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RFID Localisation For Internet Of Things Smart Homes: A Survey
The Internet of Things (IoT) enables numerous business opportunities in
fields as diverse as e-health, smart cities, smart homes, among many others.
The IoT incorporates multiple long-range, short-range, and personal area
wireless networks and technologies into the designs of IoT applications.
Localisation in indoor positioning systems plays an important role in the IoT.
Location Based IoT applications range from tracking objects and people in
real-time, assets management, agriculture, assisted monitoring technologies for
healthcare, and smart homes, to name a few. Radio Frequency based systems for
indoor positioning such as Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a key
enabler technology for the IoT due to its costeffective, high readability
rates, automatic identification and, importantly, its energy efficiency
characteristic. This paper reviews the state-of-the-art RFID technologies in
IoT Smart Homes applications. It presents several comparable studies of RFID
based projects in smart homes and discusses the applications, techniques,
algorithms, and challenges of adopting RFID technologies in IoT smart home
systems.Comment: 18 pages, 2 figures, 3 table
Architectural and Management Strategies for the Design, Construction and Operation of Energy Efficient and Intelligent Primary Care Centers in Chile
Primary care centers are establishments with elevated social relevance and high operational
energy consumption. In Chile, there more than 628 family healthcare centers (CESFAM) have been
built in the last two decades and with plans for hundreds more in the next few years. We revised
the architecture, construction management and energy performance of five CESFAM centers to
determine possible instances of overall improvement. Staff was interviewed, and state documents
reviewed, which allowed the conceptualization of the architectonic and energy structure of the
centers, as well as the process of implementation. At the same time, energy simulations were done
for each one of the centers, controlling for different climates, construction solutions and orientations.
Our study revealed that strategies employed by the primary healthcare centers in Chile have aided a
progressive implementation of establishments with elevated costs and materialization times, as well
as neglect for climatic conditions. These energy evaluations show relevant and consistent impacts
of the architectural form and material conditions, especially in southern zones, demonstrating the
need to work with shared knowledge resources such as BIM. There is a clear necessity to define
technological, morphological and construction strategies specific to each climate zone in order to
achieve energetically efficient and intelligent healthcare establishments
Future bathroom: A study of user-centred design principles affecting usability, safety and satisfaction in bathrooms for people living with disabilities
Research and development work relating to assistive technology
2010-11 (Department of Health)
Presented to Parliament pursuant to Section 22 of the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act 197
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