Bruno Ferreira, Bruno Gaspar, Sofia Paiva, António Santos, J. Cabral
{"title":"Coverage and Deployment Analysis of NB-IoT Technology under Various Environment Scenarios","authors":"Bruno Ferreira, Bruno Gaspar, Sofia Paiva, António Santos, J. Cabral","doi":"10.1109/SA51175.2021.9507153","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SA51175.2021.9507153","url":null,"abstract":"Standardized by the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and introduced in release 13, the Narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT) technology seems well suited for wireless IoT end devices with low power consumption, low data throughput, and long-range communication requirements, which need to control and monitor environmental conditions in remote and harsh locations. However, being NB-IoT an emerging technology, it is necessary to study its reliability under such use-case scenarios. This paper presents an NB-IoT coverage analysis in the North region of Portugal under various environment scenarios: indoor, underground, and inside an underground concrete dome with an iron cover, using a custom-developed NB-IoT end device equipped with the Quectel BC66 as the communication modem and a custom application executing over the Azure ThreadX RTOS. Our investigation leans over the coverage quality based on some indicators collected, such as RSRP, RSRQ, RSSI, ECL, PCI, and transmission power. The obtained results indicate that this technology is capable of satisfying the requirements of the most demanding IoT applications, with percentages of successful transmissions above 96%, even at distances greater than 1400m between the device and the communication infrastructure (LTE) cell, or even in regions with very low/noise floor coverage.","PeriodicalId":117020,"journal":{"name":"2020 2nd International Conference on Societal Automation (SA)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117046346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paulo Santos, L. Vale, J. Carvalho, J. Cabral, Diogenes Araújo
{"title":"Foucault's currents based position sensor","authors":"Paulo Santos, L. Vale, J. Carvalho, J. Cabral, Diogenes Araújo","doi":"10.1109/SA51175.2021.9507154","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SA51175.2021.9507154","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper the design, implementation and assessment of a position sensor based on Foucault currents is described. The proposed sensor aims to replace traditional Hall effect sensors in the competitive automotive industry. Results, for an angular position sensor, demonstrate high immunity to external magnetic fields, non-linearity of 0.186° up to 3000 rpm. Furthermore, the exciter and sensing coils can be produced using a standard multilayer Printed Circuit Board (PCB) process leading to very low production costs and the analog readout circuitry used requires standard low cost automotive electronic components, relying on the firmware developed in an embedded automotive microcontroller to achieve the automotive angular position sensor's requirements.","PeriodicalId":117020,"journal":{"name":"2020 2nd International Conference on Societal Automation (SA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130820363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Sharma, Sarah Cheraghinav, Fajer KhairAldin, Markus Freund, G. Hirtz
{"title":"Characterization and Simulation of an OFDM-Based Automotive Bus System","authors":"R. Sharma, Sarah Cheraghinav, Fajer KhairAldin, Markus Freund, G. Hirtz","doi":"10.1109/SA51175.2021.9507181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SA51175.2021.9507181","url":null,"abstract":"For the system performance of an OFDM-based bus system in an automotive environment, the communication channel plays a very important role. To characterize the complete system, a precise measurement of the OFDM channel is required. Further, the allocation of frequency bands for different user nodes as per their requirements opens the possibility to consider different transceiver classes optimizing the utilization of communication links. This work presents the simulation of a full bandwidth OFDMA system, based on a channel which is characterized by using the measurement data. Some discussions and results for low bandwidth receiver class are also presented.","PeriodicalId":117020,"journal":{"name":"2020 2nd International Conference on Societal Automation (SA)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124170224","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Toward Gesture Recognition in Robot-Assisted Surgical Procedures","authors":"Hoangminh Huynhnguyen, U. Buy","doi":"10.1109/SA51175.2021.9507175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SA51175.2021.9507175","url":null,"abstract":"Surgical gesture segmentation and recognition are important steps toward human-robot collaboration in robot-assisted surgery. In the human-robot collaboration paradigm, the robot needs to understand the surgeon's gestures to perform its tasks correctly. Therefore, training a computer vision model to segment and classify gestures in a surgery video is a focus in this field of research. In this paper, we propose a 2-phase surgical gesture recognition method and we evaluate empirically the method on JIGSAWS's suturing video dataset. Our method consists of a 3D convolutional neural network to detect the transition between 2 consecutive surgemes and a convolutional long short-term memory model for surgeme classification. To the best of our knowledge, ours is the first study aimed at detecting action transition in a multi-action video and to classify surgemes using an entire video portion rather than classifying individual frames. We also share our source code at https://github.comfiemiar/surgery-gesture-recog","PeriodicalId":117020,"journal":{"name":"2020 2nd International Conference on Societal Automation (SA)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127644470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gunnar Brataas, Inger Anne Tøndel, E. Okstad, Ola Løkberg, M. Jaatun, G. Hanssen, T. Myklebust
{"title":"The Quality Triage Method: Quickly Identifying User Stories with Quality Risks","authors":"Gunnar Brataas, Inger Anne Tøndel, E. Okstad, Ola Løkberg, M. Jaatun, G. Hanssen, T. Myklebust","doi":"10.1109/SA51175.2021.9507110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SA51175.2021.9507110","url":null,"abstract":"Quality requirements often receive insufficient attention, both in agile and in traditional software development. This paper describes the quality triage, a quick, agile method in which user stories or features with quality risks are identified. This paper shows how the four qualities scalability, security, safety, and availability are scored at short expert meetings ― triages. In this way, quality risks are made explicit and can be immediately addressed. We illustrate the method with a scenario involving semi-autonomous cars.","PeriodicalId":117020,"journal":{"name":"2020 2nd International Conference on Societal Automation (SA)","volume":"461 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125807987","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Saving Nine Without Stitching in Time: Integrity Check After-the-fact","authors":"Racin Gudmestad, S. Houmb, M. Jaatun","doi":"10.1109/SA51175.2021.9507115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SA51175.2021.9507115","url":null,"abstract":"Electrical substations transform voltage from high to low, or low to high for distribution and transmission, respectively, and are a critical part of our electricity infrastructure. The state of a substation is continuously measured for monitoring, controlling and protection purposes, using synchrophasor measurements. The IEC 61850 standard defines communication protocols for electrical substations, including transmission of synchrophasor measurements. However, IEC 61850 does not properly address cyber security, leaving this critical infrastructure highly vulnerable to cyber attacks. This paper describes the development and testing of a novel mechanism for delayed integrity check for synchrophasor measurements. The results show that the solution manages to detect when integrity of the synchrophasor transmission is compromised, without adding any delay to the time-critical synchrophasor transmission itself.","PeriodicalId":117020,"journal":{"name":"2020 2nd International Conference on Societal Automation (SA)","volume":"127 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134311199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sensor Use Cases in the Context of Industry 4.0","authors":"G. Sosale, Jörg Gebhardt","doi":"10.1109/SA51175.2021.9507167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SA51175.2021.9507167","url":null,"abstract":"The need for monitoring of processes and equipment has been identified as a major driver for digitalization in process industries. With an ageing workforce and plant infrastructure, process plants need a means of ensuring the performance of their facilities in order to remain competitive. One approach is through more widespread and effective process and equipment monitoring to detect anomalies or identify opportunities for plant efficiency improvements. Monitoring tasks in process automation are classified as noncritical measurements that have no immediate impact on the business. Being non-critical, slow to develop and with a deferred impact, measurements for monitoring are often hard to justify. In many instances, such measurements are taken manually in a scheduled manner. Following this approach, operators have to live with the trade-off between manpower costs and the effectiveness and coverage of the checks. This approach, therefore, cannot be scaled up without dramatic cost increases. Indeed, the advent of a technology that is competitive with manpower costs would be the enabler for the more widespread use of monitoring technologies. In this paper, we present an approach to analyze cost-benefit structures that can be used to help guide the development of sensing solutions for monitoring applications. The approach is applied to the widespread and relevant example of pump aggregate monitoring. As a result, cost targets for sensor developments are identified. Relevance and some peculiarities of the use of low-cost sensing (LCS) elements are briefly discussed, as well as trends of recent product developments.","PeriodicalId":117020,"journal":{"name":"2020 2nd International Conference on Societal Automation (SA)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133058149","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Committees and Reviewers","authors":"Rachel Harrison","doi":"10.1109/ast.2015.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ast.2015.6","url":null,"abstract":"Program Committee Xiaoying Bai Tsinghua University, China Antonia Bertolino ISTI-CNR, Italy Wing Kwong Chan City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Zhenyu Chen Nanjing University, China Junhua Ding East Carolina University, USA Hyunsook Do University of North Texas, USA Dimitris Dranidis CITY College, Greece Maria Jose Escalona University of Seville, Spain Mark Harman University College London, UK Uwe Hehn Method Park Software AG, Germany Rob Hierons Brunel University, UK John Hughes Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Gregory Kapfhammer Allegheny College, USA Yves Le Traon University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Patricia Machado Federal University of Campina Grande, Brazil","PeriodicalId":117020,"journal":{"name":"2020 2nd International Conference on Societal Automation (SA)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115287799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}