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  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,562 Views
25 Pages

Security and Privacy Analysis of Youth-Oriented Connected Devices

  • Sonia Solera-Cotanilla,
  • Mario Vega-Barbas,
  • Jaime Pérez,
  • Gregorio López,
  • Javier Matanza and
  • Manuel Álvarez-Campana

24 May 2022

Under the Internet of Things paradigm, the emergence and use of a wide variety of connected devices and personalized telematics services have proliferated recently. As a result, along with the penetration of these devices in our daily lives, the user...

  • Article
  • Open Access
304 Views
23 Pages

Role of the Pharmacist in Supporting the Use of Connected Health Devices: Example of Connected Watches

  • Cordélia Salomez-Ihl,
  • Léa Liaigre,
  • Wiceme Dala,
  • Ambre Davat,
  • Maud Barbado,
  • Sébastien Chanoine,
  • Philippe Py,
  • Delphine Schmitt,
  • Pascal Defaye and
  • Pierrick Bedouch

3 February 2026

The use of Connected Medical Devices (CMDs) is growing significantly throughout the world. Although they are not dispensed in pharmacies and are not part of the pharmacy-only drug dispensing system, clinical pharmacists must be able to support patien...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,374 Views
14 Pages

5 January 2020

This paper describes the design of a Series-Connected Device based on a fixed–frequency LLC resonant converter (SCDLLC). Isolation of the dc-dc converter like the LLC resonant converter is used for the stability of the high voltage system such...

  • Letter
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,665 Views
10 Pages

Medium voltage (MV) DC/DC converters are key equipment for interconnection between DC power lines with different voltage levels in MVDC grids. The Input-series-output-parallel (ISOP) modular MV DC/DC converter is feasible to realize MV to low voltage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,615 Views
13 Pages

The Development of 1Balance: A Connected Medical Device for Measuring Human Balance

  • Heikki Sjöman,
  • Jani Kalasniemi,
  • Matti Vartiainen and
  • Martin Steinert

Prototyping (iterative loops of design–build–test) is a proven method of efficiently developing new products. Developing products not only quickly, but that are also fit for purpose, implies engaging the end users and iterating the techno...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,937 Views
15 Pages

Strain Monitoring and Installation Adjustment of Satellite–Rocket Connection Device Based on Distributed Optical Fibers

  • Xiaoxi Qu,
  • Shiyuan Zhao,
  • Fuqiang Ma,
  • Jianle Li,
  • Hanke Li,
  • Zhengyan Yang,
  • Hao Xu,
  • Lei Yang and
  • Zhanjun Wu

In this study, a distributed optical fiber sensor was used for strain monitoring and installation adjustment of a satellite–rocket connection device under a preload. The distributed optical fiber sensor was installed on both the tape and the sa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
6,429 Views
20 Pages

The prefabricated construction industry, also known as off-site construction, has been operating in North America for several years now and differs from traditional construction in its much shorter project timelines, lower costs, and increased build...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,808 Views
18 Pages

21 June 2024

Drive systems are an important part of general mechanical engineering, automotive engineering, and various other fields, with shaft–hub connections being an important part of such systems. Decisive aspects in the development of such systems tod...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,069 Views
15 Pages

Lightweight Cryptography for Connected Vehicles Communication Security on Edge Devices

  • Sahbi Boubaker,
  • Faisal S. Alsubaei,
  • Yahia Said and
  • Hossam E. Ahmed

29 September 2023

Recent advances in mobile connection technology have been involved in every aspect of modern life. Even vehicles are becoming more connected, with the ability to communicate without human intervention. The main idea of connected vehicles is to exchan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,361 Views
15 Pages

28 April 2016

A general quantum thermodynamics network is composed of thermal devices connected to environments through quantum wires. The coupling between the devices and the wires may introduce additional decay channels which modify the system performance with r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
69 Citations
18,253 Views
37 Pages

Human Centred Design Considerations for Connected Health Devices for the Older Adult

  • Richard P. Harte,
  • Liam G. Glynn,
  • Barry J. Broderick,
  • Alejandro Rodriguez-Molinero,
  • Paul M. A. Baker,
  • Bernadette McGuiness,
  • Leonard O'Sullivan,
  • Marta Diaz,
  • Leo R. Quinlan and
  • Gearóid ÓLaighin

4 June 2014

Connected health devices are generally designed for unsupervised use, by non-healthcare professionals, facilitating independent control of the individuals own healthcare. Older adults are major users of such devices and are a population significantl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
12,979 Views
28 Pages

Internet of Things (IoT) is considered one of the future disruptive technologies and has attracted lots of research attention in the recent past. IoT devices are tiny sensing or actuating devices attached to daily life objects, capable of sending sen...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,951 Views
13 Pages

Today, households worldwide are being increasingly connected. Mobile devices and embedded systems carry out many tasks supported by applications which are based on artificial intelligence algorithms with the aim of leading homes to be smarter. One of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,327 Views
46 Pages

Building Trust for Smart Connected Devices: The Challenges and Pitfalls of TrustZone

  • Nikolaos Koutroumpouchos,
  • Christoforos Ntantogian and
  • Christos Xenakis

13 January 2021

TrustZone-based Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) have been utilized extensively for the implementation of security-oriented solutions for several smart intra and inter-connected devices. Although TEEs have been promoted as the starting point for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,406 Views
18 Pages

23 December 2022

In order to make the grid-connected composite device (GCCD) controller meet the requirements of different operating modes and complex working conditions of power grid, this paper proposes to introduce sliding mode control (SMC) into GCCD controller....

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
10,301 Views
12 Pages

Influence of Parasitic Capacitance on Output Voltage for Series-Connected Thin-Film Piezoelectric Devices

  • Kensuke Kanda,
  • Takashi Saito,
  • Yuki Iga,
  • Kohei Higuchi and
  • Kazusuke Maenaka

4 December 2012

Series-connected thin film piezoelectric elements can generate large output voltages. The output voltage ideally is proportional to the number of connections. However, parasitic capacitances formed by the insulation layers and derived from peripheral...

  • Article
  • Open Access
240 Views
11 Pages

Background: Utilizing internet-connected assistive devices is essential for completing instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) for people with disabilities. Globally, the COVID-19 lockdown restrictions resulted in drastic lifestyle changes. Me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,180 Views
17 Pages

15 September 2020

In this age of electronic communication, checking the physical mailbox is still part of our daily life. Mailboxes are placed several meters away from the house, and sometimes across the opposite side of a street. It is annoying to walk to the mailbox...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,205 Views
16 Pages

Intelligent transportation system (ITS) has become a crucial section of transportation and traffic management systems in the past decades. As a result, transportation agencies keep improving the quality of transportation infrastructure management inf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,684 Views
22 Pages

Feasibility Study of Wind Farm Grid-Connected Project in Algeria under Grid Fault Conditions Using D-Facts Devices

  • Lina Wang,
  • Kamel Djamel Eddine Kerrouche,
  • Abdelkader Mezouar,
  • Alex Van Den Bossche,
  • Azzedine Draou and
  • Larbi Boumediene

15 November 2018

The use of renewable energy such as wind power is one of the most affordable solutions to meet the basic demand for electricity because it is the cleanest and most efficient resource. In Algeria, the highland region has considerable wind potential. H...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,913 Views
22 Pages

In this paper, a power compensator using supercapacitors in parallel to protect grid-connected devices connected to the distributed power supply in the case of a low-voltage ride-through (LVRT) situation in designed, and a grid-connected device contr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,800 Views
16 Pages

The modern changes in electric systems present new issues for control strategies. When power converters and distributed energy resources are included in the micro-grid, its model is more complex than the simplified representations used, sometimes los...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
10,456 Views
14 Pages

In a residential or nursing home environment, using ZigBee/802.15.4 wireless network specifically to collect and gather various types of personal health data proves to be a feasible choice. The Continua Guidelines has defined both the sensor-LAN IF (...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,473 Views
17 Pages

MCCM: An Approach for Connectivity and Coverage Maximization

  • Alia Ghaddar,
  • Monah Bou Hatoum,
  • Ghassan Fadlallah and
  • Hamid Mcheick

21 January 2020

The internet of Things (IoT) has attracted significant attention in many applications in both academic and industrial areas. In IoT, each object can have the capabilities of sensing, identifying, networking and processing to communicate with ubiquito...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
10,409 Views
23 Pages

Formaldehyde and Total VOC (TVOC) Commercial Low-Cost Monitoring Devices: From an Evaluation in Controlled Conditions to a Use Case Application in a Real Building

  • Valérie Goletto,
  • Geneviève Mialon,
  • Timothé Faivre,
  • Ying Wang,
  • Isabelle Lesieur,
  • Nathalie Petigny and
  • SnehaSruthi Vijapurapu

Formaldehyde and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are major indoor pollutants with multiple origins. Standard methods exist to measure them that require analytical expertise and provide, at best, an average value of their concentrations. There is a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,033 Views
21 Pages

The Internet of Things (IoT) is expected to deliver a whole range of new services to all parts of our society, and improve the way we work and live. The challenges within the Internet of Things are often related to interoperability, device resource c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,281 Views
11 Pages

Development of a Perfusing Small Intestine–Liver Microphysiological System Device

  • Yoko Sakai,
  • Masanari Matsumura,
  • Hideki Yamada,
  • Atsushi Doi,
  • Isao Saito,
  • Takahiro Iwao and
  • Tamihide Matsunaga

21 September 2023

There is an increasing need to develop alternatives to animal modeling and testing for pre-clinical studies as researchers face major challenges, such as the study of dynamic systems in laboratory settings. Microphysiological system (MPS) technology...

  • Article
  • Open Access
715 Views
14 Pages

Design and Study of a New Rotary Jet Wellbore Washing Device

  • Shupei Li,
  • Zhongrui Ji,
  • Qi Feng,
  • Shuangchun Yang and
  • Xiuli Sun

21 September 2025

Wellbore washing technology is a basic operation in wellbore maintenance. Problems such as low automation levels, long processing times, the fact that it is easy to cause downhole falling, and cleaning blind areas greatly affect the use and maintenan...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,491 Views
24 Pages

22 November 2024

Power devices in series are low-voltage power devices used in medium- and high-voltage applications in a more direct program. However, when power devices in series are used, because of their electrical performance parameters or external circuit condi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,229 Views
17 Pages

Mobile Device Usage before and during the COVID-19 Pandemic among Rural and Urban Adults

  • Livia Jonnatan,
  • Cherisse L. Seaton,
  • Kathy L. Rush,
  • Eric P. H. Li and
  • Khalad Hasan

Technology has played a critical role during the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite affording a safe way for people to connect with others, the potential for problematic device usage (e.g., overuse, addiction) should be considered. The goal of this study was...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,854 Views
17 Pages

School districts are quickly adopting one-to-one mobile device programs for children as early as kindergarten, but evidence of successful device integration is mixed. One important area to consider is the home-school connection, i.e., the role of par...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,867 Views
8 Pages

17 September 2023

Dual-deck stacking technology is an effective solution for solving the contradiction between the demand for increasing storage layers and the challenge of the deep hole etching process in 3D NAND flash. The connection scheme between decks is a key te...

  • Review
  • Open Access
116 Citations
16,016 Views
23 Pages

Impact of Healthcare-Associated Infections Connected to Medical Devices—An Update

  • Nitin Chandra Teja Dadi,
  • Barbora Radochová,
  • Jarmila Vargová and
  • Helena Bujdáková

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are caused by nosocomial pathogens. HAIs have an immense impact not only on developing countries but also on highly developed parts of world. They are predominantly device-associated infections that are caused...

  • Review
  • Open Access
318 Citations
50,410 Views
31 Pages

Review of Wearable Devices and Data Collection Considerations for Connected Health

  • Vini Vijayan,
  • James P. Connolly,
  • Joan Condell,
  • Nigel McKelvey and
  • Philip Gardiner

19 August 2021

Wearable sensor technology has gradually extended its usability into a wide range of well-known applications. Wearable sensors can typically assess and quantify the wearer’s physiology and are commonly employed for human activity detection and quanti...

  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
15,608 Views
33 Pages

IoT Health Devices: Exploring Security Risks in the Connected Landscape

  • Abasi-amefon Obot Affia,
  • Hilary Finch,
  • Woosub Jung,
  • Issah Abubakari Samori,
  • Lucas Potter and
  • Xavier-Lewis Palmer

25 May 2023

The concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) spans decades, and the same can be said for its inclusion in healthcare. The IoT is an attractive target in medicine; it offers considerable potential in expanding care. However, the application of the IoT...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,391 Views
32 Pages

13 February 2022

Cryptographic algorithms installed on Internet of Things (IoT) devices suffer many attacks. Some of these attacks include the differential linear attack (DL). The DL attack depends on the computation of the probability of differential-linear characte...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,874 Views
18 Pages

A diagnostic method for an open-circuit switch failure in a hybrid active neutral-point clamped (HANPC) inverter is proposed in this paper. The switching leg of the HANPC inverter consists of four silicon insulated gate bipolar transistors and two si...

  • Review
  • Open Access
74 Citations
10,377 Views
41 Pages

Mitigation of Power Quality Issues Due to High Penetration of Renewable Energy Sources in Electric Grid Systems Using Three-Phase APF/STATCOM Technologies: A Review

  • Wajahat Ullah Khan Tareen,
  • Muhammad Aamir,
  • Saad Mekhilef,
  • Mutsuo Nakaoka,
  • Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian,
  • Ben Horan,
  • Mudasir Ahmed Memon and
  • Nauman Anwar Baig

7 June 2018

This study summarizes an analytical review on the comparison of three-phase static compensator (STATCOM) and active power filter (APF) inverter topologies and their control schemes using industrial standards and advanced high-power configurations. Tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,947 Views
21 Pages

Effects of Wide Bandgap Devices on the Inverter Performance and Efficiency for Residential PV Applications

  • Saleh S. Alharbi,
  • Salah S. Alharbi,
  • Abdullah Bubshait,
  • Hisham Alharbi and
  • Abdulaziz Alateeq

With power demands continuously growing, the penetration of renewable energy resources, particularly solar photovoltaic (PV) systems, across the residential sector has been extensive. A voltage source inverter (VSI) is the key element for efficiently...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6,913 Views
30 Pages

The author’s contribution up to 1990 was reviewed in part I and the echo contributions from 1991 to 2020 will be reviewed in part II. These include defining the relationship between the quantity of shunt across the atrial septal defect (ASD) an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
666 Views
14 Pages

Beyond Nearest-Neighbor Connections in Device-to-Device Cellular Networks

  • Siavash Rajabi,
  • Reza Shahbazian and
  • Seyed Ali Ghorashi

22 August 2025

Device-to-device (D2D) communication enhances network efficiency by enabling direct, low-latency links between nearby users or devices. While most existing research assumes that D2D connections occur with the nearest neighbor, this assumption often f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,362 Views
18 Pages

6 March 2017

A high frequency dual-buck full-bridge inverter for small power renewable energy application is proposed in this paper. A switching frequency of 400 kHz is achieved with the adoption of the SiC power device. A two-pole two-zero (2P2Z) compensator is...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,190 Views
27 Pages

Planar Elliptical Inductor Design for Wireless Implantable Medical Devices

  • Muhammad Farooq,
  • Bilal Amin,
  • Adnan Elahi,
  • William Wijns and
  • Atif Shahzad

Wireless implantable medical devices (WIMDs) have seen unprecedented progress in the past three decades. WIMDs help clinicians in better-understanding diseases and enhance medical treatment by allowing for remote data collection and delivering tailor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
9,082 Views
16 Pages

Odor-Sensing System to Support Social Participation of People Suffering from Incontinence

  • Alvaro Ortiz Pérez,
  • Vera Kallfaß-de Frenes,
  • Alexander Filbert,
  • Janosch Kneer,
  • Benedikt Bierer,
  • Pirmin Held,
  • Philipp Klein,
  • Jürgen Wöllenstein,
  • Dirk Benyoucef and
  • Stefan Palzer
  • + 2 authors

29 December 2016

This manuscript describes the design considerations, implementation, and laboratory validation of an odor sensing module whose purpose is to support people that suffer from incontinence. Because of the requirements expressed by the affected end-users...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,736 Views
22 Pages

Full-Scale Implementation of an Automated Connecting Device for Modular Construction

  • Laurence Picard,
  • Pierre Blanchet and
  • André Bégin-Drolet

10 February 2024

Modular construction is characterized by assembling volumetric units on site. Once assembled on site, the structural integrity of modular buildings highly relies on connections that provide essential performance against critical loading conditions. C...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,146 Views
20 Pages

To address a business need, most organizations allow employees to use their own devices to enhance productivity and job satisfaction. For this purpose, the Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) policy provides controllable access for employees to organize dat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,613 Views
23 Pages

Emerging Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) technologies offer a new world of promise by leveraging the quality of mobile services. With MCC, resource-constrained mobile devices could capitalize on the computation/storage resources of cloud servers via com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,915 Views
16 Pages

31 May 2023

To improve the seismic connectivity reliability (SCR) analysis efficiency of water distribution systems (WDS) based on Monte Carlo (MC) simulation, the quasi-Monte Carlo (QMC) method sampled by a low-discrepancy sequence is applied. Furthermore, a pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,167 Views
14 Pages

1 February 2019

IoT devices are now enriching people’s life. However, the security of IoT devices seldom attracts manufacturers’ attention. There are already some solutions to the problem of connecting a smart device to a user’s wireless network ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,590 Views
12 Pages

Beyond the Horizon, Backhaul Connectivity for Offshore IoT Devices

  • Khurram Shabih Zaidi,
  • Sadaf Hina,
  • Muhammad Jawad,
  • Ali Nawaz Khan,
  • Muhammad Usman Shahid Khan,
  • Haris Bin Pervaiz and
  • Raheel Nawaz

21 October 2021

The prevalent use of the Internet of Things (IoT) devices over the Sea, such as, on oil and gas platforms, cargo, and cruise ships, requires high-speed connectivity of these devices. Although satellite based backhaul links provide vast coverage, but...

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