The availability of a reliable and accurate indoor positioning system (IPS) for emergency
responders during on-duty missions is regarded as an essential tool to improve situational …

The Industry 4.0 program and corresponding international initiatives continue to transform
the industrial workforce and their work. The service-oriented, customer-centric and demand …

Vision-based hand-gesture applications Page 1 60 communicAtions of tHe Acm | FeBrUAry
2011 | voL. 54 | No. 2 contributed articles There is sTrong evidence that future humancomputer …

This study provides a comparative assessment on the different techniques of classifying
human activities performed while wearing inertial and magnetic sensor units on the chest …

In an industrial scenario, a context-aware wearable computing system could support a
production or maintenance worker. The system could recognize the worker's actions and …

The layout of fixed-position assembly islands is widely used in the heavy equipment
industry, where the product remains at one assembly island for its entire assembly period …

Many machines generate a significant amount of waste heat, which could be used as a
steady and plentiful energy source for energy-harvesting Internet of Things devices. The …

Financed by the European Commission, a consortium of 23 European partners, consisting of
universities, research institutions, industries, and organizations operating in the field of …

Abstract Recently, the Industry 4.0 connects production processes and smart production
technologies to lead up to a new technological age. The Industry 4.0 utilizes digital …

Ad hoc solutions for tracking and providing navigation support to emergency response
teams is an important and safety-critical challenge. We propose a navigation system based …