Accepting the challenge of the future in the field of civil engineering smart structure applications, the province of Manitoba is undertaking the responsibility of constructing the first bridge in Canada totally prestressed and reinforced for shear by cru:bon fibre reinforced plastic (CFRP) reinforcement. Portion of the concrete deck slab is also reinforced exclusively by FRP reinforcements. Th...

We introduce the abstract framework of decentralized smart contracts system with balance and transaction amount hiding property under the ACCOUNT architecture. To build a concrete system with such properties, we utilize a homomorphic public key encryption scheme and construct a highly efficient non-interactive zero knowledge (NIZK) argument based upon the encryption scheme to ensure the validit...

ZQL is a query language for expressing simple computations on private data. Its compiler produces code to certify data, perform client-side computations, and verify the correctness of their results. Under the hood, it synthesizes zero-knowledge protocols that guarantee both integrity of the query results and privacy for all other data. We present the ZQL language, its compilation scheme down to...

The opportunities that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) offer to any industry considering the transformation of products and places into smart, connected system have stimulated academics and professionals from every discipline to explore and collaborate in concrete realizations of this vision. This paper elaborates on the relevance of considering research from different discipli...

A smart country or city is one of the key issues all over world, some countries have projected and are trying to be smart. In same way, present government Bangladesh wants develop stage a developed sustainable through new concept 'Smart Bangladesh’ by 2041. The recent development plan part government's agenda widely known as "Smart Vision 2041". This slogan has already attracted large populatio...

Web of Things (WoT) provides abstraction that simplifies the creation of Internet of Things (IoT) systems. IoT systems are designed to support a number of ubiquitous devices and decision management sub-systems. The devices and sub-systems can be a part of safety critical operations as well as smart management of multiple actuators that control the smart home devices. The devices and sub-systems...

Structural health monitoring of concrete infrastructure is a critical concern for timely repair and maintenance. This study provides an innovative approach utilizing smart integrated with multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) to enhance electrical conductivity. The concrete’s self-sensing capability assessed through fractional change in resistance (FCR) measured using four-probe technique. Fou...

ID No: 54 Abstract: Concrete is an important building material, due to its ease to use and relatively low cost. However, the presence of cracks endangers the durability of concrete and can result in reinforcement corrosion since a pathway for harmful particles dissolved in fluids and gases is generated. Manual repair costs can go up to half of the annual construction budget. Instead, introducin...

Java card technology have progressed at the point of running web servers and web clients on a smart card. Yet concrete deployment of multi-applications smart cards have remained extremely rare because the business model of the asynchronous download and update of applications by different parties requires the control of interactions among possible applications after the card has been fielded. Ye...