A DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM FOR ACCELERATOR MASS SPECTROMETRY

A single and dual parameter data acquisition, ion beam measurements and control system for accelerator mass spectrometry is described. The system hardware has been constructed with the advantage of the lower cost and higher reliability. It is provided with varieties of functions such as selecting acquisition mode carrying out the multiple display, analyzing data and especially viewing isometric spectrum at different directions. It can also be used for ordinary nuclear spectrum system.

Design of Gamma Spectrum Data Acquisition and Processing System Based on ARM / DSP

Research for detecting or obtaining radionuclide by gamma energy spectrum data acquisition and process system is one of the key issues about intelligent measurement of gamma-ray spectrum. For this reason, a software and hardware implementation schematic design based on ARM ( Advanced RISC Machines) + DSP ( Digital Signal Processor) architecture for gamma energy spectrum data acquisition and processing system is proposed. The paper discusses in detail some key technologies such as communication interface design between microcontroller ARM and digital signal processor DSP,distribution scheduling under multi-task in the ARM-Linux,DSP handling procedures for multi-channel A / D high-speed sample. At the same time,because the traditional Gaussian fitting to determine the boundary of peak is not ideal,it puts forward a weighting factor of Gaussian function least squares fitting realize boundary determined. Finally gamma-spectrum data from sodium iodide NaI( TI) scintillation detector is tested and processed in the new system. The results show that gamma energy spectrum data acquisition and process system is perfect functionality, stable and convergence in unimodal. Compared with data from conventional energy spectrometers,the system can keep better energy resolution in a wide range of pulse pass rate.

A General Framework for Intelligent IoT Data Acquisition and Sharing in an Untrusted Environment Based on Blockchain

Traditional Io T systems suffer from high equipment management costs and difficulty in trustworthy data sharing caused by centralization.Blockchain provides a feasible research direction to solve these problems. The main challenge at this stage is to integrate the blockchain from the resourceconstrained Io T devices and ensure the data of Io T system is credible. We provide a general framework for intelligent Io T data acquisition and sharing in an untrusted environment based on the blockchain, where gateways become Oracles. A distributed Oracle network based on Byzantine Fault Tolerant algorithm is used to provide trusted data for the blockchain to make intelligent Io T data trustworthy. An aggregation contract is deployed to collect data from various Oracle and share the credible data to all on-chain users. We also propose a gateway data aggregation scheme based on the REST API event publishing/subscribing mechanism which uses SQL to achieve flexible data aggregation. The experimental results show that the proposed scheme can alleviate the problem of limited performance of Io T equipment, make data reliable, and meet the diverse data needs on the chain.

Blockchain-Based Data Acquisition with Privacy Protection in UAV Cluster Network

The unmanned aerial vehicle(UAV)self-organizing network is composed of multiple UAVs with autonomous capabilities according to a certain structure and scale,which can quickly and accurately complete complex tasks such as path planning,situational awareness,and information transmission.Due to the openness of the network,the UAV cluster is more vulnerable to passive eavesdropping,active interference,and other attacks,which makes the system face serious security threats.This paper proposes a Blockchain-Based Data Acquisition(BDA)scheme with privacy protection to address the data privacy and identity authentication problems in the UAV-assisted data acquisition scenario.Each UAV cluster has an aggregate unmanned aerial vehicle(AGV)that can batch-verify the acquisition reports within its administrative domain.After successful verification,AGV adds its signcrypted ciphertext to the aggregation and uploads it to the blockchain for storage.There are two chains in the blockchain that store the public key information of registered entities and the aggregated reports,respectively.The security analysis shows that theBDAconstruction can protect the privacy and authenticity of acquisition data,and effectively resist a malicious key generation center and the public-key substitution attack.It also provides unforgeability to acquisition reports under the Elliptic Curve Discrete Logarithm Problem(ECDLP)assumption.The performance analysis demonstrates that compared with other schemes,the proposed BDA construction has lower computational complexity and is more suitable for the UAV cluster network with limited computing power and storage capacity.

Cyber Resilience through Real-Time Threat Analysis in Information Security

This paper examines how cybersecurity is developing and how it relates to more conventional information security. Although information security and cyber security are sometimes used synonymously, this study contends that they are not the same. The concept of cyber security is explored, which goes beyond protecting information resources to include a wider variety of assets, including people [1]. Protecting information assets is the main goal of traditional information security, with consideration to the human element and how people fit into the security process. On the other hand, cyber security adds a new level of complexity, as people might unintentionally contribute to or become targets of cyberattacks. This aspect presents moral questions since it is becoming more widely accepted that society has a duty to protect weaker members of society, including children [1]. The study emphasizes how important cyber security is on a larger scale, with many countries creating plans and laws to counteract cyberattacks. Nevertheless, a lot of these sources frequently neglect to define the differences or the relationship between information security and cyber security [1]. The paper focus on differentiating between cybersecurity and information security on a larger scale. The study also highlights other areas of cybersecurity which includes defending people, social norms, and vital infrastructure from threats that arise from online in addition to information and technology protection. It contends that ethical issues and the human factor are becoming more and more important in protecting assets in the digital age, and that cyber security is a paradigm shift in this regard [1].

FPGA SoC Based Multichannel Data Acquisition System with Network Control Module

Normally, Data acquisition (DAQ) is used to acquire the signals from different devices like sensors, transducers, actuators etc. The data acquisition is also used to analyze the signals, digitizing the signals and acquiring the signals from different inputs. The main drawbacks in data acquisition system are data storage, hardware size and remote monitoring. The System-on-Chip Field Programmable Gate Array (SoC-FPGA) is used in the proposed system in the aim to reduce the hardware and memory size. Further to provide remote monitoring with Ethernet/Wi-Fi, the Network Control Module (NCM) is integrated with Data acquisition and processing module for the communication between the systems. This developed system achieves high resolution with memory reduction, reduced hardware size, fast remote monitoring and control. It is used for real time processing in DAQ and signal processing. For fault tolerance and portability, the full system reconfigurability based FPGA acts as the best solution and the system can be reused with different configurations. The control of data acquisition and the subsequent management of data are coded in LabVIEW. LabVIEW tool is used to design and develop a four-channel Data Acquisition and Processing (DAQP) unit. National Instruments Data Acquisition (NIDAQ) and National Instruments Field Programmable Gate Array (NIFPGA) are used to test and implement the design for real time processing. This is designed to provide high accuracy, storage and portability.

Improvements of the Computerized Data Acquisition System for 25MWt Experimental Facility of Coal-fired MHD Generator

This paper introduces the design and development of a new computerized data acquisition system for the coal fired magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) electrical power generation experiments. Compared to the previous system, it has a higher sampling rate and an improved simultaneity performance. It also improves the data collection method and sensor design for the measurement of Faraday voltages and Faraday currents. The system has been successfully used in many regular MHD generator tests. It provides an excellent base for the future research and development of the Coal fired MHD electrical power generation.

Control and data acquisition system for collinear laser spectroscopy experiments

A control and data acquisition system was implemented for the recently developed collinear laser spectroscopy setup.This system is dedicated to data recording,storage,processing,monitoring of the beam intensity and energy,and visualization of various spectra.In comparison to the conventional resonance nuclear reaction system,the key technique is the precise synchronization of the detected counts with the actual scanning voltage(or probing laser frequency).The functions of the system were tested by measuring the hyperfine structure spectra of stable calcium(e.g.,^(40)Ca^(+))and radioactive potassium(e.g.,^(38)K)in the bunched and continuous modes,respectively.This system will be routinely applied and further improved in subsequent laser spectroscopy experiments on unstable isotopes at the Beijing Radioactive Ion-beam Facility(BRIF).

Ultra-high Speed and Dual-Channel Data Acquisition Card with IGSPS Based on PXI Bus

This paper discusses the chief techniques and design principles of an ultra-high speed and dual-channel data acquisition card based on PXI bus, using FPGA (Field Programmable Gate Array) as logic controller cell. The instmment consists of pre-pro- cess circuit, A/D converter, SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic random access memory), and control circuit integrated in FPGA. It can achieve allowing up to 1000MHz real-time sampling rate. The test result indicates that the system works normally and the system design is successful.

Quantitative Comparative Study of the Performance of Lossless Compression Methods Based on a Text Data Model

Data compression plays a key role in optimizing the use of memory storage space and also reducing latency in data transmission. In this paper, we are interested in lossless compression techniques because their performance is exploited with lossy compression techniques for images and videos generally using a mixed approach. To achieve our intended objective, which is to study the performance of lossless compression methods, we first carried out a literature review, a summary of which enabled us to select the most relevant, namely the following: arithmetic coding, LZW, Tunstall’s algorithm, RLE, BWT, Huffman coding and Shannon-Fano. Secondly, we designed a purposive text dataset with a repeating pattern in order to test the behavior and effectiveness of the selected compression techniques. Thirdly, we designed the compression algorithms and developed the programs (scripts) in Matlab in order to test their performance. Finally, following the tests conducted on relevant data that we constructed according to a deliberate model, the results show that these methods presented in order of performance are very satisfactory:- LZW- Arithmetic coding- Tunstall algorithm- BWT + RLELikewise, it appears that on the one hand, the performance of certain techniques relative to others is strongly linked to the sequencing and/or recurrence of symbols that make up the message, and on the other hand, to the cumulative time of encoding and decoding.

Development of Data Acquisition Card Driver for ICRH System on EAST

Presented in this paper is the development of the driver for the data acquisition card with a peripheral component interconnection （PCI） local bus on the ion cyclotron range of frequency heating （1CRH） system. The driver is mainly aimed at the embedded VxWorks system （real-time operating system） which is widely used in various fields of real-time systems. An efficient way is employed to develop this driver, which will advance the real-time control of the ICRH system on the experimental advanced superconductor tokamak （EAST）. The driver is designed using the TORNADO integrated development environment （IDE）, and implemented in C plus language. The details include the hardware configuration, analogue/digital （A/D） and digital/analogue （D/A） conversion, input and output （I/O） operation of the driver to support over five cards. The data acquisition card can be manipulated in a low-level program and meet the requirements of A/D conversion and D/A outputs.

IoT Based Greenhouse Real-Time Data Acquisition and Visualization through Message Queuing Telemetry Transfer (MQTT) Protocol

One of the most indispensable needs of life is food and its worldwide availability endorsement has made agriculture an essential sector in recent years. As the technology evolved, the need to maintain a good and suitable climate in the greenhouse became imperative to ensure that the indoor plants are more productive hence the agriculture sector was not left behind. That notwithstanding, the introduction and deployment of IoT technology in agriculture solves many problems and increases crop production. This paper focuses mainly on the deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) in acquiring real- time data of environmental parameters in the greenhouse. Various IoT technologies that can be applicable in greenhouse monitoring system was presented and in the proposed model, a method is developed to send the air temperature and humidity data obtained by the DHT11 sensor to the cloud using an ESP8266-based NodeMCU and firstly to the cloud platform Thing- Speak, and then to Adafruit.IO in which MQTT protocol was used for the reception of sensor data to the application layer referred as Human-Machine Interface. The system has been completely implemented in an actual prototype, allowing the acquiring of data and the publisher/subscriber concept used for communication. The data is published with a broker’s aid, which is responsible for transferring messages to the intended clients based on topic choice. Lastly, the functionality testing of MQTT was carried out and the results showed that the messages are successfully published.

Cyberattack Ramifications, The Hidden Cost of a Security Breach

In this in-depth exploration, I delve into the complex implications and costs of cybersecurity breaches. Venturing beyond just the immediate repercussions, the research unearths both the overt and concealed long-term consequences that businesses encounter. This study integrates findings from various research, including quantitative reports, drawing upon real-world incidents faced by both small and large enterprises. This investigation emphasizes the profound intangible costs, such as trade name devaluation and potential damage to brand reputation, which can persist long after the breach. By collating insights from industry experts and a myriad of research, the study provides a comprehensive perspective on the profound, multi-dimensional impacts of cybersecurity incidents. The overarching aim is to underscore the often-underestimated scope and depth of these breaches, emphasizing the entire timeline post-incident and the urgent need for fortified preventative and reactive measures in the digital domain.

Ending Privacy’s Gremlin: Stopping the Data-Broker Loophole to the Fourth Amendment’s Search Warrant Requirement

Advances in technology require upgrades in the law. One such area involves data brokers, which have thus far gone unregulated. Data brokers use artificial intelligence to aggregate information into data profiles about individual Americans derived from consumer use of the internet and connected devices. Data profiles are then sold for profit. Government investigators use a legal loophole to purchase this data instead of obtaining a search warrant, which the Fourth Amendment would otherwise require. Consumers have lacked a reasonable means to fight or correct the information data brokers collect. Americans may not even be aware of the risks of data aggregation, which upends the test of reasonable expectations used in a search warrant analysis. Data aggregation should be controlled and regulated, which is the direction some privacy laws take. Legislatures must step forward to safeguard against shadowy data-profiling practices, whether abroad or at home. In the meantime, courts can modify their search warrant analysis by including data privacy principles.

An on-line data acquisition system of oscilloscope-embedded input/output controller for cavity BPM measurement

Cavity beam position monitor(BPM) is widely used in a precise electron beam position measurement. Based on high performance oscilloscope-embedded EPICS input/output controller,we developed an on-line cavity BPM signal processing system for fast data acquisition solution when designing a cavity BPM.Also,methods for extracting the position information from cavity pickup signals and calibration algorithm are included in this solution.

Data acquisition and control system for lead-bismuth loop KYLIN-Ⅱ-M

Among different heavy liquid metals(HLMs), lead-bismuth eutectic(LBE) is considered at present as a potential candidate for the coolant of new generation fast reactors(critical and subcritical) and for liquid spallation neutron sources and accelerator driven systems(ADS). A high temperature liquid LBE loop, KYLIN-II-M,has been built to study the characteristics of corrosion and fluidity of LBE at the Institute of Nuclear Energy Safety Technology. However, due to the sensors and execution components of the loop work at high temperatures and in severely corrosive environments, the reliability and security of the data acquisition and control system(DACS) of KYLIN-II-M face challenges during the loop operation. In order to meet the urgent needs for KYLIN-II-M's long-term stable operation, a virtualization and redundancy control system has been developed.The onsite operation result shows that the DACS is stable and reliable. In this paper, the experimental results are described in detail.

Embedded Data Acquisition in Vehicle Electronic System

The embedded data acquistition technology in vehicle electronic system was discussed. This technology adopts the parallel working mode, gets vehicle electronic system data by communication. This technology can provide us a lot of information on the electronic control unit, is very useful for the development of the vehicle electronic system, and can be used in diagnosis. The key points to this technology are the timer interrupt, A/D interrupt, communication interrupt and real time operation. This technology has been validated by the application in the electronic control mechanism transmission shifting system of the tank.

A Review of Data Acquisition System based on LabVIEW

With the continuous development and expansion of automotive industry, car safety problems are widely concerned by most of us. In order to make it easier to adjust car′s real-time body posture, it is necessary to design a real-time data acquisition system, thus reducing the number of casualties in normal driving. A brief account of the development status of data acquisition system at home and abroad, and the concept, principle,function of virtual instrument platform are given. The advantages and disadvantages of the data acquisitionsystem, based on LabVIEW in different methods of data acquisition, are analyzed and compared, and put forward some improvements and optimization, so the real-time data acquisition system can meet the requirement of adjusting the state of the vehicle, improving real-time of data acquisition and processing. Finally, it indicates the development direction and prospect of data acquisition system based on LabVIEW.

Low-cost Remote Rain and Stream Data Acquisition System for Mapping of Potential Micro-Hydro Sites

The stream and rain data acquisition system presented in this paper makes the mapping of hydro potentials in the region or of the country economically and practically possible. Moreover, it can also serve as a flood warning system.