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I V H S | Elderly Monitoring: | Coed Panic Button |
Intelligent Intersection | Alzhimers Tracking System: | VolksScope |
Remote Heart Rate Monitoring System | Short Range Child Tracking System | Keyless Lock |
Blind Reckoning:
Location Information |
VR Location Fixing | TV Remote: NIR to RF convertor |
Blind Reckoning: "A & N" crosswalk | Hall-Effect VR Glove | Automated Target Scoring: |
Chaotic Color Organ | Talking Rubber Ducky | Talking Fire Alarm |
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Equipment Tracking & Control | Star-Scope from BW CCD TV Camera |
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Remote Heart Rate Monitoring System
To date, there is no equipment available for taking measurements of heart rate and breathing rate that do not require some physical attachment to the subject. Some previous research, done in ECE 480--using very low intensity microwave Doppler RADAR, has shown promise. The U.S. Department of Transportation has great need for just such a device. In their research relating to the Intelligent Vehicle Highway System (IVHS), the want to measure the vitals of a driver as he/she operates a specially instrumented motor vehicle, and they require that there be no attachment to, or devices on, the subject. Group 1, Transducer Design.
Group 2, Signal Processing.
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In the next few years, there will be a revolution in the motor vehicle transportation environment. The Intelligent Vehicle Highway System, otherwise known as, IVHS, is the nexus for this revolution. There will be a $ 350 billion dollar expenditure over the next five to ten years (maybe longer). It will finally put technology to work on the daily carnage on our streets and highways. Both groups: Study sponsor's IVHS proposal, with special attention to the visible light communications modality. Group 1, Design Light Emitting Diode Transmitter Arrays
Group 2, Design Detector Technology
Group 3, Design the Network Communication Protocol (NCP)
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This project: the "Coed's Panic Button," is an attempt to successfully apply technology to what is otherwise, a "People Problem." Both groups:
Group 1, Design and build working prototypes of the Coed's Panic Button device, and field test it in conjunction with the transponder group's tests. Group 2, Design and build working prototypes of the Transponder Device.
Build several (at least 4) transponders and install and field test in conjunction
with the panic button group's tests.
Alzheimer's TIRIS Tracking System:
A system to track & locate Alzheimer's patients in a nursing home setting. This system would build on the work done so far--using the Tiris system, which overcomes many of the deficiencies in present systems. Group 1, Patient device design & area sensor design
Group 2, Intra-institutional sensor communications
Group 3, System manager & reporting system design
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Group 1, Sensor Design
Group 2, Local Communications
Group 2, Human Factors Design (Bill Smith, IE?) "Talking Rubber Ducky"
Infant's Plush Toy "Talking Rubber Ducky." Infant's plush animal toy. Mom's voice can be recorded, and plays back
when touched.
Keyless Lock
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"VolksScope"
Talking Fire Alarm
Built in a home smoke detector is a non-volatile speech unit that announces
emergency instructions to the occupants in the event of a fire. Besides
announcing "FIRE, FIRE, FIRE," (in concert with the audible alarm) the
very loud message will remind the sleepy and confused occupants to "Drop
to the floor and crawl; feel the door knob for heat; where to meet outside..."
etc. The unit's message can be recorded by the owner with suggested non-confusing
messages suggested.
Intelligent Intersection
Confusion reigns supreme at any intersection where vehicles and people
"interact". Design an intelligent intersection that can inform anyone using
it just what the intersection's status is at anytime, i.e., when can I
cross, how much time do I have to cross, when can I turn right, etc. The
main feature will be non-confusing signs, both crosswalk signs, as well
as, "countdown clocks" for drivers.
Short Range Child Security System
Automated Target Scoring
Automated Target Scoring
Chaotic Color Organ
Hall-Effect Glove
Hall-Effect Glove
VR LASER Ceiling _____________________________________________________ Child Security Transponder
This is a recurring project that is more complex in its implementation
than is first apparent. Success will be predicated on the designers' ability
to apply good RF practices: detail to the several RF paths involved, proper
antenna design, etc. is paramount.
Blind Reckoning
Proposed:
Also, to aid in staying inside the crosswalk, 2 buried wires--one on each side--would emit signals such that as the person strayed from the center-line, they would hear a "dit-dah" or "dah-dit" tone, if they are staying in the center they hear a continuous tone. [1] Further, the tones might indicate when nearing the curb (sudden rise in loudness, etc.). [1] This technique was used in early aircraft navigation, it was called the "A" & "N" radio range or Adcock range. Also, I used this approach back in the seventies--with good success--in an automated skid trailer for NCDOT. It allowed the skid trailer driver to maintain a target speed. Note: If "dit-dah" and "dah-dit" overlap they make a continuous tone. Star-Scope from BW CCD TV Camera
CCD cameras have the unique ability to be scanned at just about any rate. Astronomers use special chilled CCD cameras in place of film for long time-exposures (hours). If one were to slow down the frame rate of a conventional CCD by 1/2, there is a doubling of light sensitivity. This can be done several more times until the law of diminishing-returns stops any further improvement. However, if one cools the image sensor: for every 7 degrees centigrade, there is a corresponding 6dB S/N improvement. Cooling of the sensor can be accomplished by a relatively inexpensive Peltier thermoelectric cooler. I have gotten good results using a 8:1 reduction in scan rate: just
the light from an oscilloscope gave a discernible image; a heated soldering
iron glows brightly. Also, CCDs can see in both near infrared and ultraviolet
(either side of human vision).
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Remote Medicine Data Gathering
Because medical doctors are reluctant to go into prisons, there is a need for an inexpensive system to gather medical data to aid in remote medical diagnosis and examinations. This would take the form of a very small high resolution color CCD TV camera. (similar to the 5/8 inch camera used on the Gilbarco project). By the use of easily installed adapters, the single camera would serve several function: viewing the ear, nose and throat, basically replacing the several instruments used by doctors during an examination. Also it might serve as an endoscope with the proper adapter. There is also a need for other diagnostic inputs, such as heart sounds, breathing sounds, as well as EKG data acquisition. These signals would be formatted and interfaced with the appropriate communications channel for transmission to the "remote doctor." Sponsors: Applied Communications Concepts (ACC), RTP,
Contact: Sarkis Zartarian
_________________________________________________________________________________ Television Ambience A scheme whereby the environment of the TV viewer, e.g., the living room, is modified to complement the ongoing story line/scene. The simplest form would be room lighting modification: as the scene changes to night time the room lighting would very slowly "sink," or reduce in intensity, as well as, color or tonal quality. Likewise, when the scene becomes daylight again, the lighting complies--unnoticed by the viewer. This "local" control could be controlled by some intelligent DSP type device, i.e., dark video equals lowered lighting, etc., or in the form of prerecorded (and edited) instructions embedded in the video (vertical interval coding). Beyond lighting, there maybe other subtle cues that are of equal influence
on the viewer.
Coed Panic Button
Elderly Monitoring:
Alzhimers TIRIS Tracking System:
Equipment Tracking & Control, using TIRIS & Carrier Current Com. Talking Rubber Duck" VolksScope" Talking Fire Alarm Intelligent Intersection Automated Target Scoring: IBM PC Based Chaotic Color Organ Hall-Effect Glove VR LASER Ceiling: LASER Projection/CCD Linear array Blind Reckoning
Star-Scope from BW CCD TV Camera TV Remote: NIR to RF convertor (no having to point) Remote Heart Rate Monitoring System
IVHS
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