The hybrid electric vehicle as a cultural object
Thesis - 9 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
The American public imagination is steeped in images of cars. Long ago, the car took over for the horse as the best romantic vehicle to ride off into the sunset. Pop culture throughout the existence of the car is riddled with references to it. Just as Ford's assembly line was developed, Charlie...
Blackberry technology
Thesis - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Mobile solutions are developing and so is its technology. Like the early Web boom, we have the mobile era coming soon. New technologies and new platforms in the mobile world are coming into light. Technology seems to discover into the perspective of fresh innovations and brings the world at your...
Occupational therapy: Assistive technology recommendations for client 'George'
Case study - 4 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
The enclosed case-study is a follow-up to the previous report on client George, a seventy-one year old high-functioning male retiree living in an independent unit with his spouse, and contains recommendations on an appropriate AT device usages which should prove beneficial to him in...
The mobile story
Thesis - 4 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
How did we ever manage without our cell phones? It is truly amazing to even think that there was a time not too long ago when we did not have our mobile handsets with us when we ventured out of our homes or offices. Let us try and demystify some of the technologies often related with our mobile...
A study of LCD displays
Dissertation - 36 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
The important considerations in the present field of electronics and electronic technologies are automation, power consumption and cost effectiveness. Automation is intended to reduce the manpower with the help of intelligent systems. In this project, we are going to count the number of...
A study of home security system
Thesis - 27 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Home security systems provide security from threats such as intruders or thieves, by sounding a siren to grab the attention of the public. Two sensor pairs are placed in the system. Among them one pair of receiver sensors is connected to the entrance of the house and the transmitter is carried by...
A study of global position system (GPS) receivers
Tutorials/exercises - 80 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
With today's global position system (GPS) receivers, we are able to pinpoint our own position, but what's more useful about GPS receivers is that they can transmit our position information to other receivers. We decided to use both of these features to create a wireless vehicle navigation system....
A study of tele-operated intelligent mobile robots
Dissertation - 30 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Real time embedded systems are time-critical systems that are hard to implement as compared to traditional software, due to large numbers of conflicting requirements. This project describes an application of advance modeling techniques to improve the development of embedded systems. In our...
How to control a Dish antenna from a remote area
Thesis - 25 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
The development of this Remote Controlled Dish Antenna application requires the configuration of the micro controller architecture, writing (code) and debugging of the application program. In this application the status of the dish antenna such as direction, angle will be controlled by the user...
Applications using RF modules
Dissertation - 36 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
An embedded project is a combination of hardware and software, designed to perform a specific task. In embedded technology the embedded programming is burnt into the AT8C52 micro controller. The main scope of the project is mainly based on the advertising of applications using RF Modules. In...
Optical fiber based communication systems
Thesis - 26 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
For years, fiber optics has been merely a system for piping light around corners and into the inaccessible places to allow the hidden to be lighted. But now, fiber optics has evolved into a system of significantly greater importance and use. Throughout the world, it is now being used to transmit...
One dimensional cellular automata based security scheme with both authentication and confidentiality
Thesis - 11 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
In the past few years organization have widely adopted local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN) and internet to take advantages of advancement in technology1, 2. As a result of connecting private and internal network to the outside network, exchange of information is greatly facilitated....
Network security on Bluetooth
Essay - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Wireless communications offer organizations and users many benefits such as portability and flexibility, increased productivity, and lower installation costs. Wireless local area network (WLAN) devices, for instance, allow users to move their laptops from place to place within their offices...
Nano-robots: The molecular manipulators
Thesis - 8 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
A human fetus begins life as a single cell, and then divides to become two cells, then four, then eight and so on. Nanotechnology aims to build in a similar way, constructing objects out of their most basic components. A nanometer is a thousandth of a millionth of a meter. This is about as far...
Cellular communication technologies: Understanding how the cellular service works
Thesis - 7 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Today's work force is demanding mobility, flexibility and real-time access to critical data. Over recent years, the trend towards the smaller and faster device, coupled with the need for information access on the move, has paved the way for a new technology of the Mobile Communications. Mobility...
Location-based service over 3GPP IMS: Approaching real-time connectivity with the next generation of network communication
Essay - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Emerging mobile applications will need location information for delivering the right services to right persons at right places and time. A location-based service (LBS) is an information and entertainment service, accessible with mobile devices through the mobile network and utilizing the ability...
Non inclusion property in chip multiprocessors with multi-level cache
Thesis - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Difference between speed of processor and memory is increasing with the advent of new technology. Chip Multi Processors (CMP) has further increased the pressure on the memory hierarchy. So it has become important to manage on chip memory very judiciously to reduce average memory access time....
Motion picture compression technique used in digital television sets
Thesis - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Digital television is a completely new way of broadcasting and is the future of television. With the advent of digital technology, digital audio and video compression and other advanced signal processing, it is possible to transmit and receive broadband data over co-axial cable and through...
Speech processing using wavelete transformation and its implementation in digital hearing aids
Thesis - 4 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Hearing impairment is the number one chronic disability affecting people in the world. Many people have great difficulty in understanding speech with background noise. This is especially true for a large number of elderly people and the sensorineural impaired persons. Several investigations on...
Implementation of vector quantization technique in image compression and speech recognition
Thesis - 6 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
In this paper, we have described the application of Vector Quantization in Image and Speech processing. Compressing image data by using Vector Quantization (VQ)[1]-[3] will compare Training Vectors with Codebook. The result is an index of position with minimum distortion. Basically there are...
Wireless communication: Global positioning system
Thesis - 7 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
GPS technology is one of the significant inventions of the twentieth century. GPS has become a popular device in western countries but has not yet reached the household of the common man in India. With globalization, GPS and its related technology have been unable to penetrate the heart of Indian...
Performance analysis of OFDM communication systems
Thesis - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Today life does not seem possible without wireless in some form or the other. The demands on bandwidth and spectral availability are endless. Consequently, wireless designers face an uphill task of limited availability of radio frequency spectrum and complex time varying problems in the wireless...
Auto negotiation in IEEE 802.3 based layer 2 devices: A review
Thesis - 4 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Auto Negotiation is an optional yet one of the standard Plug and Play features available in almost all modern day IEEE 802.3u (Fast Ethernet) and as a mandatory feature in IEEE 802.3ab Gigabit Ethernet compliant devices. Today's Fast Ethernet devices support multiple operational modes. The Auto...
Mobile robotic arm and its future scope
Thesis - 4 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
A Robot can be defined as a programmable, self-controlled device consisting of electronic, electrical, or mechanical units. More generally, it is a machine that functions in place of a living agent. Robots are especially desirable for certain work functions because, unlike humans, they never get...
Interactive information display embedded system designed using I2C protocol
Thesis - 4 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
With the growing importance of the embedded systems, the need to design embedded applications with microcontrollers having advance features is gaining prominence. In the presented work I2C protocol is used to make an interactive information display that can be used at various places for providing...
Security challenges in wireless sensor networks
Thesis - 5 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are wireless ad hoc networks of tiny sensor nodes. As a result of advances in sensor technology and wireless communication, sensor networks have emerged as an indispensable and important new tool for multiple civilian and military applications, including patient...
Developing a high speed memory interface
Thesis - 4 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
A common problem for today's system designers is to reliably interface with their next generation high-speed memory devices. As system bandwidths continue to increase, memory technologies have been optimized for higher speeds and performance. As a result, these next generation memory interfaces...
Optical wireless communication
Thesis - 7 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
Today's information economy depends on the transmission of data, voice and multimedia across telecommunication networks. Optical networks remain the most ideal medium for high-bandwidth communications for true connectivity. There are two distinct types of optical communications: Fiber optics...
Inverted suspended space fed microstrip antenna for wireless applications
Thesis - 6 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
The basic microstrip antenna (MSA) is a resonant patch of metal, etched on the surface of grounded dielectric slab. The dielectric material is replaced with air to improve the bandwidth and to minimize losses. The proposed space fed microstrip antenna (MSA) consists of fed patch and parasitic...
WiBro technology
Thesis - 6 pages - Electronics, mechanics, engineering & technology
This technology is the latest advancement in Wireless Communication which presents drastic change in Wireless Internet and helps connect each and every person globally. It is the most advanced and upcoming technology now a days. WiBro is the Portable Internet Service to provide a high data rate...