The technological revolution that has taken place in recent decades, driven by advances and developments Information Communication Technologies (ICT) revolutionized the way people communicate, work, travel, live, etc. Cities need to evolve towards intelligent dynamic infrastructures serve citizens fulfilling criteria of energy efficiency sustainability. This article provides an overview main smart city applications, their implementation status major cities around world. We also present a...

Dynamically reconfigurable architectures are emerging as a viable design alternative to implement wide range of computationally intensive applications. At the same time, an urgent necessity has arisen for support tool development automate process and achieve optimal exploitation architectural features system. Task scheduling context (configuration) management become very critical issues in achieving high performance that digital signal processing (DSP) multimedia applications demand. This...

Ubiquitous computing has been defined as "machines that fit the human environment instead of forcing humans to enter theirs." An example this type approach is "Smart Sensory Furniture" (SSF) Project. SSF an ambient assisted living system allows inferring a potential dangerous action elderly person alone at home. This inference obtained by specific sensory layer with sensor nodes fixed into furniture and reasoning embedded in PC learns from users' behavioral patterns advices when detects...

In this paper, we present a case study for the design, programming and usage of reconfigurable system-on-chip, MorphoSys, which is targeted at computation-intensive applications. This 2-million transistor design combines array cells with RISC processor core high bandwidth memory interface. The system architecture, software tools including scheduler systems, performance analysis (with impressive speedups) target applications are described.

Article Free Access Share on Kernel scheduling in reconfigurable computing Authors: R. Maestre Departamento de Arquitectura Computadores y Automática, Universidad Complutense, Madrid, Spain SpainView Profile , F. J. Kurdahi Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University California, Irvine, CA CAView N. Bagherzadeh H. Singh Hermida M. Fernandez Authors Info & Claims DATE '99: Proceedings the conference Design, automation test EuropeJanuary 1999 Pages...

The EU funded project i-VITAL investigates an advanced eCall system for motorcycles. Within the consortium three participating SME companies, NZI (helmet manufacturer), Lookwell (garment manufacturer) and CAP (polymer are working together with research institutes (CETEM, Fraunhofer TECOS) on a novel vital sign monitoring accident detection to be seamlessly integrated into helmets garments. develops tests sensors measure data of riders in order enhance by relevant rider's data. Next...

The extensions of the environment with integration sensing systems in any space, conjunction ubiquitous computing are enabling so-called Smart Space Sensor Networks. This new generation networks offering full connectivity object, through Internet Things (IoT) and/or Web, i.e., Web Things. These capabilities making it feasible to sense behaviours people at home and act accordingly. must be integrated within typical elements found such as furniture. For that reason, this work considers...

Heart failure is the most common disease among elderly people, and risk increases with age. The use of smart Internet Things (IoT) systems for monitoring patients chronic heart (CHF) in a non-intrusive manner can result better control disease, improving proactive healthcare through real-time historical patient's data, promoting self-care patients, reducing unneeded interaction between doctors, number hospitalizations saving costs. This work presents an active assisted living (AAL) solution...

Recent and continuous technological advances in sensors, wireless communications computing regarding price, size power consumption have allowed the seamless integration of sensors into everyday objects our homes offices making non-intrusive user monitoring a reality. Intelligent processing sensor data can be used to extract valuable information for carers so that they provide better assistance people such as elderly or disabled. These systems are commonly referred AAL (Ambient Assisted...

In this paper, we present a novel solution to the problem of configuration management for multi-context reconfigurable systems targeting DSP applications, its goal being minimize both, latency and power consumption. We assume that technique is applied within larger compilation framework, which provides scheduled task sequence considered application. Reconfiguration reduction first criteria consider, prove optimal can be obtained in all cases. Secondly, optimized without affecting...

During the last decades there has been a rapidly growing elderly population and number of patients with chronic heart-related diseases exploded. Many them (such as those congestive heart failure or some types arrhythmias) require close medical supervision, thus imposing big burden on healthcare costs in most western economies. Specifically, continuous frequent Arterial Blood Pressure (ABP) electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring are important tools follow-up many these patients. In this work, we...

Sensors integrated within a product can provide lots of information about how the is used and its status. Easy to extract information, such as hours per day, temperature or humidity could be very valuable manufacturer in order improve for real use. The may realize that his/her initial estimations do not match reality decide select different materials design based on data. For non-technological products integration sensors trivial has been analyzed prior this work. selection suitable critical...

Human Activity Recognition poses a significant challenge within Active and Assisted Living (AAL) systems, relying extensively on ubiquitous environmental sensor-based acquisition devices to detect user situations in their daily living. Environmental measurement systems deployed indoors yield multiparametric data heterogeneous formats, which presents for developing Machine Learning-based AAL models. We hypothesized that anomaly detection algorithms could be effectively employed create...

Reconfigurable computing is emerging as a viable design alternative to implement wide range of computationally intensive applications. The scheduling problem becomes really critical issue in achieving the high performance that these kind applications demands. This paper describes different aspects regarding reconfigurable architecture. We also propose general strategy order perform at compilation time includes all possible optimizations context (configuration) and data transfers. In...

Reconfigurable computing is a flexible way of facing with single device wide range applications good level performance. This area involves different issues and concepts when compared conventional systems. One these context lending. The refers to the coded configuration information implement particular circuit behaviour. An important problem for reconfigurable scheduling group kernels (sub-tasks) that constitute complex application minimum execution time. In this paper, we show how orders...

A new technique is presented in this paper to improve the efficiency of data scheduling for multi-context reconfigurable architectures targeting multimedia and DSP applications. The main goal applications execution time minimizing external memory transfers. Some amount on-chip storage assumed be available architecture. Therefore Complete Data Scheduler tries optimally exploit storage, saving result transfers between memories. In order do this, specific algorithms placement replacement have...

In this paper, we analyze the main issues in context scheduling for multicontext reconfigurable architectures from a formal point of view. We first provide an intuitive approach. which is later supported by detailed analysis mathematical relations that express reconfiguration process. This enables us to deduce methodology minimization loading overhead, considers tradeoff between achievable system performance and algorithm efficiency. respect, optimality necessary conditions are established...

We present a case study involving the implementation of complete Wideband CDMA (WCDMA) digital receiver part an AMR channel onto reconfigurable core. WCDMA is one two major standards for third generation (3G) cellular systems. Traditionally most components were confined to ASIC performance, size and power consumption reasons. The MS1 DSP core provides both microprocessor fabric as well variety peripherals. various functions mapped different components. system was tested in simulation on...

In this paper we present Morpho Technologies' reconfigurable MS2 platform for handling key baseband processing of PHY layer OFDM kernels that are commonly implemented in ASIC structures commercial standards such as 802.11a, 802.16 (WiMax) and military waveforms WNW. First, an overview Morpho's architecture. is a highly optimized efficient parallel solution designed to meet both the real-time ultra low power requirements mobile solutions. Next, describe detailed implementation most...

A new technique is presented in this paper to improve the efficiency of data scheduling for multi-context reconfigurable architectures targeting multimedia and DSP applications. The main goal applications execution time minimizing external memory transfers. Some amount on-chip storage assumed be available architecture. Therefore Complete Data Scheduler tries optimally exploit storage, saving result transfers between memories. In order do this, specific algorithms placement replacement have...

During recent decades, the elderly population has grown rapidly, and number of patients with chronic heart-related diseases exploded. Many them (e.g., congestive heart failure, some types arrhythmia) require close medical supervision, imposing a major burden on healthcare resources in most western economies. Telemedicine is clearly emerging as viable solution for health care to become sustainable by enabling monitoring at home without direct professional help, which would greatly reduce...

Presents a novel solution to the problem of configuration management for multi-context reconfigurable systems targeting DSP applications, its goal being minimize both latency and power consumption. We assume that this technique is applied within larger compilation framework, which provides scheduled task sequence considered application. Reconfiguration reduction first criterion consider, we prove optimal can be obtained in all cases. Secondly, optimized without affecting performance. The...