General Packet Radio Service Research Articles

Real-time web-based microclimate monitoring of broiler chicken trucks on different shifts

ABSTRACT This research aimed to monitor and evaluate air-conditioned trucks transporting day-old chicks, in various shifts of travel, through general packet radio service (GPRS) technology to provide real-time thermal control for poultry industry managers. The Control-Broilers equipment used were GS-105 and the Monitorar Platform. GS-105 is composed of sensors, a microprocessor, GPRS, and batteries. The Monitorar Platform provided nine applications that acted in coordination with web technology RESTful services. Twenty-eight chick transports were evaluated and monitored using the Control-Broilers. Truck routes were supervised by two researchers to ensure real-time data transmission through laptops and smartphones. Three air-conditioned trucks were used during two of days shifts. The vehicles had the same dimensions, but the routes, travel times, and load densities varied. Measurements of the air temperature, relative humidity, and specific enthalpy inside the trucks were recorded every minute. The experimental design was entirely randomized in a 3 × 2 factorial scheme, which represented the three trucks (CL, CA and JA) in two transport shifts (day and night), containing four repetitions (travel).The air-conditioned trucks transporting day-old chicks presented a 92.85% efficiency for real-time data transmission using GPRS technology. The trucks during the travel shifts did not provide thermal homogeneity in chick loads. The night shift presented worse thermal conditions.

Research and Design of the Architecture of the Marine Logistics Information Platform Based on Big Data

Zhang, N. and Zheng, K., 2020. Research and design of the architecture of the marine logistics information platform based on big data. In: Gong, D.; Zhang, M., and Liu, R. (eds.), Advances in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 106, pp. 628–632. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208.Using Internet of Things (IoTs) and cloud computing technologies in the era of big data to design a highly shared marine logistics information platform is the basis for realizing the information, efficiency, and intelligence of its logistics process. This research integrated big data thinking and sharing concepts into shared logistics, designed the architecture of a highly shared marine logistics information platform, and proposed an implementation method and application model for the architecture. The platform design introduces artificial intelligence and IoT technologies based on GPS, general packet radio service, and automatic identification system. The platform realizes real-time positioning and monitoring of land and sea cargo, which greatly improves the efficiency of marine logistics management.

Operational monitoring and forecasting of wave run-up on seawalls

In this work, a wave run-up monitoring system and a model for forecasting the wave run-up height on a seawall were developed. Electrical conductivity sensors were installed on the seaward slopes of seawalls to measure the wave run-up heights. The general packet radio service protocol was used to transmit the measured data in real time to the desired remote location. The Princeton Ocean Model and WAVEWATCH III were used to predict the water levels and ocean waves, respectively, by using the available wind fields. The empirical formulas recommended in the Coastal Engineering Manual (2011) and EurOtop (2018) were adopted to estimate the run-up height. The wave run-up heights were forecasted 72 h in advance and were renewed at 6-h intervals as new wind fields became available. The developed monitoring system and forecasting model were combined for operational monitoring and forecasting of wave run-up on seawalls. The wave run-up monitoring system was set up at three seawalls along the southwestern coast of Taiwan from 2013 to 2016. Consistency between the forecasted and measured wave run-up heights during typhoon periods demonstrated the feasibility of using the proposed method for monitoring and forecasting wave run-up heights. Furthermore, the multi-model ensemble approach was adopted to improve the unsatisfactory run-up forecasting performance during typhoon periods, and the forecasted run-up heights were eventually presented as a band with upper and lower limits as opposed to single values. The forecast results can be used to provide advance warning of possible wave overtopping and associated coastal flooding during typhoon periods.

Design and implementation of real‐time monitoring system for atmospheric particles based on a cloud platform

In order to reduce the cost of data acquisition and arrange the data acquisition nodes flexibly to meet the requirements of mobile pollution sources and unfixed data collection points, a real-time monitoring system for atmospheric particles based on a cloud platform is proposed here. The movable data acquisition nodes for atmospheric particles are designed to collect the particle concentration data, which are uploaded to the cloud platform through the general packet radio service (GPRS) network. The android application gets the atmospheric particle concentration data from the cloud platform in real time. Data acquisition nodes can be flexibly added to the system. It greatly improves the sharing of atmospheric particle concentration data. The test results show that the system has stable performance and low error rate.

Low-Cost and Ultra-Low-Power Consuming RTUs for Use in IoT Systems

This paper presents the design and realization of low-cost and ultra-low-power consuming remote transfer units (RTUs), working as communication gateways for collecting, aggregating, and forwarding IoT data to information centers (servers) in the cloud for further processing and data mining. Two types of RTUs, targeting different application scenarios and utilizing different communication standards, were designed – one, based on the General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) standard, and another – on the NarrowBand Internet of Things (NB-IoT) standard. The developed RTUs were experimentally tested and their use was successfully demonstrated in different IoT systems.

Narrowband-IoT network for asset tracking system

Narrowband-IoT is one of the emerging LPWAN technologies in the market. Traditionally asset tracking employs Global Positioning System (GPS) and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) connections to send telemetry data to database servers. Compared to GPRS, NB-IoT has a smaller power usage, given proper implementation. This paper discusses NB-IoT implementation in asset tracking applications. Our test includes these parameters: latency, throughput, packet loss, and power usage for both technologies. The result obtained showed that NB-IoT was underperformed in HTTP but in UDP test, NB-IoT showed better power consumption compared to GPRS (0.352 W vs. 0.542 W) even though both have similar uplink throughput (around 350 B/s). From these findings, this new cellular standard is deemed appropriate in the Asset Tracking application, given the correct protocol and architecture.

Control and indicating equipment communicating via the peripheral component interconnect express bus

Nowadays, the Intruder Alarm system is commonly used to protect the life, health and the possession of people in big companies. However, these systems have limited options for managing and remote control. This lack is very often criticized by big companies which want to use the Intruder Alarm System with other applications like Access and Attendance control. The aim of this article is to design a Control and Indicating Equipment which can be implemented into commercially made Personal Computer as expansion card. The designed card provides the main function of the Intruder Alarm system which can be further extended by other applications. The system consists of external communication like Universal Serial Bus, Ethernet and General Packet Radio Service interface. Each individual part of the system is driven by a single microcontroller ATmega328P which can handle communication and evaluation of the current state obtained by devices connected to it. The design can offer all alarm and non-alarm visualization of smart control like irrigation, lights control, audio system, etc. The whole design is driven by the proper standardization and the design consists of every schematic which comes with the explanation

Development of a Spatial Decision Support System for Real-Time Flood Early Warning in the Vu Gia-Thu Bon River Basin, Quang Nam Province, Vietnam.

Vu Gia-Thu Bon (VGTB) river basin is an area where flash flood and heavy flood events occur frequently, negatively impacting the local community and socio-economic development of Quang Nam Province. In recent years, structural and non–structural solutions have been implemented to mitigate damages due to floods. However, under the impact of climate change, natural disasters continue to happen unpredictably day by day. It is, therefore, necessary to develop a spatial decision support system for real-time flood warnings in the VGTB river basin, which will support in ensuring the area’s socio-economic development. The main purpose of this study is to develop an online flood warning system in real-time based on Internet-of-Things (IoT) technologies, GIS, telecommunications, and modeling (Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) and Hydrologic Engineering Center’s River Analysis System (HEC–RAS)) in order to support the local community in the vulnerable downstream areas in the event of heavy rainfall upstream. The structure of the designed system consists of these following components: (1) real-time hydro-meteorological monitoring network, (2) IoT communication infrastructure (Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), wireless networks), (3) database management system (bio-physical, socio-economic, hydro-meteorological, and inundation), (4) simulating and predicting model (SWAT, HEC–RAS), (5) automated simulating and predicting module, (6) flood warning module via short message service (SMS), (7) WebGIS, application for providing and managing hydro-meteorological and inundation data, and (8) users (citizens and government officers). The entire operating processes of the flood warning system (i.e., hydro-meteorological data collecting, transferring, updating, processing, running SWAT and HEC–RAS, visualizing) are automated. A complete flood warning system for the VGTB river basin has been developed as an outcome of this study, which enables the prediction of flood events 5 h in advance and with high accuracy of 80%.

An effective speed controller and GPRS based data acquisition system design for DC motors.

Parallel to the scientific and technological development, control over hardware used in industry and in daily life is being realized by using remote-controlled systems. Internet, mobile communications, and infrared and wireless control systems are often preferred. The control of a direct-current motor (DCM), which has become a part of our daily life, is achieved using a Pocket PC and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS). An Internet-based human-machine interface constitutes an embedded Visual Studio, which includes Windows CE 5.0 software and Smartphone and Pocket PC applications. An application server protocol is created using basic principles of GPRS control or communication system control. Client software is developed, real-time torque, speed, power, and current of a DCM are monitored, and motor speed control is performed using a monitoring system written in the C# language without using any additional equipment. The proposed system offers the possibility of real-time monitoring in a cost-effective manner.

Application of Greenhouse Gas Monitoring System Using General Packet Radio Service on GSM Network

Emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) is the greatest influence on the air quality for the largest contribution to global warming is about 50%. These gases absorb and reflect radiation emitted waves of the earth, so that the heat will be stored on the surface of the earth. The absorption capacity on mangrove plants is one of the efforts to reduce CO2 emissions. In this work, a gas monitoring system was developed to monitor greenhouse gas utilizing GSM network using GPRS service. Based on experiment result, this system can monitor the absorption of CO2 emissions and the formation of O2 gas in mangrove plants as one of the efforts to reduce the impact of global warming. The information can be transmitted using SMS service on GSM network in less packet size and data transmission time, and also can be accessed through web-based application. As conclusion, the use of small and portable gas-sensing air pollution monitoring technologies can obtain more spatially and temporally representative air pollution data.

Cloud-Based Vehicle Tracking System

The need for vehicle tracking system in real time is growth continues due to increase the cases of theft. This type of system in real time needs to transmit large data with huge number of HTTP request to the server to keep tracking and monitoring in real time, thus causes spend extremely high cost every month for transportation the information on tracking vehicles to server therefor the needs for reducing the number of transportation and data size that transmits in each HTTP request to save expenses. This paper designed and implement an integrated vehicle tracking system in real time to track vehicle anywhere and anytime. This system is divided into two parts: vehicle tracking part and monitoring part. Tracking part is represented by installation the electronic devices in the vehicle using modern Global Positioning System (GPS), microcontroller Arduino UNO R3 and SIM800L GSM/GPRS modem. GPS is determined location of the vehicle via received coordinates from satellites such as latitude and latitude with accuracy ranging approximately 2.5 meters; the coordinates faked to add a type of protection to information on vehicles without effecting on characterizing real time tracking before sending it via a General Packet Radio service (GPRS). The monitoring part is in the cloud and will receive the coordinates and displays it on a map in a web page. The main contribution of this system is it reduced data size that sent from in-vehicle device via selected only necessary data for tracking vehicle from NEMA sentences of GPS and reduced number of HTTP request that sent to remote server via constrain the transmission of information with the movement of vehicles, since when vehicle moved the coordinates each 10s and did not send anything when the vehicle stopped thus will reduce the cost of expenses every month. This system can be utilized to track and monitoring the vehicles of large universities, companies, organization and also can be used in army vehicles and police vehicles.
 
 

A Performance Analysis of General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) and Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) in Indonesia

Internet of Things (IoT) refers to a concept connecting any devices onto the internet. The IoT devices cannot only use a service or server to be controlled at a distance but also to do computation. IoT has been applied in many fields, such as smart cities, industries, and logistics. The sending of IoT data can use the existing GSM networks such as GPRS. However, GPRS is not dedicated particularly to the transmission of IoT data in consideration of its weaknesses in terms of coverage and power efficiency. To increase the performance of the transmission of IoT data, Narrowband-IoT (NB-IoT), one alternative to replace GPRS, is offered for its excellence in coverage and power. This paper aims to compare the GPRS and NB-IoT technology for the transmission of IoT data, specifically in Bandung region, Indonesia. The results obtained showed that the packet loss from clients for the GPRS network was at 68%, while the one for NB-IoT was at 44%. Moreover, NB-IoT technology was found excellent in terms of battery saving compared to GPRS for the transmission of IoT data. This result showed that NB-IoT was found more suitable for transmitting the IoT data compared to GPRS.

Performance Evaluation LoRa-GPRS Integrated Electricity usage Monitoring System for Decentralized Mini-Grids

The emerging Internet of Things (IoT) technologies such as Long-Range (LoRa), combined with traditional cellular communications technologies such as General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) offers decentralized mini-grid companies the opportunity to have cost-effective monitoring systems for the mini-grid resources. Nevertheless, most of the existing decentralized mini-grid companies still rely on traditional cellular networks to fully monitor electricity consumption information, which is not a feasible solution especially for the resource-constrained mini-grid systems. This paper presents the performance evaluation of the proposed LoRa-GPRS integrated power consumption monitoring system for decentralized mini-grid centers. Each mini-grid center consists of a network of custom designed smart meters equipped with LoRa modules for local data collection, while the GPRS gateway is used to transmit collected data from the local monitoring centre to the cloud server. Performance testing was conducted by using five electrical appliances whose power consumption data form the cloud server was compared to the same data collected by using a reference digital meter. The correlation between the two data sets was used as a key performance metric of the proposed system. The performance results show that the proposed system has a good accuracy hence providing a cost-effective framework for monitoring and managing of power resources in decentralized mini-grid centers.

Anti-Molestation: An IoT based Device for Women’s Self-Security System to Avoid Unlawful Activities

Now-a-days, the public, mostly women and children are facing much harassment from the societies. The unlawful activities against ladies and children have been increasing signifi-cantly, and regularly we find out about eve-teasing, sexual assault cases, and attempt to molest or even killing after rape in public places or open areas. Also, many cases had gone unwarranted due to short pieces of evidence. In Bangladesh, the current statistics of sexual assaults and various unlawful activities are proliferating. To acknowledge these problems, in this paper, we have designed an IoT-based (Internet of Things) embedded device that is able to communicate with the law enforcement agency by dialing “999” (An Emergency Telephone Number in Bangladesh) on demand. The device contains Arduino Pro-Mini Microcontroller with a GSM (Global System for Mobile communication) module and can send SMS (short message service) with the victim’s present area to the law enforcement agency and relatives via GPRS (General Packet Radio Services). The proposed device’s form factor is too tiny to carry out easily at anywhere and anytime. The device features the “Plug & Play” functionalities, which means one button to operate the entire device. Also, the device is cost-effective so that people of every level can afford it at a reasonable price.

Monitoring System for Circular Deformation in Metro Shield Tunnels in Soft Soils

For in‐service metro shield tunnels in soft soils, large circular deformations are a major concern because they usually lead to various problems, such as water leakage, joint openings, and concrete cracks. However, the monitoring of circular deformation depends mainly on manual surveying, and the automatic monitoring methods developed in recent years generally have low economic applicability and are not widely implemented. In this study, an automatic and cost‐effective system was presented to monitor circular deformation in shield tunnels by using only inclinometers. Experiments were conducted to prove the assumption that each segment can be regarded as a rigid body and to investigate the position of the joint rotation center. Then, a method for monitoring circular deformation based on the rigid body and plane section assumptions was proposed. The joint opening angle, maximum joint opening width, horizontal diameter convergence, and bolt strain were calculated from rotation angles of segments which can be monitored directly by inclinometer. A case study was conducted for a section of a metro shield tunnel with an ongoing pit excavation nearby. The rotation of segments was measured using MEMS inclinometers, and the data were transmitted using ZigBee and general packet radio service (GPRS) wireless communication technology. Results show that the proposed system could be implemented to improve transportation safety in relevant situations and similar conditions.

Smart autonomous agricultural system for improving yields in greenhouse based on sensor and IoT technology

With a special focus on the now widespread Internet of Things (IoT) technology, it offers a convenient solution for smart agriculture. This paper will introduce a smart greenhouse monitoring and control data logger system as part of a smart farm. The system is based on: a group of built-in sensors, a microcontroller with a peripheral interface (PIC) as a core and a server system and a wireless Internet using the Global System of Mobile Telecommunications (GSM) module with General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) as a communication protocol. It is possible to implement a smart agricultural service, in which the realized smart data logger system could be implemented, which enables automatic control of the greenhouse at the farm.

A review of real time smart systems developed at University of Nis

This paper presents the bibliographic review of smart systems implemented so far and their application. Also this paper is dedicated to new smart mobile system developed for monitoring microclimatic parameters. This system is primarily intended for monitoring real-time microclimatic parameters, such as air quality where the presence of carbon monoxide (CO) is monitored, as well as other microclimatic parameters. The mobile system which will be described in this manuscript can be installed in public transport (to obtain information on microclimatic parameters on a known route). Also, to obtain information on microclimatic parameters from a random route, it is possible to install the system in a taxi vehicle. This system provides the ability to generate a map using the data provided by the system based on GPS coordinates. The system is based on a group of embedded sensors, GPS module, PIC microcontroller as a core and server system, and wireless internet using Global System for Mobile Telecommunications (GSM) module with General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) as a communication protocol.

A Developed Vehicle Terminal of Time-Sharing Rental Electric Vehicle Using Acoustic Communication Technology

With the rapid development of the time-sharing rental business model for electric vehicles, the remote control speed of the electric vehicle terminals device, as the most important part of the whole time-sharing rental business process, affects directly the integrity of the business process and the using feelings of consumers. However, the traditional remote control system by using general packet radio service (GPRS), 3G, and 4G long term evolution (LTE) wireless communication methods responds longer and slower in weak signal area, which directly affects the user’s feeling and management strength of platform management center for the electric vehicle. Therefore, in this paper, (1) the acoustic communication technology as an auxiliary communication method is introduced in the novel vehicle terminal; (2) In order to increase the anti-noise ability, “amplitude-shift keying (ASK) + frequency-shift keying (FSK)” compound modulation and “double microphone input” technology are used in the vehicle terminal, which develops a novel vehicle terminal with the high anti-noise acoustic wave communication function for the electric vehicle in time-sharing rental mode; and (3) the mobile phone acoustic waves can be used by the proposed vehicle terminal to control the door of electric vehicle, which provides a firm technical support for ensuring the fluency and completeness of the whole process. Tests prove that the acoustic communication technology of the novel vehicle terminal can realize the rapid response of the vehicle terminal, which effectively solves the problem of a prolonged and slow response in the vehicle terminal of the electric vehicle in the weak signal area.

Eliminating Rogue Femtocells for IoT Open Meter System Based on Expert System

The Internet of things (IoT), including power meters, water meters, natural gas meters, and meter collectors in an open metering system (OMS), which is dispersed around the user side, relies on wireless virtual private networks (VPNs) to communicate with head end, and thus it is exposed to malicious cyber attacks. The General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), which is vulnerable to rogue femtocells, is widely used for communication among meter collectors and the head end. Because telecommunication fraud related to rogue femtocells is a serious offence, rogue femtocells will be turned on for some time and immediately turned off and moved from here to there to escape from being caught. The signal strength (SS) of rogue femtocells is characterized by abrupt changes. Because meter collectors and lawful femtocells are deployed at the fixed location, there is a notable difference between signal strength profile of lawful and rogue femtocells. Prior knowledge of variation of signal strength is utilized to formulate rules to detect rogue femtocells. An expert system is developed to detect rogue femtocells and prevent meter collectors from attaching to them. Numerical simulation indicates that the proposed approach can detect both stationary and moving rogue femtocells online. Since computation load of the proposed approach is not high, it can be implemented in existing IoT meter collectors with limited computation resource and the proposed approach can harden cyber security of OMS.

PENGGUNAAN METODE KOMPRESI TEKS UNTUK LAYANAN SMS OVER GPRS

The increasing number of short message service which has grown rapidly has bad impact towards its service quality. Delay in the system could increase while message delivered because the network gets burdened. Aplication Comresion text metode ( iD-Code companding algorithm) for predictive text has mode to reduce bits representation for each character. In the other hand by choosing new route like General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) will also significantly help to reduced burden of the network and also may achieve high rate of message delivery process. Based on analysis obtained that iD-Code Algorithm could truncates bit representation of predictive text file until 50% of value, with character average length only 4 bits. The implementation of iD-Code Algorithm also lead to the decreasing of packet holding time that also have impact reducing the packet delay time queue and further it will lead to the channel using efficiency.