abstract: nowadays due to developing the information technology, buildings are equipped to this technology in order to reduce energy consumption and make more convenient for inhabitants. the popularity of smart home has been increasing greatly in recent years due to much higher affordability and simplicity through android smartphone connectivity. this paper prepares a review of smart home and h...

In view of the problems associated with under-machine inspection, there is a need to develop remote diagnostics systems capable of exploring narrow areas, capturing data and images from various modalities, and displaying the results at a remote location thus providing ease of identifying and diagnosing various machine problems. In this paper, we present a diagnostics system that is remotely con...

Background: Liquidity is, in practice of portfolio investment, an important attribute of stocks and measuring illiquidity presents a real challenge for researchers, primarily on developed stock markets. Moreover, there is a lack of research dealing with (il)liquidity on emerging markets. In the paper, the problem of applicability and validity of two well-known illiquidity measures, ILLIQ and TU...

Telemedicine holds important place and has wider use in health care practice and improvement of health organization, above all providing the opportunity for standard and innovative procedures to combine. Tremendous increase in Internet bandwidth enabled a true revolution in image transmission and enabled easy remote viewing of the static images. However, transmission of real time video streams ...

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Older adults with strong social connections are at a reduced risk for health problems and mortality. We describe two field studies to inform the development of a virtual agent designed to provide long-term, continuous social support to isolated older adults. Findings include the topics that older adults would like to discuss with a companion agent, in addition to overall reactions to interactin...

A cross cultural study was conducted to test the influences of different cultural backgrounds on the user's presence experience in interacting with a distributed interactive movie. The effects of embodied interaction on presence were also investigated because embodiment is often used to enrich the experience and to reduce the complexity of distributed interaction. In absence of a clear definiti...

This paper describes the design and implementation of an SMS transmission system using the PDU (Protocol Data Unit) mode of a GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) modem. The system may be used in several applications: telemetry or remote control, using short messages from a standard GSM mobile phone, and in other application circuits. In order to perform these applications, coding and ...

With the help of botnets, intruders can implement a remote control on infected machines and perform various malicious actions. Domain Name System (DNS) is very famous for botnets to locate command and control (C and C) servers, which enormously strengthens a botnet’s survivability to evade detection. This paper focuses on evasion and detection techniques of DNS-based botnets and gives a review ...

This contribution shows in full detail how to realize a gesture recognition system for controlling appliances in home environments. It focusses on the image processing aspects and the calibration of the cameras but also clariies details about remote controlling devices by gestures with the help of a vision system. Some hints for an intuitive dialogue are outlined.