at present, the solutions to prevent bedsore include using various techniques for movement and displacement of patients, which is not  possible for some patients or dangerous for some of them while it also poses problems for health care providers. on the other hand, development of information technology in the health care system including application of wireless sensor networks (wsns) has led t...

Due to the rapid advances in wireless communication and information technologies it is now possible to embed various levels of smartness in the home. These smart homes are ones that can interact intelligently with their inhibitors to provide comfort and safe living. This interaction may range from simple control of ambient temperature to context-aware and mobile agent based services. An example...

Remote user authentication is important to identify whether communicating parties are genuine and trustworthy using the password and the smart card between a login user and a remote server. Recently, we find that Kim et al.’s password-based authentication scheme [1] assume that the attacker cannot extract the secret information of the smart card. However, in reality, the authors in [2,8] show t...

Due to radical advancement of sensor network technologies, smart home service market has been growing than ever before, that enables our life easier, simpler, and safer. Floor sensors in houses have been developed to locate user presense and to provide location-based, context-awaring scenarios as well as to minimize privacy invasion. However, there is an installation cost and user identication ...

T o be effective, smart systems need to be instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent. Instrumentation enables the collection of timely, high-quality data through embedded sensors that communicate over wireless or wired networks. Instrumented devices such as smart meters for gas, electricity, and water continually monitor the supply and demand for these utilities, and might actuate strategie...

This paper describes the concept and characteristics of smart grid distribution systems, basic difference between conventional and smart grid distribution systems, functional management and reliability evaluation of smart grid distribution systems. In smart grid distribution system, remotely controlled high rated power electronic switches are used in the place of normal disconnecting switches o...

In this paper, the response of hybrid composite laminate plate reinforced by the smart wires (shape memory or the SMA wires) subjected to low velocity impact is studied. The smart wires are embedded within the layers of the composite laminate. The effect of the smart wires on contact force history, and deflection of these structures is investigated. The first-order shear deformation theory as w...

In this paper we present a baseline implementation strategy for the well-known Smart Market pricing scheme on diff-serv. Our strategy models Smart Market’s theoretically defined properties as much as possible. In order to suit diff-serv framework, we propose ways of focusing Smart Market’s complex operations at the edges while keeping the interior simple. Based on the proposed implementation st...

Recent advances in computing and communication technologies paved the growth for applications and devices in smart home environment. A typical smart home is highly characterized by heterogeneity elements that need to perform joint execution of tasks in an efficient manner. Although there are huge growth of services, applications and devices in smart home environment, the interoperability elemen...