{"title":"Low altitude balloon IoT tracker","authors":"M. Mirza, Y. Ahmad, T. Gunawan","doi":"10.1109/icsima.2017.8311976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/icsima.2017.8311976","url":null,"abstract":"Low altitude balloon provides a unique and low-cost experiment results to carry out mission in space explorations such as space research study, weather sensing, aerial images, live space videos, surveillance or communication operations. The flight location can be tracked by commercial tracker equipped with existing technology such as satellite-based tracking, cellular phone tracking, APRS system and using Ultra High-Frequency narrow band FM transmitter. These tracking methods are expensive and not interactive in real time to the end user. Sometimes, the balloon get disappears due to natural disaster or communication errors. In order to increase the efficiency and to replace the traditional tracking methods in low altitudes flight tracking, this paper presents an Internet of Things (IoT) based GPS tracking solution for low altitude balloon in real-time. This implementation used Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) Network by deploying Low Power Long Rang (LoRa) technology and cellular IoT combined with live video transmission. These integrated protocol yields ultimate results in real time monitoring, lowering the cost of preparation, it could reduce the losing rate of balloon's payload and also helps the end user to store the data in real time flight operation. The result is achieved over the telemetry health test in a web-based environment.","PeriodicalId":137841,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 4th International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Application (ICSIMA)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115027392","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":"Development of portable digital spirometer using NI sbRIO","authors":"S. Ibrahim, A. Jusoh, N. A. Malik, S. Mazalan","doi":"10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8311987","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8311987","url":null,"abstract":"One of the effective ways to diagnose various respiratory diseases is using spirometry test. Good spirometer comes with excellent graphical user interface. Spirometer is used to measure lung parameters such as FVC (Forced Vital Capacity) and FEV1 (Forced Expiratory Volume in the first second). The aim of this project is to develop a portable spirometer using NI sbRIO FPGA board and LabVIEW Software. The LabVIEW program consists of two parts: 1) the data acquisition and 2) the disease diagnosis. The data acquisition part will obtain data from user in terms of breathed air. Meanwhile, the disease diagnosis part will use the obtained data to analyze the disease. The system uses National Instrument Single Board Rio 9636 (NI sbRIO) for digital data conversion and data acquisition and breathing hardware from which users will used to flow air into the spirometer. The breathing hardware uses Venturi's principle where the difference of the two pressures with different tube diameters used to measure flow rate and volume of air exhaled over a period of time; to determine the respiratory conditions. Results obtained from three different volunteers with different health performances are also presented in this paper. The FEV1 ratio of a healthy volunteer is 81.1%, an asthma volunteer is 72.04%, while a volunteer with suspected bronchitis is 33.4%. Based on these results, unhealthy users tend to have smaller value of FEV1 with lower area under the curve when compared to a healthy user. The test results are represented in parameters of pulmonary functions which include Volume-time and Flow-volume graphs.","PeriodicalId":137841,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 4th International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Application (ICSIMA)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117059814","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}
A. Arshad, Sheroz Khan, A. Alam, A. F. Ismail, R. Tasnim
{"title":"Capacitive proximity floor sensing system for elderly tracking and fall detection","authors":"A. Arshad, Sheroz Khan, A. Alam, A. F. Ismail, R. Tasnim","doi":"10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8312002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8312002","url":null,"abstract":"With the advent and progress of technology, care of senior individuals requires spontaneous and timely decisions to be made so that life protecting and saving therapy can be delivered promptly. Research shows that assistive technology can provide systems to aid in the prevention and detection of injuries to seniors, leading to a faster response from monitoring personnel. Falls make one of the major injuries caused to seniors whereby they are often unable to receive proper and timely support. This work reports the preliminary results on the development of a capacitive-based sensing system for monitoring of inhabitants living on their own in elderly homes. The tracking and fall monitoring of elderly is based on floor-sensing model equipped with an occupancy mechanism. To perceive and recognise the behavioural changes of an individual on daily basis, integrated sensors are designed and developed using capacitive proximity sensing approach. The weight of a person exerts a pressure on the sensor, indicating the occupancy of the sensor spot when a threshold value set for this purpose, is exceeded. To begin with, the occupancy sensing floors are equipped with sensors and later integrated into the environment, which aims at providing assistive service for continuous diagnosis of a person's health, hence keeping track of an individual's behavioural patterns.","PeriodicalId":137841,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 4th International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Application (ICSIMA)","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116394366","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":"Current generation circuit to functional electrical stimulate foot-drop patients","authors":"V. Nguyen, Quang Dan Chu","doi":"10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8311997","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8311997","url":null,"abstract":"Functional electrical stimulation (FES) is an assistive neuro-rehabilitation technology which uses low level electrical currents to stimulate nerves innervating paralyzed muscles. Until now, FES is one of the most effective treatment for foot drop or drop foot which is a gait deviation resulted in inadequate activation of dorsiflexion muscles of lower limbs. In this paper, we introduce design of a circuit to generate pulse current using for stimulating or activating dorsiflexion muscles of foot drop patients.","PeriodicalId":137841,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 4th International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Application (ICSIMA)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131671632","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}
S. Hafiz, Z. Zaharudin, Sheroz Khan, N. S. Midi, J. T. Hwang, K. Kadir, J. Shah
{"title":"Exploring resonant configuration topology for inductive link power transfer","authors":"S. Hafiz, Z. Zaharudin, Sheroz Khan, N. S. Midi, J. T. Hwang, K. Kadir, J. Shah","doi":"10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8312004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8312004","url":null,"abstract":"This paper investigates the performance of circuit topology used in wireless power applications optimized to the level of maximum efficiency. We analyse the series and the parallel resonant topologies for use in an inductive coupling link to derive power transfer efficiency expressions verified using MATLAB. We look into the two topologies into the link under resonant conditions for selectively supplying the device with power. The results are obtained analytically which are verified subsequently by MATLAB simulation. We then analyse the links to see how maximum power transfer efficiency for a given pair of coils can be achieved. The topology at a given tuning frequency is used for powering a selected resistive load. The method is presented using a given pair of coils simulated and the results agree well with the theoretical explanation and derivations.","PeriodicalId":137841,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 4th International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Application (ICSIMA)","volume":"95 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121616651","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":"Enhancement of electrode design for non-invasive stimulus application","authors":"A. Azman, Siti Mohd Ariff, M. F. Azman, H. Ramli","doi":"10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8311988","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8311988","url":null,"abstract":"Existing electrodes can be classified into two categories which are invasive and non-invasive electrodes. The non-invasive electrodes can be further classified into wet or dry electrodes. Most of the off-the-shelf electrodes are made from rigid substrates which have the high level of motion artifacts. To overcome this motion artifact, flexible electrodes have been slowly introduced in the market. Flexible electrodes can be made from various types of material such as the substrate. This paper presents a work on designing a new flexible dry electrodes using poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) polystyrene sulfonate and silver by means of dispenser printing technology. Polyester cotton fabric was selected as the substrate in this electrode designed. Results from the experiment show that the conductivity of the proposed flexible electrode is comparable with the conventional pre-gelled electrode when applied to an electrical stimulator device. Eight out of ten subjects under test described no difference in comfort between the proposed electrodes and pre-gelled electrodes.","PeriodicalId":137841,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 4th International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Application (ICSIMA)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114076000","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":"Nonstationary signal reconstruction from TVAR coefficients","authors":"Atahur Rahman Najeeb, T. Gunawan, A. Aibinu","doi":"10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8311982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8311982","url":null,"abstract":"Nonstationary signal (NSS) reconstruction from Time Varying (TV) coefficients of Time Varying Autoregressive (TVAR) process is presented in this paper. The proposed method consists of three steps, where in the first step, initial values for TVAR coefficients are estimated from synaptic weights of a three layer Artificial Neural Network (ANN) which is trained using Backpropagation (BP) learning algorithm. The estimated TVAR coefficients are then optimized using a Genetic Algorithm optimization algorithm for more accurate values in the second step. And finally once the TVAR coefficients are estimated using ANN and GA, it is then used to recover the original signal. Performance of proposed method has been evaluated by comparing reconstruction of various computer generated NSS from proposed methods with other methods. Five performance metrics was used for comparison where proposed method is shown to overcome the performance of other methods.","PeriodicalId":137841,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 4th International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Application (ICSIMA)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132617726","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":"Design and development of gripping assistive device for post — Stroke rehabilitation","authors":"Mohd Rais Hakim Ramlee, Hazlina Md Yusoff","doi":"10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8312030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8312030","url":null,"abstract":"Report from The National Stroke Association of Malaysia (NASAM), the disease that cause most deaths is stroke which comes after cancer and heart attack. Even though most of the stroke cases is avoidable, rehabilitation will be in high demand. Devices as such has not been created and looking into since the therapist could not fulfil the demand. This project addresses a device to help post — stroke patients to grip and release their fingers as a rehabilitation working process. The system uses leap motion sensor as the input and the output is a servomotor-based exoskeleton. At the moment the system is based on a master-slave mechanism which needs a healthy hand to control the weak hand. The exoskeleton is still being tested on using linear-like actuator mechanisms to perform grasping and extension.","PeriodicalId":137841,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 4th International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Application (ICSIMA)","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115200186","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":"Analysis of adaptive video streaming for users with demand heterogeneity","authors":"S. Issa, Othman Omran Khalifa, T. Gunawan","doi":"10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8312028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8312028","url":null,"abstract":"The revolution of smart phones and other electronic gadgets have increased the attention given to video streaming phenomena. The demand of video quality has also augmented as the number of users keeps on growing. This has toughened the distribution of bandwidth. It is becoming more challenging for service providers to cope with varied demand of video quality. In real life, users change frequently their demand of video quality. To mitigate these problems, an adaptive streaming approach was proposed to solve the problem related to users' heterogeneous demands. A linear programing approach based on demand and supply was used to analyse and sustain user with low bandwidth. Enhancement Fractional Participative Scheme (EFPS) based on bandwidth contribution was explored. Using JSVM9.14 software, the simulated result shows that the optimized algorithms and enhancement structure improve the performance.","PeriodicalId":137841,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 4th International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Application (ICSIMA)","volume":"78 6","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114135041","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}
A. Basahel, I. Rafiqul, M. H. Habaebi, S. A. Zabidi
{"title":"Availability modeling of terrestrial free-space-optical links using fade statistics from tropical climate","authors":"A. Basahel, I. Rafiqul, M. H. Habaebi, S. A. Zabidi","doi":"10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8312016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICSIMA.2017.8312016","url":null,"abstract":"Free-space optical (FSO) links provide gigabit per second data rates, but its availability can easily be affected by weather conditions. FSO is a promising technology for providing high performance of wireless networking. In heavy rainfall regions, FSO links are relatively sensitive to rain. Availability prediction of FSO is indispensable part, especially in tropical areas. In this paper, empirical model is proposed to predict the availability of an FSO link ranges up to 5 km. The availability prediction model is based on long-term statistics of atmospheric attenuations under tropical climate conditions. FSO availability prediction empirical model is link distance and fade margin dependent. The proposed availability model can predict carrier as well as enterprise class availability. There is average of nearly 0.09% difference in outage between the proposed model and predicted data.","PeriodicalId":137841,"journal":{"name":"2017 IEEE 4th International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Application (ICSIMA)","volume":"82 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114078256","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}