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Computer Engineering (Hardware)
Tittle:
By
Alireza Jafari
Supervisor:
Dr. Ghassemian
Advisor:
Dr. Parissa Taheri (MD)
Examination Committee:
Dr. Ali Movaghar – Dr. Maghsoud Abbaspour – Dr. Islam Nazemi
Location: Room 117, Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering.
Time: Monday, December 25 , 2016 (5 Dey 1395) – 15:00.
Abstract: Considering the elderly population growth and the shift in the base of the age pyramid in mainly in developed countries, and given the scientific breakthroughs in the implementation of communication infrastructure in different dimensions, discussions revolving around the smart home and its practical applications is no longer a far-fetched concept. In this report, a system, using paired passive infrared (PIR) sensors at each entry of the house, observes the collective activities of the physically-challenged individual as well as monitors his or her movement pattern. This system is designed in a manner that, while ensuring reliability concerning accuracy and reliability, it minimizes the negative impact on the individual’s privacy and does not add additional complication for the implementation or the installation phase.
Based on a behavioral data collection for a period of three weeks over a smart home testbed , well-known medium access control (MAC) protocols applicable for the scenario under study are reported. Focus regarding the selection of protocols is mainly concerned on the fact that, although numerous researches have been conducted toward the development of MAC protocols, most protocols have been observed or improved, considering their network features, under simulated circumstances. To identify suitable MAC protocols for the smart home application, using collected data is vital. In this research, in a testbed which uses PIR sensors that accurately record movement, the activities of the physically-challenged individual has been monitored for 21 days. The dynamic of this environment works in a way that a most of possible errors can be easily detected through different methods. Afterwards, using the simulator, the collected data will study and compare three protocols, namely X-MAC, RI-MAC and A-MAC, for the three criteria of duty cycle, package delivery ratio, and latency. Furthermore, these criteria are simulated using the previously-mentioned simulated data. The acquired results indicate that, by applying real data, the performance of these protocols is closely similar. It is shown, however, that, by including simulation based on real data, the performance of A-MAC in the work cycle aspect is higher than the RI-MAC and X-MAC protocols by 16.8 and 23.5 percent, respectively. Furthermore with the other simulation results based on well-known CASAS project, we have finished with the nearly same results in comparison with our implemented testbed and the collected data.
Keywords: Smart home, Activity of daily living, Smart home network architecture, MAC layer protocol, X-MAC, RI-MAC, A-MAC
The 1st International Tehran 5G Conference held on 17 October 2016 (26 Mehr 1395) at International Conference Center of Islamic Republic of Iran and included different sessions and speeches about 5G communication technology and its usage in various fields.
The conference speakers are well-known researchers in the communication and mobile network fields such as Dr Werner Mohr, Dr Erfanian, Dr Nikofar, Dr Abedi and etc. Also, Dr Mona Ghassemian was one of the conference speakers and she had a speech with the title of “How Wireless Healthcare Systems benefits from 5G?”.
Dr. Ghassemian’s slides presentation are published on slideshre and you can find or download them from here. Also, You can find more photos in the following.
Panel Discussion: Dr Ghassemian, Dr Erfanian, Dr Abedi and Dr Werner Mohr
Tehran 5G Conference Speakers and Organizers
for further photos and information about this conference and the next 5G conference in Tehran, we recommend you to visit Tehran5G website and their instagram.
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Abstract:
Digital data and the connected worlds of physical objects, people and devices are rapidly changing the way we work and interact with our surrounding environments. New technologies have a profound impact on different domains, such as healthcare, environmental monitoring, urban systems and control and management applications, among others. However, these large volumes of heterogeneous data require new methods of communication, aggregation, processing and mining in order to extract efficient and actionable information from the raw data. This talk will focus on Internet of Things technologies and will discuss the opportunities and challenges involved in using large-scale data analytics in smart city and healthcare applications and services.
The talk will also discuss the National Health Services (NHS) funded Internet of Things project for dementia care, called TIHM (https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/innovation/test-beds/tihm/). It is estimated that there will be one million people with dementia in the UK by 2025. Beyond those directly affected, dementia also has a much wider impact on carers, families and health and care services, with social isolation being a key confounding factor. The TIHM project focuses on building the technical and physical infrastructure for an Internet of Things framework to support dementia care and remote monitoring. TIHM uses distributed and secure technologies to capture, analyse and manage the data in order to provide real-time and actionable information to different support groups in dementia care – i.e. clinical, social care, and patients (whenever and wherever appropriate). TIHM brings together a team of health and care experts, innovation and SMEs with network-enabled products and services and academic and research groups with healthcare, economy and technical expertise to show case the use and effect of the connected technologies in healthcare scenarios.
Biography:
Payam Barnaghi is a Reader in Machine Intelligence at the Institute for Communication Systems (ICS) at the University of Surrey. He is a senior member of IEEE, a Fellow of Higher Education Academy and an associate editor of the IEEE Internet of Things Journal. He was a guest editor of a special issue of IEEE Intelligent Systems on Web of Things and a special issue of IEEE Internet Computing on Physical-Cyber-Social Computing. He is principal investigator and scientific coordinator of the EU FP7 CityPulse project (http://www.ict-citypulse.eu) on the Internet of Things and smart cities. He is also the technical lead for the National Health Services (NHS) funded Internet of Things project for dementia care (https://www.england.nhs.uk/ourwork/innovation/test-beds/
tihm/). His research interests include machine learning, Internet of Things, semantic web, information centric networks, information search and retrieval and their applications in healthcare and smart cities.
http://personal.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/P.Barnaghi/
The director of Health Technology Development Office (HTDO), Dr Vatanpour, visited eSense research lab at Cyberspace Research Institute on April 26, 2016 (7th of Ordibehesht 1395) to observe eSense’s main projects in the smart health field.
First, Dr Ghassemian presented eSense’s project for neurofeedback therapy which is in progress with the collaboration of Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences and explained its usage in treatment of ADHD kids.
Then, Mr Rezaii presented his activity recognition project to Dr vatanpour and Professor Zarei pointed out the effectiveness of this project in activity monitoring for elderly people and diagnosis of Parkinson disease.
Finally, Dr Ghassemian had a presentation about international projects and applications for Parkinson diagnosis and proposed the suggested project for this purpose under the supervision of Prof. Zarei in order to use for clinical evaluation of people with Parkinson.
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Monday 23 November 2015 – 14:00 to 16:00
Location: Cyberspace Research Institute
for more information contact: m_shirali@sbu.ac.ir
The Iranian Human Brain Mapping (IHBM) is the primary organization dedicated to using neuroimaging to discover organization of the human brain. The IHBM is holding its 2nd congress from November 14-16, 2015 in Tehran, Iran. IHBM will bring together scientists of various backgrounds who are engaged in investigations of human brain; and engage in other activities to facilitate communication among these scientists and promote education in human brain mapping with the following topics.
Dr. Mona Ghassemian and e-Sense research lab will participate in this congress on November 15 and 16.
Computer Science and Engineering faculty announced 11 November 2015 as a day for celebration of Science and Technology. Research labs and their students introduced their researches to the other faculty members and show their products and results.
e-Sense research lab participated in this event as well and e-Sense members tried to present their research works by posters and running many demos.
In addition, e-Sense lab is looking for a Persian name and asked visitors to suggest a suitable name that fits this lab’s research areas and can introduce its activities in the best way. The selected name will announce later through this page.
M.Sc. Thesis Defense Session
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Computer Engineering (Software)
Tittle:
Cybersecurity of energy consumption data in smart grids
By
Hamed Barzamini
Supervisor
Dr. Ghassemian
Examining Committee:
Dr. Alireza Fereidunian
Dr. Maghsoud Abbaspour
Location: Room 116 – Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering
Time: Wednesday, October 21 , 2015 – 14:00
eSense Research Group visited the Djavad Movafaghian Research Center for Intelligent NeuroRehabilitation Technologies on Sunday 4 October 2015.
Dr. Behzadipour, the director of intelligent rehabilitation systems research group, described his research group activities during this visit and showed their products for neurorahabilitation to eSense members.
Finally, two groups talked about possible common research fields and their interests in collaboration for future projects.
