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Showing 1 to 20 of 23 for “"Smart device"”.
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Floor Plan Based Indoor Vision Navigation Using Smart Device
… to a chip sensor and built into almost every smart phone and tablet. Therefore, navigation using those intelligent gadgets becomes a must-have function. GPS has been widely employed for outdoor navigation, while its performance suffers from severe degradation in challenging scenarios such as …
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Smart Technology for Telerehabilitation: A Smart Device Inertial-sensing Method for Gait Analysis
… Brookes’ spin-off company ‘Wildknowledge’, a smart application for the iPod Touch was developed. The study results demonstrate that the proposed inertial-sensing method can reliably derive lower trunk vertical displacement (intraclass correlations ranging from .80 to .96) with similar …
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Development of Networked Control Technology of Multiple Smart Surveillance Systems for the Internet of Things
… networked control (NCS) techniques of multiple smart surveillance control systems for the internet of things. The prediction method has been popular in single agent control systems due to its capability of actively compensating for network- related constraints. This characteristic has motivated …
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Forget Me Not- Possession Protection Devices
… is not reliable. These commercially available devices often require interfacing with a smart device. There was significant room for improvement over the current products in the market which could simply prevent the loss of possessions in the first place. Forget Me Not accomplished this by …
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Shifting Trust: How Generation Z Canadians Determine Trust and Credibility in Online News and Information
… Canada. Utilizing semi-structured, qualitative, smart device, content elicitation interviews, the study provides insight into the thought processes, decision-making strategies, and judgements young people make when they come across news. This study reveals key factors influencing trust: …
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A survey of the hazards of using USB as a universal charging standard as pertains to smart devices
… severe security vulnerabilities. Plugging a USB smart device into a compromised port, even one purported to be solely a power delivery system, can allow an attacker to perform many different malicious actions, the range and severity of which depend on the length of time the device remains …
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Smart door lock based on bluetooth and IoT
… etc. Therefore, it is important to have a smart technology of achieving this goal. Automatic door system has become a standard feature on many different types of buildings and homes. Further, they are becoming popular due to an effective electronic device which provides high security. Home …
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Intelligent parking management infrastructure design
… information for both general web customers and smart device users such as PDA with wireless access and Smart Phone mobile devices using 3G technologies. The tests were conducted in a controlled environment with simulation data for real parking meters. The IPM prototype solution infrastructure …
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How competencies are developed that enable exploration : a case study of First National Bank
… Considering only one such innovation, the Smart Device offering, this research places into context how FNB have evolved the competencies to radically innovate in a world of scarce resources. The fundamental outcome of this research is that competencies take considerable time and resources …
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File Tracking For Mobile Devices
Since 2010, the smart device has become an integral part of people’s daily lives. The popularity of smart devices has increased dramatically. However, as the number of devices owned by an individual user increases, so does the risk of data leakage and loss. This problem has started to draw …
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Static Analysis of Android Secure Application Development Process with FindSecurityBugs
<p>Mobile devices have been growing more and more powerful in recent decades, evolving from a simple device for SMS messages and phone calls to a smart device that can install third party apps. People are becoming more heavily reliant on their mobile devices. Due to this increase in usage, security …
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Magnopark, Smart Parking Detection Based on Cellphone Magnetic Sensor
… uses the availability of heavy crowds and their smart devices, to gain more result as to where potential parking is possible. By leveraging the raw magnetometer, gyroscope, and accelerometer data, we are able to detect parking spots through the natural movement exerted by the walking pedestrians …
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Effects of Adjustments to Wheelchair Seat to Back Support Angle on Head, Neck, and Shoulder Postures
… the validity/reliability of Coach’s Eye (CE) smart device application, 2) examined the effect of seat to back support angle adjustments on head, neck, and shoulder posture in the sitting position, and 3) compared changes in cervical rotation at each seat to back support angle. Methods: …
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Drivers of change in the North American electric grid
… review of utility-scale energy storage devices is presented, which have a symbiotic relationship with the integration of renewables to balance real power supply. Also, the aggregate effect of smart devices at the residential level is evaluated towards reactive power voltage support. …
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Enhancing ISP-consumer security notifications
… For example, botnets of Internet of Things devices engage in denial of service (DoS) attacks and ransomware holds data on personal and commercial systems hostage. Many of these threats are relatively opaque for an end user. An end user may not know that their smart device is participating in …
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TAME Health: Testing Activity Monitors’ Effect on Health
… cardiovascular disease. Pedometers are low-tech devices that are often used to supplement counseling. However, the addition of an electronic activity monitor (EAM) to in-clinic counseling may provide more effective behavior change and increase overall motivation for exercise. We conducted a …
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A Framework for and Design of a Smart Academic Building Using Sensors, Citizen Participation, and Volunteered Geographic Information
… cities should plan to use technology in a smart and distinctive way. Tackling at the city scale is hard. But a set of smart buildings that are interconnected by technology will lead to smarter communities which are then interconnected to create a smart city. Smart lobby, building, …
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Visual region understanding: unsupervised extraction and abstraction
… visual data categorisation and search, and smart device user interaction, to name a few. Out of all the complex problems tackled by computer vision today in context of these technologies, that which lies closest to the original goals of the field is the subarea of unsupervised scene analysis …
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Enhancing Landscape Performance Measurement Using Smart Devices, Data Visualization, and Longitudinal Tracking
This dissertation explores the use of smart devices to measure the environmental landscape performance (LP) of landscape projects. It proposes and evaluates an alternative landscape performance measurement framework (ALPMF) with smart device assistance. By providing new measurement methods and …
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