MagneFi: Multiuser, Multi-Building and Multi-Floor Geomagnetic Field Dataset for Indoor Positioning

Indoor positioning and localization have emerged as a potential research area during the last few years owing to the wide proliferation of smartphones and the inception of location-attached services for the consumer industry.Due to the importance of precise location information,several positioning technologies are adopted such as Wi-Fi,ultrawideband,infrared,radio frequency identification,Bluetooth beacons,pedestrian dead reckoning,and magnetic field,etc.Although Wi-Fi and magnetic field-based positioning are more attractive concerning the deployment of Wi-Fi access points and ubiquity of magnetic field data,the latter is preferred as it does not require any additional infrastructure as other approaches do.Despite the advantages of magnetic field positioning,comparing the performance of positioning and localization algorithms is very difficult due to the lack of good public datasets that cover various aspects of the magnetic field data.Available datasets do not provide the data to analyze the impact of device heterogeneity,user heights,and time-specific magnetic field mutation.Moreover,multi-floor and multibuilding data are available for the evaluation of state-of-the-art approaches.To overcome the above-mentioned issues,this study presents multi-user,multidevice,multi-building magnetic field data which is collected over a longer period.The dataset contains the data from five different smartphones including Samsung Galaxy S8,S9,A8,LG G6,and LG G7 for three geographically separated buildings.Three users including one female and two males collected the data for various path geometry and data collection scenarios.Moreover,the data contains the magnetic field samples collected on stairs to test multifloor localization.Besides the magnetic field data,the data from inertial measurement unit sensors like the accelerometer,motion sensors,and barometer is provided as well.

Noisy ECG Signal Data Transformation to Augment Classification Accuracy

In this era of electronic health,healthcare data is very important because it contains information about human survival.In addition,the Internet of Things(IoT)revolution has redefined modern healthcare systems and management by providing continuous monitoring.In this case,the data related to the heart is more important and requires proper analysis.For the analysis of heart data,Electrocardiogram(ECG)is used.In this work,machine learning techniques,such as adaptive boosting(AdaBoost)is used for detecting normal sinus rhythm,atrial fibrillation(AF),and noise in ECG signals to improve the classification accuracy.The proposed model uses ECG signals as input and provides results in the form of the presence or absence of disease AF,and classifies other signals as normal,other,or noise.This article derives different features from the signal using Maximal Information Coefficient(MIC)and minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance(mRMR)technique,and then classifies them based on their attributes.Since the ECG contains some kind of noise and irregular data streams so the purpose of this study is to remove artifacts from the ECG signal by deploying the method of Second-Order-Section(SOS)(filter)and correctly classify them.Several features were extracted to improve the detection of ECG data.Compared with existing methods,this work gives promising results and can help improve the classification accuracy of the ECG signals.

Application of BCP-2007 and UBC-97 in seismic vulnerability assessment of gravity designed RC buildings in Pakistan

Recent earthquakes in Pakistan （Kashmir 2005, Balochistan 2008, and Balochistan 2013） revealed the vulnerability of existing building stock and the deficiencies in the then prevalent Pakistan Seismic Code （PSC-86 （1986））. This study investigates, through an analytical framework, the seismic vulnerability of these and other such buildings, in accordance with the newly developed Building Code of Pakistan - Seismic Provisions 2007 （BCP-SP 07）. Detailed failure mode is presented for buildings designed as per the new code. Collapse of structures is predicted for only 8% increase in PGA after moderate damage. A previously developed method, based on Eurocode-8 （2004）, is used as baseline. A deficient reinforced concrete frame, typical to local building practices, is analyzed and assessed for vulnerability using the BCP- SP 07 （2007） framework. A comparison is drawn for the same building, based on Eurocode- 8 （2004）. Derived vulnerability curves show that the previous framework overestimated the damage and hence the vulnerability. Comparison of vulnerability parameters with previous studies show slight difference in performance of buildings.