After technical textiles and functional textiles, also smart textiles came into force a few years ago. The term ‘smart textiles’ covers a broad range. The application possibilities are only limited by our imagination and creativity. This paper gives an overview of the functions that can be achieved by smart textiles in general. In vehicles as well, smart textiles can introduce new features. Two...

A cyber world (CW) is a digitized world created on cyberspaces inside computers interconnected by networks including the Internet. Following ubiquitous computers, sensors, e-tags, networks, information, services, etc., is a road towards a smart world (SW) created on both cyberspaces and real spaces. It is mainly characterized by ubiquitous intelligence or computational intelligence pervasion in...

Smart Home is one of emerging application domains of The Internet of Things. It minimizes user’s intervention in monitoring home settings and controlling home appliances. Mobile terminal has become an important part of Smart Home now. This paper presents an effective approach to solve the potential problems when using mobile terminal in Smart Home. In the smart home system, a kind of simple, ea...

A solution to the problem of identification and control of smart structures is presented in this paper. Smart structures with build-in sensors and actuators can actively and adaptively change their physical geometry and properties. As a particular example, a representative dynamic model of a typical fighter vertical tail, identified as the smart fin, is considered. Piezoelectric patches, which ...

Smart systems and the smart world concept are addressed in the framework of the fourth industrial revolution. New challenges in distributed autonomous robots and computing are considered. An illustration of a new kind of smart and reconfigurable distributed modular robot system is given. A prototype is also presented as well as the associated distributed algorithm.

We propose a set of privacy preserving requirements based on our analysis of the AMX TPControl app for the Honda Smart Home. The Honda Smart Home contains controls and monitors designed to optimize energy use. Our study seeks to define privacy for the smart home app user, identify privacy requirements, while highlighting privacy vulnerabilities and ways to mitigate them. We focus on leaks that ...

Internet of Things (IoT) is a part of Future Internet and comprises many billions of Internet connected Objects (ICOs) or ‘things’ where things can sense, communicate, compute and potentially actuate as well as have intelligence, multi-modal interfaces, physical/ virtual identities and attributes. ICOs can include sensors, RFIDs, social media, actuators (such as machines/equipments fitted with ...

To achieve the Smart Object world, we need to create appropriate application layer protocols. We consider high extensibility and applicability for human-to-machine type communications as well as machine-to-machine are especially needed for the protocol design of the application layer protocol. Those characteristics are important to support new devices, applications and type of communications wh...

Smart video surveillance is well suited for a broad range of applications. Moving object classification in the field of video surveillance is a key component of smart surveillance software. In this paper, we have proposed reliable software with its large features for people and object classification which works well in challenging real-world constraints, including the presence of shadows, low r...

This paper introduces a novel concept termed Smart Mesoflaps for Aeroelastic Recirculation Transpiration (SMART) for controlling shock/boundary-layer interactions (SBLI) in supersonic jet inlets. The control strategy for a subsystem of the SMART project, subject to hysteresis and actuator saturation, is presented. A Hysteresis Compensation scheme, as well as results from experimental applicatio...