Building an Intelligent Laboratory Environment via a Cyber-Physical System
Activities in laboratories, workshops, and offices can be significantly affected by their ambiance and environmental conditions, such as lighting, humidity, and temperature. This research focuses on laboratories and aims to improve people's performance of activities inside them. To this end, we...
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| author | Chi-Un Lei Ka Lok Man Hai-Ning Liang Eng Gee Lim Kaiyu Wan |
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| description | Activities in laboratories, workshops, and offices can be significantly affected by their ambiance and environmental conditions, such as lighting, humidity, and temperature. This research focuses on laboratories and aims to improve people's performance of activities inside them. To this end, we have developed a cyber-physical system (CPS) for a smart/intelligent laboratory environment which is able to dynamically and automatically interpret and regulate environmental conditions. In this paper, we present the CPS development framework. The proposed CPS can measure, analyze, and regulate the thermal comfort. In order to prolong the lifetime of the system, mechanisms for low-volume communication, distributed computation, and habit-based adaptive control are proposed. Evaluations of an on-site deployment verify the functionality of the proposed CPS. Although our focus is on laboratories, this research can be applied to other similar environments, which are intended to support human performance and productivity, and has implications for the creation of smart cities. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-25ad63d5242f45b39dd0d2fe6cafe8a52023-09-02T02:48:04ZengHindawi - SAGE PublishingInternational Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks1550-14772013-12-01910.1155/2013/109014109014Building an Intelligent Laboratory Environment via a Cyber-Physical SystemChi-Un Lei0Ka Lok Man1Hai-Ning Liang2Eng Gee Lim3Kaiyu Wan4 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam, Hong Kong Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, China Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Suzhou 215123, ChinaActivities in laboratories, workshops, and offices can be significantly affected by their ambiance and environmental conditions, such as lighting, humidity, and temperature. This research focuses on laboratories and aims to improve people's performance of activities inside them. To this end, we have developed a cyber-physical system (CPS) for a smart/intelligent laboratory environment which is able to dynamically and automatically interpret and regulate environmental conditions. In this paper, we present the CPS development framework. The proposed CPS can measure, analyze, and regulate the thermal comfort. In order to prolong the lifetime of the system, mechanisms for low-volume communication, distributed computation, and habit-based adaptive control are proposed. Evaluations of an on-site deployment verify the functionality of the proposed CPS. Although our focus is on laboratories, this research can be applied to other similar environments, which are intended to support human performance and productivity, and has implications for the creation of smart cities.https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/109014 |
| spellingShingle | Chi-Un Lei Ka Lok Man Hai-Ning Liang Eng Gee Lim Kaiyu Wan Building an Intelligent Laboratory Environment via a Cyber-Physical System International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks |
| title | Building an Intelligent Laboratory Environment via a Cyber-Physical System |
| title_full | Building an Intelligent Laboratory Environment via a Cyber-Physical System |
| title_fullStr | Building an Intelligent Laboratory Environment via a Cyber-Physical System |
| title_full_unstemmed | Building an Intelligent Laboratory Environment via a Cyber-Physical System |
| title_short | Building an Intelligent Laboratory Environment via a Cyber-Physical System |
| title_sort | building an intelligent laboratory environment via a cyber physical system |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/109014 |
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