The rise of Internet of Things (IoT), coupled with the advances in Artificial Intelligence technologies and cloud-based applications have caused fundamental changes in the way societies behave. Enhanced connectivity and interactions between physical and cyber worlds create ‘smart’ solutions and applications to serve society needs. Water is a vital resource and its management is a critical issue. ICT achievements gradually deployed within the water industry provide an alternative, smart and novel way to improve water management efficiently. Contributing to this direction, we propose a unified framework for urban water management, exploiting state-of-the-art IoT solutions for remote telemetry and control of water consumption in combination with machine learning-based processes. SMART-WATER platform aims to foster water utility companies by enhancing water management and decision-making processes, provide innovative solutions to consumers for smart water utilisation.
Analysis of plantar pressure during sport movement performance can provide significant information to athletes and coaches regarding sport performance and plantar loads. In tennis, the serve is one of the most difficult and most important strokes. The purpose of this study was to examine the plantar pressure differences between the flat, slice and topspin serves with the “foot back” serving technique on greenest tennis surfaces of junior athletes aged 10 to 16. The results showed that the loads were higher on the rear (right) back foot of all the three serves. The Fmax was higher in foot toes for all types of serve and the peak pressure was higher in slice serve in the metatarsal forefoot region of the back right foot. The results showed that the technique applied, mainly to the footwork, varies between types of serves. So, each type of the three serves has different loads.
This paper proposes low profile hybrid antennas, composed of linear dipoles in front of dual layer EBG structure with non identical cells. Due to the special design of the EBGs and the entailed EBG' s attributes, the proposed antennas have performance suitable for wireless networks: high gain, high isolation between its elements and radiation patterns which keep their configurations when the frequency changes.
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