This paper describes real-time locating technology and its possible use in health care. Real time locating may be applied in different segments of everyday life, including hospitals (medical equipment and devices, locating patients, and alarm in case of emergency), working environment (locating persons to control access to restricted areas or in case of fire to see if anyone has been trapped in...

A wide range of events in buildings occur at sub-hourly frequencies. Notable examples include daylight-sensing control and manual adjustment of blinds and lights in response to sub-hourly illuminance variations. Such short-term changes can produce notable shifts in instantaneous solar and equipment loads, in turn affecting electrical energy demand. Although sub-hourly time discretization is cur...

According to WHO, at any one time, around 50 per cent of medical equipment in lowand middle-income countries cannot be used because of lack of maintenance or spare parts.1 We have found that unwillingness or inability to repair equipment and put it back in use is also a major cause. New equipment is made available by different international non-government organisations (INGOs) competing with on...

Stereo parking equipment has become an important means to solve the problem of difficulties, so it is necessary study planning stereo equipment. This paper proposes evaluation model for and design, verifies feasibility through example. First, obtain surface information planned area object-oriented technology, then complete design layout that can accommodate most spaces according plan map area. ...

This study explores the role of global and local warming on indoor thermal environments of representative buildings in two warm climate cities in the U.S. (Chicago IL, and Houston TX). It uses downscaled climate change scenarios to drive whole-building model simulations of representative apartment buildings. Simulations were conducted under (a) current conditions; (b) conditions that include a ...

Industrial evolution brings major new challenges due to increasing energy demands. This phenomenon encourages the improvement of control methodologies that reduce resource requirements. Lately, it has been observed that the building sector contributes considerably to final energy demand. Consequently, studies have been conducted on the technical systems and solutions applied in this sector to t...

There has been considerable recent interest in the level of tamper resistance that can be provided by low cost devices such as smartcards. It is known that such devices can be reverse engineered using chip testing equipment, but a state of the art semiconductor laboratory costs millions of dollars. In this paper, we describe a number of attacks that can be mounted by opponents with much shallow...

Recent advances in communication technologies have great impact on location determination systems. Location determination systems are deployed in almost every building, from hospitals where the location of patients and doctors or any medical equipment can be determined, or sending information to customers based on their location and capability, to organize the traffic and reducing congestion in...

As networking technologies move from the Megabits/second to the Gigabits/second realm, designers of bridges, routers, switching hubs and telecommunications equipment are building increasingly sophisticated embedded systems. Sun Microelectronics is addressing the performance shortcoming of existing embedded processors by improving computational efficiency and data transmission performance of the...