While home services is a fast growing industry, little attention has been given to the management of its workforce. In particular, the productivity of home-service technicians depends not only on efficiently routing from customer-to-customer, but also the management of their skillsets. This paper introduces a model of technician routing that explicitly models individualized, experience-based le...

Nowadays smart homes are becoming a rather fast progressing area for the future industrial developments. Apart of this, the new ICT smart advancing is obviously producing hidden cyber threats for the smart home inhabitants that require a special attention. This provides an inevitable necessity for exploration of possible precautionary measures for human protection. The paper describes a wearabl...

Mobile IP is designed to support uninterrupted connectivity of mobile computers as they roam from place to place. We propose a fast intra-domain and inter-domain handoff scheme using the location of routers to meet the delay and packet loss requirements of real-time services. The scheme achieves an intelligent and dynamic neighborhood discovery and avoids the use of multicast addresses in intra...

Background Go on, admit it. However much you may dismiss soap operas, at some point in your life you’ve been fascinated by them. Maybe as a teenager coming home early from school, as a medical student taking a break from exams, or as a young parent at home with the children, you too have been drawn into the world of ‘The Street’ or ‘The Square’ – or even ‘The Police Station’. You too have been ...

A novel home-built system for imaging cold atom samples is presented using a readily available astronomy camera which has the requisite sensitivity but no timing-control. We integrate the camera with LabVIEW achieving fast, low-jitter imaging with a convenient user-defined interface. We show that our system takes precisely timed millisecond exposures and offers significant improvements in terms...

The U.S takes a major role in the area of Smart Appliance Home Control Network technology for decades. The most popular solutions for this technology at this time include wired and wireless. Today, the benefit of remove control system in the house has been enjoyed. As the fast growth of wireless technology, a convergence of sensor devices and home appliances, wireless system is now a movement t...

Two hundred mothers of children under five years of age having lower respiratory tract infection were interviewed with the help of pretested unstructured questionnaire to know the danger signs perceived by her in a child suffering from pneumonia and the home remedies used by them before seeking medical help. 'Pasli Chalna' and refusal to feed were the most common symptoms perceived as dangerous...

Mobile IP is designed to support uninterrupted connectivity of mobile computers as they roam from place to place. We propose a fast intra-domain and inter-domain handoff scheme using the location of routers to meet the delay and packet loss requirements of real-time services. The scheme achieves an intelligent and dynamic neighborhood discovery and avoids the use of multicast addresses in intra...

In this paper we present CyPhy: a cyber-physiotherapy system that brings daily rehabilitation to patient’s home with supervision from trained therapist. With its archiving and delivery features, CyPhy is able to 1) capture and record RGB-D and physiotherapyrelated medical sensing data streams in home environment; 2) provide efficient storage for rehabilitation session recordings; 3) provide fas...