Privacy in image and video data has become an important subject since cameras are being installed in an increasing number of public and private spaces. Specifically, in assisted living, intelligent monitoring based on computer vision can allow one to provide risk detection and support services that increase people's autonomy at home. In the present work, a level-based visualisation scheme is pr...

The Internet is emerging as the new universal telecommunication medium. IP over WDM has been envisioned as one of the most attractive architectures for the new Internet. Consequently survivability is a crucial concern in designing IP over WDM networks. This paper presents a survey of the survivability mechanisms for IP over WDM networks. A number of optical layer protection techniques have been...

Probably the most significant development in the future is the evolution of the EMS to a more intelligent, automated system to analyze, predict and prevent events leading to a total system collapse. The transition to a highly automated system is possible in part by the recent advances in communication technology, hardware architecture, web services and installation of synchronized phasor measur...

This paper presents the development of adaptive distance relay for protection of parallel transmission line with mutual coupling. The proposed adaptive relay, automatically adjusts its operation based on the acquisition of the data from distance relay of adjacent line and status of adjacent line from line circuit breaker IED (Intelligent Electronic Device). The zero sequence current of the adja...

Semantic Web technologies allow on-line resources to be semantically annotated to support more effective and intelligent online services. However, ontologies sometimes may contain sensitive information. Providing access to them requires proper control to ensure the data protection requirement. Yet, the protection should not be too restrictive to make the access management inflexible. While ther...

In the rapidly expanding field of E-Commerce, mobile agent is the emerging technology that addresses the requirement of intelligent filtering/processing of information. This paper will address the area of mobile agent data integrity protection. We propose the use of Secure Agent Data Integrity Shield (SADIS) as a scheme that protects the integrity of data collected during agent roaming. With th...

During the last years the medium voltage world has seen a strong increase in demand of flexibility, simplicity and automation of the distribution networks. The Smart Grids concepts have changed network’s needs and solutions with innovative design are required to satisfy these new demands. The standard IEC61850 is driving the innovation in the energy distribution devices enabling new functionali...

Today’s automotive market requires a continuous increasing of complexity and reliability in the electronic systems. To achieve this, the concept of the automotive systems is more and more based on micro controllers architecture driving integrated monolithic circuits that include a power stage, control, driving and protection circuits on the same chip. Vertical Intelligent Power, a STMicroelectr...