Light following & obstacle avoiding robot using

autonomous & android based manual controller

Abstract:
In this work, we have presented a robot, which is compact, autonomous and fully functional.
It is a proposed model which can be used in such an environment, which may be vulnerable
and risky to human being. It has three types of functions. Those are light following, obstacle
detection and controlling from an android device through bluetooth module. A mobile robot
having a control unit integrating the processing and the main sensor functionalities into an
android device is described and demonstrated in this paper.

Embedded system design for real-time interaction with

Smart Wheelchair
Ubiquitous devices are becoming a part of people's day-to-day life. Smart devices not only
aid to people's life but also are becoming a crucial part of physically challenged and aged
people. The need for safe and independent mobility for the elderly and physical challenged
people is of prime concern. The paper deals with creation of a Smart Wheel-Chair (SWC)
that mainly focuses on the mentioned issue in a very affordable way and to a greater extent.
The Wheel-Chair is controlled by RTOS as its core operating system. It consists of a touch-
screen based navigation system along with accident prevention and fall detection. A semi-
automatic vision function, heart rate sensors and physiological stress sensors have been
integrated. GPRS system is used for location determination and GSM is used to
communicate in those cases where certain abnormal events like falling, accident or health
issues are trigged. The real-time interaction functions are designed with the motive to make
the user operating the wheel-chair completely self-dependent and his interaction with the
environment can be like of a normal person.

An Android based wireless ECG monitoring system for

cardiac arrhythmia
The Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is emerging by leaps and bound due to
tremendous evolutions in sensors and wireless communication technologies. For WBAN
technology improvisation, researchers are mainly concentrating on technical parameters of
health monitoring to make it interactive and real time based. A WBAN is an integration of
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) to connect various Biomedical Wireless Sensors
(BWSs) located inside and outside of the human body to collect and transmit vital signals.
The collected biomedical data is send to the hospitals and medical centres for therapeutic,
diagnostic analysis and treatment. An electrocardiogram (ECG), a non-invasive mechanism,
is widely used to establish medical diagnosis of heart diseases in health care systems. This
paper presents a microcontroller ARM7 based health monitoring system intended to monitor
and to early detect situations when heart rate and blood oxygen level are out of their safe
ranges. The main objective of this proposal is to prevent emergency situations by informing
the patient to take actions before patient's health condition get worse leading to emergency
medical care. This system employs a programmable ARM7 for confab the bio-signal to
determine the condition of heart. If any abnormalities are discovered from patient's heart
parameters, the system sends alarm to the doctor. The system ensures wireless
transmission of ECG signal to the Medical Server (doctor's PC) through Bluetooth and
Android platform. This endows doctor to have visual description of patient's ECG on Medical
Server and if critical condition exists, system will send alert messages to the doctor on his
mobile phone even if doctor is away from Medical server. The experimental result shows
that the device is compact, cheap, user friendly and useful.

Smart and pervasive ICU based-IoT for improving

intensive health care
Setting up a smart and pervasive environment is one of the current challenges being
investigated in several research topics. Among the panoply of applications enabled by the
Internet of Things (IoT), smart and connected health care is a particularly important one.
Networked sensors, either worn on the body or embedded in our living environments, make
possible the gathering of rich information indicative of our physical and mental health.
Design a smart intensive care units is an original idea and a recent research topic which is
tackled in this work. First, in this paper, we highlight the opportunities and challenges for IoT
in realizing this vision of the future of health care and then, it is devoted to attainment of
new patient monitoring intelligent system in ICUs in order to improve medical care service
performance. We offer through this work, an hybrid architecture over a single platform for a
visual patient monitoring system for Automatic Detection of risk Situations and Alert (ADSA)
using a multi-camera system and collaborative medical sensors network.

Flash Flood Detection in Urban Cities Using Ultrasonic

and Infrared Sensors
Floods are the most common type of natural disaster, often leading to loss of lives and
properties in the thousands yearly. Among these events, urban flash floods are particularly
deadly because of the short timescales on which they occur, and because of the population
density of cities. Since most flood casualties are caused by a lack of information on the
impending flood (type, location, and severity), sensing these events is critical to generate
accurate and detailed warnings and short term forecasts. However, no dedicated flash flood
sensing systems, that could monitor the propagation of flash floods, in real time, currently
exist in cities. In this paper, first, a new sensing device that can simultaneously monitor
urban flash floods and traffic congestion has been presented. This sensing device is based
on the combination of ultrasonic range finding with remote temperature sensing, and can
sense both phenomena with a high degree of accuracy, using a combination of L1-
regularized reconstruction and artificial neural networks to process measurement data.
Second, corresponding algorithms have been implemented on a low-power wireless sensor
platform, and their performance in water level estimation in a six months test involving four
different sensors is illustrated. The results demonstrate that urban water levels can be
reliably estimated with error less than 2 cm, and that the preprocessing and machine
learning schemes can run in real time on currently available wireless sensor platforms.