Under the “Healthy China” strategy, the demand for home fitness equipment is increasing, but existing solutions face challenges such as large size, limited functionality, and lack of personalization. This study proposes an innovative inte...
The current state of the art in hydroacoustics research employs a variety of feature extraction techniques with the goal of accurately classifying a ship based on its radiated noise. These techniques are capable of accuracy in excess of 95%. A questi...
Semiconductor manufacturing equipment such as vacuum pumps, wafer handling mechanisms, etching machines, and deposition systems operates for a long time under high vacuum, high temperature, strong electromagnetic, and high-precision continuous produc...
Acoustic Emission (AE) and Guided Ultrasonic Waves (GUWs) are non-destructive testing (NDT) methods in several industrial sectors for, e.g., proof testing and periodic inspection of pressure vessels, storage tanks, pipes or pipelines and leak or corr...
This paper presents a design and prototype of an IoT-based health and safety monitoring system using MATLAB GUI. This system, which is called the Smart Health and Safety Monitoring System, is aimed at reducing the time, cost and manpower requirements...
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In collaboration with RTI International, the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) administered a survey to North American companies working with nanomaterials to assess health and safety practices. The results would cont...
Prognostics and health management (PHM) is an essential means to optimize resource allocation and improve the intelligent operation and maintenance (O&M) efficiency of marine systems and equipment (MSAE). PHM generally consists of four technical...
An extended-reality (XR) platform for real-time monitoring of patients’ health during surgical procedures is proposed. The proposed system provides real-time access to a comprehensive set of patients’ information, which are made promptly...
We provide a critical outlook of the evolution of Industrial Process Monitoring (IPM) since its introduction almost 100 years ago. Several evolution trends that have been structuring IPM developments over this extended period of time are briefly refe...
This paper presents a data-driven flexible hybrid architecture which explores the use of a Specific Energy Consumption (SEC) index for predicting the Remaining Useful Lifetime (RUL) of spare mechanical parts of an industrial electric machine. The arc...
Recently, the lack of expansion joint gaps on highway bridges in Korea has been increasing. In particular, with the increase in the number of days during the summer heatwave, the narrowing of the expansion joint gap causes symptoms such as expansion...
Artificial intelligence technologies such as computer vision (CV), machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and robotics have advanced rapidly in recent years. The new technologies provide non-contact measurements in three areas: indoor environmen...
The occupational risk of operators using display screen equipment (DSE) is usually evaluated according to the extent of time spent in active operator–DSE interactions. Risk assessment is based on activity data collected through questionnaires....
The integration of technology into healthcare has moved from being a luxury to being a need at a time when there is an ever-increasing focus on individual health and wellbeing. The real-time monitoring of one’s health metrics and prompt alerts...
Capacitive equipment refers to its insulation design using the principle of capacitance of electrical equipment, mainly by a variety of different capacitive components in series. Most of the equipment in the substation is capacitive equipment. Once a...
Enterprises in industries such as coking and metallurgy possess extensive industrial equipment requiring real-time monitoring and timely fault detection. Transmitting all monitoring data to servers or cloud platforms for processing presents challenge...
In view of the diversity and varying complexity of ship equipment, and the difficulty of existing state assessment methods in effectively handling the differences in the influence of different characteristic parameters on the equipment’s health...
Despite the increasing digitalization of equipment diagnostic/condition monitoring systems, it remains a challenge to accurately harness discriminant information from multiple sensors with unique spectral (and transient) behaviors. High-precision sys...
Asthma is the leading chronic condition in children and adolescents, requiring continuous monitoring to effectively prevent and manage symptoms. Symptom monitoring can guide timely and effective self-management actions by children and their parents a...
The temperature and strain fields monitoring during the preparation process of buoyancy materials, as well as the health status after molding, are important for mastering the mechanical properties of buoyancy materials and ensuring the safety of oper...
Filter face masks are Respiratory Protective Equipment designed to protect the wearer from various hazards, suit various health situations, and match the specific requirements of the wearer. Current traditional face masks have several limitations. In...
The use of wearable equipment and sensing devices to monitor physical activities, whether for well-being, sports monitoring, or medical rehabilitation, has expanded rapidly due to the evolution of sensing techniques, cheaper integrated circuits, and...
Condition monitoring (CM) is the basis of prognostics and health management (PHM), which is gaining more and more importance in the industrial world. CM, which refers to the tracking of industrial equipment’s state of health during operations,...
Large-scale radon monitoring is carried out due to the fact that it is directly responsible for public health. European Directive 2013/59/EURATOM has been transposed into the legislation of several countries and provides for the need for long-term mo...
The nation’s transportation systems are complex and are some of the highest valued and largest public assets in the United States. As a result of repeated natural hazards and their significant impact on transportation functionality and the soci...
This research combines the application of artificial intelligence in the production equipment fault monitoring of aerospace components. It detects three-phase current abnormalities in large hot-pressing furnaces through smart meters and provides earl...
In the aerospace industry, every minute of downtime because of equipment failure impacts operations significantly. Therefore, efficient maintenance, repair and overhaul processes to aid maximum equipment availability are essential. However, scheduled...
Given that rotating machinery is one of the most commonly used types of mechanical equipment in industrial applications, the identification of its health status is crucial for the safe operation of the entire system. Traditional equipment health stat...
The research explores methods for onboard real-time data analysis and health status assessment, focusing on the working principles and status assessment theory of onboard equipment in the electronic toll collection (ETC) system. By applying AHP, fuzz...
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS)-based technologies have become an indispensable part of current structural health monitoring (SHM) systems because of the unique capability of the GNSS technologies to provide accurate real-time displacement...
Mobile health technologies are becoming more common to assist older people in independent living and self-management of illnesses. Although many mobile health technologies can be beneficial to older users, there remains a dearth of evidence-informed...
Bioaerosols lead to human health diseases and composting plants are one of the main sources among human activities. In this study, a survey was conducted on such plants to evaluate bioaerosol risk management. A questionnaire was used to collect infor...
In urban humanitarian-aid operations, safe treatment of fecal sludge is highly important. While currently field-deployable fecal-sludge treatment plants are being developed, field-ready analytical equipment for process-control and public health monit...
Introduction: Diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) are a devastating complication of diabetes. There are numerous challenges with preventing diabetic foot complications and barriers to achieving the care processes suggested in established foot care guidelines....
This paper discusses the health evaluation of an urban rail transit switch machine. In this paper, the working current data of the S700K switch machine are processed, and four common abnormal operating current curves are obtained through the existing...
The early detection of fatal diseases is crucial for medical diagnostics and treatment, both of which benefit the individual and society. Portable devices, such as thermometers and blood pressure monitors, and large instruments, such as computed tomo...
Condition-based maintenance strategies using AI-driven health monitoring have emerged as valuable tools for industrial reliability, yet their implementation remains challenging in industries with limited operational data. Class I induction motors (&l...
Manned spaceflight has already become an important approach to space science exploration, while long-term exposure to the microgravity environment will lead to severe health problems for astronauts, including bone loss, muscle atrophy, and cardiovasc...
As technology advances, the equipment becomes more complicated, and the importance of the Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) to monitor the condition of the equipment has risen. In recent years, various methodologies have emerged. With the devel...
Significant portions of European cities’ population are still exposed to levels of air pollution deemed harmful by the World Health Organization. Given the high impact of air pollution both on human health and the economy, numerous low-cost electroch...
The accurate detection of electrical equipment states and faults is crucial for the reliable operation of such equipment and for maintaining the health of the overall power system. The state of power equipment can be effectively monitored through dee...
Healthy soils are vital for sustainable development, yet consistent soil monitoring is scarce, and soils are poorly represented in United Nations Sustainable Development Goals targets and indicators. There is a clear need for specific ambitions on so...
FRP composite bridges have been in operation since the mid-1990s, allowing for the evaluation of their long-term behaviour. Many of the early FRP bridges in the USA and Western Europe were equipped with monitoring systems to assess their structural i...
Since the outbreak of COVID-19, as of January 2023, there have been over 670 million cases and more than 6.8 million deaths worldwide. Infections can cause inflammation in the lungs and decrease blood oxygen levels, which can lead to breathing diffic...
As global obesity rates rise, cardiovascular diseases increase, and stress-related issues become more severe. This increases the public awareness of health and exercise. However, existing spinning fitness equipment lacks personalized customization fo...
Much of the equipment that is used in the chemical and process industry and for handling or treating hazardous substances is subject to deterioration. To manage the risk of major accidents due to this deterioration, the current legislation requires p...
High efficiency and safety are critical factors in ensuring the optimal performance and reliability of systems and equipment across various industries. Fault monitoring (FM) techniques play a pivotal role in this regard by continuously monitoring sys...
Implementing the concept of a “smart furnace transformer” should stipulate its information support throughout its life cycle. This requires improving techniques for estimating the transformer’s health and forecasting its remaining u...
This paper describes a wireless sensor network (WSN) used to monitor the health state of architectural heritage in real-time. The WSN has been deployed and tested on the “Rognosa” tower in the medieval village of San Gimignano, Tuscany, Italy. This t...
Facemasks are used as a personal protective equipment in medical services. They became compulsory during the recent COVID-19 pandemic at large. Their barrier effectiveness during various daily activities over time has been the subject of much debate....
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