Authored by an accredited expert in the field, this timely new resource introduces technologies that can be used for advanced smart buildings, including renewable power, communications, indoor positioning, security management, and control systems. This book speaks to the innovation of advanced technology, particularly information technology within the building industry today and explores the potential benefits and issues with advanced technology and its applications and presents practical real-world case studies. This book demonstrates that the penetration of information technology in the building industry is a long term, major development that will affect homes, offices, and other buildings. Smart technology will impact the automation and communications in existing
This book focuses on available energy sources within commercial and residential buildings and various technologies for energy harvesting. It contains case studies on solar cell powered sensor nodes for emotion monitoring systems in ambient assistive living environments, thermoelectric energy harvesting and power management circuits design, inductive/RF power transfers and airflow and vibration energy harvesting.
The book concludes with a discussion on the future of energy harvesting in buildings and new technological developments in the field. It should be of great interest and value to many engineers in the building technology and power engineering field. This new book edited by Joseph Matiko and Steve Beeby, represents the right book at the right time. The
A study of broadband access technologies for engineers working for telecommunications carriers and Internet service providers. It offers professionals an in-depth understanding of unbundling for voice and data services, and provides guidance on hardware considerations and critical communication protocols. There is coverage of the various alternatives for the customer premises, including home networking, single equipment customer premises, and multi-equipment customer premises. Supported by nearly 250 illustrations and over 120 equations, the manual covers a wide range of key topics to help professionals with their work in the field.
In today's telecommunications services industry, rapidly changing technologies and a decline in growth are creating intense competition where the customers' quest for value is of paramount importance. Offering telecom service providers a survival strategy based on customer-centered marketing, this forward-looking resource helps strategic planners and managers assess their company's market potential and target desirable segments successfully. Professionals gain practical insight in evaluating their present customer base and learn the best ways to adjust their marketing strategies to eliminate unprofitable customers and attract high-value replacements. Moreover, the book helps professionals become attuned to customer demand and present a service portfolio with a high
A guide to the use of Fast Amplifier Synthesis Tool, a powerful electronic design automation tool which is particularly useful in the design of single- and multi-stage linear and low-noise amplifiers.
This cutting-edge resource provides a practical and in-depth overview of all aspects of load modulation PA design, from passive load impedance tuner design to digital signal processing algorithms required for performance enhancement. RF and microwave engineers and researchers should find it particularly interesting as the book outlines the evolution and integration of classical load modulation PA topologies and new challenges in the field. It also covers topics related to the field, such as video bandwidth extension, broadband dynamic load amplifiers and various design procedures. This is the first dedicated book on the important topic of High Efficiency Load Modulation Power Amplifiers for Wireless Communications that, to the reviewer's knowledge, has been published.
The Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data are hot topics in the world of intelligence operations and information gathering. This first-of-its-kind volume reveals the benefits of addressing these topics with the integration of Fusion of Information and Analytics Technologies (FIAT). The book explains how FIAT is materialized into decision support systems that are capable of supporting the prognosis, diagnosis, and prescriptive tasks within complex systems and organizations.This unique resource offers keen insight into how complex systems emerge from the interrelation of social and cognitive information, cyber and physical worlds, and the various models of decision-making and situational awareness. Practitioners also discover the central notions of analytics and
Electronically stored information (ESI) has transformed litigation. In a world where e-mail records can now make or break a case, attorneys must manage ESI effectively at every phase of litigation and make the most of laws governing its use. This authoritative book not only explains the latest rules affecting ESI, but also helps lawyers seize the upper hand in procedural matters involving jurisdiction, discovery, and evidence as well as in substantive areas including contracts, torts, and criminal law. The book provides expert analysis of the 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure and addresses how the new rules apply in real-world cases. It alerts litigators to discovery issues in today's Internet and e-mail age, and underscores attorney-client issues
Written and edited by recognized experts in the field, the new "Artech House Methods in Bioengineering" book series offers detailed guidance on authoritative methods for addressing specific bioengineering challenges. Offering a highly practical presentation of each topic, each book provides research engineers, scientists, and students with step-by-step procedures, clear examples, and effective ways to overcome problems that may be encountered. Providing alternatives to animal testing is one of the hottest topics in biomedical research, and this groundbreaking volume addresses this critical issues head on. This unique book presents techniques and methods at the forefront of scientific research that have the potential to replace certain whole animal tests. Moreover, this
Optimal performance of electronic warfare (EW) systems and microwave components is of critical importance to professionals in the field. These systems and equipment must undergo rigorous and expensive design, specification, and evaluation processes. This powerful, interactive software package speeds up these processes, improves system quality, and reduces overall project cost. Ready to run on practically any PC, it contains 35 Java applets capable of accurately calculating design requirements and performance levels. The applets accept a wide range of input specifications, so systems engineers can quickly and accurately evaluate system designs. Moreover, this convenient software lets engineers choose among alternative designs, so they can compare performance and select
Broadband wireless access is what makes the sending and receiving of data to and from wireless devices possible. OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) is a key technology that allows for robust, high-capacity, high-speed data transmission. Presenting the state-of-the-art in broadband wireless access technology, this unique resource shows professionals how to design OFDM transceivers and develop a novel wireless transceiver system architecture - one that streamlines wireless system development and deployment because of its reusability, scalability and flexibility. This comprehensive resource discusses important requirements, tradeoffs, and other critical design considerations.
With the emergence of new technologies like Voice over IP and Wireless LANs, the decentralization of enterprises, and the increased mobility of employees in the work force, separate data and voice networks are no longer adequate for today's organizations. The needs of companies, both large and small, require a newly structured, consolidated corporate network. Focusing on infrastructure, this unique resource provides professionals with practical guidance on reorganizing enterprise networks for maximum efficiency in today's marketplace. The book offers detailed information on key technologies and services such as VPNs (virtual private networks), VoIP (voice over IP), MPLS (multi protocol label switching), and mobile data services. Moreover, this authoritative volume
George Koutitas and Stan McClellan take the reader through the evolution of the power grid, from its classical role as a utility or service provider to its new role as an application development platform. The book explores how new technologies are currently creating a cleaner and more sustainable ecosystem for new business models to prosper, and how the grid intelligence and energy production migrate to the edge of the network.The new smart grid is becoming a distributed system that supports decentralized services through modern trends and system architectures. The authors demonstrate the orchestration of these technologies as they transform the utility sector toward a more human-centric grid, and the active role consumers play in providing critical data for the
Wafer-level testing refers to a critical process of subjecting integrated circuits and semiconductor devices to electrical testing while they are still in wafer form. Burn-in is a temperature/bias reliability stress test used in detecting and screening out potential early life device failures. This hands-on resource provides a comprehensive analysis of these methods, showing how wafer-level testing during burn-in (WLTBI) helps lower product cost in semiconductor manufacturing. Engineers learn how to implement the testing of integrated circuits at the wafer-level under various resource constraints. Moreover, this unique book helps practitioners address the issue of enabling next generation products with previous generation testers. Practitioners also find expert
