As a result of the progressive implantation of the Industry 4.0 paradigm, many industries are experimenting a revolution that shipyards cannot ignore. Therefore, the application of the principles of Industry 4.0 to shipyards are leading to the creati...
Several millions of kilometres of pipes and cables are buried beneath our streets in the UK. As they are not visible and easily accessible, the monitoring of their integrity as well as the quality of their contents is a challenge. Any information of...
The smart management of water resources is an increasingly important topic in today’s society. In this context, the paradigm of Smart Water Grids (SWGs) aims at a constant monitoring through a network of smart nodes deployed over the water dist...
Water Loss (WL) is a global issue. In Italy, for instance, WL reached 36.2% of the total fresh water conveyed in 2020. The maintenance of a water supply system is a strategic task that requires a huge amount of investment every year. In this work, we...
A smart, safe, and efficient management of water is fundamental for both developed and developing countries. Several wireless sensor networks have been proposed for real-time monitoring of drinking water quantity and quality, both in the environment...
This paper introduces GECO, a real-time, computer vision-assisted gesture controller for IoT-based smart home systems. The platform uses a markerless MediaPipe interface that combines gesture-driven navigation and command execution, enabling intuitiv...
Violent attacks have been one of the hot issues in recent years. In the presence of closed-circuit televisions (CCTVs) in smart cities, there is an emerging challenge in apprehending criminals, leading to a need for innovative solutions. In this pape...
Due to the constant need to enhance water supply sources, water operators are searching for solutions to maintain water quality through leakage protection. The capability to monitor the day-to-day water supply management is one of the most significan...
In the public cloud, FPGA-based SmartNICs are widely deployed to accelerate network functions (NFs) for datacenter operators. We argue that with the trend of network as a service (NaaS) in the cloud is also meaningful to accelerate tenant NFs to meet...
Asset monitoring, specifically infrastructure monitoring such as water distribution pipelines, is becoming increasingly critical for utility owners who face new challenges due to an aging network. In the UK alone, during the period of 2009–2010, appr...
Incidents to pipes cause damage in water distribution systems (WDS) and access to all parts of the WDS is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose an integrated wireless robotic system for in-pipe missions that includes an agile, maneuverable, a...
Remote tele-rehabilitation requires objective pain assessment, but existing approaches fail in two distinct ways. Self-report scales such as the Visual Analog Scale and the Numeric Pain Rating Scale are easy to falsify, opening a special case of the...
Urban drainage pipelines are essential components of smart city infrastructure, supporting the safe and sustainable operation of underground systems. However, internal corrosion in pipelines poses significant risks to structural stability and public...
Modern control strategies for district-level heating and cooling supply systems pose a difficult challenge. In order to integrate a wide range of hot and cold sources, these new systems will rely heavily on accumulation and much lower operating tempe...
Water is essential for society. Due to excellent distribution systems for clean drinking water and wastewater, safe and reliable water transport is guaranteed. However, due to ageing network conditions, there is a need for extensive network monitorin...
Smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0, and cyber-physical systems (CPSs) require sensing architectures capable of resolving both spatially distributed asset behavior and highly localized process states. This review examines optical fiber sensors (OFSs) a...
Water supply systems are essential elements for human life and industry, and water leaks and water supply cut-off may cause major problems. Local water leaks and pipe failures in the water supply system are inevitable problems due to the aging of pip...
Underground pipe network is a critical city infrastructure, which plays an important role in smart city management. As the detailed three-dimensional (3D) scene of underground pipe networks is difficult to construct, and massive numbers of pipe point...
The key to achieving smart heating is the rational use of large amounts of data from the heating network. However, many current relevant studies based on generalized mathematical methods are unable to accurately describe the physical relationships be...
Three-dimensional (3D) pipe network modeling plays an essential part in high performance-based smart city applications. Given that massive 3D pipe networks tend to be difficult to manage and to visualize, we propose in this study a hybrid framework f...
A key milestone for the pervasive diffusion of wireless sensing nodes for smart monitoring of water quality and quantity in distribution networks is the simplification of the installation of sensors. To address this aspect, we demonstrate how two bas...
Smart flow monitoring is critical for sewer system management. Obstructions and restrictions to flow in discharge pipes are common and costly. We propose the use of electrical resistance tomography modality for the task of smart wastewater metering....
Pipes conveying fluids are important fluid–structure interaction systems encountered in aerospace, energy, marine, and industrial applications. Their dynamic behavior is strongly influenced by the interaction between structural motion and inter...
This paper explores the possibilities of motion capture as a tool to preserve and study Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) practices such as playing instruments. The Uilleann pipes are both an instrument and a culture with a now strong community foll...
With the rapid advancement of modern industries, pressure vessels and piping have become increasingly integral to sectors such as energy, petrochemicals, and process industries. To grasp the research and application status in the field of pressure ve...
There is an urgent need for industrial Internet of things (IoT) solutions to deploy a smart hydrophone sensor grid to monitor pipeline health and to provide an accurate prediction in the event of any leakage. One solution is to develop an IoT water l...
With the rise of smart water cities, water resource management has become increasingly important. The increase in the use of intelligent leak detection technologies in the water, gas, oil, and chemical industries has led to a significant improvement...
Collective heating systems have multiple end-users with time-varying, often different temperature demands. There are several concepts catering to this, e.g., multi-pipe networks and 2-pipe networks with or without decentralised booster systems. In th...
This article presents a small diameter gravity sewerage system in a rural area. In this system, domestic wastewater was preliminarily treated in septic tanks equipped with outlet filters, so the effluent features were similar to those of clear water....
Guoxin No. 1, one of the largest smart aquaculture vessels currently in operation, represents an important development in large-scale mobile aquaculture platforms. Continuous circulation of oxygen-rich seawater is essential for maintaining suitable c...
Supporting a conventional power grid with advanced communication capabilities is a cornerstone to transferring it to a smart grid. A reliable communication infrastructure with a high throughput can lay the foundation towards the ultimate objective of...
Leakages from damaged or deteriorated buried pipes in urban water distribution networks may cause significant socio-economic and environmental impacts, such as depletion of water resources and sinkhole events. Sinkholes are often caused by internal e...
The accumulation of separated out impurities from pipeline transported medium onto the pipe wall is a major cause of downtime maintenance of oil and gas production systems. To regularly scrub off wall-mounted debris and probe the severity, pipeline i...
This article presents a proposal for blending natural gas and biogas with a control system with feedback to ensure a constant mixture density. To achieve this, we propose the following: a mathematical model to determine the gas density based on its c...
Irrigation refers to supplying water to soil through pipes, pumps, and spraying systems to ensure even distribution across the field. In traditional farming or gardening, the setup and usage of an agricultural irrigation system solely rely on the per...
In this study, a novel cloud-hosted software solution, titled as Anomaly Leak Finder (ALF), has been developed in collaboration with PUB, Singapore’s national water agency, to enhance leak detection and localization in four major water distribu...
Against the backdrop of the coordinated advancement of the dual carbon goals and new-type urbanization, the traditional high-carbon development model has become a major constraint on urban green transformation. As a critical vehicle for digital techn...
Electrical resistance tomography (ERT) has been investigated in monitoring conductive flows due to its high speed, non-intrusive and no radiation hazard advantages. Recently, we have developed an ERT system for the novel application of smart wastewat...
Recently, triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) have emerged as having an important role in the next wave of technology due to their large potential applications in energy harvesting and smart sensing. Recognizing this, a device based on TENGs, which...
The ever-changing nature of the power industry will require the implementation of hybrid energy systems. Integration of tightly coupled components in hybrids often involves the diversion of exhaust gas flow. An innovative smart material actuation tec...
The underground pipeline is a critical component of urban water supply and drainage infrastructure. However, the absence of accurate pipe information frequently leads to construction delays and cost overruns, adversely impacting urban management and...
Pipe leakage and bursts are the primary contributors to water losses in water distribution networks (WDNs). However, the use of object detection techniques for identifying such failures is underexplored. This study proposes a novel deep-learning-base...
In the framework of the PVadapt H2020 project, a sustainable and fully adaptable building-integrated photovoltaic–thermal (BIPVT) system of substantially lower cost than conventional in-market solutions will be developed. A flexible automated...
In this study, a vision-based remote and synchronized control scheme is proposed for the double six-DOF robotic manipulators. Using an Intel RealSense D435 depth camera and MediaPipe skeletal image feature technique, the operator’s 3D hand pose...
Water collection from piped water distribution systems (PWSs) in rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa is not understood in much detail. Here, distances travelled to distribution points (DPs), volumes collected, times of day of collection, and the...
New challenges in water systems include different approaches from analysis of failures and risk assessment to system efficiency improvements and new innovative designs. In water distribution networks (WDNs), the risk function is a measure of its vuln...
This paper outlines the process of developing a low-cost system for home appliance control via real-time hand gesture classification using Computer Vision and a custom lightweight machine learning model. This system strives to enable those with speec...
Today, a large portion of the human population around the globe has no access to freshwater for drinking, cooking, and other domestic applications. Water resources in numerous countries are becoming scarce due to over urbanization, rapid industrial g...
Accurate measurement of wall shear stress (WSS) is essential for both fundamental and applied fluid dynamics, where it governs boundary-layer behavior, drag generation, and the performance of flow-control systems. Yet, existing WSS sensing methods re...
Electric wheelchairs are the primary means of transportation that enable individuals with disabilities to move independently to their desired locations. This paper introduces a novel, low-cost smart wheelchair system designed to enhance the mobility...
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