Carpeted bedrooms of 36 asthmatic children were monitored to examine the mass concentration of indoor aerosol particulate matter (PM), from non-smoking households, and the effect high efficiency particle arresting (HEPA) air filtration had on PM concentration. Concurrent indoor and outdoor monitoring was also undertaken. Mass concentration was determined gravimetrically using time weighted conc...

Construction Progress monitoring noticed recent expansions by adopting vision and laser technologies. However, inspectors need to personally visit the job-site or wait for a time gap process data captured from construction site use inspection. Recent inspection methods lacks automation real-time exchange, therefore, it needs manpower each job-site, health risk of physical interaction between wo...

The localization of people and objects in different environments is an essential prerequisite for many applications in navigation, robotics, machine control and monitoring. The limiting factor for many applications is the indoor environment in which the Global Satellite Systems work only partially or cannot function at all. Currently radio frequency (RF) based methods are being increasingly imp...

Kerala is a strip of land on the southwest coast of India lying between Arabian Sea on thewest andWestern Ghats on the east. The traditional architecture of Kerala is known for its use of natural and passivemethods for a comfortable indoor environment. However, it has not been proved by a detailed and quantitative evaluation method so far. A field study was thus conducted in the winter and summ...