| Body Sensor Networks |
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| Author: | Guang-Zhong Yang | | Publisher: | Springer | | Year of Publication: | 2006 | | More Information: | External Link |
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The last decade has seen a rapid surge of interest in new sensing and monitoring devices for healthcare and the use of wearable/wireless devices for clinical applications. One key development in this area is implantable in vivo monitoring and intervention devices. Several promising prototypes are emerging for managing patients with debilitating neurological disorders and for monitoring of patients with chronic cardiac diseases. This book addresses the issues of this rapidly changing field of wireless wearable and implantable sensors and discusses the latest technological developments and clinical applications of body-sensor networks.
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| Everyware: The Dawning Age of Ubiquitous Computing |
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| Author: | Adam Greenfield | | Publisher: | New Riders Publishing | | Year of Publication: | 2006 | | More Information: | External Link |
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Ubiquitous computing--almost imperceptible, but everywhere around us--is rapidly becoming a reality. How will it change us? how can we shape its emergence? Smart buildings, smart furniture, smart clothing... even smart bathtubs. networked street signs and self-describing soda cans. Gestural interfaces like those seen in Minority Report. The RFID tags now embedded in everything from credit cards to the family pet. All of these are facets of the ubiquitous computing author Adam Greenfield calls "everyware." In a series of brief, thoughtful meditations, Greenfield explains how everyware is already reshaping our lives, transforming our understanding of the cities we live in, the communities we belong to--and the way we see ourselves.
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| Fleet Telematics: Real-Time Management and Planning of Commercial Vehicle Operations |
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| Author: | Asvin Goel | | Publisher: | Springer | | Year of Publication: | 2007 | | More Information: | External Link |
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| Fleet Telematics: Real-Time Management and Planning of Commercial Vehicle Operations combines wireless telematics systems with dynamic vehicle routing algorithms and vehicle-positioning systems to produce a telematics-enabled information system that can be employed by commercial fleet operators for real-time monitoring, control, and planning. The book presents a Messaging & Fleet Monitoring System that automatically identifies deviations between the planned and the current state of the transportation system and a Dynamic Planning System (DPS) that provides realtime decision support considering the current state of the transportation system. |
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| Home Informatics and Telematics: ICT for the Next Billion |
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| Author: | Alladi Venkatesh, et al. | | Publisher: | Springer | | Year of Publication: | 2007 | | More Information: | External Link |
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| The scope of the series includes: foundations of computer science; software theory and practice; education; computer applications in technology; communication systems; systems modeling and optimization; information systems; computers and society; computer systems technology; security and protection in information processing systems; artificial intelligence; and human-computer interaction. Proceedings and post-proceedings of referred international conferences in computer science and interdisciplinary fields are featured. The principal aim of the IFIP series is to encourage education and the dissemination and exchange of information about all aspects of computing. |
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| In the Age of the Smart Machine: The Future of Work and Power |
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| Author: | Shoshana Zuboff | | Publisher: | Basic Books | | Year of Publication: | 1989 | | More Information: | External Link |
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A Harvard social scientist documents the pitfalls and promise of computerized technology in business life, warning that advanced information technologies present us with a fateful choice--to continue automation at the risk of robbing workers of gratification and self-image, or to "informate" and empower ordinary working people to make critical and collaborative judgments.
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| Information Processing and Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks |
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| Author: | Yang Yu, et al. | | Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing Company | | Year of Publication: | 2006 | | More Information: | External Link |
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| This book presents state-of-the-art cross-layer optimization techniques for energy-efficient information processing and routing in wireless sensor networks. Besides providing a survey on this important research area, three specific topics are discussed in detail — information processing in a collocated cluster, information transport over a tree substrate, and information routing for computationally intensive applications. The book covers several important system knobs for cross-layer optimization, including voltage scaling, rate adaptation, and tunable compression. By exploring tradeoffs of energy versus latency and computation versus communication using these knobs, significant energy conservation is achieved. |
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| Making Things Talk: Practical Methods for Connecting Physical Objects |
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| Author: | Tom Igoe | | Publisher: | Make Books | | Year of Publication: | 2007 | | More Information: | External Link |
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Through a series of simple projects, this book teaches you how to get your creations to communicate with one another by forming networks of smart devices that carry on conversations with you and your environment. Whether you need to plug some sensors in your home to the Internet or create a device that can interact wirelessly with other creations, Making Things Talk explains exactly what you need.
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| Networking Wireless Sensors |
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| Author: | Bhaskar Krishnamachari | | Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | | Year of Publication: | 2006 | | More Information: | External Link |
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Wireless sensor networks promise an unprecedented fine-grained interface between the virtual and physical worlds. They are one of the most rapidly developing new information technologies, with applications in a wide range of fields including industrial process control, security and surveillance, environmental sensing, and structural health monitoring. This book is motivated by the urgent need to provide a comprehensive and organized survey of the field. The topics covered include network deployment, localization, time synchronization, wireless radio characteristics, medium access, topology control, routing, datacentric techniques, and transport protocols.
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| Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks |
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| Author: | Holger Karl, Andreas Willig | | Publisher: | Wiley-Interscience | | Year of Publication: | 2007 | | More Information: | External Link |
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| Protocols and Architectures for Wireless Sensor Networks provides a thorough description of the nuts and bolts of wireless sensor networks. The authors give an overview of the state-of-the-art, putting all the individual solutions into perspective with one and other. Numerous practical examples, case studies and illustrations demonstrate the theory, techniques and results presented. The clear chapter structure, listing learning objectives, outline and summarizing key points, help guide the reader expertly through the material. |
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| RFID Applied |
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| Author: | Jerry Banks, et al. | | Publisher: | Wiley | | Year of Publication: | 2007 | | More Information: | External Link |
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Radio frequency identification or RFID is a broad-based technology that impacts business and society. With the rapid expansion of the use of this technology in everything from consumer purchases to security ID tags, to tracking bird migration, there is very little information available in book form that targets the widest range of the potential market. But this book is different! Coverage is mainly non-technical, more business related for the broadest user base, however there are sections that step into the technical aspects for advanced, more technical readers. |
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| RFID Handbook: Fundamentals and Applications in Contactless Smart Cards and Identification |
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| Author: | Klaus Finkenzeller | | Publisher: | Wiley | | Year of Publication: | 2003 | | More Information: | External Link |
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| RFID is used in all areas of automatic data capture allowing contactless identification of objects using RF. With applications ranging from secure Internet payment systems to industrial automation and access control, RFID technology solutions are receiving much attention in the research and development departments of large corporations. Fully revised and updated to include all the latest information on industry standards and applications, this new edition provides a standard reference for people working with RFID technology. Expanded sections explain exactly how RFID systems work, and provide up-to-date information on the development of new tags such as the smart label. |
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| RFID in Logistics: A Practical Introduction |
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| Author: | Erick C. Jones, Christopher A. Chung | | Publisher: | CRC | | Year of Publication: | 2007 | | More Information: | External Link |
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| Providing a deeper understanding of this field, this book examines past, present, and future directions for RFID technology. The book presents an integrated logistics model along with various applications of RFID in animal tracking, toll roads, people tracking, and other areas. It addresses both active and passive system component testing models and examines best practices for logistics integration. The text also covers mandates and standards, making it an ideal reference for practitioners and instructors. The book contains Technical Notes sections, allowing readers to move on to general concepts if that is their immediate need, but easily find the technical information on a case by case basis. |
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| RFID: A Guide to Radio Frequency Identification |
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| Author: | V. Daniel Hunt, et al. | | Publisher: | Wiley-Interscience | | Year of Publication: | 2007 | | More Information: | External Link |
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This book provides an introduction to RFID technology. It describes and addresses the following: How RFID works, how it is and can be used in current and future applications. The History of RFID technology, the current state of practice and where RFID is expected to be taken in the future. The role of middleware software to route data between the RFID network and the information technology systems within an organization. Commercial and government use of RFID technology with an emphasis on a wide range of applications including retail and consumer packaging, transportation and distribution of products, industrial and manufacturing operations, security and access control.
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| Sensor Networks and Configuration: Fundamentals, Standards, Platforms, and Applications |
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| Author: | Nitaigour P. Mahalik | | Publisher: | Springer | | Year of Publication: | 2006 | | More Information: | External Link |
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Advances in networking influence many kinds of monitoring and control systems in the most dramatic way. Sensor network and configuration falls under the category of modern networking systems. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has emerged and caters to the need for real-world applications. Methodology and design of WSN represents a broad research topic with applications in many sectors such as industry, home, computing, agriculture, environment, and so on, based on the adoption of fundamental principles and the state-of-the-art technology. This book incorporates a selection of research and development papers. Its scope is on history and background, underlying design methodology, application domains and recent developments.
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| Smart Card Application Development Using Java |
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| Author: | Uwe Hansmann | | Publisher: | Springer | | Year of Publication: | 2002 | | More Information: | External Link |
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| In today's world, smart cards play an increasingly important role in everyday life. We encounter them as credit cards, loyalty cards, electronic purses, health cards, and as secure tokens for authentication or digital signature. Their small size and the compatibility of their form with the magnetic stripe card make them ideal carriers of personal information such as secret keys, passwords, customization profiles, and medical emergency information. This book provides a guide for the rapid development of smart card applications using Java and the OpenCard Framework.This book details how to develop applications that use smart cards by guiding you through examples step by step. A smart card provided with the book will help you to quickly get some first hands-on experience. |
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| Taking Telematics into the 21st Century |
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| Author: | Michael Rigby, et al. | | Publisher: | Radcliffe Publishing Ltd | | Year of Publication: | 2000 | | More Information: | External Link |
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| Taking Health Telematics into the 21st Century is a comprehensive text that guides the reader through all aspects of eHealth. With contributions from a wide range of professionals with extensive experience it describes the current use of telemedicine, telematics and telecommunications and its future global potential and implications. Case studies from around the world are used to illustrate and explore the complex ethical and legal issues concerning patients and clinicians. |
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| Telemetry Systems Engineering |
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| Author: | Dr. Frank Carden, et al. | | Publisher: | Artech House Publishers | | Year of Publication: | 2002 | | More Information: | External Link |
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| Telemetry Systems Engineering presents introductory and advanced concepts in telemetry systems, with an emphasis on digital communications. The book helps you perform link analysis for the design of a communications link, create a FM/FM preemphasis schedule systematically to develop an algorithmic code to perform this function, and design PCM/FM telemetry systems to meet a specific BER and bit rate. It instructs how to design the transmitting and receiving system with respect to filter bandwidth specifications, and analyze the link which will be used to test the vehicle and basically evaluate the system from end to end, predicting the bit error rate. |
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| The History of Wireless: How Creative Minds Produced Technology for the Masses |
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| Author: | Ira Brodsky | | Publisher: | Telescope Books | | Year of Publication: | 2008 | | More Information: | External Link |
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| The History of Wireless provides a comprehensive account of how innovative thinkers and entrepreneurs created today's ubiquitous wireless products and services. It tells the whole story: from early scientific breakthroughs, to the invention of cellular telephones, to emerging technologies and the industries that are being born around them. The History of Wireless is sure to guide and inspire the next wave of innovators and entrepreneurs. | |
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| The Internet of Things: From RFID to the Next-Generation Pervasive Networked Systems (Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications) |
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| Author: | Lu Yan, et al. | | Publisher: | AUERBACH | | Year of Publication: | 2008 | | More Information: | External Link |
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| "The ""Internet of Things” is the seventh in the series of ITU Internet Reports originally launched in 1997 under the title “Challenges to the Network."" Written by a team of analysts from the Strategy and Policy Unit (SPU) of ITU, the report takes a look at the next step in “always on” communications, in which new technologies like radio frequency identification (RFID) and smart computing promise a world of networked and interconnected devices. Everything from tyres to toothbrushes might soon be in communications range, heralding the dawn of a new era; one in which today’s Internet (of data and people) gives way to tomorrow’s Internet of Things. |
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| Toward A Human-Friendly Assistive Environment: ICOST'2004-2nd International Conference On Smart Homes And Health Telematics |
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| Author: | Daqing Zhang, et al. | | Publisher: | IOS Press | | Year of Publication: | 2004 | | More Information: | External Link |
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| This publication focuses on “smart home and health telematics” and choosing again “independent living for persons with disabilities and elderly people” as the theme of the ICOST conference. It has to be clarified that smart home techniques are not only limited to home environment, but can also be deployed into other environments such as hospitals, offices, schools, or even train stations. ICOST intends to provide a forum for researchers, practitioners, business leaders and policy makers to exchange ideas and experiences in the smart home and healthcare domain. |
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| Wireless Mesh Networks: Architectures and Protocols |
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| Author: | Ekram Hossain, Kin K. Leung | | Publisher: | Springer | | Year of Publication: | 2007 | | More Information: | External Link |
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Wireless Mesh Networks provides a unified view of the state-of-the-art achievements in the area of protocols and architectures for wireless mesh networking (WMN) technology. With contributions from leading experts in the field, the book covers aspects of analysis, design, deployment, and optimization of protocols and architectures for WMNs. In particular, the topics include challenges and issues in designing architectures and protocols for WMNs, medium access control and routing protocols for WMNs, resource allocation and scheduling in WMNs, cost optimization in WMN nodes using energy harvesting technologies, cross-layer design for WMNs, and security in WMNs.
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| Wireless Sensor Networks: Signal Processing and Communications |
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| Author: | Ananthram Swami, et al. | | Publisher: | Wiley | | Year of Publication: | 2007 | | More Information: | External Link |
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| A wireless sensor network (WSN) uses a number of autonomous devices to cooperatively monitor physical or environmental conditions via a wireless network. Since its military beginnings as a means of battlefield surveillance, practical use of this technology has extended to a range of civilian applications including environmental monitoring, natural disaster prediction and relief, health monitoring and fire detection. Technological advancements, coupled with lowering costs, suggest that wireless sensor networks will have a significant impact on 21st century life.The design of wireless sensor networks requires consideration for several disciplines such as distributed signal processing, communications and cross-layer design. |
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