This paper discusses the applications of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in smart cities, their opportunities and challenges. UAVs have a wide range many fields like environmental hazards monitoring, traffic management pollution all which contributes greatly to development any city. These among several others are discussed this paper. Several challenges issues such as safety, privacy ethical uses great concern also provided

In this paper, we focus on the use of linear sensor networks (LSNs) to monitor underwater pipelines. We propose autonomous vehicles (AUVs) move along pipeline segments and collect data from nodes (SNs). Each AUV then delivers collected surface sink at end corresponding LSN segment. turn, transmits network control center using any communication technologies that are available in area such as WiMAX, cellular, satellite. The AUVs for collection offers considerable advantages including...

Smart cities are becoming a reality. Various aspects of modern being automated and integrated with information communication technologies to achieve higher functionality, optimized resources utilization, management, improved quality life for the residents. rely heavily on utilizing various software, hardware, improve operations in areas, such as healthcare, transportation, energy, education, logistics, many others, while reducing costs consumption. One promising support efforts is Cloud...

The smart city model is used by many organizations for large cities around the world to significantly enhance and improve quality of life inhabitants, utilization resources, reduce operational costs. This includes various heterogeneous technologies such as Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), Internet Things (IoT), Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), Cloud Computing, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). However, in order reach these important objectives, efficient networking communication protocols are...

The field of robotics relies heavily on various technologies such as mechatronics, computing systems, and wireless communication. Given the fast growing technological progress in these fields, robots can offer a wide range applications. However real world integration application development for distributed system composed many robotic modules networked devices is very difficult. Therefore, middleware services provide novel approach offering possibilities drastically enhancing robots. This...

Ad hoc and sensor networks is a new area of research which rapidly growing due to the development technologies in inexpensive sensors. These electronic devices have increased capabilities processing speed, memory, communication networking [21][22]. Such vast amount applications including environmental monitoring, military, ecology, agriculture, inventory control, robotics health care. This paper discusses issues challenges use this very promising technology protection monitoring critical...

This paper develops and compares different sensor network architecture designs that can be used for monitoring underwater pipeline infrastructures. These architectures are wired networks, acoustic wireless RF (Radio Frequency) integrated wired/acoustic wired/RF networks. The also discusses the reliability challenges enhancement approaches these architectures. evaluation, characteristics, advantages, disadvantages among discussed compared. Three factors discussion comparison: connectivity,...

Fog computing technology can provide many advantages for supporting Internet of Thing (IoT) applications. These include better low latency support, mobility, location awareness, scalability, and efficient integration with other systems such as cloud computing. At the same time, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) has been significantly developed used UAVs fast, cost-effective, safe deployments civil military This paper proposes UAV Fog, a UAV-based platform Things In this proposal, we aim to...

Healthcare systems are complex that need effective and efficient operations, optimizations, management, control to offer reliable, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare services. There different approaches improve the management of including utilizing engineering principles. views a organization as system applies analysis design principles aspects services provided in system. While this approach can provide many advantages for organizations, there also challenges hindering ability...

Wireless Local Area Networking standard (Wi-Fi) and the WPAN (Bluetooth Zigbee) products utilize same unlicensed 2.4 GHz ISM band. Co-existence between such wireless technologies within frequency spectrum is crucial to ensure that each technology maintains provides its desired performance requirements. This paper a brief description of newly introduced Zigbee standards including Physical (PHY) media access control (MAC) layer. It focuses on developing MatLab/Simulink models for protocol...

In recent years, the technology of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have evolved quickly leading to sensors with increased memory, storage, processing, and communication capabilities. WSNs many applications in commercial, environmental, military fields. addition, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has gone through revolutionary improvements, which led highly advanced UAVs that come numerous sizes, capabilities, functions. order significantly reduce energy consumption used data transmission,...

Fog computing can provide many services to support IoT-based smart city applications. usually consists of multiple nodes that are distributed across a enable applications such as intelligent transportation, energy, water, health, infrastructure monitoring, and environmental monitoring. The platform will allow executing geographically close the low latency, location awareness, mobility, streaming, management, real-time support. One main issues with this is reliability fault tolerance fog...

This paper proposes a new fault-tolerant sensor network architecture for monitoring pipeline infrastructures. is an integrated wired and wireless network. The part of the considered primary while used as backup among nodes when there any failure in solves current reliability issues networks pipelines control. includes problem disabling by disconnecting cables due to artificial or natural reasons. In addition, it raised recently proposed architectures using monitoring. These include power...

This paper presents a novel approach to control or navigate mobile platforms in GPS denied environment, using natural human gestures. Gesture based interfaces and visual computing techniques are used develop systems that can be Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) navigation body postures. will easily marginalize the complexity Human-Computer interaction (HCI), making it more intuitive repetitive.

With the recent advances in aircraft technologies, software, sensors, and communications; unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) can offer a wide range of applications. UAVs play important roles different applications such as search rescue, situation awareness natural disasters, environmental monitoring, perimeter surveillance. This paper discusses challenges developing UAV from information technology (IT) project management point view. Developing involves integrating hardware, sensor,...

The advantages of the Internet things (IoT) initiated vision Industry 4.0 in Europe and smart manufacturing USA. Both visions aim to implement factory achieve similar objectives by utilizing new technologies. These technologies include cloud computing, fog cyber-physical systems (CPS), data analytics. Together they help automate autonomize processes controls optimize productivity, reliability, quality, cost-effeteness, safety these processes. While both are promising, developing operating...

Wireless sensor networks have a vast amount of applications including environmental monitoring, military, ecology, agriculture, inventory control, robotics and health care. This paper focuses on the area protection oil, gas, water pipelines using wireless networks. ROLS: routing protocol for linear structure is presented along with new hierarchical addressing scheme this type networking environment. The framework associated protocols are optimized to take advantage nature network decrease...

Sensor networks can be used to monitor and control pipeline infrastructures. This paper discusses compares different sensor network architectures that for monitoring underwater pipelines These are wired networks, acoustic wireless RF (Radio Frequency) integrated wired/acoustic network, wired/RF networks. The reliability characteristics, advantages, disadvantages among these discussed compared. Three factors the discussion comparison: connectivity, continuity of power supply physical security.