International Journal of Advanced Science and Technology

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Authors: Rosslin John Robles and Tai-hoon Kim

A smart home or building is a home or building, usually a new one that is equipped with special structured wiring to enable occupants to remotely control or program an array of automated home electronic devices by entering a single command. Conventional security systems keep homeowners, and their property, safe from intruders. A smart home security system, however, offers many more benefits. Home automation technology notifies homeowners of any problems, so that they can investigate. In this paper, we discuss smart home and security, we also review the tool related to smart home security.

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Authors: Rosslin John Robles and Tai-hoon Kim

Smart Home technology started for more than a decade to introduce the concept of networking devices and equipment in the house. According to the Smart Homes Association the best definition of smart home technology is: the integration of technology and services through home networking for a better quality of living. Many tools that are used in computer systems can also be integrated in Smart Home Systems. In this paper, we present the Technologies and tools that can be integrated or applied in Smart Home systems.

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Authors: Sumana Barman, Amit Kumar Samanta, Tai-hoon Kim and Debnath Bhattacharyya

This paper presents a method to use View based approach in Bangla Optical Character Recognition (OCR) system providing reduced data set to the ANN classification engine rather than the traditional OCR methods. It describes how Bangla characters are processed, trained and then recognized with the use of a Backpropagation Artificial neural network. This is the first published account of using a segmentation-free optical character recognition system for Bangla using a view based approach. The methodology presented here assumes that the OCR pre-processor has presented the input images to the classification engine described here. The size and the font face used to render the characters are also significant in both training and classification. The images are first converted into greyscale and then to binary images; these images are then scaled to a fit a pre-determined area with a fixed but significant number of pixels. The feature vectors are then formed extracting the characteristics points, which in this case is simply a series of 0s and 1s of fixed length. Finally, a Artificial neural network is chosen for the training and classification process. Although the steps are simple, and the simplest network is chosen for the training and recognition process.

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Authors: Weal Adi

Self configuring VLSI technology architectures offer a new environment for creating novel security functions. Two such functions for physical security architectures are proposed to be generated autonomously as unknown/secret internal functions. A cell-based FPGA technology architecture is deployed for generating two classes of self-constructed one-way physical secret functions, one representing a hash function and the other a ciphering function. The Hash function is a non-invertible mapping, where the cipher function should be invertible. The two sample architectures of the functions are inspired from the programmable cell structure of the selected FPGA technology. As the functions are internally created, their mapping structures can be kept completely secret and even unknown to anybody. Such units could be efficiently deployed for a novel physical security even when nothing is known about their exact architecture and mapping functions. Several new attractive application scenarios are demonstrated including a type of zero-knowledge proof of identity and clone-resistant physical units as well as secured dependency functions. It is also shown that such security mechanisms can be kept operational for some useful applications even if the secret-unknown functions are allowed to evolve and develop additional time-dependent and individual properties. Such security functions became recently possible after self-configuring VLSI architectures are available as a part of real microelectronic systems.

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Authors: Monica Fira and Liviu Goras

This paper presents a discussion concerning EEG signals compression using the basis pursuit (BP) approach applied for several overcomplete wavelet dictionaries. The compression is based on an “optimal” superposition of dictionary elements, by minimizing the l1 norm of the error. The best results have been obtained with the Daubechies10 dictionary.

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Authors: HJ Kadim

The exposure of integrated electronic components and systems to ionizing radiation may lead to minor deterioration in performance or catastrophic system failure, depending on the level of radiation (as a function of altitude). Mitigation of the radiation-induced hazards is of a major concern for space applications, since electronic components are expected to function without failure for an extended period of time, under extreme operating conditions. The work presented in this paper examines the effect of radiation on electronic components through analytical modeling of parameters, some of which are design-dependent and others are process-dependent. Examinations of the inter-dependency of these parameters would aid identifying possible solutions to the radiation tolerance problem.