphasis on personal and property safety, the control of vehicles’ access authorization and the management of the vehicles’ access authority, access time and access method via computer, is safe and convenient.

This paper describes a set of vehicle access control system based on ZigBee wireless technology. In this system, ZigBee coordinator and its terminal nodes installed respectively in the entrance of the district and the vehicles, together form a ZigBee wireless sensor network. This paper mainly introduces the overall structure, hardware platform and software design of this system. The implementation and performance tests of this system are fairly good.

66.Design Of Miniaturized Wireless Sensor Mote and Actuator for Building Monitoring and Control:

In this paper, a wireless sensor network mote hardware design and implementation are introduced for building deployment application. The core of the mote design is based on the 8 bit AVR microcontroller, Atmega1281 and 2.4 GHz wireless communication chip, CC2420. The module PCB fabrication is using the stackable technology providing powerful configuration capability.
Three main layers of size 25 mm2 are structured to form the mote; these are RF, sensor and power layers. The sensors were selected carefully to meet both the building monitoring and design requirements. Beside the sensing capability, actuation and interfacing to external meters/sensors are provided to perform different management control and data recording tasks. Experiments show that the developed mote works effectively in giving stable data acquisition and owns good communication and power performance.

67.Remote-Controllable and Energy-Saving Room Architecture Based on Zigbee Communication:

This paper describes room architecture to reduce power consumption and to make the room easily controllable with an IR remote control of an home appliance. The room is composed of automatic standby power cut-off outlets, a dimming light and a ZigBee controller. The automatic standby power cut-off outlet monitors the power consumption of the outlet and completely cut off the power supply when the monitored power value is below the threshold. Based on the ZigBee communication, the ZigBee controller plays a role of switches for the power outlet and the dimming light. It turns on the power outlet and dims the light in the room.

The ZigBee controller has an education function of an IR remote control signal of a home appliance connected to the power outlet. With this architecture a user can handle the power outlet and the dimming light through one IR remote control in the energy-saving room.

68.Remote Power On/Off Control and Current Measurement for Home Electric Outlets Based on a Low-Power Embedded Board and Zigbee Communication:

In this paper we have designed a remote power on/off control and a current measurement for electric outlets, based on both an embedded board and on ZigBee communication. This design consists of two parts: the ZigBee control module and the server module. The ZigBee control module contains several controllable outlets, a current measurement circuit, the ZigBee receiving and transmission circuit and a micro control unit. The measurement circuit senses the current and sends back a signal to the server module through the ZigBee.

The measurement data of the current and voltage detection can be stored in the embedded board, and they can be designed to become aware of any overload and to send out a message to the circuit breaker for safety. We use Visual Basic as the interface software for the design of the graphic user interface to provide a user-friendly operation of a typical homepsilas electric outlets.

69.Bidimensional Control System Through Successive Monitoring for Obstacles Identification:

The next project is a two-dimensional positioning system of a vehicle. It is based on the usage of infrared sensors to detect and map the obstacles around it and thus to store in system memory a map of the surrounding area. For this purpose, working with the variables angle and distance is needed and to acquire the required information from these , a number of infrared sensors which are above the vehicle are used, as well as the ability to rotate them to face different directions.

All variables must be processed in the control system which will be managed by a microcontroller, because of its great capacity to manage these information besides having the control system memory.

71.Engineering Location Based Path Finding on Indian Road Networks Over Low End Mobile Phones:

A non-intrusive position-sensing technology is critical to the success of location-aware services over mobile phones and PDAs. No single positioning technology can meet the localization requirements across the range of location-aware or location based services. However, for many value added services, it is possible to use locations approximations within certain tolerable thresholds. This paper, in particular, examines how GSM infrastructure can be leveraged for localization of low cost mobile phones with adequate approximations to meet the requirements of certain location aware services especially in countries like India.

The feasibility of the approach is demonstrated by pathfinder service (prototype of a location-aware road navigation utility) for Indian cities where road network is very ill structured compared to those in American or European cities. It provides text based driving instructions to a destination when a mobile phone user sends a query via SMS. We also looked at the theoretical issues arising out of optimal shortest path computation over semi-structured road networks and propose a new algorithm for the same.

73.Design of Intelligent Tire Safety Pre-alarm System Based on ARM7:

The tire burst used to cause fatal traffic accidents, threatening the safety of drivers and property, in cognizance of this problem, it comes up with an intelligent tire safety pre-alarm system. The hardware components and software design means of tire pressure monitoring system are introduced. The whole system is composed of a host module and four wireless sensor micro-extensions. The four wireless sensor micro-extensions are installed in tires, monitoring the pressure and temperature of tires in real time and sending them to center monitoring host through wireless module . The monitoring host adopts for receiving data, and uses CPU for processing data and displaying.

Once the tire comes out abnormal conditions, for instance, the pressure is high or low, or leaking and excess temperature, the monitoring host give out audible and visible signals to driver for warning of pulling up and taking relevant measure to avoid serious accidents.

74.Design of Intelligent Mobile Vehicle Checking System Based on ARM7:

With ARM7 as the core, the new intelligent mobile vehicle checking system integrated a lot of hardware modules such as video capture, GPS positioning and wireless transmission, the design of the system software used the embedded software developing platform based on ADS integrated development environment.
By the hardware/software co-design, the new intelligent mobile vehicle checking system implemented the functions of video capturing, intelligent plate distinguishing, GPS positioning and wireless transmission, met the traffic auditing department's needs about Mobile Vehicle Checking.

74.Development of a System to Detect Surgical Material Retained in the Patients during Operation:
The retained materials during surgical procedures lead to serious complications for the patients all over the world, and can even cause death. Nowadays, even though various methods and commercial products have been developed in order to prevent surgical teams from unintentionally leaving materials inside patients, a satisfactory success level could not be achieved. The main aim of this study is to design, realize, and test a system based on radio-frequency (RF) communication that can detect surgical materials retained in the patients under surgery. In this study, two different microprocessor controlled systems that use commercially available receiver/transmitter modules operating at 433.92 and 868 MHz RF signals were developed. The transmitters, which we referred to as tags, were placed in the tanks that modeled human abdomen. The tanks were filled with water having different volumes and conductivities. The tests were performed in an environment similar to the operating rooms. In addition, in these tests the power levels obtained at the receiver with respect to the distance to the transmitter were investigated. For 433.92 MHz tags, the power levels at the receiver decreased 5-10 dBm when they were placed in the water compared to the measurements taken in the open air.

In addition, tag-specific coding was realized, thus it was possible to detect which tags were active. The results showed that 433.92 MHz tags performed better than 868 MHz tags. Finally, these tests demonstrated the proof of concept of this system in detecting surgical materials retained in the patients under surgery.

75.Fingerprint Based Identity Authentication for Online Examination System:
Online Examination System is an effective solution for mass education evaluation. The novel online examination system based on Browser/Server framework which carries out the examination and auto-grading for objective questions and operating questions has been successfully applied to the distance evaluation of basic operating skills of computer science. But most system still use username/password mode to identify the candidates. In this article, we describe a fingerprint based technology to identity authentication instead of the traditional username/password methods. A fingerprint identify/classify application and a load balance service are implemented on the examination server cooperated with the online examination system to accomplish authentication.

The interfaces between the examination system and the identity authentication application can use code embed methods or SDK invoking methods to adapt different fingerprint sensors. The identity authentication works well in the Internet/intranet online examination systems.

77.Applications of Wireless Sensor Networks in the Oil, Gas and Resources Industries:

The paper provides a study on the use of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) in refineries, petrochemicals, underwater development facilities, and oil and gas platforms. The work focuses on networks that monitor the production process, to either prevent or detect health and safety issues or to enhance production. WSN applications offer great opportunities for production optimization where the use of wired counterparts may prove to be prohibitive. They can be used to remotely monitor pipelines, natural gas leaks, corrosion, H2S, equipment condition, and real-time reservoir status.

Data gathered by such devices enables new insights into plant operation and innovative solutions that aids the oil, gas and resources industries in improving platform safety, optimizing operations, preventing problems, tolerating errors, and reducing operating costs. In this paper, we survey a number of WSN applications in oil, gas and resources industry operations.

78.An Empirical Study of RF link for Wireless automotive Active/Passive Entry System:

The wireless systems in automotive applications increase for security and comfort considerations. As the structure of the car involves many metallic frames, the channel of the RF signal is tricky to model. As a consequence,the developers need efficient and accurate means of characterization to develop these systems. This study proposes a full characterization of a RF link between a transmitter (badge) and a receiver (integrated in the structure of the car). As the design of a car is relevant with a multi-scale analysis, the needs can vary from a car to another one: we propose a strategy based on the development of generic wireless modules to cut the development costs. Therefore, the medium of propagation influence is intensively characterized to develop matched strategies for secured data propagation.

First, an empirical analysis describes on the radio channel characterization for the car access systems. Then, the received field is measured in 2D around the vehicle for different various parameters (vehicle frame, antennas relative heights, badge and receiver's position and relative distance). The free radio frequency of 434 MHz is chosen for this study.

79.An embedded system and rfid solution for transport related issues:

Time and efficiency are matter of priority now. RFID (Radio Frequency identification) emerges as one of the converging technologies. While transportation plays an important role in urbanization, RFID is now key catalyst in signifying the merit of it. RFID plays major role in auto ID applications like RFID contact less smart cards used by bus riders, in Super market, Textiles and logistics chain management. This paper aims to understand the benefits of RFID technology in other countries and to identify possibilities extending it to Indian market. The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) has been a great success in providing both voice and low speed data services.

The Enhanced Circuit Switched Data on GSM (ECSD) is one of the major evolutionary steps to serve real time high speed data services. Population explosion is the source of so many issues, one among them is transport. In this paper, we propose a novel method to tackle traffic related issues. Applications such as accident alert, toll gate control, parking slot management, traffic rule violation control are explained in this paper.

80.A Real-Time Wireless Brain–Computer Interface System for Drowsiness Detection:

In this study, a real-time wireless embedded EEG-based brain computer interface (BCI) system was developed for drowsiness detection in a realistic driving task. Accidents caused by driver's drowsiness behind the steering wheel have a high fatality rate because of the marked decline in the driver's abilities of perception, recognition, and vehicle control abilities while sleepy. Therefore, real-time drowsiness monitoring is important to avoid traffic accidents.

In this study, an embedded EEG-based BCI system which includes a wireless physiological signal acquisition module and an embedded signal processing module was designed, and a real-time drowsiness detection algorithm based on our unsupervised approach was implemented in the embedded signal processing module. EEG signal would be monitored and analyzed by the embedded signal processing module, and the warning tone would be triggered to prevent traffic accidents when the drowsiness condition occurred.

81.ZigBee-Wireless Mesh Networks for Building Automation and Control:

ZigBee is a wireless technology developed as an open global standard to address the unique needs of low-cost low-power wireless sensor networks. This standard takes full advantages of the IEEE 802.15.4 physical radio specification and operates in unlicensed bands worldwide at different frequencies. ZigBee-Wireless Mesh Networks (ZigBee-WMNs) are recognized as a cost-effective and flexible solution for building automation and control.

They have the potential to unify the methods of data communication for sensors, actuators, appliances, and asset-tracking devices. They offer a means to build a reliable but affordable network backbone that supports battery-operated devices with a low data rate and a low duty cycle to facilitate building automation and control systems (BACs). This paper illustrates the possibilities and advantages of applying ZigBee-WMNs in BACs to benefit building occupants.

83.A Wireless Quiz System using Low Power Microcontrollers:

One of the many important parts of any multi-participant
game show is the Player Selection quizSystem. All participating groups are equipped with a selection button placed in front of them which can be used by them to give a response. The Player Selection System determines the group that gives the first response.

Many of these systems used today are wired systems that consume a considerable amount of power. This paper describes an easily installable, expandable robust wirelessquiz system using a low battery-powered microcontroller interfaced with a RF wireless transmitter.

84.Design and application of an automatic packaging machine controller based on AT mega 128/AT89s51:

In this paper we investigate the major function units of an automatic F/F/S packaging machine including bag forming, material filling, sealing temperature control, status display, fault detection and alarm etc. ATmega18 microcontroller is used as the central manager to coordinate the individual control function modules.

AC motor is used to fulfill the film drawing in both fixed length mode and colour tag tracing mode. Under the same precision control, it costs much less than using servo or stepper motor. This controller has the advantage of easy installation and maintenance compare to the normal implementation with a complex interface circuit.

85.Design and Implementation of Nodes Based on CC2430 for the Agricultural Information Wireless Monitoring:

A newly developed sensor node, which can monitor soil temperature, is designed through modular design method. The hardware of sensor node is base on a CC2430 micro-controller and DS18B20 temperature sensor. The software system includes the temperature collection, information transmission, and the communication between two
nodes. The node can collect soil temperature information and then send it to upper network node. The designed node possesses compact structure, stable performance, and small volume. The effective communications distance between nodes
reaches 80 m and the error ratio is approximately 1%, which meets the requirement of agricultural information collection. This study provide better hardware platform for further researching the communication protocols of wireless sensor
networks.

86.A Mobile GPRS-Sensors Array for Air Pollution Monitoring:

An online GPRS-Sensors Array for air pollution monitoring has been designed, implemented, and tested. The proposed system consists of a Mobile Data-Acquisition Unit (Mobile-DAQ) and a fixed Internet-Enabled Pollution Monitoring Server (Pollution-Server). The Mobile-DAQ unit integrates a single-chip microcontroller, air pollution sensors array, a General Packet Radio Service Modem (GPRS-Modem), and a Global Positioning System Module (GPS-Module). The Pollution-Server is a high-end personal computer application server with Internet connectivity.
The Mobile-DAQ unit gathers air pollutants levels (CO,
NO2, and SO2), and packs them in a frame with the GPS physical location, time, and date. The frame is subsequently uploaded to the GPRS-Modem and transmitted to the Pollution-Server via the public mobile network. A database server is attached to the Pollution- Server for storing the pollutants level for further usage by various clients such as environment protection agencies, vehicles registration authorities, and tourist and insurance companies. The
Pollution-Server is interfaced to Google Maps to display real-time pollutants levels and locations in large metropolitan areas. The system was successfully tested in the city of Sharjah, UAE. The system reports real-time pollutants level and their location on a 24-h/7-day basis.

87.A Low Cost Microcontroller Implementation of Neural Network Based Hurdle Avoidance Controller for a Car-Like Robot:

This paper describes the implementation of a neural network based hurdle avoidance controller for a car like robot using a low cost single chip 89C52 microcontroller. The neural network is the multilayer feed-forward network with back propagation training algorithm. The network is trained offline with tangent-sigmoid as activation function for neurons and is implemented in real time with piecewise linear approximation of tangent-sigmoid function.

Results have shown that up-to twenty neurons in hidden layer can be deployed with the proposed technique using a single 89C52 microcontroller. The vehicle is tested in various environments containing obstacles and is found to avoid obstacles in its path successfully.

88.Improvement of Energy Consumption for “Over-the-Air” Reprogramming in Wireless Sensor Networks:

New hardware platform architecture for “over-the-air” reprogramming in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) is presented in this article. The suggested approach is based on the usage of microcontroller RAM memory for running the program while the program memory is being changed. Implementation of suggested solution does not require any additional components and is applicable to a wide range of microcontrollers in new designs or provide possibility to add “over-the-air” reprogramming feature to existing applications without necessity of making hardware changes.

The presented approach allows a lowering of the power consumption of the nodes and time for node reprogramming comparing with other reported solutions. Summary of our experiences in practical implementation using Texas Instruments (TI) EZ430-RF2500 and CC2430DK development boards and discussion about some key features of suggested “over-the-air” reprogramming method are included.

89.Design and Application of Mobile Embedded Systems for Home Care Applications:

Applied biotelemetry is of growing importance in today's world. Specificity of biotelemetric data put special requirements on real biotelemetric system. This article describes some of conclusions acquired in development of real biotelemetric system using off the shelf embedded hardware technology, namely ARM microcontrollers,

FRAM memory and dedicated ZigBee chipsets. Described biotelemetric system is partitioned into logical parts that communicate using custom data protocols. Devices participating in biotelemetric system use ZigBee and Ethernet networks as underlying structure for data communication.

90.Design of ARM-based Embedded Ethernet Interface:

Currently device with microcontroller has been widely used in industrial field. However, a large number of devices don't have the network interface and the data from them can not be transmitted in network. A design of ARM processor-based embedded Ethernet interface is presented. In the design, an existing SPI serial device can be converted into a network interface peripheral to obtain compatibility with the network. The design mainly consists of SPI communication module,

processor module and Ethernet interface module. In the design, embedded real time operating system μC / OS-Π is transplanted into the microcontroller LM3S8962 and the data can be transmitted between remote SPI serial devices and host computer. After the design is completed, the system is tested and the results show that Ethernet is connected between the host and ARM Cortex and the terminal data can be transmitted via Ethernet.

91.A Project-Based Laboratory for Learning Embedded System Design With Industry Support:

A project-based laboratory for learning embedded system design with support from industry is presented in this paper. The aim of this laboratory is to motivate students to learn the building blocks of embedded systems and practical control algorithms by constructing a line-following robot using the quadratic interpolation technique to predict the line position. For those students who have acquired basic microcontroller hardware and software programming skills from previous courses, the hands-on exercises in the laboratory include several specific hardware circuits and software algorithms for the final project of constructing the line-following robot. The students are allowed to discuss the hardware and software problems with each other while solving each exercise, although they have to answer the teacher's questions individually to earn the score.

To enhance the learning outcomes, a racing contest for the students' line-following robots is also organized to see how well the techniques learned in the laboratory are applied in the final project. The support from the local branch of Microchip Inc. allows students to obtain C-compilers and microcontrollers at no cost. The feedback from students shows that the final project of constructing line-following robots and the racing contest motivates the students to learn actively all the skills included in the laboratory for embedded system design.

92.Energy Harvesting Embedded Wireless Sensor System for Building Environment Applications:

For many wireless sensor networks applications, indoor light energy is the only ambient energy source commonly available. Many advantages and constraints co-exist in this technology. However, relatively few indoor light powered harvesters have been presented and much research remains to be carried out on a variety of related design considerations and trade-offs. This work presents a solution using the Tyndall mote and an indoor light powered wireless sensor node.

It analyses design considerations on several issues such as indoor light characteristics, solar panel component choice, maximum power point tracking, energy storage elements and the trade-offs and choices between them.

93.Providing Group Tour Guide by RFIDs and Wireless Sensor Networks:

This paper proposes a new application framework for group tour guiding services based on RFIDs and wireless sensor networks. We consider a sensing field mixed with multiple independent tourist groups, each with a leader and several members. Members of a group will follow the moving path of their leader, but may occasionally roam around randomly on their own interests.

Sensor nodes have to track leaders' locations and maintain guiding paths from members to leaders. A member may inquire where his/her leader is, and a leader may "recall" his/her members. We propose a feasible solution to such an application by using existing technologies and off-the-shelf components. A group guiding protocol is presented. The design enables reliable group guiding at low cost and low traffic load. Our prototyping system is reported and system performance is discussed.

94.Activity Monitoring System using Dynamic Time Warping for the Elderly and Disabled Persons:

We present a new system that tracks human movements and behaviors for rehabilitative purposes. We applied Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) to recognize human activities of daily living. Ten different movements, standing, sitting, lying on the left side, lying on the right side, lying supine, lying prone, walking, running, stand-to-sit and sit-to-stand are considered and were kept to reference databases signals. Our system consists of two parts: transmitter and receiver. A transmitter part is the device mounted at the user's waist within a pager case measuring 90times40times20 mm. The whole device weighs approximately 50 g including batteries. A sensor used in this device is a 3-axial accelerometer (Hitachi H48C). The signals from the accelerometer are transmitted wirelessly to a personal computer in receiver part using Zigbee Pro 2.4 GHz. A personal computer only requires MATLAB program to recognize our system. DTW is used to match the signals from different behaviors in online with the databases. DTW will find a minimal path between two time series: the test signal and the reference database signal. This minimal value can classify a kind of activity of that test signal. The experiment shows 91 percent accuracy in recognizing these behaviors.

95.A wireless design of low-cost irrigation system using Zigbee technology:

At present, labor-saving and water-saving technology is a key issue in irrigation. A wireless solution for intelligent field irrigation system dedicated to Jew's-ear planting in Lishui, Zhejiang, China, based on ZigBee technology was proposed in this paper. Instead of conventional wired connection, the wireless design made the system easy installation and maintenance. The hardware architecture and software algorithm of wireless sensor/actuator node and portable controller, acting as the end device and coordinator in ZigBee wireless sensor network respectively, were elaborated in detail. The performance of the whole system was evaluated in the end.

The long-time smooth and proper running of the system in the field proved its high reliability and practicability. As an explorative application of wireless sensor network in irrigation management, this paper offered a methodology to establish large-scale remote intelligent irrigation system.

96.An RFID-based System for Emergency Health Care Services (SIMOPAC):

Although substantial progress was made in improving the sharing of patient medical information among healthcare providers, professionals still need to address the issue of efficient electronic medical records. Thus, real-time information presents a persistent challenge to the emergency response community. In emergency situations, particularly with unconscious, incoherent and unaccompanied patients, providing emergency physicians with a patient’s accurate medical history could be the difference between life and death.

The RFID technology has penetrated the healthcare sector due to its increased functionality, low cost, high reliability and easy-to-use capabilities. As the present paper demonstrates, our major aim was to design an RFID-based system architecture and data model that would provide efficient means to perform essential information management for emergency care across hospital and country boundaries.

98.High Performance Overdrive using Improved Motion Adaptive Codec in LCD:

To improve overdrive performance in LCD, we present an improved motion adaptive codec (IMAC). The IMAC contains two approaches to improve the motion adaptive codec overdrive (MAC-OD). The first is an advanced hybrid image codec (AHIC) for the efficient reduction of the image data stored in frame memory.

The second is an advanced motion adaptive selector to reduce the overdrive error. The simulation results show that the IMAC at 6.04:1 compression ratio significantly improves the overdrive performance by 2.268 dB in PSNR and achieves better visual quality compared with the conventional MAC-OD at 4:1 compression ratio. The IMAC is implemented with the Verilog HDL and fully synthesizable. It can be applied to shorten liquid crystal response time and minimize motion blur of LCD in TV and desktop applications.

99.Implementation of Obstacle avoidance and Zigbee Control functions for Omni Directional Robot:

This paper presents the obstacle avoiding and ZigBee wireless control functions for omni directional mobile robot. By using ultrasonic transducers, the embedded controller receives the obstacle distance signals, and then calculates the control signals to drive three omni directional wheels DC motors which set up on mobile robot. On the other hand, through the onboard RS-232 port, the controller as well as receives the control signals from remote PC via ZigBee wireless communication.

The graphical human machine interface is programmed by Visual Basic software at PC part; such the functions of mobile robot remote control and messages transmission are displayed on screen. The experiment results provide the techniques for control omni directional mobile robot; also extend the ZigBee wireless communication techniques into the intelligent robot research field.

100.A Wireless Data Acquisition and Transmission System Design:

In the field of modern wireless communication, there are mainly some technologies that provide solutions to the wireless data transmission network, such as: GSM, CDMA, 3G, Wi-Fi. These solutions make network work with high efficiency and good quality, but still with high cost. So it was difficulty in popularizing in with low cost and at the circumstance of infrastureless or infrastructure destruction. According to this situation, in this paper, the key components of the Information Terminal and the wireless receiving modules on the data collection and wireless transmission network were designed with the principle of transceiver nRF905 and 51 series of single-chip computer as the core hardware, besides, combining with the current technology on the Wireless Ad Hoc Networks, a short-rang wireless data sampling and transmission network was putting up , which provides a low-powered and high-performance wireless data communication system, works in the ISM (Industrial Scientific Medical )Band.

Then, an available solution to the wireless data communications was put forward, and this solution was good at stronger real-time response, higher reliability requirement and smaller data amount. Through software and hardware debugging and actual measuring, this system based on our solution had work well, reached the expected goal and been already successfully applied to Wireless vehicle System.

101.E-Voting System Security Optimization:

Security of e-voting systems does not only depend on the voting protocol or the software used but concerns the whole system with all its components. To guarantee security a holistic approach, which considers all parts of such a complex system, has to be chosen. The security of an election system cannot be ensured unless every single element and its security-related characteristics, interfaces to other elements, and their impact on the whole system are examined.This paper presents the E-Voting System Security Optimization method, which is based on such an approach and was developed to evaluate the security of e-voting systems.

This method points out security flaws, shows security optimization potential, and can be used to compare different election systems. The methodology differs from other approaches insofar as it uses a holistic approach, visualizes the security situation of an e-voting system in a clear way, and shows its potential for improvement.

102.Research on Embedded Data Display Unit Based on CAN Bus:

The application development of embedded display terminal based on ARM microprocessor is studied, by applying 32 bit RISC key microprocessor technique, embedded software technology, embedded GUI (graphics user interface) technology, CAN bus communication technology, information storage and management technology etc..

The design of embedded hardware platform, of which the core is S3C2410CPU, is completed. On the basis, the Linux operation system is embedded into the platform and the man-machine interface based on Qt/Embedded are realized.

103.A New Omni-vision Based Self-localization Method for Soccer Robot:

Self-localization is one of the key technologies in soccer robot system. However in the soccer robot system based on the omni-vision, it is hard to match the features extracted from the image to the real features existing in the world due to the large distortion in omni-vision images. This has become the main obstacle to precise self-localization based on the omni-vision.

To solve this problem, a new method with the fusion of multiple kinds of vision information including the color, edge and the space relationship between them is proposed for feature matching. And at the same time, to solve the problem of "kidnapped robot" which often happens in Soccer Robot system due to the collision between the robots, a new localization method called Mixture Sampling-based Evolutionary Monte Carlo Localization (MS-EMCL) is proposed, which applies mixture sampling technology to draw samples from the most newly observed information and applies evolution operators, cross and mutation introduced from the genetic algorithm, to make samples move towards regions with high post density so that the samples can represent the pose of the robot much better after robot being "kidnapped".

104.Evaluation and Modeling of user Performance for Pointing and Scrolling Tasks on Handheld Devices Using Tilt Sensor:

We experimentally test the effectiveness and reliability of the accelerometer-based tilt sensor as an interaction device for pointing and scrolling tasks on handheld devices. The touch screen and stylus based interfaces on these devices requires using two hands: one for holding the device and the other for driving the stylus. In our experiment, the participants use only one hand to interact with the same interfaces.

In addition to freeing one hand, using the tilt sensor doesn't hide a part of the device's tiny screen. Two different interfaces are used in the experiment: one for testing pointing and targeting without scrolling and the other is for testing them with scrolling. Using the experiment results we developed a model for the prediction of the execution time for both tasks.

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