Ultra wideband (UWB) communications has been a subject of much discussion over the last decade. The method of UWB has had a hard time to establish itself among other methods such as Bluetooth and WiFi but as internet of things (IoT) gains a foothold in our daily lives, UWB has presented some new application areas. These application areas are, among other things, self driving cars, energy efficient data transfer, health care applications, sensor networks and real time location systems. This project aims to use UWB communications to real-world applications, specifically, electrocardiography (ECG) - an application in health care in this project, and develop a prototype for the application. The prototype consists of two Android smart phones and two UWB modules (EVK1000 evaluation kits from DecaWave, Inc). Each smartphone connects a UWB module so that the two smart phones, one as sender and the other as receiver, can communicate directly through UWB radios. This is intended to serve as a proof-of-concept that UWB devices are well suited for short range data transfer applications. The result achieved by the project is an android application along with sending and receiving programs for the development boards by Decawave and additional information regarding UWB and its uses. The results also include a comparison of UWB, Bluetooth and WiFi as of todays standard. The goal of the project is to learn how android applications are programmed, how UWB is used in todays technology and how to program and use development boards presented by companies. The prototype has been built and shown that 12-lead simulated ECGsignals from the sender can be transfered to the receiver through the UWB communications. The work includes programming (in C) the two UWB modules for UWB communications, and Java for the android applications (programs) on the smart phones. The Android application is handling transmission of ECG signals to the sending UWB module and then receiving them from the receiving UWB module as well as displaying them on the receiver. The future work to continue the present project is to replace the sending smart phone by an ECG device that sends real ECG signals.

With the increase in bandwidth, more widespread distribution of media, and increased capability of mobile devices, multimedia streaming has not only become feasible, but more economical in terms of space occupied by the media file and the costs involved in attaining it. Although much attention has been paid to peer to peer media streaming over the Internet using HTTP and RTSP, little research has focussed on the use of the Bluetooth protocol for streaming audio and video between mobile devices. This project investigates the feasibility of Bluetooth as a protocol for audio and video streaming between mobile phones using the J2ME platform, through the analysis of Bluetooth protocols, media formats, optimum packet sizes, and the effects of distance on transfer speed. A comparison was made between RFCOMM and L2CAP to determine which protocol could support the fastest transfer speed between two mobile devices. The L2CAP protocol proved to be the most suitable, providing average transfer rates of 136.17 KBps. Using this protocol a second experiment was undertaken to determine the most suitable media format for streaming in terms of: file size, bandwidth usage, quality, and ease of implementation. Out of the eight media formats investigated, the MP3 format provided the smallest file size, smallest bandwidth usage, best quality and highest ease of implementation. Another experiment was conducted to determine the optimum packet size for transfer between devices. A tradeoff was found between packet size and the quality of the sound file, with highest transfer rates being recorded with the MTU size of 668 bytes (136.58 KBps). The class of Bluetooth transmitter typically used in mobile devices (class 2) is considered a weak signal and is adversely affected by distance. As such, the final investigation that was undertaken was aimed at determining the effects of distance on audio streaming and playback. As can be expected, when devices were situated close to each other, the transfer speeds obtained were higher than when devices were far apart. Readings were taken at varying distances (1-15 metres), with erratic transfer speeds observed from 7 metres onwards. This research showed that audio streaming on the J2ME platform is feasible, however using the currently available class of Bluetooth transmitter, video streaming is not feasible. Video files were only playable once the entire media file had been transferred.

This thesis presents an investigation of how to extend the reach of a Bluetooth personal area network by introducing the concept of Bluetooth Hotspots. Currently two Bluetooth devices cannot communicate with each other unless they are within radio range, since Bluetooth is designed as a cable-replacement technology for wireless communications over short ranges. An investigation was done into the feasibility of creating Bluetooth hotspots that allow distant Bluetooth devices to communicate with each other by transporting their communications between these hotspots via an alternative network infrastructure such as an IP network. Two approaches were investigated, masquerading of remote devices by the local hotspot to allow seamless communications and proxying services on remote devices by providing them on a local hotspot using a distributed service discovery database. The latter approach was used to develop applications capable of transporting Bluetooth’s RFCOMM and L2CAP protocols. Quantitative tests were performed to establish the throughput performance and latency of these transport applications. Furthermore, a number of selected Bluetooth services were tested which lead us to conclude that most data-based protocols can be transported by the system.

Submitted by Maike Costa (maiksebas@gmail.com) on 2016-05-03T13:34:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 3707373 bytes, checksum: bd34d34553cf7afe6f47457ea76d0a05 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-05-03T13:34:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivo total.pdf: 3707373 bytes, checksum: bd34d34553cf7afe6f47457ea76d0a05 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-03-06 / Commercial flame photometers require a dedicated gas system and have considerable mass and volume, i. e., they are not portable. This work, as such, proposes the development of a portable flame photometer (prototype) using a torch lighter as the atomizer and controller, with an internal gas supply system, and managed by an Android mobile device. The internal control of prototype and the signal processing were performed by an Arduino Uno single-board microcontroller. The Android application was developed in App Inventor, an open source integrated development environment created and maintained by Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The nebulization was accomplished by ultrasonic cavitation in an adapted low power humidifier, which produces an aerosol sample which consists of very small radii droplets. The initiallyturbulent aerosol flow, needed to be damped before it reached the flame. Initial testswith calibration solutions of K+ resulted in a calibration curve validated using analysis of variance, the limits of detection and quantification were estimated. Optimizations still need to be made in the nebulization and aerosol transport system to improve theefficiency and to minimize inter-contamination of samples during the measurements. / Os fotômetros de chama comerciais necessitam de um sistema de gases dedicado e possuem massa e volume consideráveis, ou seja, não são portáteis. O presente trabalho, diante do exposto, propõe-se a mostrar o desenvolvimento de um protótipo de fotômetro de chama portátil pelo uso de um isqueiro maçarico como atomizador, com sistema de alimentação de gases interno e gerenciado por um dispositivo móvel Android. O controle interno do protótipo bem como o processamento de sinal foram realizados por um Arduino Uno. Um aplicativo para o dispositivo móvel foi desenvolvido no App Inventor, ambiente de programação criado e mantido pelo Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts. A nebulização se deu por cavitação ultrassônica em um humidificador de baixa potência o qual produz um aerossol de amostra constituído por gotículas de raio muito pequeno. O fluxo de aerossol inicialmente turbulento precisou ser amortecido antes de sua introdução no queimador. Testes iniciais com soluções de calibração de K+ resultaram numa curva analítica validada utilizando-se a Análise de Variância e os limites de detecção e de quantificação foram determinados. No entanto otimizações ainda precisam ser feitas no sistema de nebulização e transporte de aerossol para a melhoria de sua eficiência e para a minimização de intercontaminação de amostras durante as medidas.

The purpose of this thesis was to investigate the feasibility of a wireless architectural approach for intra-vehicle communications. The current wired architecture was compared to a wireless approach based on three prominent wireless protocols, namely Bluetooth Low-Energy, Ultra Wide-Band, and 60 GHz Millimeter wave technology. The evaluation was focused on their potential use within the intra-vehicle domain, and judged by characterizing properties such as frequency, bandwidth utilization, and power efficiency. A theoretical study targeting the propagating behavior of electromagnetic waves was also involved. In particular, wireless behavior has been investigated both in general aspects as well as specifically aimed towards the intra-vehicle application. The theoretical study was then concluded and presented with a course of action regarding wireless connectivity. Beneficial design considerations, potentials and challenges were highlighted together with a discussion on the feasibility of a wireless architectural approach. Suggestions for future work and research have been given, which include further expansion of targeted protocols, alleviating the restricted security aspects, and extend the physical aspects onto more software based approaches.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-22T22:00:52Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao_Alexandre Lopes.pdf: 2105277 bytes, checksum: 2f8d59afe6f1a33f9fb5978e5f6328a7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-07-01 / FAPEAM - Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Amazonas / This work presents a modular architecture for hardware development and integration of various technologies of wireless communication (Bluetooth, GSM / GPRS and ZigBee) in a gateway for Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Thus, the proposal seeks to address an issue not widely explored in a practical way that is the local and remote collection of data from geographically distributed networks. The objective of this research is to focus on practical technological aspects that allow the integration of different technologies in a practical and real hardware platform. The proposed architecture includes power management and selection of several technologies for wireless communication that will be used according to the application. To validate the proposed architecture case study is carried out in order to present the results achieved during the experiments. / Este trabalho apresenta uma arquitetura modular de hardware para viabilização e integração de diversas tecnologias de comunicação sem fio (Bluetooth, GSM/GPRS e ZigBee) em um gateway para Redes de Sensores Sem Fio (RSSFs). Desta forma, a proposta visa solucionar um problema pouco explorado de forma prática, que consiste na coleta presencial e remota de dados de redes geograficamente distribuídas. O objetivo é concentrar essa investigação em aspectos tecnológicos práticos que permitam a integração de diferentes tecnologias em uma solução prática e real. A arquitetura modular proposta contempla o gerenciamento de energia e a seleção da tecnologia de comunicação sem fio que será utilizada de acordo com a aplicação. Para validação da proposta um estudo de caso é realizado com o intuito de apresentar os resultados alcançados durante os experimentos realizados.

The purpose of this thesis is to develop an application for mobile phones that simplifies communication. The company Doberman wanted to look at possibilities to develop such an application that uses Bluetooth™ technol-ogy to communicate in ad-hoc networks. The aim has been an application to run on mobile phones in which you can send messages and files to other devices and also add a user profile with personal information to share with others. The communication will take place in temporary networks created when Bluetooth enabled devices is in range of each other. The market for mobile phones has grown rapidly over the past years and is still growing. There are many differ-ent phone models and it is difficult to find a developer platform that covers many phone models. In the beginning of this thesis an inquiry of different developer platforms has been made. The Java™ platform is supported by most phones but has limitations in accessing functions on the device. The best alternative was Symbian C++ for devices with Symbian OS. This alternative does not have the same limitations as Java and is still supported by relatively many devices. The application was then developed in Symbian C++. There are a number of different versions of Symbian OS and different GUI-platforms that runs on Symbian OS which leads to other issues in the development. We have limited the development of the application to the Series 60 platform for Symbian OS v7.0s. During design and implementation portability to other GUI-platforms has been considered. We have tested the application on emulator compatible with Symbian OS v7.0s and Symbian OS v8.0a and found some compatibility problems between the two versions. We have also tested the application on mobile phones and between emulator and the phone with corresponding OS-version no new problems occurred

Synchronous generators have been used in hydropower from more than a century where, traditionally, the field current is transferred to the rotor using slip rings and carbon brushes. There are some major disadvantages following the use static excitation; regular and expensive maintenance, as well as a source of carbon dust which, due to buildup, may cause short circuits. To avoid these problems associated with slip ring exciter systems, a system that use induction to transfer power to the rotor could be used instead. Systems that utilize brushless excitation today usually regulates the current by controlling the magnetization of the exciter stator, which is comparably slower than their static counterparts. In order to allow for swift regulation of the field current from a brushless exciter, required power electronics and controllers have to be present on the rotor shaft instead. The aim of this project is to start investigating if commercially available products, which are originally indented to be used in a stationary environment, could accomplish this. The results from this study shows that it is possible to use such products to control the field current. The components were found to withstand the exposure of high g-forces and vibrations, albeit only during the relatively small amount of time in which rotary testing was performed. As such there is no certainty that the components would remain functional for the considerably longer time that any commercial use would require them to.

In view of Bluetooth?s growing popularity a lot of research is being done to improve the performance of Bluetooth. Most of the research being performed prerequisites that a connection has already been made. Due to the frequency hopping spread spectrum used by Bluetooth the connection establishment is not as easy as it seams. Two processes have been derived to bridge the frequency discrepancies between devices, inquiry and page. In this thesis, we study the inquiry and page processes and the time it takes to complete a connection with no, one or two voice channels present at the initiating device. We have found the times to complete the processes to be lengthy at best, unreasonably long if there is voice traffic present. Through optimisation, we have decreased the mean time to connect. We propose some changes to the default values of a few time outs and variables, which yields a substantial improvement in performance, especially in the case when there is voice traffic present. The changes are in the software only, no changes in hardware are necessary. After a connection is made a client may want to start using the services of the device it is connected to. This is another topic of this thesis. Bluetooth does not provide means of accessing a service, only discovering it. Thus, there is the need for higher-level protocols for accessing services. We have investigated some of the service discovery protocols currently available. / Med tanke på Bluetooth-teknikens växande popularitet bedrivs mycket forskning för att förbättra Bluetooth-teknikens prestanda. Den mesta delen av forskningen förutsätter att en uppkoppling redan skett. På grund av frekvenshoppningstekniken som används i Bluetooth är detta inte så lätt som det låter. För att överkomma frekvensskillnaden mellan enheter används två processer, inquiry och page. I denna uppsats studerar vi inquiry- och page-processerna och studerar tiden det tar att slutföra en uppkoppling med ingen, en eller två tal-kanaler redan uppkopplade. Vi har funnit att tiden det tar är i bästa fall lång, om det finns tal-kanaler uppkopplade är tidsåtgången oacceptabel. Genom optimering av en del variabler och time-outs har vi lyckats reducera uppkopplingstiden, speciellt i fallet med tal-kanaler redan uppkopplade. Våra föreslagna ändringar är endast i mjukvaran, inga hårdvaruändringar är nödvändiga. Efter att uppkopplingen är slutförd kommer användaren att vilja börja använda de tjänster som erbjuds. Detta är en annan del av uppsatsen. Bluetooth-tekniken tillhandahåller inte något sätt att tillgodogöra sig tjänster, bara att upptäcka dem. Därför behövs det protokoll för att lösa detta. Vi har undersökt en del av de så kallade "service discovery"-protokoll som finns tillgängliga idag

Mobile technology is developing quickly and becomming a part of daily life and communication. Bluetooth Low Energy is presented as a new way of mobile interaction. However there are not enough studies in this field on the interaction between mobile devices and the physical world. In order to understand user needs, and to encourage users to interact, we simulated an interaction process through designing and testing a prototype in a specific indoor environment. Prototype effectiveness and main characteristics for future mobile application was evaluated through a qualitative user study with 20 participants who interacted with our prototype. / Den mobila tekniken växer snabbt och blir en del av våra liv och vår kommunikation. BLE presenteras på ett nytt sätt inom mobilinteraktion. Det förekommer inte tillräckligt med studier inom området för interaktionen mellan mobila enheter och den fysiska världen. För att förstå användarbehov och få användare att interagera har vi simulerat en interaktiv process genom att designa och testa en prototyp i en specifik inomhusmiljö. Utvärdering av prototypens effektivitet och heuristiken har evaluerats genom en kvalitativ studie med 20 användare som har deltagit i interaktionen med vår prototyp.