This paper presents a novel dosing concept for drug delivery based on a peristaltic piezo-electrically actuated micro membrane pump. The design of the silicon micropump itself is straight-forward, using two piezoelectrically actuated membrane valves as inlet and outlet, and a pump chamber with a piezoelectrically actuated pump membrane in-between. To achieve a precise dosing, this micropump is ...

In the last two years, there is a gaining interest in usage based accounting for the Internet. One of the driving forces for this growing interest is the progress being made in providing some form of quality assurance in IP packet forwarding. One of the key processes in an accounting system is metering, gathering of network usage parameters on which the accounting is or can be based. In this pa...

Based on the classic behavioural theory the “Theory of Planned Behaviour,” the authors have developed an agent-based model to simulate the diffusion of smart metering technology in the electricity market. The authors simulate the emergent adoption of smart metering technology under different management strategies and economic regulations. Their research results show that in terms of boosting th...

Interaction across applications in DRAM memory impacts its energy consumption. This paper makes the case for accurate pertask DRAM energy metering in multicores, which opens new paths to energy/performance optimizations, such as per-task energy-aware task scheduling and energy-aware billing in datacenters. In particular, the contributions of this paper are (i) an ideal per-task energy metering ...

High-Fidelity Power Metering and Run-Time Energy Management in Wireless Sensor Networks

For Service Oriented Infrastructures (SOI) and Cloud services, monitoring metering are crucial tasks. the proper execution of cloud applications & SLA compliance, data gathered through is required. The motivations for challenges in systems discussed. methods network environment on virtualized infrastructures will be discussed together with tools that now available various commercial researc...