Preface This study has been carried out within Asset Service Condition Assessment Methodology (ASCAM), which is a project initiated by ERA-NET ROAD.

Introduction Nowadays, more than 10,000 different types of medical devices can be found in hospitals. This way, medical electrical equipment is being employed in a wide variety of fields in medical sciences with different physiological effects and measurements. Hospitals and medical centers must ensure that their critical medical devices are safe, accurate, reliable and operational at the requi...

These guidelines provide benchmarks for the performance of urodynamic equipment, and have been developed by the International Continence Society to assist purchasing decisions, design requirements, and performance checks. The guidelines suggest ranges of specification for uroflowmetry, volume, pressure, and EMG measurement, along with recommendations for user interfaces and performance tests. F...

Monitoring of substation equipment performance and maintenance needs is typically met with test devices that are brought to a substation and data is collected manually. This paper introduces a new concept where this process is performed through an on-line data acquisition and processing solution. This is accomplished by utilizing substation automation systems for diagnostics and maintenance pur...

In this paper effects of two most likely interference sources: narrow-band (adjacent WLAN channels) and intra-system (Bluetooth-WLAN) interference on range and performance of IEEE 802.11b WLAN equipment were studied. Three main sets of measurements were performed: the first as “free space”, the second with narrowband interference and the third with wideband interference. The results of the firs...

Initial ranging is the primary and important process in wireless networks for the customer premise equipments (CPEs) to access the network and establish their connections with the base station. Contention may occur during the initial ranging process. To avoid contention, the mandatory solution defined in the standards is based on a truncated binary exponential random backoff (TBERB) algorithm w...

This report summarizes work to date on the development of a simple, standard method of characterizing the degree to which a single server reduces its energy consumption when operating at low levels of computation compared to what it consumes at peak computing capacity (the “part-load” condition). The goal is to bring more attention and rigor to the issue, and lead to future servers which save e...

Efficiently, tracking information related to components, materials and equipment from the production/construction phase to operation and maintenance is a challenge in the industries. The industry environment is a natural fit for generating and utilizing instance-level data for decision support. Advanced electronic identification and data storage technologies e.g. radio frequency identification ...

INTRODUCTION Modern medicine employs a wide variety of instruments with different physiological effects and measurements. Periodic verifications are routinely used in legal metrology for industrial measuring instruments. The correct operation of electrosurgical generators is essential to ensure patient's safety and management of the risks associated with the use of high and low frequency electr...