Kind Of Monitoring Research Articles

Sensorizing a Beehive: A Study on Potential Embedded Solutions for Internal Contactless Monitoring of Bees Activity.

Winter is the season of main concern for beekeepers since the temperature, humidity, and potential infection from mites and other diseases may lead the colony to death. As a consequence, beekeepers perform invasive checks on the colonies, exposing them to further harm. This paper proposes a novel design of an instrumented beehive involving color cameras placed inside the beehive and at the bottom of it, paving the way for new frontiers in beehive monitoring. The overall acquisition system is described focusing on design choices towards an effective solution for internal, contactless, and stress-free beehive monitoring. To validate our approach, we conducted an experimental campaign in 2023 and analyzed the collected images with YOLOv8 to understand if the proposed solution can be useful for beekeepers and what kind of information can be derived from this kind of monitoring, including the presence of Varroa destructor mites inside the beehive. We experimentally found that the observation point inside the beehive is the most challenging due to the frequent movements of the bees and the difficulties related to obtaining in-focus images. However, from these images, it is possible to find Varroa destructor mites. On the other hand, the observation point at the bottom of the beehive showed great potential for understanding the overall activity of the colony.

Mapping ways of detecting and handling antimicrobial residues in pigs and pig meat in- and outside Europe

Withdrawal periods after antimicrobial treatment have been defined as preventing in meat the presence of residues above the maximum residue limits (MRLs). However, errors can lead to residues above MRLs. The RIBMINS COST Action network investigated the question of how detection and handling are applied in different countries, and what the best practices may be, when balancing consumer safety with EU policy on minimising food waste. Two questionnaires were developed focusing on pigs, targeting the competent authority and the food business operator. The survey was undertaken in spring 2022 and resulted in 78 answers representing 27 countries. The results showed that most countries operate their system as a kind of monitoring, where the tested carcass is not detained. We suggest two best practice models where Model A (monitoring) could reflect small abattoirs placing meat on the national market, whereas Model B (surveillance) could reflect abattoirs also trading and exporting. In Model A, detection of a residue above the MRL is interpreted in the same way as a process hygiene criterion, requires on-farm inspection to correct mistakes only, and therefore no retention of tested carcases. In Model B, detection of a residue above the MRL is interpreted as a food safety criterion, requires on-farm inspection and the tested carcass is retained to avoid expensive recalls in case residues are found.

К вопросу о политике цифровизации и ее влиянии на систему образования в общероссийском контексте (угрозы и риски)

The paper argues for the idea that the education system influences managerial decision-making at the public and private levels, which ultimately determines the society’s quality of life and the state of the country’s security. Hence, it seems important to study the process of digitalization, which has changed and is changing all spheres of society, including the educational process. Studying the process of digitalization of education means con-ducting various kinds of monitoring, assessments and ratings that reflect the level of development of digital transformation and the impact on the quality of educational services. The use of digital technologies ensures both the satisfaction of the growing needs of modern society and its socio-economic development. Neverthe-less, the active process of digitalization carries potential threats and risks that need to be taken into account when implementing the digital transformation strategy in all object sectors.

Recognizing elderly peoples by analyzing their walking pattern using body posture skeleton

The increasing age of the population has become a significant concern internationally. During the COVID-19 pandemic situation, it has been seen that the most sensitive and affected class of the population is the class of Elder’s. It is therefore necessary to track the movement and behavior of the old persons. This kind of monitoring could help them in providing assistance in their needy time. Our objective is to develop an approach to classify elderly people using skeleton data for their assistance. OpenPose algorithm is used here to detect human skeletons (joint positions) from the video sequences. OpenPose algorithm with a sliding window of size ‘N’ is used to achieve a real-time posture recognition framework. Posture features from each extracted skeleton are then used to build a classifier for recognizing elderly people. We also introduce here a new dataset that includes old person walk and young person walk video’s. The experimental outcomes reveal that the proposed method has achieved up to 98.45% training accuracy and 96.16% testing accuracy for deep feed-forward neural network (FFNN) classifier. This asserts the effectiveness of the approach.

An Integrated Approach between Computing and Mathematical Modelling for Cattle Welfare in Grazing Systems

In the last years, the agricultural systems based on Crop-Livestock-Forestry integrationhave emerged as a potential solution due to its capacity to maximize land use and reduces the effects of high temperatures on the animals. Within these systems, there exist an interest in technological solutions capable of monitor the animals in real-time. From this monitoring, one of the main interest is to know if an animal is in the sun or in the shade of a tree by using some environmental measures. However, as there is a possibility that the weather is cloudy, real-time monitoring also needs to identify this case. That is, the realtime monitoring also needs to differentiate the shade of a tree from a cloudy weather. The interest in this kind of monitoring is due to the fact that an animal that remains a long time under a shade of a tree provides substantial insights to indicate if this is in thermal stress. This information can be used in decision-making with the goal to reduce the impact of the thermal stress and consequently to provide welfare to the animal and reduces the financial losses. As a solution to identify if an animal is in the sun or in the shade of a tree or if the weather is cloudy, we developed an electronic device, used to capture values of environmental variables, which integrated with a mathematical model predicts the shade state (sun, shade or cloudy) where the animal can be found. We illustrate the performance of the proposed solution in a real data set.

ANALISIS MONITORING DASHBOARD GANGGUAN LOGIC PADA INDIHOME

Abstr act - Analysis of the logic disturbance dashboard monitoring on the WITEL Karawang indihome. Monitoring at indihome is a necessity to support the performance of Telkom Indonesia employees, monitoring is very necessary so that it can monitor using the Ibooster and Embassy applications which are monitored directly by several operators so that it will make monitoring easier and more practical, then the results of this monitoring will be reported directly to indihome technicians. . Through this kind of monitoring, technicians can work more easily to find damage caused by physical or logical problems. After the technician gets a direct report from the operator and if the damage is caused by physical disturbance, the technician will immediately repair the location of the damage, this monitoring dashboard will continuously provide reports from the conditions in place.In this way, the technician can solve problems that arise without waiting for reports from users. and wireless based Internet technician at WITEL Karawang. Easy to maintain stability based on wireless Internet without directly checking equipment .

Tracking Work from the Wrist: The Surveillance of Ethiopian Women Athletes for Capital

This paper considers the ways in which these new GPS watches becoming commonplace among Ethiopian athletes are changing how women professional athletes in Ethiopia (who have the potential to bring in substantial earnings in Ethiopia) are monitored by husbands, coaches, agents, and sponsors. In the past 2-3 years, however, digital self-tracking devices (DSTDs) have come close to replacing shoes as the most sought after training aid. Watches – that track pacing, kilometers, miles, steps, caloric output, elevation gain, and heart rate – are bought and brought home from international competitions and gifted by agents, managers, and fans from abroad. Some sponsored athletes’ data are even instantaneously transferred to Nike laboratories in Portland after they finish practice in Addis Ababa. Drawing on participant observation and interviews, the paper address the new pressures and working conditions that this type of monitoring can introduce by considering how husbands, brothers, coaches, and agents – all men (Ethiopian, European, American, etc.) – monitor these devices and reflect or change existing the gendered dynamics of working in elite sport. It asks: What are the working implications of this new kind of monitoring? How do they intersect and contest gendered norms that exist through and outside of sport and surveillance studies? And how does this impact conceptions of the body both within and outside of professional athletics?

Cray Benchmark – calibrating different eDNA methods for crayfish and crayfish plague

Many countries are on the verge to integrate eDNA analyses into environmental monitoring. There are no standards yet for this kind of monitoring, and many different methods are used. Still, various methods and protocols have previously proven to be very precise and credible. If we accept that the way to monitor species’ eDNA will vary, different methods and actors can be used. To be able to rely on different types of protocols, benchmarking is much needed. We have initiated a project to perform benchmarking on crayfish and crayfish plague in 2021. Previous year a meeting was held in Stockholm where different methods were discussed with researchers, managers and stakeholders from 15 different organisations in 8 countries. The meeting pointed out the necessity for benchmarking to successfully monitor eDNA from crayfish and crayfish plague.

Профессиональная позиция курсанта психологического факультета образовательной организации высшего образования ФСИН России

In this article, the typology of a person's professional position is checked for basicity. The author establishes an unambiguous mutual correspondence of professional personality types according to D. Holland and the professional position typology based on the principle of semantic proximity. As a result, a new author's methodology is created for measuring the professional position of the personality of a cadet of the psychological faculty of an FPS of Russia educational organization of higher education. The research subject is a typological, system-based approach, which makes it possible to obtain measurable, orderly, complete information on the personal characteristics of the cadets’ professional position. The purpose of the study is to create a new methodology for measuring information about the professional position of an individual based on the use of a system-based typological approach. The article uses the basic method of studying the typology of the professional position of the personality of a psychological faculty student of the VILE of the FPS of Russia. The relevance of research. Professional difficulties of a practical psychologist are associated with the choice and application of specific methods in his work. In theoretical studies aimed at creation of methods, it is important to take into account the mechanism of typologizing the psychological characteristics of a person. In modern reality, practical psychologists are faced with the problem of the lack of their own methods aimed at personality research. Their development requires specific innovative technologies for creating measuring instruments that allow solving a specific diagnostic problem for a practical psychologist. The methodological basis of the research was made up of theoretical (analysis, synthesis, induction), system-structural, formallogical, empirical methods, and a statistical method for processing empirical data. The novelty of the research lies in the creation, on the basis of the system-based analysis of various personality typologies, of the author's methodology aimed at studying the characteristics of the professional position of the personality of a future psychologist of the penal system and identifying the types of professional position. The criterion validity of the author's method was confirmed using a diagnostic reference test. The types of the professional position of the personality of a psychologist of the FPS of Russia educational organizations of higher education were rechecked for completeness and orderliness. Conclusions are made about the correspondence between the characteristics of the types of the personality's professional position and the types of the professional orientation of the personality, which was established on the basis of the principle of semantic proximity. The author's created methodology for measuring the psychological characteristics of the professional position of the personality of a future psychologist will allow studying the issues of the professional position formation of a departmental psychologist. The field of application of the results of the study is not only purely scientific, but also practical. The use of this methodology will allow us to study the process of formation of a professional position in specific cadets during their training in FPS of Russia educational institutions of higher education. This kind of monitoring will contribute to the implementation of the most effective teaching and educational impact and, ultimately, the formation of the most mature professional position among cadets studying at the psychological faculty. Key words: consistency, basicity, measurability, professional types, professional position, semantic closeness.

АНАЛИЗ СОСТОЯНИЯ ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОЙ БЕЗОПАСНОСТИ АВТОТРАНСПОРТНОЙ СИСТЕМЫ РЕГИОНА

An important role in ensuring economic security is played by the development of the regional road transport system both in terms of the completeness of the geographical coverage of the territory of the region and the country by roads, as well as in terms of the technical and technological level of development of certain types of transportation, the harmony of their interaction, compliance with the development of the productive forces of the state. It is necessary to integrate into the world economic space, increase the degree of openness of the country's economic system, consider not only the principled position of the national transport system and its role in integration processes, but also aspects of ensuring its economic security. The article analyzes the state of economic security of the road transport system of the Sughd region of the Republic of Tajikistan, determines its position in a market economy, identifies the main factors affecting the degree of loading of the road transport infrastructure with transit cargo flows. The dynamics of changes in the specific weight of performing transport work by various types of transport is given. It is noted that the contradictions of economic interests not only create prerequisites for the emergence of threats to the vital economic interests of road transport business entities at the regional level, but also the peculiarities of the formation of a management system in this area. Accordingly, a system of subjects and objects of management should be created, a set of methods of managerial influence should be determined. The level of economic security of the region's road transport system depends on internal and external factors, the impact of which is determined through analysis and identification, a kind of monitoring of the state.

Design for Monitoring of a Research Vehicle

AbstractIn recent years, more and more technical systems dispose of some form of intelligence which allows to control and diagnose the processes and states in such systems. One important prerequisite for both control and diagnosis is monitoring, i.e. a systematic observation, surveillance or recording of entities of a technical product or its surroundings by any technical means. Current investigations were able to clarify that the design of a technical system can ease the control and diagnosis of this system. The same is true for monitoring; this fact will be demonstrated in this paper on the example of a research vehicle which is intended to foster the development of mapping systems and algorithms. In a sense, the main objective of this vehicle is also a kind of monitoring. Due to its unique design, this vehicle is able to navigate on all kind of terrains. It is equipped with several forms of sensors, which are consciously mounted at certain positions on the vehicle in order to allow a detailed detection of the surroundings. The investigation, how design can ease monitoring, was supported by a well-known model of product concretization and concrete insights could be found on all levels.

Monitoring of the Garisenda Tower through GNSS using advanced approaches toward the frame of reference stations

Abstract The Garisenda tower in Bologna is a symbol of the city and one of the most valuable heritages of the medieval age. The tower is leaning markedly since the XIV century because of a foundation failure and its stability is nowadays under constant monitoring through many sensors. In 2013 a GNSS permanent station was installed on the top of the tower with the aim to test the satellite technology for this particular kind of structural monitoring. Being the leaning of the Garisenda the subject of the investigation and being the sensor placed on its top, one fundamental hypothesis is the stationarity of the ground under the tower with respect to the reference system used for the GNSS measures. This hypothesis has demonstrated to be unreliable considered the high precision of the survey and the Earth crust dynamics, therefore opening interesting issues concerning the reference to be used in such kind of monitoring. The proposed solution rely on a strain model of the area surrounding the Garisenda tower, estimated using data from four other GNSS permanent stations already present in Bologna. The method is described and results are shown in terms of trend over time of the Garisenda's leaning. Nevertheless, the methodology can be generalized for every kind of structural monitoring based on GNSS data for which millimetre level of precision is needed.

Обрабатывающие производства России: санкции, импортозамещение

В статье анализируется современное состояние обрабатывающих производств России в условиях санкций, вызвавших проблему импортозамещения. Рассмотрены показатели состояния и развития обрабатывающих отраслей, характеризующих масштабы и качество производства, а также факторы производства (труд и капитал) и внешнеторговой деятельности – результаты импортозамещения как политики повышения конкурентоспособности российской продукции с целью продвижения ее на мировой рынок. Делается вывод о том, что, хотя государство официально взяло курс на создание цифровой экономики и на прорыв в экспорте наукоёмкой и высокотехнологичной продукции, в реальности технико-технологическое развитие страны в условиях импортозамещения не ускорилось. Анализ можно расценивать как некий мониторинг экономических преобразований в России, вызванных санкциями и импортозамещением.

Time Variant Adjustment for The Solution of Control Point Unstability in Deformation Analysis of Borobudur Vertical Deformation Monitoring Network

Borobudur is Indonesian's cultural heritage which is recognized as a world heritage by UNESCO. As a world heritage structure, monitoring and maintenance have to be carried out periodically at Borobudur. Monitoring the vertical deformation of the temple using Geodetic method is one kind of monitoring which have to be done, in this case the monitoring uses leveling network. The design of leveling network at Borobudur in 2002 used absolute network, but the control point of this network has been indicated to be shifted. The control point displacement would cause a systematic error in the adjustment computation method for the analysis of vertical displacement. The correction of control point elevation due to the vertical shift is needed prior to the adjustment computation using observation model. In addition, there is a time variant adjustment computation method which able to calculate the vertical rate of object point displacement. This study aims to compare the vertical displacement analysis of the Borobudur’s vertical network from the adjustment computation using observation model with the correction of control point height and from time-variant adjustment method.Data used in this study were the elevation differences from leveling measurements in 2002, 2003 and 2004, and the elevation and vertical velocity of the control point in 2002. Adjustment computation using observation model began with the elevation correction of control point at each epoch. The adjustment computation was taken to determine the elevation of monitoring points at each epoch. Statistical test and vertical displacement analysis using significance parameter tests was carried out to analyze the results. Adjustment computation using time-variant method was taken to determine the elevation and the vertical velocity of the monitoring points at certain epoch intervals and validated using global test after the adjustment computation.The vertical displacement magnitude of Borobudur’s monitoring points, resulted from the parameter adjustment computation with the correction of control point compared to the time-variant adjustment results was differed in nanometer. Time-variant adjustment computation method gave more accurates result of 1.5 times better than the observation model.

Multi-interface Gateway Protocol Conversion Method for Nearspace-air-vehicle-ground Dedicated Network

There are many kinds of monitoring and detecting load equipments in the Nearspace-air-vehicle-ground network, including visible light, infrared pods and various sensors, and there are various bus interfaces for communication and transmission of different types of loads, including network port, RS422, CAN, LVDS and so on. This paper proposes the use of FPGA and embedded Linux system software and hardware cooperation method to achieve interoperability between multi-bus interface and Ethernet, making full use of software flexibility and hardware fast forwarding capabilities. The test results show that this method realizes the data transmission between the multi-interface bus and Ethernet, and plays an important role in the transmission of information between the landing platform and ground in the Nearspace-air-vehicle-ground Dedicated Network

Monitoring the eutrophication using Landsat 8 in the Boka Kotorska Bay

This study proposes a methodology for monitoring concentrations of chlorophyll a (Chl-a) and the state of eutrophics in small bays or in the immediate vicinity of the coast. This kind of monitoring is of interest since such areas have not been addressed well using the usual satellite methods (such as MODIS) due to inadequate spatial resolution. We present an estimation approach for Chl-a concentration based on Landsat 8 (L8) satellite images using the ground truth (GT) data for the day of overflight. Additionally, two classifiers (daily and yearly) of the state of eutrophication, that use the Chl-a estimated values, are presented. The accuracy of the proposed method is evaluated using the leave-one-out cross validation, and it is within limits theoretically expected of an L8-based approach. The results from the classifiers are compared with the GT data and it is shown that daily classifier is able to classify the area of interest with an incidence of false positives less than 2%.

Type and Location of Wearable Sensors for Monitoring Falls during Static and Dynamic Tasks in Healthy Elderly: A Review.

In recent years, the meaning of successful living has moved from extending lifetime to improving the quality of aging, mainly in terms of high cognitive and physical functioning together with avoiding diseases. In healthy elderly, falls represent an alarming accident both in terms of number of events and the consequent decrease in the quality of life. Stability control is a key approach for studying the genesis of falls, for detecting the event and trying to develop methodologies to prevent it. Wearable sensors have proved to be very useful in monitoring and analyzing the stability of subjects. Within this manuscript, a review of the approaches proposed in the literature for fall risk assessment, fall prevention and fall detection in healthy elderly is provided. The review has been carried out by using the most adopted publication databases and by defining a search strategy based on keywords and boolean algebra constructs. The analysis aims at evaluating the state of the art of such kind of monitoring, both in terms of most adopted sensor technologies and of their location on the human body. The review has been extended to both dynamic and static analyses. In order to provide a useful tool for researchers involved in this field, the manuscript also focuses on the tests conducted in the analyzed studies, mainly in terms of characteristics of the population involved and of the tasks used. Finally, the main trends related to sensor typology, sensor location and tasks have been identified.

ICT and tourism impacts in islands

New technologies can represent, for some aspects, both a problem and a precious resource. As we concerns, in tourism sector, ICT can help in managing and promoting destinations in a better way than in the past, especially in those cases where problems linked with the management of tourist flows and the need to manage a sustainable development exists. Monitoring tourism impact at the destination is a fundamental issue in order to respect the right pressure and to avoid negative effects in the destination and with the residents. There are several devices available and useful for different needs, then almost each kind of monitoring and analysis can be supported by the right tools. This knowledge should encourage local responsible to implement regular and meticulous surveys and analysis to manage the impact of tourism pressure and to respect the optimal carrying capacity of the site.

Big Data, Urban Citizenship, and the World Machine

Urban public spaces are increasingly sutured with a range of surveillance and sensor technologies claiming to enable new forms of “data based citizen participation,” but often leading to “function-creep,” whereby vast amounts of data are gathered, stored, and analysed in a broad application of urban surveillance. This kind of monitoring and capacity for surveillance connects with attempts by civic authorities to regulate, restrict, rebrand, and reframe urban public spaces and the communities located there. A direct consequence of the increasingly security driven, policed, privatised, and surveilled nature of public space is the exclusion or “unfavourable inclusion” of those considered flawed and unwelcome in the “spectacular” consumption spaces of many major urban centres. This paper considers alternative scenarios, suggesting that cities, places, and spaces and those who seek to use them, can be resilient in working to maintain and extend democratic freedoms and processes, calling sensor and surveillance systems to account. This will better inform the implementation of public policy around the design, build, and governance of public space. Moreover, understandings of urban citizenship, social rights, and participation in the sensor saturated, “Big Data” urban environment are interrogated through consideration of forms of citizenship extending the work of Marshall and Bottomore (1950) by looking at Insurgent and also Ecological citizenships.

A digital colorimetric analyzer for chemical measurements on the basis of polymeric optodes

A digital colorimetric analytical instrument is described that allows one to determine the concentrations of substances in solutions using transparent polymeric optodes, which are able to change their color depending on a reagent and the determined-substance content. The structural and functional diagrams of the instrument that operates under the control of a LabVIEW-based program are presented. The instrumental error of the analyzer is within 1%. The instrument operation was demonstrated by the example of determining the cobalt content in drinking water, which was taken from an outdoor water pump. The metrological characteristics of the instrument are not worse than those implemented with the standard solid-phase spectrophotometry method. The instrument can be used in the industrial, environmental, clinical, and other kinds of monitoring, where the rapid determination of the concentrations of various substances is required.