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More than four years have passed since an inimitable coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic hit the globe in 2019 after an uncontrolled transmission of the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS-CoV-2) infection. The occurrence of this highly contagious respiratory infectious disease led to chaos and mortality all over the world. The peak paradigm shift of the researchers was inclined towards the accurate and rapid detection of diseases. Since 2019, there has been a boost in the diagnostics of COVID-19 via numerous conventional diagnostic tools like RT-PCR, ELISA, etc., and advanced biosensing kits like LFIA, etc. For the same reason, the use of nanotechnology and two-dimensional nanomaterials (2DNMs) has aided in the fabrication of efficient diagnostic tools to combat COVID-19. This article discusses the engineering techniques utilized for fabricating chemically active E2DNMs that are exceptionally thin and irregular. The techniques encompass the introduction of heteroatoms, intercalation of ions, and the design of strain and defects. E2DNMs possess unique characteristics, including a substantial surface area and controllable electrical, optical, and bioactive properties. These characteristics enable the development of sophisticated diagnostic platforms for real-time biosensors with exceptional sensitivity in detecting SARS-CoV-2. Integrating the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) with these E2DNMs-based advanced diagnostics has led to the development of portable, real-time, scalable, more accurate, and cost-effective SARS-CoV-2 diagnostic platforms. These diagnostic platforms have the potential to revolutionize SARS-CoV-2 diagnosis by making it faster, easier, and more accessible to people worldwide, thus making them ideal for resource-limited settings. These advanced IoMT diagnostic platforms may help with combating SARS-CoV-2 as well as tracking and predicting the spread of future pandemics, ultimately saving lives and mitigating their impact on global health systems.
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COVID-19 , Internet de las Cosas , Nanoestructuras , SARS-CoV-2 , COVID-19/diagnóstico , COVID-19/virología , Humanos , Nanoestructuras/química , SARS-CoV-2/aislamiento & purificación , Técnicas Biosensibles/métodos , Nanotecnología/métodos , Prueba de COVID-19/métodosRESUMEN
Effective detection of infectious pathogens is crucial for disease prevention and control. We present an innovative Internet of Things (IoT) molecular diagnostic device featuring a WeChat mini-program for simultaneous detection and spatiotemporal mapping of respiratory pathogens. Leveraging social software's widespread usage, our device integrates seamlessly with WeChat, eliminating the need for app downloads and installations. Through a comprehensive detection system, including a user-friendly mini-program, a portable Point-of-Care fluorescence detector, and a diagnostic information management platform (EzDx Cloud), we demonstrate high sensitivity and specificity in detecting common respiratory viruses. Our SARS-CoV-2/H1N1 combo test kit, developed using a novel one-tube/one-step loop-mediated isothermal amplification-CRISPR method, shows remarkable performance. We address challenges in at-home nucleic acid testing by providing a cost-effective solution capable of detecting multiple pathogens simultaneously. Our system's versatility accommodates various assays operating at different temperatures and fluorescence intensities, offering significant advantages over traditional methods. Moreover, integration with EzDx Cloud facilitates disease monitoring and early warning systems, enhancing public health management. This study highlights the potential of our IoT molecular diagnostic device in revolutionizing infectious disease detection and control, with wide-ranging applications in both human and animal population.
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COVID-19 , Subtipo H1N1 del Virus de la Influenza A , Internet de las Cosas , Técnicas de Diagnóstico Molecular , Técnicas de Amplificación de Ácido Nucleico , SARS-CoV-2 , Humanos , SARS-CoV-2/aislamiento & purificación , SARS-CoV-2/genética , COVID-19/diagnóstico , COVID-19/virología , Técnicas de Diagnóstico Molecular/instrumentación , Técnicas de Diagnóstico Molecular/métodos , Subtipo H1N1 del Virus de la Influenza A/aislamiento & purificación , Subtipo H1N1 del Virus de la Influenza A/genéticaRESUMEN
Conductive hydrogels have emerged as ideal candidate materials for strain sensors due to their signal transduction capability and tissue-like flexibility, resembling human tissues. However, due to the presence of water molecules, hydrogels can experience dehydration and low-temperature freezing, which greatly limits the application scope as sensors. In this study, an ionic co-hybrid hydrogel called PBLL is proposed, which utilizes the amphoteric ion betaine hydrochloride (BH) in conjunction with hydrated lithium chloride (LiCl) thereby achieving the function of humidity adaptive. PBLL hydrogel retains water at low humidity (<50%) and absorbs water from air at high humidity (>50%) over the 17 days of testing. Remarkably, the PBLL hydrogel also exhibits strong anti-freezing properties (-80 °C), high conductivity (8.18 S m-1 at room temperature, 1.9 S m-1 at -80 °C), high gauge factor (GF approaching 5.1). Additionally, PBLL hydrogels exhibit strong inhibitory effects against Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus), as well as biocompatibility. By synergistically integrating PBLL hydrogel with wireless transmission and Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, this study has accomplished real-time human-computer interaction systems for sports training and rehabilitation evaluation. PBLL hydrogel exhibits significant potential in the fields of medical rehabilitation, artificial intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT).
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Escherichia coli , Humedad , Hidrogeles , Staphylococcus aureus , Hidrogeles/química , Humanos , Escherichia coli/efectos de los fármacos , Staphylococcus aureus/efectos de los fármacos , Congelación , Internet de las CosasRESUMEN
Nowadays, Internet of things (IoT) and IoT platforms are extensively utilized in several healthcare applications. The IoT devices produce a huge amount of data in healthcare field that can be inspected on an IoT platform. In this paper, a novel algorithm, named artificial flora optimization-based chameleon swarm algorithm (AFO-based CSA), is developed for optimal path finding. Here, data are collected by the sensors and transmitted to the base station (BS) using the proposed AFO-based CSA, which is derived by integrating artificial flora optimization (AFO) in chameleon swarm algorithm (CSA). This integration refers to the AFO-based CSA model enhancing the strengths and features of both AFO and CSA for optimal routing of medical data in IoT. Moreover, the proposed AFO-based CSA algorithm considers factors such as energy, delay, and distance for the effectual routing of data. At BS, prediction is conducted, followed by stages, like pre-processing, feature dimension reduction, adopting Pearson's correlation, and disease detection, done by recurrent neural network, which is trained by the proposed AFO-based CSA. Experimental result exhibited that the performance of the proposed AFO-based CSA is superior to competitive approaches based on the energy consumption (0.538 J), accuracy (0.950), sensitivity (0.965), and specificity (0.937).
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Aprendizaje Profundo , Internet de las Cosas , Algoritmos , Instituciones de Salud , Redes Neurales de la ComputaciónRESUMEN
Due to the massive growth in Internet of Things (IoT) devices, it is necessary to properly identify, authorize, and protect against attacks the devices connected to the particular network. In this manuscript, IoT Device Type Identification based on Variational Auto Encoder Wasserstein Generative Adversarial Network optimized with Pelican Optimization Algorithm (IoT-DTI-VAWGAN-POA) is proposed for Prolonging IoT Security. The proposed technique comprises three phases, such as data collection, feature extraction, and IoT device type detection. Initially, real network traffic dataset is gathered by distinct IoT device types, like baby monitor, security camera, etc. For feature extraction phase, the network traffic feature vector comprises packet sizes, Mean, Variance, Kurtosis derived by Adaptive and concise empirical wavelet transforms. Then, the extracting features are supplied to VAWGAN is used to identify the IoT devices as known or unknown. Then Pelican Optimization Algorithm (POA) is considered to optimize the weight factors of VAWGAN for better IoT device type identification. The proposed IoT-DTI-VAWGAN-POA method is implemented in Python and proficiency is examined under the performance metrics, like accuracy, precision, f-measure, sensitivity, Error rate, computational complexity, and RoC. It provides 33.41%, 32.01%, and 31.65% higher accuracy, and 44.78%, 43.24%, and 48.98% lower error rate compared to the existing methods.
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Algoritmos , Seguridad Computacional , Internet de las Cosas , Redes Neurales de la Computación , HumanosRESUMEN
Domestic wastewater is one of the major carbon sources that cannot be ignored by human society. Against the background of carbon peaking & carbon neutrality (Double Carbon) goals, the continuous urbanization has put heavy pressure on urban drainage systems. Nevertheless, the complex subjective and objective conditions of drainage systems restrict the field monitoring, measurement, and analysis of drainage systems, which has become a great obstacle to the study of carbon emissions from drainage system. In this paper, 3389 sensor terminals of Internet of Things (IoT) are used to build a field monitoring IoT for urban domestic wastewater methane (CH4) carbon emission, with 21 main districts of Chongqing Municipality in China as the study area. Incorporating Fick's law of diffusion, this field monitoring IoT derives a measurement model for methane carbon emissions based on measured concentrations, and solves the problems of long-term and stable monitoring and measurement of methane gas in complex underground environment. With GIS spatio-temporal analysis used to analyze the spatial and temporal evolution patterns of carbon emissions from septic tanks in drainage systems, it successfully reveals the spatial and temporal distribution of methane carbon emissions from drainage systems in different seasons, as well as the relationship between methane carbon emissions from drainage systems and the latitude of direct sunlight. Applying the DTW method, it quantifies the stability of methane monitoring in drainage systems and evaluates the effects of Sampling Frequency (SF) and Number of Devices Terminal (NDT) on the stability of methane monitoring. Consequently, an intelligent management system for carbon emissions from urban domestic wastewater is constructed on the base of IoT, which integrates methane monitoring, measurement and analysis in septic tanks of drainage systems.
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Ciudades , Monitoreo del Ambiente , Internet de las Cosas , Metano , Aguas del Alcantarillado , China , Monitoreo del Ambiente/métodos , Metano/análisis , Aguas del Alcantarillado/química , Aguas del Alcantarillado/análisis , Carbono/análisis , Contaminantes Atmosféricos/análisisRESUMEN
Categorizing Artificial Intelligence of Medical Things (AIoMT) devices within the realm of standard Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices, particularly at the server and computational layers, poses a formidable challenge. In this paper, we present a novel methodology for categorizing AIoMT devices through the application of decentralized processing, referred to as "Federated Learning" (FL). Our approach involves deploying a system on standard IoT devices and labeled IoMT devices for training purposes and attribute extraction. Through this process, we extract and map the interconnected attributes from a global federated cum aggression server. The aim of this terminology is to extract interdependent devices via federated learning, ensuring data privacy and adherence to operational policies. Consequently, a global training dataset repository is coordinated to establish a centralized indexing and synchronization knowledge repository. The categorization process employs generic labels for devices transmitting medical data through regular communication channels. We evaluate our proposed methodology across a variety of IoT, IoMT, and AIoMT devices, demonstrating effective classification and labeling. Our technique yields a reliable categorization index for facilitating efficient access and optimization of medical devices within global servers.
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Inteligencia Artificial , Cadena de Bloques , Internet de las Cosas , HumanosRESUMEN
The quick proliferation of pandemic diseases has been imposing many concerns on the international health infrastructure. To combat pandemic diseases in smart cities, Artificial Intelligence of Things (AIoT) technology, based on the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) with the Internet of Things (IoT), is commonly used to promote efficient control and diagnosis during the outbreak, thereby minimizing possible losses. However, the presence of multi-source institutional data remains one of the major challenges hindering the practical usage of AIoT solutions for pandemic disease diagnosis. This paper presents a novel framework that utilizes multi-site data fusion to boost the accurateness of pandemic disease diagnosis. In particular, we focus on a case study of COVID-19 lesion segmentation, a crucial task for understanding disease progression and optimizing treatment strategies. In this study, we propose a novel multi-decoder segmentation network for efficient segmentation of infections from cross-domain CT scans in smart cities. The multi-decoder segmentation network leverages data from heterogeneous domains and utilizes strong learning representations to accurately segment infections. Performance evaluation of the multi-decoder segmentation network was conducted on three publicly accessible datasets, demonstrating robust results with an average dice score of 89.9% and an average surface dice of 86.87%. To address scalability and latency issues associated with centralized cloud systems, fog computing (FC) emerges as a viable solution. FC brings resources closer to the operator, offering low latency and energy-efficient data management and processing. In this context, we propose a unique FC technique called PANDFOG to deploy the multi-decoder segmentation network on edge nodes for practical and clinical applications of automated COVID-19 pneumonia analysis. The results of this study highlight the efficacy of the multi-decoder segmentation network in accurately segmenting infections from cross-domain CT scans. Moreover, the proposed PANDFOG system demonstrates the practical deployment of the multi-decoder segmentation network on edge nodes, providing real-time access to COVID-19 segmentation findings for improved patient monitoring and clinical decision-making.
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COVID-19 , Aprendizaje Profundo , Pandemias , Tomografía Computarizada por Rayos X , Humanos , Tomografía Computarizada por Rayos X/métodos , SARS-CoV-2 , Ciudades , Internet de las CosasRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: Skin diseases are severe diseases. Identification of these severe diseases depends upon the abstraction of atypical skin regions. The segmentation of these skin diseases is essential to rheumatologists in risk impost and for valuable and vital decision-making. Skin lesion segmentation from images is a crucial step toward achieving this goal-timely exposure of malignancy in psoriasis expressively intensifies the persistence ratio. Defies occur when people presume skin diseases they have without accurately and precisely incepted. However, analyzing malignancy at runtime is a big challenge due to the truncated distinction of the visual similarity between malignance and non-malignance lesions. However, images' different shapes, contrast, and vibrations make skin lesion segmentation challenging. Recently, various researchers have explored the applicability of deep learning models to skin lesion segmentation. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This paper introduces a skin lesions segmentation model that integrates two intelligent methodologies: Bayesian inference and edge intelligence. In the segmentation model, we deal with edge intelligence to utilize the texture features for the segmentation of skin lesions. In contrast, Bayesian inference enhances skin lesion segmentation's accuracy and efficiency. RESULTS: We analyze our work along several dimensions, including input data (datasets, preprocessing, and synthetic data generation), model design (architecture, modules), and evaluation aspects (data annotation requirements and segmentation performance). We discuss these dimensions from seminal works and a systematic viewpoint and examine how these dimensions have influenced current trends. CONCLUSION: We summarize our work with previously used techniques in a comprehensive table to facilitate comparisons. Our experimental results show that Bayesian-Edge networks can boost the diagnostic performance of skin lesions by up to 87.80% without incurring additional parameters of heavy computation.
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Teorema de Bayes , Enfermedades de la Piel , Humanos , Enfermedades de la Piel/diagnóstico por imagen , Enfermedades de la Piel/patología , Internet de las Cosas , Aprendizaje Profundo , Neoplasias Cutáneas/diagnóstico por imagen , Neoplasias Cutáneas/patología , Piel/diagnóstico por imagen , Piel/patología , Dermoscopía/métodos , AlgoritmosRESUMEN
BACKGROUND: The increased application of Internet of Things (IoT) in healthcare, has fueled concerns regarding the security and privacy of patient data. Lightweight Cryptography (LWC) algorithms can be seen as a potential solution to address this concern. Due to the high variation of LWC, the primary objective of this study was to identify a suitable yet effective algorithm for securing sensitive patient information on IoT devices. METHODS: This study evaluates the performance of eight LWC algorithms-AES, PRESENT, MSEA, LEA, XTEA, SIMON, PRINCE, and RECTANGLE-using machine learning models. Experiments were conducted on a Raspberry Pi 3 microcontroller using 16 KB to 2048 KB files. Machine learning models were trained and tested for each LWC algorithm and their performance was evaluated based using precision, recall, F1-score, and accuracy metrics. RESULTS: The study analyzed the encryption/decryption execution time, energy consumption, memory usage, and throughput of eight LWC algorithms. The RECTANGLE algorithm was identified as the most suitable and efficient LWC algorithm for IoT in healthcare due to its speed, efficiency, simplicity, and flexibility. CONCLUSIONS: This research addresses security and privacy concerns in IoT healthcare and identifies key performance factors of LWC algorithms utilizing the SLR research methodology. Furthermore, the study provides insights into the optimal choice of LWC algorithm for enhancing privacy and security in IoT healthcare environments.
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Seguridad Computacional , Internet de las Cosas , Aprendizaje Automático , Humanos , Seguridad Computacional/normas , Algoritmos , Confidencialidad/normasRESUMEN
This study examined the effect of combining visual and olfactory cues to attract oriental fruit flies (OFFs). Six different colored light-emitting diodes (LEDs) served as a visual attractant and methyl eugenol served as olfactory bait to lure male flies. An internet of things (IoT)-based pest monitoring system, consisting of sensor nodes, a gateway, and automatic counting traps, was deployed in the field to automatically collect environmental data and pest counts. The results of the calibrated experiments indicated that green, yellow, or red LEDs exhibited better performance in attracting flies than white, purple, or blue LEDs or no LEDs. With an accurate combination of visual and olfactory cues, the proposed IoT-based pest monitoring system may be an effective tool in agricultural pest management, given its advantages for efficiently capturing OFFs in a labor and time saving manner, providing accurate information regarding increases in pest populations, and enabling long-term, real-time data collection.
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Internet de las Cosas , Tephritidae , Masculino , Animales , Señales (Psicología) , AgriculturaRESUMEN
This research paper delves into the effectiveness and impact of behavior change techniques fostered by information technologies, particularly wearables and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, within the realms of engineering and computer science. By conducting a comprehensive review of the relevant literature sourced from the Scopus database, this study aims to elucidate the mechanisms and strategies employed by these technologies to facilitate behavior change and their potential benefits to individuals and society. Through statistical measurements and related works, our work explores the trends over a span of two decades, from 2000 to 2023, to understand the evolving landscape of behavior change techniques in wearable and IoT technologies. A specific focus is placed on a case study examining the application of behavior change techniques (BCTs) for monitoring vital signs using wearables, underscoring the relevance and urgency of further investigation in this critical intersection of technology and human behavior. The findings shed light on the promising role of wearables and IoT devices for promoting positive behavior modifications and improving individuals' overall well-being and highlighting the need for continued research and development in this area to harness the full potential of technology for societal benefit.
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Internet de las Cosas , Dispositivos Electrónicos Vestibles , HumanosRESUMEN
The recognition of human activity is crucial as the Internet of Things (IoT) progresses toward future smart homes. Wi-Fi-based motion-recognition stands out due to its non-contact nature and widespread applicability. However, the channel state information (CSI) related to human movement in indoor environments changes with the direction of movement, which poses challenges for existing Wi-Fi movement-recognition methods. These challenges include limited directions of movement that can be detected, short detection distances, and inaccurate feature extraction, all of which significantly constrain the wide-scale application of Wi-Fi action-recognition. To address this issue, we propose a direction-independent CSI fusion and sharing model named CSI-F, one which combines Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) and Gated Recurrent Units (GRU). Specifically, we have introduced a series of signal-processing techniques that utilize antenna diversity to eliminate random phase shifts, thereby removing noise influences unrelated to motion information. Later, by amplifying the Doppler frequency shift effect through cyclic actions and generating a spectrogram, we further enhance the impact of actions on CSI. To demonstrate the effectiveness of this method, we conducted experiments on datasets collected in natural environments. We confirmed that the superposition of periodic actions on CSI can improve the accuracy of the process. CSI-F can achieve higher recognition accuracy compared with other methods and a monitoring coverage of up to 6 m.
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Internet de las Cosas , Movimiento , Humanos , Movimiento (Física) , Efecto Doppler , AmbienteRESUMEN
Recent advancements in the Internet of Things (IoT) wearable devices such as wearable inertial sensors have increased the demand for precise human activity recognition (HAR) with minimal computational resources. The wavelet transform, which offers excellent time-frequency localization characteristics, is well suited for HAR recognition systems. Selecting a mother wavelet function in wavelet analysis is critical, as optimal selection improves the recognition performance. The activity time signals data have different periodic patterns that can discriminate activities from each other. Therefore, selecting a mother wavelet function that closely resembles the shape of the recognized activity's sensor (inertial) signals significantly impacts recognition performance. This study uses an optimal mother wavelet selection method that combines wavelet packet transform with the energy-to-Shannon-entropy ratio and two classification algorithms: decision tree (DT) and support vector machines (SVM). We examined six different mother wavelet families with different numbers of vanishing points. Our experiments were performed on eight publicly available ADL datasets: MHEALTH, WISDM Activity Prediction, HARTH, HARsense, DaLiAc, PAMAP2, REALDISP, and HAR70+. The analysis demonstrated in this paper can be used as a guideline for optimal mother wavelet selection for human activity recognition.
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Internet de las Cosas , Dispositivos Electrónicos Vestibles , Humanos , Algoritmos , Entropía , Actividades HumanasRESUMEN
Traditional aquaculture systems appear challenged by the high levels of total ammoniacal nitrogen (TAN) produced, which can harm aquatic life. As demand for global fish production continues to increase, farmers should adopt recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) equipped with biofilters to improve the water quality of the culture. The biofilter plays a crucial role in ammonia removal. Therefore, a biofilter such as a moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) biofilter is usually used in the RAS to reduce ammonia. However, the disadvantage of biofilter operation is that it requires an automatic system with a water quality monitoring and control system to ensure optimal performance. Therefore, this study focuses on developing an Internet of Things (IoT) system to monitor and control water quality to achieve optimal biofilm performance in laboratory-scale MBBR. From 35 days into the experiment, water quality was maintained by an aerator's on/off control to provide oxygen levels suitable for the aquatic environment while monitoring the pH, temperature, and total dissolved solids (TDS). When the amount of dissolved oxygen (DO) in the MBBR was optimal, the highest TAN removal efficiency was 50%, with the biofilm thickness reaching 119.88 µm. The forthcoming applications of the IoT water quality monitoring and control system in MBBR enable farmers to set up a system in RAS that can perform real-time measurements, alerts, and adjustments of critical water quality parameters such as TAN levels.
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Amoníaco , Internet de las Cosas , Animales , Biopelículas , Reactores Biológicos , Calidad del Agua , OxígenoRESUMEN
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a growing network of interconnected devices used in transportation, finance, public services, healthcare, smart cities, surveillance, and agriculture. IoT devices are increasingly integrated into mobile assets like trains, cars, and airplanes. Among the IoT components, wearable sensors are expected to reach three billion by 2050, becoming more common in smart environments like buildings, campuses, and healthcare facilities. A notable IoT application is the smart campus for educational purposes. Timely notifications are essential in critical scenarios. IoT devices gather and relay important information in real time to individuals with special needs via mobile applications and connected devices, aiding health-monitoring and decision-making. Ensuring IoT connectivity with end users requires long-range communication, low power consumption, and cost-effectiveness. The LPWAN is a promising technology for meeting these needs, offering a low cost, long range, and minimal power use. Despite their potential, mobile IoT and LPWANs in healthcare, especially for emergency response systems, have not received adequate research attention. Our study evaluated an LPWAN-based emergency response system for visually impaired individuals on the Hazara University campus in Mansehra, Pakistan. Experiments showed that the LPWAN technology is reliable, with 98% reliability, and suitable for implementing emergency response systems in smart campus environments.
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Internet de las Cosas , Humanos , Aplicaciones Móviles , Tecnología InalámbricaRESUMEN
The multi-layered negative effects caused by pollutants released into the atmosphere as a result of fires served as the stimulus for the development of a system that protects the health of firefighters operating in the affected area. A collaborative network comprising mobile and stationary Internet of Things (IoT) devices that are furnished with gas sensors, along with a remote server, constructs a resilient framework that monitors the concentrations of harmful emissions, characterizes the ambient air quality of the vicinity where the fire transpires, adopting European Air Quality levels, and communicates the outcomes via suitable applications (RESTful APIs and visualizations) to the stakeholders responsible for fire management decision making. Different experimental evaluations adopting separate contexts illustrate the operation of the infrastructure.
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Contaminantes Ambientales , Bomberos , Internet de las Cosas , Humanos , Atmósfera , ComputadoresRESUMEN
People living alone encounter well-being challenges due to unnoticed personal situations. Thus, it is essential to monitor their activities and encourage them to adopt healthy lifestyle habits without imposing a mental burden, aiming to enhance their overall well-being. To realize such a support system, its components should be simple and loosely coupled to handle various internet of things (IoT)-based smart home applications. In this study, we propose an exercise promotion system for individuals living alone to encourage them to adopt good lifestyle habits. The system comprises autonomous IoT devices as agents and is realized using an agent-oriented IoT architecture. It estimates user activity via sensors and offers exercise advice based on recognized conditions, surroundings, and preferences. The proposed system accepts user feedback to improve status estimation accuracy and offers better advice. The proposed system was evaluated from three perspectives through experiments with subjects. Initially, we demonstrated the system's operation through agent cooperation. Then, we showed it adapts to user preferences within two weeks. Third, the users expressed satisfaction with the detection accuracy regarding their stay-at-home status and the relevance of the advice provided. They were also motivated to engage in exercise based on a subjective evaluation, as indicated by preliminary results.
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Internet de las Cosas , Humanos , Estilo de Vida , Ejercicio Físico , Hábitos , Estilo de Vida SaludableRESUMEN
As the Internet of Things (IoT) becomes more widespread, wearable smart systems will begin to be used in a variety of applications in people's daily lives, not only requiring the devices to have excellent flexibility and biocompatibility, but also taking into account redundant data and communication delays due to the use of a large number of sensors. Fortunately, the emerging paradigms of near-sensor and in-sensor computing, together with the proposal of flexible neuromorphic devices, provides a viable solution for the application of intelligent low-power wearable devices. Therefore, wearable smart systems based on new computing paradigms are of great research value. This review discusses the research status of a flexible five-sense sensing system based on near-sensor and in-sensor architectures, considering material design, structural design and circuit design. Furthermore, we summarize challenging problems that need to be solved and provide an outlook on the potential applications of intelligent wearable devices.
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Internet de las Cosas , Dispositivos Electrónicos Vestibles , Humanos , Comunicación , Inteligencia , PercepciónRESUMEN
Activity recognition is one of the significant technologies accompanying the development of the Internet of Things (IoT). It can help in recording daily life activities or reporting emergencies, thus improving the user's quality of life and safety, and even easing the workload of caregivers. This study proposes a human activity recognition (HAR) system based on activity data obtained via the micro-Doppler effect, combining a two-stream one-dimensional convolutional neural network (1D-CNN) with a bidirectional gated recurrent unit (BiGRU). Initially, radar sensor data are used to generate information related to time and frequency responses using short-time Fourier transform (STFT). Subsequently, the magnitudes and phase values are calculated and fed into the 1D-CNN and Bi-GRU models to extract spatial and temporal features for subsequent model training and activity recognition. Additionally, we propose a simple cross-channel operation (CCO) to facilitate the exchange of magnitude and phase features between parallel convolutional layers. An open dataset collected through radar, named Rad-HAR, is employed for model training and performance evaluation. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed 1D-CNN+CCO-BiGRU model demonstrated superior performance, achieving an impressive accuracy rate of 98.2%. This outperformance of existing systems with the radar sensor underscores the proposed model's potential applicability in real-world scenarios, marking a significant advancement in the field of HAR within the IoT framework.