Comparing Machine Learning Models for the Predictions of Speed in Smart Transportation Systems

In today's world of advanced technologies in IoT and ITS in smart cities scenarios, there are many different projections such as improved data propagation in smart roads and cooperative transportation networks, autonomous and continuously connected vehicles, and low latency applications in high capacity environments and heterogeneous connectivity and speed. This chapter presents the performance of the speed of vehicles on roadways employing machine learning methods. Input variable for each learning algorithm is the density that is measured as vehicle per mile and volume that is measured as vehicle per hour. And the result shows that the output variable is the speed that is measured as miles per hour represent the performance of each algorithm. The performance of machine learning algorithms is calculated by comparing the result of predictions made by different machine learning algorithms with true speed using the histogram. A result recommends that speed is varying according to the histogram.

Security Enhancement in Data Propagation for Wireless Network

Wireless communication technology is rapidly progressing due to its high quality and high speed of information transfer from one location to another. It is necessary to ensure the safety of wireless sensor networks with this progress. One of the main security concerns in WSNs is eavesdropping, an intrusion that collects information from other devices across the network. Eavesdropping attacks are insidious and it is hard to realise that they happen. When connected with a network, users can feed sensitive information inadvertently, such as passwords, account numbers, browsing, email content, etc. Security improvement in wireless network communication is therefore required.

Implementation of Underground Water for Wireless Optical Communication System using CDMA

Optical wireless communications is a powerful and cost-effective approach for high-speed wireless links that have been tightly guarded For underwater optical wireless communication, the following three optical code division multiple access (CDMA) techniques have been used. systems are associated, investigated, and presented in this paper, such as AC-biased optical CDMA (ACO-CDMA), symmetrically-SCO-OFDM (clipped optical OFDM), and unipolar CDMA (U-CDMA). Peak power constraints, light source bandwidth tag, there are so many factors to recognize, such turbulence, fading underwater signals, and channel estimation error. Advocate for a bit loading algorithm and a simplified modulation index that determines signal magnitude is being used to minimize the achievable data propagation distance. In this optimization procedure, the signal-to-noise ratio and the clipping distortion triggered by the peak power limitation are balanced (SNR). The SNR and clipping effects of the three compared CDMA techniques are represented in this paper. When the transmitted bit index is greater than the channel bandwidth, ACO-OFDM outperforms SCO- and UCDMA, according to the determined model. U-CDMA, on the other end, has a longer propagation distance but needs less transmitted power.

Industry 4.0 Digital Technologies for data collection and control

This article describes an attempt to create open source LabVIEW software, equivalent to data collection and control software. The proposed solution uses GNU Radio, OpenCV, Scilab, Xcos, and Comedi in Linux. GNU Radio provides a user-friendly graphical interface. Also, GNU Radio is a software-defined radio that conducts experiments in practice using software rather than the usual hardware implementation. Blocks for data propagation, code deletion with and without code tracking are created using the zero correlation zone code (ZCZ, a combination of ternary codes equal to 1, 0, and –1, which is specified in the program). Unlike MATLAB Simulink, GNU Radio is open source, i. e. free, and the concepts can be easily accessed by ordinary people without much programming experience using pre-written blocks. Calculations can be performed using OpenCV or Scilab and Xcos. Xcos is an application that is part of the Scilab mathematical modeling system, and it provides developers with the ability to design systems in the field of mechanics, hydraulics and electronics, as well as queuing systems. Xcos is a graphical interactive environment based on block modeling. The application is designed to solve problems of dynamic and situational modeling of systems, processes, devices, as well as testing and analyzing these systems. In this case, the modeled object (a system, device or process) is represented graphically by its functional parametric block diagram, which includes blocks of system elements and connections between them. The device drivers listed in Comedi are used for real-time data access. We also present an improved PyGTK-based graphical user interface for GNU Radio. English version of the article is available at URL: https://panor.ru/articles/industry-40-digital-technology-for-data-collection-and-management/65216.html

Distributed Urban Platooning towards High Flexibility, Adaptability, and Stability

Vehicle platooning reduces the safety distance between vehicles and the travel time of vehicles so that it leads to an increase in road capacity and to saving fuel consumption. In Europe, many projects for vehicle platooning are being actively developed, but mostly focus on truck platooning on the highway with a simpler topology than that of the urban road. When an existing vehicle platoon is applied to urban roads, many challenges are more complicated to address than highways. They include complex topology, various routes, traffic signals, intersections, frequent lane change, and communication interference depending on a higher vehicle density. To address these challenges, we propose a distributed urban platooning protocol (DUPP) that enables high mobility and maximizes flexibility for driving vehicles to conduct urban platooning in a decentralized manner. DUPP has simple procedures to perform platooning maneuvers and does not require explicit conforming for the completion of platooning maneuvers. Since DUPP mainly operates on a service channel, it does not cause negative side effects on the exchange of basic safety messages on a control channel. Moreover, DUPP does not generate any data propagation delay due to contention-based channel access since it guarantees sequential data transmission opportunities for urban platooning vehicles. Finally, to address a problem of the broadcast storm while vehicles notify detected road events, DUPP performs forwarder selection using an analytic hierarchy process. The performance of the proposed DUPP is compared with that of ENSEMBLE which is the latest European platooning project in terms of the travel time of vehicles, the lifetime of an urban platoon, the success ratio of a designed maneuver, the external cost and the periodicity of the urban platooning-related transmissions, the adaptability of an urban platoon, and the forwarder selection ratio for each vehicle. The results of the performance evaluation demonstrate that the proposed DUPP is well suited to dynamic urban environments by maintaining a vehicle platoon as stable as possible after DUPP flexibly and quickly forms a vehicle platoon without the support of a centralized node.

Collaborating in the Time of COVID-19: The Scope and Scale of Innovative Responses to a Global Pandemic

The emergence of COVID-19 spurred the formation of myriad teams to tackle every conceivable aspect of the virus and thwart its spread. Enabled by global digital connectedness, collaboration has become a constant theme throughout the pandemic, resulting in the expedition of the scientific process (including vaccine development), rapid consolidation of global outbreak data and statistics, and experimentation with novel partnerships. To document the evolution of these collaborative efforts, the authors collected illustrative examples as the pandemic unfolded, supplemented with publications from the JMIR COVID-19 Special Issue. Over 60 projects rooted in collaboration are categorized into five main themes: knowledge dissemination, data propagation, crowdsourcing, artificial intelligence, and hardware design and development. They highlight the numerous ways that citizens, industry professionals, researchers, and academics have come together worldwide to consolidate information and produce products to combat the COVID-19 pandemic. Initially, researchers and citizen scientists scrambled to access quality data within an overwhelming quantity of information. As global curated data sets emerged, derivative works such as visualizations or models were developed that depended on consistent data and would fail when there were unanticipated changes. Crowdsourcing was used to collect and analyze data, aid in contact tracing, and produce personal protective equipment by sharing open designs for 3D printing. An international consortium of entrepreneurs and researchers created a ventilator based on an open-source design. A coalition of nongovernmental organizations and governmental organizations, led by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, created a shared open resource of over 200,000 research publications about COVID-19 and subsequently offered cash prizes for the best solutions to 17 key questions involving artificial intelligence. A thread of collaboration weaved throughout the pandemic response, which will shape future efforts. Novel partnerships will cross boundaries to create better processes, products, and solutions to consequential societal challenges.