Hybrid control system composed of a base isolation system and a magneto-rheological damper so-called smart base isolation is one of effective semi-active control system in controlling the seismic response of structures. In this paper, a design method is proposed for designing the smart base isolation system in order to achieve an effective performance under multiple earthquakes. The base mass, ...

This paper focuses on the multiservice aspects of the Smart Grid communications system with particular emphasis on the real time requirements of its control system. A general outline of the Smart Grid is presented and its general communications requirements are identified. The stringent real-time requirements of substation and transmission line control are discussed in greater detail. An overvi...

Various benefits of DNA computing such as programmability, immense data storage capacity and massively parallel processing have led to provide fundamental building blocks to motivated goals of building smart in vivo robots with implications in various applications. However, molecular machine learning has not yet been employed to solve more complex tasks such as pattern recognition, due to the l...

for making life more comfortable, safer and more intelligent, a system for remote monitoring of smart home is proposed based on ARM and ZigBee. This system not only can centralize and monitor family affairs by gathering computer technology, embedded technology, sensor technology, and network communication technology, but also can meet the pursuit of high quality life in the information age by c...

The effect of base suction on a plane wake was found to produce significant changes on wake dynamics. The wake is produced by merging two boundary layers from the trailing edge of a splitter plate in a two stream water tunnel. A threshold suction speed exists which is equal to half of the free stream velocity. If the suction speed is below the threshold, the wake flow is unstable. If the suctio...

A smart grid is the next generation power grid focused on providing increased reliability and efficiency in the wake of integration of volatile distributed energy resources. For the development of the smart grid, the modeling and simulation infrastructure is an important concern. This study presents an agentbased model for simulating different smart grid frequency control schemes, such as deman...

Traditional and widely used access control mechanisms have been proved to be not able to effectively support the dynamicity and scaling needs of IoT contexts. Furthermore, as more end-users start using smart devices (e.g. smart phones, smart home appliances, etc.) the need to have more understandable and easy to use access control mechanisms increases. In this paper we present a capability base...

System aspects of smart antenna (SA) technology in wireless communications such as SA receiver structure and algorithms, wireless network control and network planning are discussed. A classification of SA receivers and their algorithms is given in order to simplify orientation in very large amount of the proposed types. Several radio network planning and upgrading concepts with SA are evaluated...

This position paper provides qualitative considerations on the design and implementation of a smart heating control system for private households. We envision the system to rely on the opportunistic exploitation of information made available by existing smart devices. Since heating represents the major source of energy consumption in domestic environments, significant energy savings may be achi...