Empowering smart city residents through legibility: A Digital Tool to Discover Smart City Projects

The role that smart technologies play and the data they generate is becoming central in cities; cities are adopting technologies as a new way of governance and making policies based on data. Increasingly, governments and companies implement data-driven strategies, and the number of sensors in the public space is increasing. This translates into...

Development of An Adaptive Staircase System Actuated by Facial-, Object-, and Voice-Recognition

This paper details a proof-of-concept development of an adaptive staircase system-type capable of user-specific mechanical reconfigurations actuated by facial-, object-, and voice-recognition. The system is described via two variation-prototypes - developed at Technology Readiness Level 4 - as instances of the same system-type. Accordingly,...

Development of a Light-Tracking and-Redirecting System Actuated by Hand-Gesture Recognition

This paper presents a context-Aware light-Tracking and-redirecting system guided by hand-gesture recognition. It is conceived as yet another mechanism within an ongoing development of a more intuitive and technically sophisticated Ambient Intelligence / Active and Assisted Living ecosystem. The detailed system consists of individual nodes...

FLeet: When time-bounded communication meets high energy-efficiency

With the advent of low-cost, embedded sensor-actuator devices, the applications of cyber-physical systems have spread multi-fold in domains like infrastructure, manufacturing, automation, etc. Wireless sensor-actuator networks (WSANs) act as the backbone for applications in these domains. Typical WSAN deployments focus on energy-efficiency ...

Using a Dynamic Sensor Network to Obtain Spatiotemporal Data in an Urban Environment

Along with the rise of the smart city movement, Internet of Things is an upcoming phenomenon. Objects and devices are becoming more and more wirelessly interconnected, communicating information between themselves and to human beings. As an addition to static sensor networks that gather real-time environmental data, the feasibility of...

Integration of a wearable interface in a design-to-robotic-production and -operation development

This paper presents the integration of an Internet of Things wearable device as a personal interfacing node in an intelligent built-environment framework, which is informed by Design-to-Robotic-Production and -Operation principles developed at Delft University of Technology. The device enables the user to act as an active node in the built...

Smart sensors and communication using Internet of Things in Supermarkets: Obstruction detection

Internet of things (IoT) applications become more and more prominent in our modern society. IoT has the potential to improve business processes and change the ways we live. KPN New Business has a high affinity with IoT projects and supplied the problem definition that this project builds on. The project has been done in close collaboration with...

Interdependent sensor and telecommunication networks: Practical connectivity options for optimising sensor networks in the urban public space

Enhancing Daily Digital Communication Through Instinctive Action Tendencies of Emotions

This Master thesis is about research and conceptualization of a digital communication system to enrich expression and interpretation of emotions through sensor technologies in a more humane way. The project has explored and discovered user needs and concerns in digital communication through academic research, preliminary user research. For the...

Ultra-Low-Power Event-Driven Radio Design

The emerging field of internet of things promises mankind an enhanced life quality, produc-tivity and security. One critical technology enabler is ubiquitous and unobtrusive wireless connectivity activated by ambient events and operated with little human intervention for con-figuration and maintenance. Commercial off-the-shelf radio devices...