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The EnTrak system : supporting energy action planning via the Internet
Recent energy policy is designed to foster better energy efficiency and assist with the deployment of clean energy systems, especially those derived from renewable energy sources. To attain the envisaged targets will require action at all levels and effective collaboration between disparate groups (e.g. policy makers, developers, local authorities, energy managers, building designers, consumers etc) impacting on energy and environment. To support such actions and collaborations, an Internet-enabled energy information system called 'EnTrak' was developed. The aim was to provide decision-makers with information on energy demands, supplies and impacts by sector, time, fuel type and so on, in support of energy action plan formulation and enactment. This paper describes the system structure and capabilities of the EnTrak system
Workload-Aware Scheduling using Markov Decision Process for Infrastructure-Assisted Learning-Based Multi-UAV Surveillance Networks
In modern networking research, infrastructure-assisted unmanned autonomous
vehicles (UAVs) are actively considered for real-time learning-based
surveillance and aerial data-delivery under unexpected 3D free mobility and
coordination. In this system model, it is essential to consider the power
limitation in UAVs and autonomous object recognition (for abnormal behavior
detection) deep learning performance in infrastructure/towers. To overcome the
power limitation of UAVs, this paper proposes a novel aerial scheduling
algorithm between multi-UAVs and multi-towers where the towers conduct wireless
power transfer toward UAVs. In addition, to take care of the high-performance
learning model training in towers, we also propose a data delivery scheme which
makes UAVs deliver the training data to the towers fairly to prevent problems
due to data imbalance (e.g., huge computation overhead caused by larger data
delivery or overfitting from less data delivery). Therefore, this paper
proposes a novel workload-aware scheduling algorithm between multi-towers and
multi-UAVs for joint power-charging from towers to their associated UAVs and
training data delivery from UAVs to their associated towers. To compute the
workload-aware optimal scheduling decisions in each unit time, our solution
approach for the given scheduling problem is designed based on Markov decision
process (MDP) to deal with (i) time-varying low-complexity computation and (ii)
pseudo-polynomial optimality. As shown in performance evaluation results, our
proposed algorithm ensures (i) sufficient times for resource exchanges between
towers and UAVs, (ii) the most even and uniform data collection during the
processes compared to the other algorithms, and (iii) the performance of all
towers convergence to optimal levels.Comment: 15 pages, 10 figure
Designing Internet Reservation and Management Software Systems for Small Peripheral Hospitality Organizations: The HotMot Solution
Anckar, B., and Walden, P. (2000), ”Designing Internet Reservation and Management Software Systems for Small Peripheral Hospitality Organizations: The HotMot Solution”. IAMSR Research Report 5/2000. Institute for Advanced Management Systems Research,
Indoor localisation through object detection within multiple environments utilising a single wearable camera
The recent growth in the wearable sensor market has stimulated new opportunities within the domain of Ambient Assisted Living, providing unique methods of collecting occupant information. This approach leverages contemporary wearable technology, Google Glass, to facilitate a unique first-person view of the occupants immediate environment. Machine vision techniques are employed to determine an occupant’s location via environmental object detection. This method provides additional secondary benefits such as first person tracking within the environment and lack of required sensor interaction to determine occupant location. Object recognition is performed using the Oriented Features from Accelerated Segment Test and Rotated Binary Robust Independent Elementary Features algorithm with a K-Nearest Neighbour matcher to match the saved key-points of the objects to the scene. To validate the approach, an experimental set-up consisting of three ADL routines, each containing at least ten activities, ranging from drinking water to making a meal were considered. Ground truth was obtained from manually annotated video data and the approach was previously benchmarked against a common method of indoor localisation that employs dense sensor placement in order to validate the approach resulting in a recall, precision, and F-measure of 0.82, 0.96, and 0.88 respectively. This paper will go on to assess to the viability of applying the solution to differing environments, both in terms of performance and along with a qualitative analysis on the practical aspects of installing such a system within differing environments
A study on the Current Role of SME’s in the Indian IT Industry and Hypotheses on an Ecosystem for their Sustenance and Evolution
This paper looks at the current challenges faced by the SME’s in the Indian IT industry and formulates hypotheses on how an intermediary can create an ecosystem to ensure the sustenance and evolution of these firms. The play out in the industry is expected to such that the larger companies in the Indian IT sector will move up the value chain and as they do so they will increasingly move out of the body shopping mode that constitutes the lower end of the outsourcing spectrum. This creates an opportunity and a necessity for the emerging companies and SME’s to fill the void.
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