Wireless body area networks (WBANs) use RF communication for interconnection of tiny sensor nodes located in, on, or in close prox- imity to the human body. A WBAN enables physiological signals, physical activity, a...Wireless body area networks (WBANs) use RF communication for interconnection of tiny sensor nodes located in, on, or in close prox- imity to the human body. A WBAN enables physiological signals, physical activity, and body position to be continuously monitored.展开更多
Smart Industrial environments use the Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT)for their routine operations and transform their industrial operations with intelligent and driven approaches.However,IIoT devices are vulnerabl...Smart Industrial environments use the Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT)for their routine operations and transform their industrial operations with intelligent and driven approaches.However,IIoT devices are vulnerable to cyber threats and exploits due to their connectivity with the internet.Traditional signature-based IDS are effective in detecting known attacks,but they are unable to detect unknown emerging attacks.Therefore,there is the need for an IDS which can learn from data and detect new threats.Ensemble Machine Learning(ML)and individual Deep Learning(DL)based IDS have been developed,and these individual models achieved low accuracy;however,their performance can be improved with the ensemble stacking technique.In this paper,we have proposed a Deep Stacked Neural Network(DSNN)based IDS,which consists of two stacked Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)models as base learners and Extreme Gradient Boosting(XGB)as the meta learner.The proposed DSNN model was trained and evaluated with the next-generation dataset,TON_IoT.Several pre-processing techniques were applied to prepare a dataset for the model,including ensemble feature selection and the SMOTE technique.Accuracy,precision,recall,F1-score,and false positive rates were used to evaluate the performance of the proposed ensemble model.Our experimental results showed that the accuracy for binary classification is 99.61%,which is better than in the baseline individual DL and ML models.In addition,the model proposed for IDS has been compared with similar models.The proposed DSNN achieved better performance metrics than the other models.The proposed DSNN model will be used to develop enhanced IDS for threat mitigation in smart industrial environments.展开更多
In the environment of smart examination rooms, it is important to quickly and accurately detect abnormal behavior(human standing) for the construction of a smart campus. Based on deep learning, we propose an intellige...In the environment of smart examination rooms, it is important to quickly and accurately detect abnormal behavior(human standing) for the construction of a smart campus. Based on deep learning, we propose an intelligentstanding human detection (ISHD) method based on an improved single shot multibox detector to detect thetarget of standing human posture in the scene frame of exam room video surveillance at a specific examinationstage. ISHD combines the MobileNet network in a single shot multibox detector network, improves the posturefeature extractor of a standing person, merges prior knowledge, and introduces transfer learning in the trainingstrategy, which greatly reduces the computation amount, improves the detection accuracy, and reduces the trainingdifficulty. The experiment proves that the model proposed in this paper has a better detection ability for the smalland medium-sized standing human body posture in video test scenes on the EMV-2 dataset.展开更多
Smart education is the future and development direction of higher education.Taking the graduate course Crime and Police Theory as the research subject,the shortcomings of smart education,which include the lack of unde...Smart education is the future and development direction of higher education.Taking the graduate course Crime and Police Theory as the research subject,the shortcomings of smart education,which include the lack of understanding of the concept of smart education,the limited content structure of smart education,the poor cognition of smart education among teachers and students,and inadequate hardware and technical support for smart education,are systematically analyzed.In view of these shortcomings,several strategies are proposed,including improving the smart education curriculum development plan and management level,ensuring the construction quality of smart education projects,and raising funds for smart education construction from various sources.展开更多
Recently,Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces(RISs)have been introduced to provide the necessary flexibility for the design of the Smart Radio Environment(SRE),which can be optimally shaped to facilitate efficient sign...Recently,Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces(RISs)have been introduced to provide the necessary flexibility for the design of the Smart Radio Environment(SRE),which can be optimally shaped to facilitate efficient signal transmissions.In line with the concept of smart cities,SRE needs to be carefully designed with respect to the city infrastructure and utilization of resources.In this paper,we provide our vision on RIS integration into future Smart Cities by highlighting the potential technical,environmental,and economic motivations of RIS deployment in harmony with various ecosystems at a city level such as buildings facades.To this end,we are pointing out some scenarios for mitigating the conflict between RIS realization and the existing building facade’s ecosystems such as advertising display and solar cells on building walls.Also,in this fashion,the proposed vision supports a win-win relationship between all stakeholders of different ecosystems.This study presents guidelines for not only enabling seamless economically accepted RIS widespread utilization but,also more technically sounding SRE by supporting enhanced RIS features and more advanced applications that cannot be attained by traditional passive RIS.Moreover,based on the current research directions,we offer promising insights for cost-effective mass pro-duction through motivating two scenarios of“all on silicon”and“all as metasurface”fabrication technology.With this study,we aim to encourage the metasurface researchers,that for a broad deployment of the technical solution,economic,environmental,and other commercial requirements should be planned together,early on in the design phase.展开更多
Environmentally smart nitrogen(ESN)is polymer coated urea that is designed to release N in synchrony with crop requirements.Research on ESN was initiated in field crops in Ontario,Canada in 2006,initially on timothy,s...Environmentally smart nitrogen(ESN)is polymer coated urea that is designed to release N in synchrony with crop requirements.Research on ESN was initiated in field crops in Ontario,Canada in 2006,initially on timothy,spring wheat and winter wheat and later(till date)on bromegrass,grass mixtures(timothy,bromegrass,orchardgrass),other forages(barley,silage corn,oat,MasterGraze corn and sorghum Sudangrass)and canola.In winter wheat,in three out of six years ESN gave^0.6 MT/ha higher grain yield than urea.In spring wheat,in a relatively warm year with well-distributed rainfall,ESN produced 1 MT/ha higher grain yield than urea;averaged over three years,two-thirds N from urea and one-third N from ESN could be recommended.Two-thirds N from urea and one-third N from ESN gave^0.75 MT/ha extra seed yield as compared to urea alone at 180 kg N/ha in canola during 2016 to 2018.The entire N in winter/spring wheat could be applied in seed rows at seeding as ESN without any detrimental effect.The highest barley forage yields were recorded by urea at 50 kg N/ha+ESN at 20 kg N/ha which produced 1.2 MT/ha more forage yield than urea at 70 kg N/ha.Partial substitution of N from urea with ESN improved forage dry matter yield of timothy and MasterGraze corn.In MasterGraze corn 100 kg N/ha from urea+ESN(3:1 on N basis)equaled that with urea at 150 kg N/ha in dry matter yield,%protein and relative feed value(RFV),but not in silage corn and sorghum Sudangrass.At equal rates of N,single/fall application of ESN in timothy and bromegrass gave equal yield to urea applied in two splits in spring/summer.Spring wheat grain yields were the same with fall/spring application of ESN.ESN/urea+ESN(3:1 on N basis)increased the grain/forage protein content in almost all crops by 1%-2%points at an extra cost of only$6.0-10.5/ha(with urea+ESN in 3:1 ratio on N basis).The results indicate that ESN could improve both crop yields and quality,make better use of N/or increase N-use efficiency.The paper summarizes results from over 10 years and the results could be applicable globally under situations of high N losses from readily available N sources such as urea.展开更多
Internet of Things(IoT)security is the act of securing IoT devices and networks.IoT devices,including industrial machines,smart energy grids,and building automation,are extremely vulnerable.With the goal of shielding ...Internet of Things(IoT)security is the act of securing IoT devices and networks.IoT devices,including industrial machines,smart energy grids,and building automation,are extremely vulnerable.With the goal of shielding network systems from illegal access in cloud servers and IoT systems,Intrusion Detection Systems(IDSs)and Network-based Intrusion Prevention Systems(NBIPSs)are proposed in this study.An intrusion prevention system is proposed to realize NBIPS to safeguard top to bottom engineering.The proposed NBIPS inspects network activity streams to identify and counteract misuse instances.The NBIPS is usually located specifically behind a firewall,and it provides a reciprocal layer of investigation that adversely chooses unsafe substances.Networkbased IPS sensors can be installed either in an inline or a passive model.An inline sensor is installed to monitor the traffic passing through it.The sensors are installed to stop attacks by blocking the traffic using an IoT signature-based protocol.展开更多
文摘Wireless body area networks (WBANs) use RF communication for interconnection of tiny sensor nodes located in, on, or in close prox- imity to the human body. A WBAN enables physiological signals, physical activity, and body position to be continuously monitored.
文摘Smart Industrial environments use the Industrial Internet of Things(IIoT)for their routine operations and transform their industrial operations with intelligent and driven approaches.However,IIoT devices are vulnerable to cyber threats and exploits due to their connectivity with the internet.Traditional signature-based IDS are effective in detecting known attacks,but they are unable to detect unknown emerging attacks.Therefore,there is the need for an IDS which can learn from data and detect new threats.Ensemble Machine Learning(ML)and individual Deep Learning(DL)based IDS have been developed,and these individual models achieved low accuracy;however,their performance can be improved with the ensemble stacking technique.In this paper,we have proposed a Deep Stacked Neural Network(DSNN)based IDS,which consists of two stacked Convolutional Neural Network(CNN)models as base learners and Extreme Gradient Boosting(XGB)as the meta learner.The proposed DSNN model was trained and evaluated with the next-generation dataset,TON_IoT.Several pre-processing techniques were applied to prepare a dataset for the model,including ensemble feature selection and the SMOTE technique.Accuracy,precision,recall,F1-score,and false positive rates were used to evaluate the performance of the proposed ensemble model.Our experimental results showed that the accuracy for binary classification is 99.61%,which is better than in the baseline individual DL and ML models.In addition,the model proposed for IDS has been compared with similar models.The proposed DSNN achieved better performance metrics than the other models.The proposed DSNN model will be used to develop enhanced IDS for threat mitigation in smart industrial environments.
基金supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China 62102147National Science Foundation of Hunan Province 2022JJ30424,2022JJ50253,and 2022JJ30275+2 种基金Scientific Research Project of Hunan Provincial Department of Education 21B0616 and 21B0738Hunan University of Arts and Sciences Ph.D.Start-Up Project BSQD02,20BSQD13the Construct Program of Applied Characteristic Discipline in Hunan University of Science and Engineering.
文摘In the environment of smart examination rooms, it is important to quickly and accurately detect abnormal behavior(human standing) for the construction of a smart campus. Based on deep learning, we propose an intelligentstanding human detection (ISHD) method based on an improved single shot multibox detector to detect thetarget of standing human posture in the scene frame of exam room video surveillance at a specific examinationstage. ISHD combines the MobileNet network in a single shot multibox detector network, improves the posturefeature extractor of a standing person, merges prior knowledge, and introduces transfer learning in the trainingstrategy, which greatly reduces the computation amount, improves the detection accuracy, and reduces the trainingdifficulty. The experiment proves that the model proposed in this paper has a better detection ability for the smalland medium-sized standing human body posture in video test scenes on the EMV-2 dataset.
基金supported by the“Postgraduate Research&Practice Innovation Program of Jiangsu Province”(No.JGKT22_C053)and“Qinglan Project”for Jiangsu Province.
文摘Smart education is the future and development direction of higher education.Taking the graduate course Crime and Police Theory as the research subject,the shortcomings of smart education,which include the lack of understanding of the concept of smart education,the limited content structure of smart education,the poor cognition of smart education among teachers and students,and inadequate hardware and technical support for smart education,are systematically analyzed.In view of these shortcomings,several strategies are proposed,including improving the smart education curriculum development plan and management level,ensuring the construction quality of smart education projects,and raising funds for smart education construction from various sources.
文摘Recently,Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces(RISs)have been introduced to provide the necessary flexibility for the design of the Smart Radio Environment(SRE),which can be optimally shaped to facilitate efficient signal transmissions.In line with the concept of smart cities,SRE needs to be carefully designed with respect to the city infrastructure and utilization of resources.In this paper,we provide our vision on RIS integration into future Smart Cities by highlighting the potential technical,environmental,and economic motivations of RIS deployment in harmony with various ecosystems at a city level such as buildings facades.To this end,we are pointing out some scenarios for mitigating the conflict between RIS realization and the existing building facade’s ecosystems such as advertising display and solar cells on building walls.Also,in this fashion,the proposed vision supports a win-win relationship between all stakeholders of different ecosystems.This study presents guidelines for not only enabling seamless economically accepted RIS widespread utilization but,also more technically sounding SRE by supporting enhanced RIS features and more advanced applications that cannot be attained by traditional passive RIS.Moreover,based on the current research directions,we offer promising insights for cost-effective mass pro-duction through motivating two scenarios of“all on silicon”and“all as metasurface”fabrication technology.With this study,we aim to encourage the metasurface researchers,that for a broad deployment of the technical solution,economic,environmental,and other commercial requirements should be planned together,early on in the design phase.
文摘Environmentally smart nitrogen(ESN)is polymer coated urea that is designed to release N in synchrony with crop requirements.Research on ESN was initiated in field crops in Ontario,Canada in 2006,initially on timothy,spring wheat and winter wheat and later(till date)on bromegrass,grass mixtures(timothy,bromegrass,orchardgrass),other forages(barley,silage corn,oat,MasterGraze corn and sorghum Sudangrass)and canola.In winter wheat,in three out of six years ESN gave^0.6 MT/ha higher grain yield than urea.In spring wheat,in a relatively warm year with well-distributed rainfall,ESN produced 1 MT/ha higher grain yield than urea;averaged over three years,two-thirds N from urea and one-third N from ESN could be recommended.Two-thirds N from urea and one-third N from ESN gave^0.75 MT/ha extra seed yield as compared to urea alone at 180 kg N/ha in canola during 2016 to 2018.The entire N in winter/spring wheat could be applied in seed rows at seeding as ESN without any detrimental effect.The highest barley forage yields were recorded by urea at 50 kg N/ha+ESN at 20 kg N/ha which produced 1.2 MT/ha more forage yield than urea at 70 kg N/ha.Partial substitution of N from urea with ESN improved forage dry matter yield of timothy and MasterGraze corn.In MasterGraze corn 100 kg N/ha from urea+ESN(3:1 on N basis)equaled that with urea at 150 kg N/ha in dry matter yield,%protein and relative feed value(RFV),but not in silage corn and sorghum Sudangrass.At equal rates of N,single/fall application of ESN in timothy and bromegrass gave equal yield to urea applied in two splits in spring/summer.Spring wheat grain yields were the same with fall/spring application of ESN.ESN/urea+ESN(3:1 on N basis)increased the grain/forage protein content in almost all crops by 1%-2%points at an extra cost of only$6.0-10.5/ha(with urea+ESN in 3:1 ratio on N basis).The results indicate that ESN could improve both crop yields and quality,make better use of N/or increase N-use efficiency.The paper summarizes results from over 10 years and the results could be applicable globally under situations of high N losses from readily available N sources such as urea.
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文摘Internet of Things(IoT)security is the act of securing IoT devices and networks.IoT devices,including industrial machines,smart energy grids,and building automation,are extremely vulnerable.With the goal of shielding network systems from illegal access in cloud servers and IoT systems,Intrusion Detection Systems(IDSs)and Network-based Intrusion Prevention Systems(NBIPSs)are proposed in this study.An intrusion prevention system is proposed to realize NBIPS to safeguard top to bottom engineering.The proposed NBIPS inspects network activity streams to identify and counteract misuse instances.The NBIPS is usually located specifically behind a firewall,and it provides a reciprocal layer of investigation that adversely chooses unsafe substances.Networkbased IPS sensors can be installed either in an inline or a passive model.An inline sensor is installed to monitor the traffic passing through it.The sensors are installed to stop attacks by blocking the traffic using an IoT signature-based protocol.