Recently, more and more organizations have been proposing and introducing infrastructure to realize a Smart City because there has been an increase in environmental impact associated with urbanization. On the other hand, it is becoming more important to introduce information and communications technology (ICT) to create new services by connecting infrastructure organically. At the same time, an...

J. Vveinhardt, Lithuanian Sports University, Lithuania, W. Sroka, University of Dąbrowa Górnicza, Poland Mobbing and harassment are widely analysed in organizations providing various services but are little studied in the companies undertaking industrial activities. Therefore, the aim of the paper is to diagnose the prevalence of mobbing and harassment in the steel enterprises. The case study a...

We demonstrate the specific identification of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) responsible for rifampicin resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis applying fluorescently labeled DNA-hairpin structures (smart probes) in combination with single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy. Smart probes are singly labeled hairpin-shaped oligonucleotides bearing a fluorescent dye at the 5' end that is qu...

This paper presents the results of international cooperative researches on smart wireless sensors and SHM of civil structures among KAIST, the University of Michigan, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. At first, the state-of-art in the smart wireless sensor technology is reviewed. The subsystems of a smart wireless sensor are discussed, and available wireless sensor platforms d...

Smart cards are credit card-sized plastic cards with an integrated microcontroller chip. This chip is protected against physical and logical tampering, thus unauthorized access to internal data structures is virtually impossible. This makes a smart card an excellent device for storing secret cryptographic keys and other sensitive data. In practice, smart cards are used for applications like dig...

Human reasoning about non-trivial real world problems is a complex activity that frequently incorporates multiple reasoning strategies, concerning multiple domains of knowledge which may be perceived as having different structures. This paper proposes the use of the “smart object paradigm” for the design of complex knowledge based systems. The paradigm provides mechanisms for both hybrid knowle...

Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are unique smart materials that have many advantages, such as ability to resist large strains without leaving residual strains and ability to recover original form. However, the high costs of SMAs have limited their usage. This paper evaluates the behavior of concrete structures equipped with SMAs in an optimal manner as they are being used along the plastic hinge of ...

Structural health monitoring (SHM) systems operate online and test different materials using ultrasonic guided waves and piezoelectric smart materials. These systems are permanently installed on the structures and display information on the monitor screen. The user informs the engineers of the existing damage after observing signal loss which appears after damage is caused. In this paper health...

The interconnection and exchange of information is a basic requirement to enable Smart Cities. Such an interconnection must be realized within each domain (vertically) as well as among different domains (horizontally). Typical domains cover energy, automotive, health, intelligent buildings, transportation, manufacturing as well as the military domain. Therefore, horizontal and vertical informat...

Prestressed concrete (PSC) is one of the most reliable, durable and widely used construction materials, which overcomes the weakness of concrete in tension by the introduction of a prestress force. Smart strands enabling measurement of the prestress force have recently been developed to maintain PSC structures throughout their lifetime. However, the smart strand cannot give a representative ind...