{"title":"Internet of Energy: A Design to Manage Energy Consumption for Off-Grid Building","authors":"Ahmed Jabbar Abid","doi":"10.5875/ausmt.v9i1.1408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5875/ausmt.v9i1.1408","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This article offers an Internet of thing (IoT) based energy management system, that provide an automation concept and completely control the consumed energy by observing the delivered power from a limited and/or unreliable power sources. An example for such sources are photovoltaic and wind renewable energy where the supplied power depends on the weather conditions which make it fluctuated and unreliable. The proposed system offers a complete solution to reduce the consumed power based on the available power with less affecting on the quality of life. This article presents a cloud computing master unit that communicates with all the building devices via WIFI network nodes. These nodes are responsible for calculating the consumed energy by each connected device and deliver this information to the cloud. The system enables the user to schedule the devices’ levels of priority in a list, priority list. The master controller unit calculates the available power based on instantaneous supplied power from the source, stored energy, weather prediction, and priority list, then make a decision to keep all the devices powered on or shut down some of them for a while according to the list.This article presents an Internet of thing (IoT) system, which offers a complete energy consumption, monitoring and control. There is a master controller which is a website built with Ajax software to communicate with all the building devices (via a wireless router) which connected to Wi-Fi nodes (ESP8266 nodes) to calculate the consumed energy from each device and compare it with the fluctuated produced energy. The system is designed to keep the consumed energy, lower than the produced energy. This can be achieved by making the user take the decision and divides the building devices into three different priorities (High, Medium and Low). The presented system follows a strategy to reduce the load according to the available power and the device priority. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License .","PeriodicalId":38109,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Automation and Smart Technology","volume":"9 1","pages":"13-22"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45828908","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}
Chung-Wei Cheng, Shin Hung Wu, Yang Jie Lin, Andreas Lee
{"title":"Selective Laser Sintering of Ag Conductive Inks with a Real-Time Non-uniform Rational Basis Spline Curve Interpolator","authors":"Chung-Wei Cheng, Shin Hung Wu, Yang Jie Lin, Andreas Lee","doi":"10.5875/AUSMT.V8I4.1788","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5875/AUSMT.V8I4.1788","url":null,"abstract":"A method is proposed for the fabrication of Ag patterns on plastic substrates by printing Ag conductive inks, followed by selective laser sintering (SLS). The printing and sintering processes were realized by a motion control system with a real-time non-uniform rational basis spline (NURBS) curve interpolator. The proposed approach achieves a constant laser scanning speed along the curve path. Ag patterns fabricated by a NURBS curve interpolator and compared to those produced using a linear interpolator. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License .","PeriodicalId":38109,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Automation and Smart Technology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46437547","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}
P. Tin, Lê Đình Anh Vũ, N. H. Nhan, M. Tran, T. Trang
{"title":"Improving CQS, CRI and LO of the 5600K RP-WLEDs by Red-emitting Conversion Phosphor","authors":"P. Tin, Lê Đình Anh Vũ, N. H. Nhan, M. Tran, T. Trang","doi":"10.5875/AUSMT.V8I4.1545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5875/AUSMT.V8I4.1545","url":null,"abstract":"In the few last decades, Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) is considered the newest solid-state lighting technique advancement in both industry and civil lighting. In this paper, we improve the Color rendering index (CRI), Color quality scale (CQS) and lumen output (LO) of the 5600 K remote-packaging white LEDs (RP-WLEDs) by the red-emitting conversion Sr2Si5N8:Eu2+ phosphor. The influence of the red phosphor concentration on the CQS, CRI, and LO are proposed and demonstrated by using Mie Theory with Mat Lab and Light Tools software. The results draw that CRI, CQS, and LO are significantly affected by the red phosphor concentration, which can provide a potential practical recommendation for manufacturing RP-WLEDs. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License .","PeriodicalId":38109,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Automation and Smart Technology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48092223","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":"Technical Development of Multi-Resin Three-Dimensional Printer Using Bottom-Up Method","authors":"H. Hsu, Shyh-Yuan Lee, Cho-Pei Jiang","doi":"10.5875/AUSMT.V8I4.1840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5875/AUSMT.V8I4.1840","url":null,"abstract":"The use of multi-resins entails certain challenges due to inter-stain in the intermediate layer of cured resins and misalignment caused by the use of multi-light sources or vat switching. This study proposes a new mechanism for a multi-resin three-dimensional printer that can fabricate physical models consisting of different resins without misalignment using the bottom-up method with a digital projector and a clean modulus that can avoid inter-staining. Experimental results show that the proposed C-arm design offers self-alignment when the platform is switched or during cleaning. The proposed clean modulus can also prevent inter-staining, thus producing a clear boundary layer. The linear and angular dimensions are respectively accurate within 20 µm and 0.2 o . This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License .","PeriodicalId":38109,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Automation and Smart Technology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44550064","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}
C. Huang, Chao-Tang Chuang, C. Weng, Chi‐Hung Liu, Yizheng Li, Li-Cheng Pana, Chih-Kuang Wang
{"title":"Sterilization Efficacy of a Below 40°C Plasma Processes Assessed by a Biological Indicator","authors":"C. Huang, Chao-Tang Chuang, C. Weng, Chi‐Hung Liu, Yizheng Li, Li-Cheng Pana, Chih-Kuang Wang","doi":"10.5875/AUSMT.V8I4.1831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5875/AUSMT.V8I4.1831","url":null,"abstract":"Biodegradable biopolymers have been widely used in biomaterials for tissue engineering. Sterilization is a process by which a product can be made free of contamination from microorganisms such as bacteria, yeasts, and viruses. When sterilizing biodegradable scaffolds, the sterilization technique chosen must maintain the structural and biochemical properties of the scaffolds to ensure that the scaffolds can fulfill their intended purposes post-sterilization. In addition, in response to the development of customized, rapid and accurate medical devices via 3D printed biomaterials, sterilization of such devices by low-temperature hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) gas plasma (HPGP) will provide new capabilities not only for rapidly manufacturing customized medical devices but also for producing sterile end-use parts. This device uses a below 40°C temperature plasma with H2O2 activated by ultraviolet light irradiation processes to evaluate the sterilization efficacy with a biological indicator. The results demonstrated several parameter combinations for HPGP that can achieve sterilization at temperatures below 40°C. Therefore, the parameters associated with this HPGP device have the potential to provide a sterilization process applicable for future development of biopolymer devices manufactured by 3D printing. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License .","PeriodicalId":38109,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Automation and Smart Technology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41858653","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}
Y. Tseng, Fu-Cheng Kao, Chao-Yaug Liao, Tsung-Ting Tsai
{"title":"Development of a Dual-trajectory Guide Plate Using Additive Manufacturing for Patients with Osteoporosis","authors":"Y. Tseng, Fu-Cheng Kao, Chao-Yaug Liao, Tsung-Ting Tsai","doi":"10.5875/AUSMT.V8I4.1830","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5875/AUSMT.V8I4.1830","url":null,"abstract":"Pedicle screw fixation is a surgical procedure performed by clinically experienced physicians, and requires the precise placement of the screws in specific locations. The use of additive manufacturing in surgical procedures has gradually increased in recent years. Advantages of this technique include reduced difficulty of surgery and burden on physicians. The spinal dual-trajectory technique (DT) is a newly developed screw placement technology that is mainly used in patients with osteoporosis, and provides stable and strong spinal fixation to increase screw bonding strength. However, DT requires the placement of two screws oriented in different directions at the narrow pedicle, making the surgery more difficult and riskier than traditional pedicle fixation. This study integrates computer-aided design and additive manufacturing techniques to propose a complete design method for the DT guide plate. The developed guide plate was then installed in a three-dimensional vertebral model and the screw fixation process was implemented to verify the feasibility of the proposed method. The results show that the guide plate was able to implant screws in predefined directions without penetrating the structure of the vertebral body. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License .","PeriodicalId":38109,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Automation and Smart Technology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48135620","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":"Keys to Promoting Governmental Digital Transformation","authors":"Hsiu-Ling Li","doi":"10.5875/AUSMT.V8I4.2066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5875/AUSMT.V8I4.2066","url":null,"abstract":"This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License .","PeriodicalId":38109,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Automation and Smart Technology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49215046","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":"Latent Fingerprint Enhancement Based on Directional Total Variation Model with Lost Minutia Reconstruction","authors":"A. Liban, Shadi M. S. Hilles","doi":"10.5875/AUSMT.V8I3.1629","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5875/AUSMT.V8I3.1629","url":null,"abstract":"Image enhancement plays an important role in biometric systems, this paper presented automatic latent fingerprint segmentation and matching. While considerable progress has made in both rolled and plain fingerprint image enhancement, latent fingerprint enhancement is a challenging problem due to the poor image quality of latent fingerprint with unclear ridge structures and various overlapping patterns, along with the presence of structured noise. Prior to latent fingerprint segmentation and feature extraction, latent fingerprint image enhancement is important to suppress various types of noise and to clarify the ridge structure. This paper reviews the current techniques used for latent fingerprint enhancement and presents a hybrid model which combines the edge directional total variation model (EDTV) and quality image enhancement with lost minutia reconstruction. The NIST SD27 database is used to test the performance of the proposed techniques with RMSE and PSNR. The proposed technique is effectively clarify input latent fingerprint images and eliminate noise in good, bad and ugly latent fingerprint images. A statistically significant difference, which focused on the mean lengths of PSNR and RMSE for different categories of latent fingerprint, images (good, bad and ugly). The proposed technique performs well for the good latent fingerprint images compare to bad and ugly images. Enhancement respectively presents RMSE averages of 0.018373, 0.022287, and 0.023199 for the good, bad and ugly image SD27 image set, as opposed to 82.99068, 81.39749, and 81.07826 for PSNR. The proposed enhancement technique improved the matching accuracy of latent fingerprint images by about 30%.","PeriodicalId":38109,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Automation and Smart Technology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49113465","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":"Effect of Green-emitting CaF2:Ce3+,Tb3+ Phosphor Concentration on the Correlated Color Temperature Deviation and the Lumen Output of the 7700 K Conformal Packaging WLEDst","authors":"P. Tin, T. Minh, N. H. Nhan, T. Trang","doi":"10.5875/AUSMT.V8I3.1457","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5875/AUSMT.V8I3.1457","url":null,"abstract":"In this manuscript, we propose a recommendation for improving the correlated color temperature deviation (D-CCT) and the lumen output of 7700 K WLEDs by adding the green-emitting CaF2:Ce3+,Tb3+ phosphor into the yellow-emitting YAG:Ce phosphor compounding. From the research results, the D-CCT could decrease more than 4 times, and the lumen output increased more than 1,5 times in comparison with the non-green-emitting CaF2:Ce3+,Tb3+ phosphor case. The results show that green-emitting CaF2:Ce3+,Tb3+ phosphor could become a new recommendation for enhancing the D-CCT and the lumen output of WLEDs.","PeriodicalId":38109,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Automation and Smart Technology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43447893","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":"Smart Meter Solution for Developing and Emerging Economies","authors":"A. Ibhaze, Moses U. Akpabio, Atayero","doi":"10.5875/AUSMT.V8I3.1529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5875/AUSMT.V8I3.1529","url":null,"abstract":"Emerging economies are an increasingly significant part of the global market, and the potential for technology integration and innovation in such areas cannot be overstated. Smart electrical meters are a key component for monitoring and controlling energy consumption, but the installation of such meters assumes the existence of basic smart infrastructures. This paper, however, focuses on the use of home-based smart meters to allow for the remote switching of loads to achieve energy conservation. The design of a smart metering infrastructure coupled with load control capabilities is presented, achieving effective energy management with built-in load control. When deployed, this metering architecture will promote efficient home energy management.","PeriodicalId":38109,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Automation and Smart Technology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46214977","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}