The air quality in cities is degrading as a result of a complex interaction between natural and artificial environmental conditions.
With the increase in urbanization and industrialization and lack of control on emissions and use of catalytic converters, a great amount of particulate and toxic gases are produced.
The objective of this project i...
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Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices have a strict necessity for power consumption to achieve the expected battery life. Therefore, measuring and optimizing the energy consumption of IoT nodes are essential.
IoT nodes feature extreme current consumption range over 100 dB between their operating modes. The main focus of this article is to design and...
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The increasing numbers of the private car cause the road traffic congestion. That is becoming important problems in the big cities. Another solution to reduce the traffic jam is developing intelligent transportation system such as intelligent traffic light system. However, the solution of such problems is one of the mandatory concern. In recent yea...
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Mobile crowd-sensing (MCS) has appeared as a prospective solution for large-scale data collection, leveraging built-in sensors and social applications in mobile devices that enables a variety of Internet of Things (IoT) services. However, the human involvement in MCS results in a high possibility for unintentionally contributing corrupted and falsi...
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Wireless sensor networks (WSN) are integral part of Industrial Internet of Things (IIOT), the said networks comprise of elements possessing low power processors. WSNs are used for gathering data in the monitoring region, using which vital information about the sensor and the monitoring region can be attained (placement of the sensor node is critica...
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The motivation for this project came from the countries where economy is based on agriculture and the climatic conditions lead to lack of rains & scarcity of water . Irrigation is moreover the backbone of Agricultural industry .Due to inadequate knowledge of proper utilization of water resource, lots of water is wastage in the application of irriga...
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Many devices and solutions for remote ECG monitoring have been proposed in the literature. These solutions typically have a large marginal cost per added sensor and are not seamlessly integrated with other smart home solutions. Here we propose an ECG remote monitoring system that is dedicated to non-technical users in need of long-term health monit...
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Locating files is one of the biggest problems in universities nowadays. Time is wasted in searching files, energy is wasted chasing misspelled files, deadlines are missed. Due to this , I decided to make a system for file tracking that will solve all problems in the best way.File Tracking System is a internet application that manages all the file m...
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The integration of multi-access edge computing (MEC) and RAFT consensus makes it feasible to deploy blockchain on trustful base stations and gateways to provide efficient and tamper-proof edge data services for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. However, reducing the latency of storing data on blockchain remains a challenge, especially when an ...
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Future of massive Internet-of-things (IoT) and low latency applications hinges on delivering fresh information on time. Thus, to analyse data freshness for time critical use cases in future networks, the age of information (AoI) measure is introduced. Besides, energy harvesting is also essential to improve energy sustainability and lifetime of a po...
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This article presents a 2.4 GHz and high-efficiency wireless power receiver (Rx) integrated with a low-power transmitter (Tx) for wireless charging of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) or wearable devices. A single pole double throw (SPDT) circuit isolates the operation of the Rx from Tx, thereby offering the capability of sharing antenna between them. ...
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With the massive growth of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices, how to provide users with recommendation services in the IoT environment has become a research hotspot. Group discovery, as a prerequisite step of group recommendation that can be used to assist groups of users to select services in IoT-enriched environments, has an important impact on re...
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Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have become an essential and important supporting technology for smart Internet-of-Things (IoT) systems. Due to the high computational costs of large-scale DNNs, it might be infeasible to directly deploy them in energy-constrained IoT devices. Through offloading computation-intensive tasks to the cloud or edges, the comp...
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For most Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, embedded processors typically execute lightweight tasks such as sensing and communication. The typical IoT program senses some information and sends them via a channel, usually a wireless channel with an RF circuit. These IoT nodes often require a system with networking capabilities and a low-power ha...
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Internet-of-Things (IoT) aims to connect intelligent things to the internet, enable thing-to-everything communication, and sustainability sensing and control. However, the exponential increase of connected IoT devices is resulting in tremendous demand on the limited spectrum. Cognitive radio (CR) technology is envisioned to be one of the main enabl...
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Blockchain is a safe technology for transaction as it keeps the information safe that it is impossible to change, hack or cheat. blockchain is a digital mode of transaction that is spread across the entire network of computer systems in blockchain. IoT devices allows to send information or useful data in the blockchain to the persons that are inter...
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In this paper, we consider an Internet-of-Things (IoT) network that supports two types of devices, namely static devices (SDs) and dynamic devices (DDs), with multiple channels. The notion of power-domain non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) is applied so that DDs can not only dynamically change channels, but also transmit signals with a high powe...
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This paper addresses the problem of decentralized sensor selection in an energy-constrained wireless sensor network-based Internet-of-Things, for monitoring a spatio-temporally varying process. To do so, an adaptive edge computing framework and its variants are proposed which distributedly optimize a critical trade-off between sensing quality and r...
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A sharded blockchain with the Proof-of-Stake (PoS) consensus protocol has advantages in increasing throughput and reducing energy consumption, enabling the resource-limited participants to manage transactions and in a decentralized way and obtain rewards at a lower cost, e.g., Internet-of-Things (IoT) users. However, the latest PoS (e.g., Casper) r...
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Owing to the nature of battery-operated sensors, the residual energy of their battery should be considered when a sink node collects sensory data from them. If a sink attempts to collect data from a sensor that does not have sufficient residual energy to transmit data, the utilization of wireless communication resources may be degraded. However, re...
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One of the major challenges for Internet-of-Things applications is that the existing cellular technologies do not support the uplink IoT traffic in an energy-efficient manner. There are two principal ways for serving the uplink IoT traffic: grant-based (i.e., scheduled) and grant-free (i.e., random access). Grant-based access provides fine-grained ...
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Internet-of-Things (IoT) innovations produce interesting opportunities, impact ethical and social aspects toward human society, and influence operational and technical solutions toward the structural systems. This article discusses the impact of some relevant characteristics of the IoT innovations. Significant debated aspects are the product discon...
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The deployment of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) on end-nodes at the extreme edge of the Internet-of-Things is a critical enabler to support pervasive Deep Learning-enhanced applications. Low-Cost MCU-based end-nodes have limited on-chip memory and often replace caches with scratchpads, to reduce area overheads and increase energy efficiency – requiri...
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In this paper, we consider an overlay satellite-terrestrial network (OSTN) where an opportunistically selected terrestrial internet-of-things (IoT) network assists the primary satellite communications as well as accesses the spectrum for its own communications under hybrid interference received from extra-terrestrial sources (ETSs) and terrestrial ...
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In the modern world, the connectivity-as-we-go model is gaining popularity. Internet-of-Things (IoT) envisions a future in which human beings communicate with each other and with devices that have identities and virtual personalities, as well as sensing, processing, and networking capabilities, which will allow the developing of smart environments ...
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This Special Section on ‘`Cloud-Edge Computing for Cyber-Physical Systems and Internet-of-Things’' is oriented to the dissemination of a few of those latest research and innovation results, covering many aspects of design, optimization, implementation, and evaluation of emerging cloud-edge solutions for CPS and IoT applications. The selected high-q...
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Wireless Multimedia Sensor Network (WMSN) is increasingly being deployed for surveillance, monitoring and Internet-of-Things (IoT) sensing applications where a set of cameras capture and compress local images and then transmit the data to a remote controller. Such captured local images may also be compressed in a multi-view fashion to reduce the re...
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This paper studies an intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) aided wireless powered sensor network (WPSN). Specifically, a power station (PS) provides wireless energy to multiple internet of thing (IoT) devices which supports them to deliver their own messages to an access point (AP). Moreover, we deploy an IRS to enhance the performance of the WPSN ...
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With the increasing demand of users for personalized social services, social recommendation (SR) has been an important concern in academia. However, current research on SR universally faces two main challenges. On the one hand, SR lacks the considerable ability of robust online data management. On the other hand, SR fails to take the ambiguity of p...
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The ubiquitous adoption of Internet-of-Things (IoT) based applications has resulted in the emergence of the Fog computing paradigm, which allows seamlessly harnessing both mobile-edge and cloud resources. Efficient scheduling of application tasks in such environments is challenging due to constrained resource capabilities, mobility factors in IoT, ...
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