Emergency Button Application - Android Systems

The investigation of emergency situations is a complex field of study which involves different perspectives. Individual‘s and public‘s safety is a very important issue, the established emergency response system is the main core of resolving these emergency situations, we are already familiar with the normal emergency reporting system like calling 911 or using emergency phones, But this project aims to create an application that can assist users in emergency situations and provide users with instant details of their location to send to family, friends, or authorities in panic & emergency situations, another option other than public emergency phone systems and other forms of reporting in emergency situations for an easier and friendlier approach, thus improving public safety. The methodology used to complete this application is agile software development methodology which is based on iterative & incremental development that is rapid & flexible. The tools for this project include Eclipse Indigo which is a popular platform to develop Android Applications with the aid of a variety of software tools in design and user friendly software development such as Android ADT tools. In conclusion, the application‘s is successfully developed and met its main objective which is to help users broadcast their message in an emergency situation whenever they need help and can‘t easily get it or find it but with today‘s world mobile software development, public safety shall be more personalized

Contribution to the development of a drone engineering station

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are aircrafts that can be remotely controlled by a person. Due to its versatility, it is gaining in significance in the present day. Applications include aerial photography, transportation, surveillance, farming, husbandry, and business. Generally, there are several reasons why drones are used widely. First, because of the portability, it makes people really easy to take it almost everywhere that humans can be there. Second, low cost is the biggest part of the reason, in terms of, the prices of drones, and short learning time for operation. The Drone Engineering System (DEE) is a set of software that can control drones including creating flight plans, recording data, and organizing the collected data. The initial version of the DEE is developed by the ICARUS group which belongs to Castelldefels School of Telecommunications and Aerospace Engineering. So, the future developments will be based on that version of the system and future versions also will belong to the ICARUS. With the purpose of offering values to society, the objectives of this master thesis will be basic improvement based on the initial version of DEE, gesture control which can make the user operate the drone with a hand, and face identification that can indicate the names of the faces rather than located them. In this project, the last objective can be done with the ground station camera. In the future, when the object tracking functionality will be developed, those could be done with the onboard camera. The whole project consists of two different parts, the onboard software, and the ground software. The onboard software can control the drone or the payloads by the onboard computer, in this case, Raspberry Pi. The ground software can be operated by the user to communicate with the onboard software. The project is developed in Python 2.7 and 3.9, since the DroneKit library is not compatible with Python 3.9. The message broker is Mosquitto that implements MQTT protocol. During the process, I learned a lot about the new technologies since they are new technologies and knowledge for me. It makes me understand more deeply about coding than before and inspired me from different perspectives

On the use of unfoldings to abstract communicating automata into sets of scenarios

We consider the problem of automatic abstraction, from a low-level model given in term of network of interacting automata to a high-level message sequence chart. This allows the designer to play in a coherent way with the local and global views of a system, and opens new perspectives in reverse model engineering of concurrent systems. Our technique is based on a partial order semantics of synchronous parallel automata and the construction of a complete finite prefix of an event-structure coding all the behaviors. We present the models and algorithms. The examples presented in the report have been processed by a small software prototype we have implemented

ETS (Efficient, Transparent, and Secured) Self-healing Service for Pervasive Computing Applications

To ensure smooth functioning of numerous handheld devices anywhere anytime, the importance of self-healing mechanism cannot be overlooked. Incorporation of efficient fault detection and recovery in device itself is the quest for long but there is no existing self-healing scheme for devices running in pervasive computing environments that can be claimed as the ultimate solution. Moreover, the highest degree of transparency, security and privacy attainability should also be maintained. ETS Self-healing service, an integral part of our developing middleware named MARKS (Middleware Adaptability for Resource discovery, Knowledge usability, and Self-healing), holds promise for offering all of those functionalities

Targeted, structured text messaging to improve dietary and lifestyle behaviours for people on maintenance haemodialysis (KIDNEYTEXT): Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial

Introduction Managing nutrition is critical for reducing morbidity and mortality in patients on haemodialysis but adherence to the complex dietary restrictions remains problematic. Innovative interventions to enhance the delivery of nutritional care are needed. The aim of this phase II trial is to evaluate the feasibility and effectiveness of a targeted mobile phone text messaging system to improve dietary and lifestyle behaviours in patients on long-term haemodialysis. Methods and analysis Single-blinded randomised controlled trial with 6 months of follow-up in 130 patients on haemodialysis who will be randomised to either standard care or KIDNEYTEXT. The KIDNEYTEXT intervention group will receive three text messages per week for 6 months. The text messages provide customised dietary information and advice based on renal dietary guidelines and general healthy eating dietary guidelines, and motivation and support to improve behaviours. The primary outcome is feasibility including recruitment rate, drop-out rate, adherence to renal dietary recommendations, participant satisfaction and a process evaluation using semistructured interviews with a subset of purposively sampled participants. Secondary and exploratory outcomes include a range of clinical and behavioural outcomes and a healthcare utilisation cost analysis will be undertaken. Ethics and dissemination The study has been approved by the Western Sydney Local Health District Human Research Ethics Committee-Westmead. Results will be presented at scientific meetings and published in peer-reviewed publications. Trial registration number ACTRN12617001084370; Pre-results