DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPLEMENTING A SMART EDUCATIONAL BUILDING: CASE STUDY

In this paper we describe the design of an educational smart building and the innovative technologies that were implemented. In January of 2011, Florida Atlantic University opened its new LEED Platinum-Certified “Engineering East” building.  The building was designed as both a model of how new technologies can drastically decrease the energy requirements of a large university building and for providing a “living laboratory” so that students and faculty may actually see how these systems work and interrelate. Engineering faculty was involved in providing inputs to the builder in creating state-of-the-art engineering laboratories

UAS Batch Path Planning With a Space-Time Graph

Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) provide the platform of many applications such as efficient package delivery, monitoring, surveillance, search and rescue, and more. As the density of UAS deployed in urban areas for delivery and monitoring operations is expected to increase in the near future, it becomes critical to design an efficient collision-free UAS path planning system to be used by a centralized traffic manager. In this article we propose an on-demand, scalable, collision-free trajectory planning mechanism that processes routing requests in batches, with the objective of improving the ratio of successfully admitted requests. The planner transforms the input map to a unit graph discretized on the safety distance and computes trajectories using search in the derived space-time graph. The planner generates trajectories that are by design conflict-free and deadlock-free. The performance of our algorithm is analyzed with simulations. We measure admission ratio, the delay overhead vs. optimal path delay, the algorithm running time, and we compare results with prior work. The proposed batch planner yields better admission ratio and delay overhead in low and medium density scenarios. In all scenarios it has a running time that is 4-7 times shorter, showing its scalability in practical situations

Hierarchical architecture for real-time adaptive resource management

Abstract. This paper presents the Real Time Adaptive Resource Managemen

Web-based Heterogeneous WSN Integration using Pervasive Communication

This paper presents a REST-compliant service oriented architecture of a web-based heterogeneous wireless sensor network monitoring system that has applicability in remote patient monitoring in healthcare. As smartphone and webpage technologies are ubiquitous nowadays, our architecture uses smartphone as a gateway between the data collected and the Internet. The system uses a heterogeneous WSN consisting of environmental sensors, medical sensors, and smartphone’s internal sensors. To validate the system, a prototype experiment of the system is implemented using Android smartphone platform, Crossbow Micaz motes, and Alive Technology hart and activity monitor sensor