This study is aimed at showing applicability of mutual information, namely auto-mutual information function for condition monitoring in electrical motors, through age detection in accelerated motor aging. Vibration data collected in artificial induction motor experiment is used for verification of both the original auto-mutual information function algorithm and its hardware implementation in Ve...

Recent advances in radio, network, mobile, and cloud technologies have supported the development of the first generation Internet of Things (IoT) services and products. IoT promises to connect various physical and digital objects to the Internet and thus enable a plethora of new innovative applications that enhance society and quality of life [1–3]. IoT and ubiquitous computing [4] extend the c...

The use of a PDA with ad-hoc built-in information retrieval and auto-localization functionalities can help people in visiting a museum in a natural manner instead of traditional audio/visual pre-recorded guides. The goal of this paper is to build an user-friendly virtual-guide system adaptable to the user needs of mobility and therefore usable on different mobile devices (e.g. PDAs, Smartphones...

As every mobile network, LTE (Long Term Evolution) system also needs to be managed. Since LTE is an evolvement of UMTS, the management should also evolve from UMTS. There is a trend to simplify the management by auto-configuration and auto-optimization. However, the complexity of LTE system also place new demands on the Operations and Maintenances of the network. Self-Organizing Networks (SON) ...

Mobile services appear to be an obvious choice for travel and tourism as the travellers are on the move, which is the first criterion for mobile services to be relevant. The travel and tourism industry, which is one of the largest and most rapidly expanding industries in the world and one of the significant users of ICT in its operations, will no doubt be an important market place for mobile se...

In this paper, we consider the tracking of mobile terminals based on the received signal strength (RSS) measured from several base stations. The spatial correlation of the random shadowing is exploited in order to improve the position tracking. We define an auto-regressive (AR) model of the temporal evolution of the shadowing. This model allows for performing a joint tracking of the position an...

The emerging markets of mobile commerce are calling for potential successful products and services. This process is challenging all actors of the mobile commerce industry (MCI). Learning from the future and discovering a route to a desired future are keys to successful mobile commerce business. In this paper we argue that it is very important that all actors in the MCI use an industry foresight...