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The Metering Bus, also known as M-Bus, is a European standard EN13757-3 for reading out metering devices, like electricity, water, gas, or heat meters. Although real-life M-Bus networks can reach a significant size and complexity, only very simple protocol analyzers are available to observe and maintain such networks. In order to provide developers and installers with the ability to analyze the real bus signals easily, a web-based monitoring tool for the M-Bus has been designed and implemented. Combined with a physical bus interface it allows for measuring and recording the bus signals. For this at first a circuit has been developed, which transforms the voltage and current-modulated M-Bus signals to a voltage signal that can be read by a standard ADC and processed by an MCU. The bus signals and packets are displayed using a web server, which analyzes and classifies the frame fragments. As an additional feature an oscilloscope functionality is included in order to visualize the physical signal on the bus. This paper describes the development of the read-out circuit for the Wired M-Bus and the data recovery.
Towards a gamification of industrial production: a comparative study in sheltered work environments
(2015)
Using video game elements to improve user experience and user engagement in non-game applications is called "gamification". This method of enriching human-computer interaction has been applied successfully in education, health and general business processes. However, it has not been established in industrial production so far.
After discussing the requirements specific for the production domain we present two workplaces augmented with gamification. Both implementations are based on a common framework for context-aware assistive systems but exemplify different approaches: the visualization of work performance is complex in System 1 and simple in System 2.
Based on two studies in sheltered work environments with impaired workers, we analyze and compare the systems' effects on work and on workers. We show that gamification leads to a speed-accuracy-tradeoff if no quality-related feedback is provided. Another finding is that there is a highly significant raise in acceptance if a straightforward visualization approach for gamification is used.
Design approaches for the gamification of production environments: a study focusing on acceptance
(2015)
Gamification is an ever more popular method to increase motivation and user experience in real-world settings. It is widely used in the areas of marketing, health and education. However, in production environments, it is a new concept. To be accepted in the industrial domain, it has to be seamlessly integrated in the regular work processes.
In this work we make the following contributions to the field of gamification in production: (1) we analyze the state of the art and introduce domain-specific requirements; (2) we present two implementations gamifying production based on alternative design approaches; (3) these are evaluated in a sheltered work organization. The comparative study focuses acceptance, motivation and perceived happiness.
The results reveal that a pyramid design showing each work process as a step on the way towards a cup at the top is strongly preferred to a more abstract approach where the processes are represented by a single circle and two bars.
A wet-chemical treatment system for electrochemically coating flat substrates with coating material, has having a basin for receiving an electrolyte, a transporting means, by means of which the flat substrates can be transported through the electrolyte horizontally, and at least one contact element which comprises a shaft having an axis of rotation and a cylindrical circumferential surface suitable for rolling on the substrate, wherein the circumferential surface comprises at least one electrically insulated segment and at least one electrically conductive segment which can be connected to a current source in such a way that the polarity can be reversed, wherein the axis of rotation of the contact element is positioned above the surface of the electrolyte, and wherein the contact element is designed as a consumable electrode.
With projectors and depth cameras getting cheaper, assistive systems in industrial manufacturing are becoming increasingly ubiquitous. As these systems are able to continuously provide feedback using in-situ projection, they are perfectly suited for supporting impaired workers in assembling products. However, so far little research has been conducted to understand the effects of projected instructions on impaired workers. In this paper, we identify common visualizations used by assistive systems for impaired workers and introduce a simple contour visualization. Through a user study with 64 impaired participants we compare the different visualizations to a control group using no visual feedback in a real world assembly scenario, i.e. assembling a clamp. Furthermore, we introduce a simplified version of the NASA-TLX questionnaire designed for impaired participants. The results reveal that the contour visualization is significantly better in perceived mental load and perceived performance of the participants. Further, participants made fewer errors and were able to assemble the clamp faster using the contour visualization compared to a video visualization, a pictorial visualization and a control group using no visual feedback.
The invention concerns a method for spectrum monitoring a given frequency band, in which the spectral power density (S(f)) within the given frequency band is determined for all noise and signal components in the frequency band and, in order to detect the presence of one or more signals within the given frequency band, it is evaluated whether the spectral power density (S(f)) exceeds a threshold value (&lgr;). According to the invention, the threshold value (&lgr;) is calculated in accordance with an estimation of a distribution density (hR(S)) for the noise component of the spectral power density (S(f)) within the given frequency band and in accordance with a predefined value for the false-alarm probability (Pfa).
In this work we provide an overview of gamification, i.e. the application of methods from game design to enrich non-gaming processes. The contribution is divided into five subsections: an introduction focusing on the progression of gamification through the hype cycle in the recent years (1), a brief introduction to gamification mechanics (1) and an overview of the state of the art in established areas (3). The focus is a discussion of more recent attempts of gamification in service and production (4). We also discuss the ethical implications (5) and the future perspectives (6) of gamified business processes. Gamification has been successfully applied in the domains education (serious games) and health (exergames) and is spreading to other areas. In recent years there have been various attempts to “gamify” business processes. While the first efforts date back as far as the collection of miles in frequent flyer programs, we will portray some of the more recent and comprehensive software-based approaches in the service industry, e.g. the gamification of processes in sales and marketing. We discuss their accomplishments as well as their social and ethical implicatio. Finally a very recent approach is presented: the application of gamification in the domain of industrial production. We discuss the special requirements in this domain and the effects on the business level and on the users. We conclude with a prognosis on the future development of gamification.
It is the purpose of this paper to address ethical issues concerning the development and application of Assistive Technology at Workplaces (ATW). We shall give a concrete technical concept how such technology might be constructed and propose eight technical functions it should adopt in order to serve its purpose. Then, we discuss the normative questions why one should use ATW, and by what means. We argue that ATW is good to the extent that it ensures social inclusion and consider four normative domains in which its worth might consists in. In addition, we insist that ATW must satisfy two requirements of good workplaces, which we specify as (a) an exploitation restraint and (b) a duty of care.
The Effect of Gamification on Emotions - The Potential of Facial Recognition in Work Environmentsns
(2015)
Gamification means using video game elements to improve user experience and user engagement in non-game services and applications. This article describes the effects when gamification is used in work contexts. Here we focus on industrial production. We describe how facial recognition can be employed to measure and quantify the effect of gamification on the users’ emotions.
The quantitative results show that gamification significantly reduces both task completion time and error rate. However, the results concerning the effect on emotions are surprising. Without gamification there are not only more unhappy expressions (as to expect) but surprisingly also more happy expressions. Both findings are statistically highly significant.
We think that in redundant production work there are generally more (negative) emotions involved. When there is no gamification happy and unhappy balance each other. In contrast gamification seems to shift the spectrum of moods towards “relaxed”. Especially for work environments such a calm attitude is a desirable effect on the users. Thus our findings support the use of gamification.
Video game developers continuously increase the degree of details and realism in games to create more human-like characters. But increasing the human-likeness becomes a problem in regard to the Uncanny Valley phenomenon that predicts negative feelings of people towards artificial entities. We developed an avatar creation system to examine preferences towards parametrized faces and explore in regard to the Uncanny Valley phenomenon how people design faces that they like or reject. Based on the 3D model of the Caucasian average face, 420 participants generate 1341 faces of positively and negatively associated concepts of both gender. The results show that some characteristics associated with the Uncanny Valley are used to create villains or repulsive faces. Heroic faces get attractive features but are rarely and little stylized. A voluntarily designed face is very similar to the heroine. This indicates that there is a tendency of users to design feminine and attractive but still credible faces.
Energietechnik
(2015)
Kurz und prägant werden die Energieumwandlungsprozesse dargestellt. Die Schwerpunkte reichen von der kompletten Beschreibung der nachhaltigen, erneuerbaren Energietechniken, über Gas- und Dampfturbinen-Kraftwerke sowie Kraft-Wärme-Kälte-Kopplungsanlagen bis hin zur Energieverteilung und zum Kyoto-Protokoll. Zu allen Kapiteln gibt es Aufgaben mit vollständigen Lösungen im Anhang. In der aktuellen Auflage wurden in den Kapiteln 3 und 15 die Zahlenwerte aktualisiert. Kapitel 9 wurde entsprechend der neuen Anbieterstruktur überarbeitet und Kapitel 10 um die Adsorptionstechniken ergänzt. Die Kapitel 17-20 wurden vollständig überarbeitet und stellen den aktuellen Stand der globalen politischen Aspekte dar.
Recent advances in motion recognition allow the development of Context-Aware Assistive Systems (CAAS) for industrial workplaces that go far beyond the state of the art: they can capture a user's movement in real-time and provide adequate feedback. Thus, CAAS can address important questions, like Which part is assembled next? Where do I fasten it? Did an error occur? Did I process the part in time? These new CAAS can also make use of projectors to display the feedback within the corresponding area on the workspace (in-situ). Furthermore, the real-time analysis of work processes allows the implementation of motivating elements (gamification) into the repetitive work routines that are common in manual production. In this chapter, the authors first describe the relevant backgrounds from industry, computer science, and psychology. They then briefly introduce a precedent implementation of CAAS and its inherent problems. The authors then provide a generic model of CAAS and finally present a revised and improved implementation.
Zeitungsverlage haben jahrzehntelang in einem sehr stabilen Marktumfeld agiert, sodass die Kunst darin bestand, das Umfeld möglichst weiterhin konstant zu halten und die bestehenden Märkte und Produkte zu optimieren. Die neuen Medien- und Produktformen, die in dieser Zeit im Publikums- und Werbemarkt aufkamen, wurden bei den lokalen und regionalen Verlagen in das eigene Angebotsspektrum integriert, sodass am Ende im Regelfall ein oftmals kleiner, aber hochprofitabler Medienkonzern ins Internetzeitalter eintrat. Hier kommen nun zunehmend Anforderungen an digitale Geschäftsmodelle auf, die neue Geschäftsmodelle erfordern, die skalierbar sind.
With major intellectual properties there is a long tradition of cross-media value chains -- usually starting with books and comics, then transgressing to film and TV and finally reaching interactive media like video games. In recent years the situation has changed: (1) smaller productions start to establish cross media value chains; (2) there is a trend from sequential towards parallel content production. In this work we describe how the production of a historic documentary takes a cross media approach right from the start. We analyze how this impacts the content creation pipelines with respect to story, audience and realization. The focus of the case study is the impact on the production of a documentary game. In a second step we reflect on the experiences gained so far and derive recommendations for future small-scale cross media productions.
Verfahren zur Bestimmung von Eigenschaften einer Rohrleitung, insbesondere der Position eines Abzweigs einer Abwasserrohrleitung, (a) bei dem ein Schallwellensendesignal (S, S') an einem vorgegebenen Einspeisepunkt in die Rohrleitung (1) eingespeist wird und sich in axialer Richtung der Rohrleitung (1) ausbreitet, (b) wobei das Frequenzspektrum des Schallwellensendesignals (S, S') eine Frequenzkomponente oder einen Spektralbereich aufweist, dessen maximale Frequenz kleiner ist als die untere Grenzfrequenz (fc) für die erste Obermode, (c) bei dem innerhalb der Rohrleitung (1) reflektierte Anteile (Sr1, Sr2, Sr3, S'r1, S'r2, S'r3) des Schallwellensendesignals (S, S') als Schallwellenempfangssignal (E, E') detektiert werden, und (d) bei dem die Rohrleitung (1) durch eine Auswertung des Schallwellenempfangssignal (E, E') in Bezug auf das Schallwellensendesignal (S, S') hinsichtlich des Vorhandenseins von Schallwellenreflexionen (Sr1, Sr2, Sr3, S'r1, S'r2, S'r3) verursachenden Reflexionsorten entlang der Rohrleitung (1) untersucht wird, (e) wobei mittels der Auswertung des Schallwellenempfangssignals (E, E') zumindest jeweils der Abstand (I) eines Reflexionsortes von dem Einspeisepunkt bestimmt wird.
Verlage, die ihr Kernverbreitungsgebiet in lokalen oder regionalen Märkten haben, sind bereits seit Jahrzehnten in diesen Märkten im Werbe- und Nutzermarkt verankert. Beim Aufbau digitaler Geschäftsfelder können die bestehenden Kundenbeziehungen und Erfahrungen dazu benutzt werden, neue Dienste aufzubauen, die die Entwicklung zu mobilen Anwendungen, mit sozialem und lokalem Bezug für Anwendungen (z. B. Apps) mit echtem Informations- oder Gebrauchsmehrwert nutzen.
본 발명은 기판들을 금속화하기 위한 디바이스에 관한 것이다. 특별히, 본 발명은 습식-화학물질 연속 (인-라인) 처리 시스템 환경에서 솔라 셀들을 전기도금하기 위해 사용되는 컨택 엘리먼트(contact element)들의 분야에 관한 것이다. 코팅 재료로 평평한 기판들(1)들을 전기화학적으로 코팅하기 위한 본 발명에 따른 습식-화학물질 처리 시스템은 전해질 용액, 이송 수단들 - 이송 수단들을 이용하여 평평한 기판(1)이 전해질 용액을 통과하여 수평으로 이송될 수 있는 - 을 수용하는 용기(basin), 및 회전축(5)을 갖는 샤프트(4) 및 기판(1) 위에서 구르기에 적합한 원통형의 원주 표면을 포함하는 적어도 하나의 컨택 엘리먼트(2)를 가지며, 원주 표면은 극성이 역전될 수 있는 방식으로 전류 소스 (6)에 연결될 수 있는 적어도 하나의 전기적으로 전도성인 세그먼트 (3A) 및 적어도 하나의 전기적으로 절연된 세그먼트 (3B)를 포함하고, 컨택 엘리먼트 (2)의 회전축 (5)은 전해질 용액의 표면 위에 위치되고, 컨택 엘리먼트 (2)는 소모 전극(consumable electrode)으로 디자인된다.
Alexander von Humboldt, a German scientist and explorer of the 19th century, viewed the natural world holistically and described the harmony of nature among the diversity of the physical world as a conjoining between all physical disciplines. He noted in his diary: “Everything is interconnectedness.”
The main feature of Humboldt’s pioneering work was later named “Humboldtian science”, meaning the accurate study of interconnected real phenomena in order to find a definite law and a dynamic cause.
Following Humboldt's idea of nature, an Internet edition of his works must preserve the author’s original intention, retain an awareness of all relevant works, and still adhere to the requirements of scholarly edition.
At the present time, however, the highly unconventional form of his publications has undermined the awareness and a comprehensive study of Humboldt’s works.
Digital libraries should supply dynamic links to sources, maps, images, graphs and relevant texts. New forms of interaction and synthesis between humanistic texts and scientific observation need to be created.
Information technology is the only way to do justice to the broad range of visions, descriptions and the idea of nature of Humboldt’s legacy. It finally leads to virtual research environments as an adequate concept to redesign our digital archives, not only for Humboldt’s documents, but for all interconnected data.
This article sets the focus on methods of information technology in the Humboldt Portal, which represents an ongoing research project to develop a virtual research environment on the Internet for the legacy of Alexander von Humboldt. Based on the experiences of developing and providing the Humboldt Digital Library (www.avhumboldt.net) for more than a decade, we defined a working plan to create an Internet portal for comprehensive access to Humboldt’s writings, no matter if documents are provided as PDF files, scan images or XML-TEI documents on external archives (Google Books, Internet Archive, Deutsches Textarchiv, Bibliotheque National de France). Going far beyond services of a digital library we will provide an information network with multimedia assets, which are containing objects like terms, paragraphs, data tables, scan images, or illustrations, together with correlated properties like thematic linkage to other objects, relevant keywords with optional synonyms and dynamic hyperlinks to related translations in different languages. So the Humboldt Portal can contribute to the key question, how to present interconnected data in an appropriate form using information technologies on the Web.
Autonomous humanoid robots require light weight, high torque and high speed actuators to be able to walk and run. For conventional gears with a fixed gear ratio the product of torque and velocity is constant. On the other hand desired motions require maximum torque and speed. In this paper it is shown that with a variable gear ratio it is possible to vary the relation between torque and velocity. This is achieved by introducing systems of rods and levers to move the joints of our humanoid robot ”Sweaty II”. On the basis of a variable gear ratio low speed and high torque can be achieved for those joint angles, which require this motion mode, whereas high speed and low torque can be realized for those joint angles, where it is favorable for the desired motion.
Security in IT systems, particularly in embedded devices like Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs), has become an important matter of concern as it is the prerequisite for ensuring privacy and safety. Among a multitude of existing security measures, the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol family offers mature and standardized means for establishing secure communication channels over insecure transport media. In the context of classical IT infrastructure, its security with regard to protocol and implementation attacks has been subject to extensive research. As TLS protocols find their way into embedded environments, we consider the security and robustness of implementations of these protocols specifically in the light of the peculiarities of embedded systems. We present an approach for systematically checking the security and robustness of such implementations using fuzzing techniques and differential testing. In spite of its origin in testing TLS implementations we expect our approach to likewise be applicable to implementations of other cryptographic protocols with moderate efforts.
Planung und Umsetzung einer Medieninstallation mit dem Schwerpunkt: Steuerung über DMX und RS232
(2015)
Die vorliegende Arbeit stellt zunächst das Konzept und die Idee der Zeitmaschine als Installation vor. Anschließend werden die eingesetzte Technik und das verwendete Protokoll erklärt. Daraufhin nennt die Autorin die einzelnen Bauelemente und Geräte, erklärt wie diese für die Zeitmaschine zum Einsatz gebracht werden und stellt die technische Planung vor. Abschließend beschäftigt sich die Ausarbeitung mit der Software und dem Programmcode zur Steuerung der einzelnen Elemente.
Diese Bachelor-Thesis beschreibt die Realisierung einer Webanwendung für Schüler und Studierende, welche interaktiv demonstriert, wie das Binärsystem funktioniert. Die Anwender sollen verstehen, wie ein Computer die Vielzahl an Daten mit lediglich zwei Zuständen, nämlich 1 und 0, verarbeitet. Dabei wird interaktiv gezeigt, wie der Algorithmus zur Umwandlung von Dezimalzahlen ins Binärsystem abläuft und wie man mit Binärzahlen rechnen kann. Außerdem gibt es sehr interessante Knobelaufgaben. Dabei wird versucht, dem User auf spielerische Art und Weise, zum Beispiel durch Spiele und Aktivitäten, die Denkweise eines Informatikers näher zu bringen. Das Ziel soll sein, dass sich das ursprüngliche Bild, welches Schüler von der Informatik haben, positiv verändert. Hierzu wird ein passendes didaktisches Konzept entwickelt, welches didaktische Modelle, Lehr-/Lernbedingungen und Lernziele der Webanwendung abbildet. Zunächst gibt es eine Einführung in die Thematik und der Stand der Technik wird erläutert, d.h. was bereits in diesem Umfeld existiert. Danach wird besonders auf die Realisierung der Applikation eingegangen. Hier werden Techniken und Werkzeuge für einen Lösungsansatz erklärt. Zuletzt wird das Thema zusammengefasst und evaluiert um einen anschließenden Ausblick geben zu können.
Mit der neuen Abgasnorm Euro VI und den steigenden Kraftstoffpreisen müssen Nutzfahrzeugantriebe eine Reduzierung der CO2-Emission und eine höhere Effizienz vorweisen (Umweltbundesamt, 2015). Um diese Anforderungen erfüllen zu können, wird bei vielen Nutzfahrzeugherstellern intensiv an Systemen zur Rückgewinnung von Abgasenergie, den sogenannten Waste-Heat-Recovery-Systemen, geforscht. Eine Kraftstoffersparnis von rund 5 % wird dabei angestrebt.
Das System basiert auf einem ORC-Prozess. Bei diesem thermodynamischen Kreisprozess wird die Abwärme des Abgases über einen Wärmetauscher geführt, der das organische Arbeitsfluid Ethanol in einem geschlossenen Kreislauf erhitzt. Durch den Dampfdruckaufbau wird eine Turbine angetrieben. Zur Transformation der Enthalpie des Ethanoldampfes in mechanische Energie sind Drehzahlen von bis zu 120000 U/min notwendig, um eine hohe Effizienz des Systems vorweisen zu können. Systemdrücke bis 50 bar und Temperaturen des Ethanoldampfes von maximal 300 °C treten im WHR-System auf und führen zu extremen Beanspruchungen. Eine besondere Herausforderung stellen hierbei die Wellendichtungen, vor allem bei nutzfahrzeugtypischen Lebensdauern, dar. Als interessante Alternative zeigt sich die Zentrifugal-Wellendichtung, um die hohen Dichtungsanforderungen über die geforderten Laufzeiten zuverlässig zu erfüllen.
Durch methodisch stufenweise ablauforientiertes Vorgehen wird die Analyse der Zentrifugal-Wellendichtungen durchgeführt. Hierbei wird zuallererst das Wirkprinzip untersucht. Ein besonderes Augenmerk wird dabei auf die Wärmeeinträge aus der Umgebung und Verwendung unterschiedlicher Sperrfluide gelegt.
Für eine Testdrehzahl von 15000 U/min ergibt sich, bei einer beidseitig glatten Scheibe mit einem Scheibenradius von 8,7 mm, eine maximal abdichtbare Druckdifferenz von 0,04 bar. Im Sperrfluid herrschen hierbei Temperaturen von rund 50 °C. Die Versuche zeigen Korrelationen zu den bekannten theoretischen Ansätzen von Ketola und McGrey. Die maximale Druckdifferenz beträgt in diesem Fall 0,043 bar. Nachdem stationäre Betrachtungen ausreichend untersucht werden, widmet sich diese Arbeit dem Anfahr- und Not-Aus-Verhalten. Die Optimierung des Projekts wird durch abschließende Verbesserungsvorschläge, für die Realisierung höherer Sperrdrücke, erzielt.
Diese Arbeit erläutert die Grundlagen, Abläufe und Formen der Vermarktung von Profifußballern. Das Social Media Marketing wird in diesem Zusammenhang auch für Profifußballer immer wichtiger und ist eines der Kernthemen dieser Arbeit. Social Media Marketing wird dazu in den Gesamtbereich Sportmarketing bzw. Sportlervermarktung eingeordnet und untersucht. Anhand von Beispielen aus dem Profifußball werden Strategien, Tendenzen und Aussichten für das Thema Social Media Marketing für Profifußballer dargestellt und erklärt.
Im Berufsbereich Medien existieren innerhalb einer Berufsuntergruppe die duale Ausbildung zur/zum Mediengestalter/-in Digital und Print sowie die vollzeitschulische Ausbildung zur/zum staatlich-geprüften Grafikdesigner/-in. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden anhand dieser beiden Ausbildungsberufe die Ausbildungsformen verglichen, deren Stellenwert beleuchtet sowie die Vor- und Nachteile analysiert. Hierfür werden zunächst die theoretischen Hintergründe erarbeitet und die verschiedenen Perspektiven untersucht. Dieser Teil der Arbeit bildet dann die Basis zur Erstellung konkreter Fragen, anhand derer mit einer geeigneten Forschungsmethode empirische Daten erhoben werden sollen. Diese sollen im Anschluss ausgewertet, analysiert und interpretiert werden um möglichst präzise die Forschungsfrage beantworten zu können.
Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Wahrnehmung von Websites im One-Page-Design und der Verbesserung der User Experience mit Hilfe von Blickaufzeichnung und weiteren Methoden.
Für ein Unternehmen ist eine Website mittlerweile ein zentrales Marketinginstrument. Eine gute Umsetzung der Website ist maßgeblich am Unternehmenserfolg beteiligt.
Eine bedeutende Rolle für eine Website spielt das Webdesign. Dies beeinflusst entscheidend, ob das Interesse des Nutzers geweckt wird und er auf der Website verweilt oder diese direkt wieder verlässt. Doch das Webdesign verändert sich laufend. Ein neuer Trend ist die Website im One-Page-Design. Diese bietet neue Möglichkeiten der Gestaltung, stellt Webdesigner jedoch auch bei der Umsetzung vor neue Herausforderungen. Mit der vorliegenden Arbeit sollen deshalb Websites im One-Page-Design hinsichtlich ihrer Wirkung auf den Nutzer analysiert werden. Zu diesem Zweck werden mit ausgewählten Probanden User Experience Tests durchgeführt, die Aufschluss darüber geben sollen, wie die Zielgruppe mit der Website interagiert. Durch die Analyse der gewonnenen Daten und die daraus abgeleiteten Handlungsempfehlungen kann die User Experience von Websites im One-Page-Design gesteigert werden. Neben der Eyetracking-Methode (Blickaufzeichnung) wird die Think Aloud-Methode, der Interview-Leitfragen sowie die Mimikmessung eingesetzt.
Der Begriff Crowdfunding hat im Laufe der vergangenen Jahre an Bedeutung gewonnen und ist heute immer mehr Menschen bekannt. Crowdfunding gibt den Künstlern die Möglichkeit, finanzielle Unterstützung von vielen, vor allem privaten, Geldgebern zu erhalten. Viele Crowdfunding-Projekte scheitern, weil nicht genug Geld gesammelt werden kann. Was aber tatsächlich der Grund für das Scheitern des Projekts war bleibt vielen Künstlern unklar. Diese wissenschaftliche Arbeit soll sich auf der einen Seite mit den Gründen dieses Scheiterns beschäftigen, auf der anderen Seite aber auch aufzeigen, was erfolgreiche Crowdfunding-Projekte ausmacht. Diese Gründe sollen in Form von einzelnen erfolgssteigernden Faktoren, den Erfolgsfaktoren, erklärt und anschließend in Form einer multiplen Fallstudie untersucht werden. Der starke Bezug zur praktischen Anwendung in Crowdfunding-Projekten entsteht unter anderem durch Studien und Experteninterviews aus verschiedenen Quellen, aber auch durch die durchgeführte Fallstudie. Durch die Beachtung der erforschten Faktoren können Finanzierungen über Crowdfunding-Kampagnen eher erfolgreich abgeschlossen werden und die Musiker ihren künstlerischen Zielen wesentlich näher gebracht werden.
Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit den verschiedenen Technologien, welche in verteilten Systemen zur Kommunikation dienen können. Kernpunkt der Arbeit ist es, eine Schnittstelle zu schaffen, in der eine extrem hohe Anzahl einzelner Anwendungen untereinander und mit einer zentralen Simulationsumgebung weitestgehend automatisch - kommunizieren können. Dabei ist auch ein wesentlicher Punkt die Frage wie Daten ausgetauscht werden können. Betrachtet man zunächst das System an sich, so wird es deutlich, dass speziell für die Entwicklung des Gesamtsystems, die Stabilität, Leistungsfähigkeit und Zuverlässigkeit des Interfaces von enormer Wichtigkeit ist.
Instagram-Marketing: Erfolgsfaktoren und Handlungsempfehlungen am Beispiel der Kosmetikindustrie
(2015)
Das Ziel dieser Arbeit lag darin, Faktoren, die den Erfolg eines Instagram-Auftritts von Kosmetik produzierenden oder vertreibenden Unternehmen aus dem deutsch-sprachigen Raum steigern, zu ermitteln und auf Grundlage der Ergebnisse Handlungs-empfehlungen auszusprechen. Im Zuge dessen wurden sieben qualitative Befragungen von Experten durchgeführt und anschließend mit Hilfe der zusammen-fassenden Inhaltsanalyse nach Mayring ausgewertet. Aus der empirischen Studie geht hervor, dass Instagram bereits jetzt eine große Rolle im Social-Media-Mix einnimmt und Unternehmen primär Ziele des Brandings und der Markenrepräsentation auf Instagram verfolgen. Desweiteren konnten mit Hilfe der leitfadengestützten Experteninterviews 15 Faktoren identifiziert werden, die positiven Einfluss auf das Instagram-Marketing ausüben: Persönlichkeit, Qualität, Authentizität, Aktualität, Kanalmix, Hashtags, Videos, die Verknüpfung mit anderen Unternehmensbereichen, Transparenz, Relevanz, Influencer-Relations, Community, Bestätigung und Management. Als am bedeutend-sten haben sich die Punkte Persönlichkeit, Qualität und Relevanz gezeigt: Marken stehen demnach vor der Herausforderung, ästhetische, zielgruppenrelevante Inhalte, die an die Eigenheiten Instagrams als Plattform angepasst sind, zu veröffentlichen und auf Augenhöhe mit den Nutzern zu kommunizieren, ohne sich selbst als Marke zu verlieren. Ferner führte die Expertenbefragung zu der Erkenntnis, dass Instagram sowohl als Community als auch als Marketing-Tool weiterhin an Bedeutung gewinnen wird, vor allem im deutschen Raum und in der Beauty-Branche.
Diese Thesis befasst sich mit einer Erweiterung für die bestehende SoftwareSIDEXIS 4 der Firma Sirona GmbH. Die Funktion der Erweiterung besteht darin, Röntgenbilder eines Patienten zum Herunterladen bereit zu stellen. Dabeiwerden die Bilddateien verschlüsselt auf eine Online-Plattform hochgeladen undein Quick-Response-Code (QR-Code) zu der Internet-Adresse der Ressource generiert. Der Patient hat die Möglichkeit, durch Abfotografieren des QR-Codes,seine Röntgenbilder einzusehen und diese zu speichern. Fragen in Bezug auf dieDatensicherheit im Bereich von Patientendaten, werden ebenfalls ausführlich beschrieben und behandelt.
Die Motivation zur Entwicklung dieser Erweiterung ist eine flexible, modernePatientenkommunikation. Dadurch kann der Patient seine Bilder digital mit sichführen und gegebenenfalls weiter verwalten.
Rechtliche Dimension des Journalismus: Redaktionelle Verantwortung und User Generated Content
(2015)
Journalismus wandelt sich durch die Einbeziehung von User Generated Content. Dies hat nicht nur publizistische Folgen, sondern führt auch zu Problemen im Bereich der medienrechtlichen Verantwortung für die so publizierten Inhalte. Vor allem urheber- und persönlichkeitsrechtlichen Fragen sind für neue digitale Produkte zu prüfen. Insgesamt zeigt sich auch aus rechtlicher Sicht, dass eine Kombination unter Einbeziehung klassischer journalistischer Strukturen hilfreich ist, während rein von anonymen Nutzern gestaltete Produkte erhebliche Risiken bergen.
Covert and Side-Channels have been known for a long time due to their versatile forms of appearance. For nearly every technical improvement or change in technology, such channels have been (re-)created or known methods have been adapted. For example the introduction of hyperthreading technology has introduced new possibilities for covert communication between malicious processes because they can now share the arithmetic logical unit (ALU) as well as the L1 and L2 cache which enables establishing multiple covert channels. Even virtualization which is known for its isolation of multiple machines is prone to covert and side-channel attacks due to the sharing of resources. Therefore itis not surprising that cloud computing is not immune to this kind of attacks. Even more, cloud computing with multiple, possibly competing users or customers using the same shared resources may elevate the risk of unwanted communication. In such a setting the ”air gap” between physical servers and networks disappears and only the means of isolation and virtual separation serve as a barrier between adversary and victim. In the work at hand we will provide a survey on weak spots an adversary trying to exfiltrate private data from target virtual machines could exploit in a cloud environment. We will evaluate the feasibility of example attacks and point out possible mitigation solutions if they exist.
Bluetooth Low Energy extends the Bluetooth standard in version 4.0 for ultra-low energy applications through the extensive usage of low-power sleeping periods, which inherently difficult in frequency hopping technologies. This paper gives an introduction into the specifics of the Bluetooth Low Energy protocol, shows a sample implementation, where an embedded device is controlled by an Android smart phone, and shows the results of timing and current consumption measurements.
Massiv gescheitert
(2015)
EuGH "Videoüberwachung"
(2015)
We propose secure multi-party computation techniques for the distributed computation of the average using a privacy-preserving extension of gossip algorithms. While recently there has been mainly research on the side of gossip algorithms (GA) for data aggregation itself, to the best of our knowledge, the aforementioned research line does not take into consideration the privacy of the entities involved. More concretely, it is our objective to not reveal a node's private input value to any other node in the network, while still computing the average in a fully-decentralized fashion. Not revealing in our setting means that an attacker gains only minor advantage when guessing a node's private input value. We precisely quantify an attacker's advantage when guessing - as a mean for the level of data privacy leakage of a node's contribution. Our results show that by perturbing the input values of each participating node with pseudo-random noise with appropriate statistical properties (i) only a minor and configurable leakage of private information is revealed, by at the same time (ii) providing a good average approximation at each node. Our approach can be applied to a decentralized prosumer market, in which participants act as energy consumers or producers or both, referred to as prosumers.
Eine Mitte November veröffentlichte EU-Richtlinie sieht vor, dass ab 2017 Unternehmen mit durchschnittlich mehr als 500 Mitarbeitern bestimmte Nachhaltigkeitsangaben im Lagebericht veröffentlichen müssen. Auf den ersten Blick scheint hier weiterer administrativer Ballast für die wenigen betroffenen Genossenschaftsbanken zu entstehen. Doch daraus ergeben sich für die Institute auch Chancen. Es lohnt sich zu prüfen, ob ein aktives Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement sinnvoll erscheint.
Wir brauchen mehr Klarheit
(2015)
In online analytical processing (OLAP), filtering elements of a given dimensional attribute according to the value of a measure attribute is an essential operation, for example in top-k evaluation. Such filters can involve extremely large amounts of data to be processed, in particular when the filter condition includes “quantification” such as ANY or ALL, where large slices of an OLAP cube have to be computed and inspected. Due to the sparsity of OLAP cubes, the slices serving as input to the filter are usually sparse as well, presenting a challenge for GPU approaches which need to work with a limited amount of memory for holding intermediate results. Our CUDA solution involves a hashing scheme specifically designed for frequent and parallel updates, including several optimizations exploiting architectural features of Nvidia’s Fermi and Kepler GPUs.
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an established class I level A biventricular pacing therapy in chronic heart failure patients with left bundle branch block and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction, but not all patients improved clinically. Purpose of the study was to evaluate electrical interatrial conduction delay (IACD) to interventricular conduction delay (IVCD) ratio with focused transesophageal left atrial and left ventricular electrocardiography.
Methods: Thirty eight chronic heart failure patients (age 63.4±10.2 years; 3 females, 35 males) with New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class 3.0±0.2 and 171.71±36.17ms QRS duration were analysed using posterior left atrial and left ventricular transesophageal electrocardiography with hemispherical electrodes before CRT. Electrical IACD was measured between onset of P-wave in the surface ECG and onset of left atrial signal. Electrical IVCD was measured between onset of QRS complex in the surface ECG and onset of left ventricular signal.
Results: Electrical IACD and IVCD could be evaluated by transesophageal left atrial and left ventricular electrocardiography in all heart failure patients with correlation to 1.18±0.92 IACD-IVCD-ratio (r=-0.57, P<0.001; r=0.66, P<0.001). There were 32 CRT responder with reduction of NYHA class from 3.0±0.22 to 1.97±0.31 (P<0.001) during 16.5±18.9 month CRT with 75.19±33.49ms IACD, 78.91±24.73ms IVCD, 1.04±0.66 IACD-IVCD-ratio and correlation between IACD and IACDIVCD- ratio (r=0.84, P<0.001). There were 6 CRT nonresponder with no reduction of NYHA class from 3.0±0.3 to 2.9±0.5 during 14.3±13.7 month biventricular pacing, 50.0±28.26ms IVCD (P=0.014), 1.92±1.65 IACD-IVCD-ratio (P=0,029) and correlation between 67.0±24.9ms IACD and IACD-IVCD-ratio (r=0.85, P=0.031).
Conclusions: Focused transesophageal left atrial and left ventricular electrocardiography can be utilized to analyse electrical IACD and IVCD in heart failure patients. IACDIVDC- ratio may be a useful parameter to evaluate electrical left cardiac desynchronization in heart failure patients.
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an established biventricular pacing therapy in heart failure patients with left bundle branch block and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction, but not all patients improved clinically as CRT responder. Purpose of the study was to evaluate electrical left atrial conduction delay (LACD) with focused transesophageal electrocardiography in CRT responder and CRT non-responder.
Methods: Twenty heart failure patients (age 66.6±8.2 years; 2 females, 18 males) with New York Heart Association functional class 3.0±0.3 and 174.2±40.2ms QRS duration were analysed using posterior left atrial transesophageal electrocardiography with hemispherical electrodes. Electrical LACD was measured between onset and offset of transesophageal left atrial signal before implantation of CRT devices.
Results: Electrical LACD could be evaluated by bipolar transesophageal left atrial electrocardiography using TO Osypka electrode in all heart failure patients with negative correlation between 54.7±18.1ms LACD and 24.9±6.4% left ventricular ejection fraction (r=-0.65, P=0.002). There were 16 CRT responders with reduction of New York Heart Association functional class from 3.0±0.29 to 2.1±0.2 (r=0.522, P=0.038) during 9.41±10.96 month biventricular pacing and negative correlation between 49.6±14.2ms LACD and 26.0±6.2% left ventricular ejection fraction (r=-0.533, P=0.034). There were 4 CRT non-responders with no reduction of New York Heart Association functional class from 3.0±0.4 to 2.8±0.5 (r=0.816, P=0.184) during with 13.88±16.39 month biventricular pacing and no correlation between 75.25±19.17ms LACD and 20.75±6.4% left ventricular ejection fraction (r=-0.831, P=0.169).
Conclusions: Focused transesophageal left atrial electrocardiography can be utilized to analyse electrical LACD in heart failure patients. LACD correlated negative with left ventricular ejection fraction in CRT responders. LACD may be a useful parameter to evaluate electrical left atrial desynchronization in heart failure patients.
Was ist eine Theorie?
(2015)
Die traditionellen Geschäftsmodelle der Zeitungsverlage beruhen auf der Werbevermarktung von Anzeigen und Beilagen und dem direkten Erlösmodell für journalistische Inhalte durch Abonnement, bzw. Einzelverkaufserlöse. Diese Geschäftsmodelle verändern sich zugunsten neuer nicht-journalistischer digitaler Geschäftsmodelle, deren Zukunftsfähigkeit jedoch in vielen Fällen noch nicht bewiesen ist.
Dieses Kapitel beschreibt den technologischen, politischen und wirtschaftlichen Hintergrund, vor dem die derzeitigen Veränderungen der deutschen Zeitungslandschaft zu bewerten sind. Das Phänomen der Konvergenz, d. h. unterschiedliche Entwicklungslinien bewegen sich aufeinander zu, können wir in ganz unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen immer wieder feststellen. Positionen politischer Parteien konvergieren, Hochschulgattungen nähern sich einander an und ebenso die Mediengattungen in Form der „Medienkonvergenz“.
Soccer simulation league is one of the founding leagues of RoboCup. In this paper we discuss the past, present and planned future achievements and changes. Also we summarize the connections and inter-league achievements of this league and provide an overview of the community contributions that made this league successful.
Im Projekt bwLehrpool wurde ein verteiltes System für die flexible Nutzung von Rechnerpools durch Desktop-Virtualisierung entwickelt. Auf Basis eines zentral gebooteten Linux- Grundsystems können beliebige virtualisierbare Betriebssysteme für Lehrund Prüfungszwecke zentral bereitgestellt und lokal auf den Maschinen aus-gewählt werden. Die verschiedenen Ar- beitsumgebungen müssen nicht mehr auf den PCs installiert werden und erlauben so eine multifunktionale Nutzung von PCs und Räumen für vielfältige Lehrund Lernszenarien sowie für elektronische Prüfungen. bwLehrpool abstrahiert von der PC-Hardware vor Ort und ermöglicht den Dozenten die eigene Gestaltung und Verwaltung ihrer Softwareumgebungen als Self-Service. Darüber hinaus fördert bwLehrpool den hochschulübergreifenden Austausch von Kursumgebungen.
Die Vermittlung von Handlungs-und Prozesswissen in der industriellen Produktion erfordert neue Ansätze, insbesondere eine Flexibilisierung und Integration von Lernprozessen in reale Arbeitssituationen. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt das Zwischenergebnis eines größeren Forschungsvorhabens im Bereich Mobile Learning mit kontextbezogenen mobilen Diensten im betrieblichen Umfeld. Er stellt Anforderungen, Lösungsansätze und einen Prototypen zur Realisie-rung von kontextbezogenen mobilen Diensten im Bereichder Unfallverhütung und Sicherheits-einweisungen in Fertigungsprozessen vor. Die zu unterstützenden kontextbezogenen Prozesse eines Industriepartners werden analysiert und unter Verwendung eines Domänenmodells, generi-scher Prozessmodelle und kontextbezogenen mobilen Anwendungen realisiert. Im Beitrag werden außerdem Lösungsansätze für plattformunabhängige mobile Applikationen, sowie die Integration von Persistenzmechanismen und Gerätefunktionen mittels hybrider Ansätze vorgestellt. Ergebnis der Arbeit ist ein erster Prototyp einer hybriden mobilen Applikation der im realen Betrieb syste-matisch getestet und weiterentwickelt wird.
Der hier vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt erste Untersuchungsergebnisse mit der Finite-Elemente-Methode (FEM) zur Entlastung der Kerbspannungen an Getriebewellen mit Durchdringungskerben. Es handelt sich bei den Kerben um eine Umlaufnut mit überlagerter Querbohrung und um einen Wellenabsatz mit überlagerter Querbohrung. Die neu entwickelte Entlastungskerbe erweitert die üblichen Möglichkeiten zur Entlastung von Durchdringungskerben und ermöglicht bedeutende Spannungsreduktionen bis etwa 48% bei Biegung oder Zug/Druck. Die Entlastung bei Torsionsbelastung beträgt maximal etwa 18%. Es wurden Spannungsdiagramme der variierten Entlastungsnutparameter erstellt und Formeln zur näherungsweisen Berechnung der zu erwartenden Spannungen in der Durchdringungskerbe und in der Entlastungsnut ermittelt, zudem werden Empfehlungen zur Gestaltung der Entlastungskerbe gegeben. Dieser Beitrag bietet eine Grundlage zur weiteren Untersuchung zum Thema „räumliche Durchdringungskerben“ und deren Entlastung.
Eye-Tracking-Analyse des Betrachtungsverhaltens bei Micro-Präsentationen in der CAE-Ausbildung
(2015)
Die Zielsetzung des vorliegenden Beitrags ergibt sich aus der persönlichen Motivation der Autoren, das visuelle Verhalten und das Handeln vom jungen Ingenieur beim Micro-Präsentieren technischer Inhalte und Lösungsergebnisse in bildlicher und begrifflicher Form besser zu verstehen und somit effizienter unterstützen zu können. Dabei wurden mehrere Einzelpersonen aus dem Studiengang des Maschinenbaus der Hochschule Offenburg mit Hilfe der Eye-Tracking-Technick beobachtet. Die Probanden befinden sich im 6. Semester, sind im Alter von 21 bis 24 Jahren und zeichnen sich durch einen einheitlichen Ausbildungsstand aus. Die Versuchszeit für die Präsentation der Aufgabe betrug 100 Sekunden. Die Analyse der gewonnenen Daten dieser empirischen Laboruntersuchung erlaubt erste Einblicke in die visuelle Wahrnehmung technischer Objekte beim Vortragen.
Who is Who? Joseph Fourier
(2015)
6LoWPAN (IPv6 over Low Power Wireless Personal Area Networks) is gaining more and more attraction for the seamless connectivity of embedded devices for the Internet of Things (IoT). Whereas the lower layers (IEEE802.15.4 and 6LoWPAN) are already well defined and consolidated with regard to frame formats, header compression, routing protocols and commissioning procedures, there is still an abundant choice of possibilities on the application layer. Currently, various groups are working towards standardization of the application layer, i.e. the ETSI Technical Committee on M2M, the IP for Smart Objects (IPSO) Alliance, Lightweight M2M (LWM2M) protocol of the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), and OneM2M. This multitude of approaches leaves the system developer with the agony of choice. This paper selects, presents and explains one of the promising solutions, discusses its strengths and weaknesses, and demonstrates its implementation.
6LoWPAN (IPv6 over Low Power Wireless Personal Area Networks) is gaining more and more attraction for the seamless connectivity of embedded devices for the Internet of Things. It can be observed that most of the available solutions are following an open source approach, which significantly leads to a fast development of technologies and of markets. Although the currently available implementations are in a pretty good shape, all of them come with some significant drawbacks. It was therefore decided to start the development of an own implementation, which takes the advantages from the existing solutions, but tries to avoid the drawbacks. This paper discussed the reasoning behind this decision, describes the implementation and its characteristics, as well as the testing results. The given implementation is available as open-source project under [15].
The application of leaky feeder (radiating) cables is a common solution for the implementation of reliable radio communication in huge industrial buildings, tunnels and mining environment. This paper explores the possibilities of leaky feeders for 1D and 2D localization in wireless systems based on time of flight chirp spread spectrum technologies. The main focus of this paper is to present and analyse the results of time of flight and received signal strength measurements with leaky feeders in indoor and outdoor conditions. The authors carried out experiments to compare ranging accuracy and radio coverage area for a point-like monopole antenna and for a leaky feeder acting as a distributed antenna. In all experiments RealTrac equipment based on nanoLOC radio standard was used. The estimation of the most probable path of a chirp signal going through a leaky feeder was calculated using the ray tracing approach. The typical non-line-of-sight errors profiles are presented. The results show the possibility to use radiating cables in real time location technologies based on time-of-flight method.
The demand of wireless solutions in industrial applications increases since the early nineties. This trend is not only ongoing, it is further pushed by developments in the area of software stacks like the latest Bluetooth Low Energy Stack. It is also pushed by new chip-designs and powerful and highly integrated electronic hardware. The acceptance of wireless technologies as a possible solution for industrial applications, has overcome the entry barrier [1]. The first step to see wireless as standard for many industrial applications is almost accomplished. Nevertheless there is nearly none acceptance of wireless technology for Safety applications. One highly challenging and demanding requirement is still unsolved: The aspect safety and robustness. Those topics have been addressed in many cases but always in a similar manner. WirelessHART as an example addresses this topic with redundant so called multiple propagation paths and frequency hopping to handle with interferences and loss of network participants. So far the pure peer to peer link is rarely investigated and there are less safety solutions available. One product called LoRa™ can be seen as one possible solution to address this lack of safety within wireless links. This paper focuses on the safety performance evaluation of a modem-chip-design. The use of diverse and redundant wireless technologies like LoRa can lead to an increase acceptance of wireless in safety applications. Many measurements in real industrial application have been carried out to be able to benchmark the new chip in terms of the safety aspects. The content of this research results can help to raise the level of confidence in wireless. In this paper, the term “safety” is used for data transmission reliability.
In this paper an RFID/NFC (ISO 15693 standard) based inductively powered passive SoC (system on chip) for biomedical applications is presented. A brief overview of the system design, layout techniques and verification method is dis-cussed here. The SoC includes an integrated 32 bit microcontroller, sensor interface circuit, analog to digital converter, integrated RAM, ROM and some other peripherals required for the complete passive operation. The entire chip is realized in CMOS 0.18 μm technology with a chip area of 1.52mm x 3.24 mm.
This paper presents a practice and science orientated education approach for freshman students of interdisciplinary bachelor engineering degree programs. This approach is meant to enhance the motivation and success of freshman students during their whole study. The education approach is called Fit4PracSis (Fit for Practice and Sciences) It was started to develop, set up and establish an education approach, which is building a relationship to students' future profession and to scientific working during the introductory study phase. The freshman students will be trained early in important skills, which are necessary for achieving the final degree successfully and handling of future business and research activities.
In this work we describe the implementation details of a protocol suite for a secure and reliable over-the-air reprogramming of wireless restricted devices. Although, recently forward error correction codes aiming at a robust transmission over a noisy wireless medium have extensively been discussed and evaluated, we believe that the clear value of the contribution at hand is to share our experience when it comes to a meaningful combination and implementation of various multihop (broadcast) transmission protocols and custom-fit security building blocks: For a robust and reliable data transmission we make use of fountain codes a.k.a. rateless erasure codes and show how to combine such schemes with an underlying medium access control protocol, namely a distributed low duty cycle medium access control (DLDC-MAC). To handle the well known problem of packet pollution of forward-error-correction approaches where an attacker bogusly modifies or infiltrates some minor number of encoded packets and thus pollutes the whole data stream at the receiver side, we apply homomorphic message authentication codes (HomMAC). We discuss implementation details and the pros and cons of the two currently available HomMAC candidates for our setting. Both require as the core cryptographic primitive a symmetric block cipher for which, as we will argue later, we have opted for the PRESENT, PRIDE and PRINCE (exchangeable) ciphers in our implementation.
The aim of this research work was to develop a boiler model with few parameters required for energy planning. The showcase considered for this work was the boiler system of the energy center at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences. A grey box model of the boiler was developed systematically starting from model abstraction, simplification, model break-down and to the use of empirical correlations wherever necessary to describe the intermediate effects along with the use of information from manufacturer’s specification in order to reduce parameters. This strategy had resulted in a boiler model with only 6 parameters, namely, nominal burner capacity, water gallery capacity, air ratio, heat capacity of wall, thermal conductance on flue gas and hot water side. Most of these parameters can be obtained through the information available in the spec sheets and thus an energy planner will be able to parameterize the model with low effort. The model was validated with the monitored data of the showcase. It was tested for the start-up, shut-down behavior and the effect of storage.
Environmental Monitoring is an attractive application field for Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). Water Level Monitoring helps to increase the efficiency of water distribution and management. In Pakistan, the world’s largest irrigation system covers 90.000 km of channels which needs to be monitored and managed on different levels. Especially the sensor systems for the small distribution channels need to be low energy and low cost. The distribution presents a technical solution for a communication system which is developed in a research project being co-funded by German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The communication module is based on IEEE-802.15.4 transceivers which are enhanced through Wake-On-Radio (WOR) to combine low-energy and real-time behavior. On higher layers, IPv6 (6LoWPAN) and corresponding routing protocols like Routing Protocol for Low power and Lossy Networks (RPL) can extend range of the network. The data are stored in a database and can be viewed online via a web interface. Of course, also automatic data analysis can be performed.
We report the use of the Raman spectral information of the chemical compound toluene C7H8 as a reference on the analysis of laboratory-prepared and commercially acquired gasoline-ethanol blends. The rate behavior of the characteristic Raman lines of toluene and gasoline has enabled the approximated quantification of this additive in commercial gasoline-ethanol mixtures. This rate behavior has been obtained from the Raman spectra of gasoline-ethanol blends with different proportions of toluene.
All these Raman spectra have been collected by using a self-designed, frequency precise and low-cost Fourier-transform Raman spectrometer (FT-Raman spectrometer) prototype. This FT-Raman prototype has helped to accurately confirm the frequency position of the main characteristic Raman lines of toluene present on the different gasoline-ethanol samples analyzed at smaller proportions than those commonly found in commercial gasoline-ethanol blends. The frequency accuracy validation has been performed by analyzing the same set of toluene samples with two additional state-of-the-art commercial FT-Raman devices. Additionally, the spectral information has been contrasted, with highly-correlated coefficients as a result, with the values of the standard Raman spectrum of toluene.
La industria del bacanora en Sonora, México, enfrenta la influencia de una compleja red de factores culturales, tecnológicos, económicos y legales que inhiben su desarrollo. Ello ocurre pese al esfuerzo institucional por radicar un marco normativo que elimine la práctica de los métodos informales de elaboración que derivan en calidades heterogéneas de licor. El conseguirlo se complica ante la dificultad que enfrentan los actores de esta industria para implementar prácticas efectivas de verificación de las normas vigentes en los confines de la geografía de la Denominación de Origen. En este documento se describe el uso de un prototipo de espectrómetro Raman por transformada de Fourier para analizar cualitativamente muestras desconocidas de bacanora. Este dispositivo se construyó con el uso de un interferómetro Michelson convencional, un contador de fotones de diseño propio y un foto-detector de referencia. Los resultados del trabajo confirman que dada su naturaleza de diseño y construcción, este instrumento de medición y su efectiva técnica de operación a bajo costo, constituye una alternativa viable, adaptable fácilmente a las necesidades de los actores productivos e institucionales, para asistirlos en la elaboración de bacanora y a la verificación de su calidad conforme a los criterios de la normatividad.
The Raman spectra from the chemical compounds toluene and cyclohexane obtained using a Fourier Transform (FT)-Raman spectrometer prototype have been contrasted with the Raman spectra of these same materials collected with two different commercial FT-Raman devices. The FT-Raman spectrometer consist of a Michelson interferometer, a self-designed photon counter and a reference photo-detector. The evaluation methodology of the spectral information, contrary to the commercial devices that commonly use the zero-crossing method, is carried out by re-sampling the Raman scattering and by accurately extracting the optical path information of the Michelson interferometer. The FTRaman arrangement has been built using conventional parts without disregarding the spectral frequency precision that usually such a FTRaman instruments deliver. No additional complex hardware components or costly software modules have been included in this FT-Raman device. The main Raman lines from the spectra obtained with the three FT-Raman devices have been compared with the Raman lines from the standard Raman spectra of these two materials. The values obtained using the FT-Raman spectrometer prototype have shown a frequency accuracy comparable to that obtained with the commercial devices without facing the need for a large investment. Although the proposed FT-Raman prototype cannot be directly compared to the last generation of FT-Raman spectrometers from the commercial manufacturers, such a device could give an opportunity to users that require high frequency precision in their spectral analysis and are provided with rather scarce resources.
Theoretical details about optics and photonics are not common knowledge nowadays. Physicists are keen to scientifically explain ‘light,’ which has a huge impact on our lives. It is necessary to examine it from multiple perspectives and to make the knowledge accessible to the public in an interdisciplinary, scientifically well-grounded and appealing medial way. To allow an information exchange on a global scale, our project “Invisible Light” establishes a worldwide accessible platform. Its contents will not be created by a single instance, but user-generated, with the help of the global community. The article describes the infotainment portal “Invisible Light,” which stores scientific articles about light and photonics and makes them accessible worldwide. All articles are tagged with geo-coordinates, so they can be clearly identified and localized. A smartphone application is used for visualization, transmitting the information to users in real time by means of an augmented reality application. Scientific information is made accessible for a broad audience and in an attractive manner.
In many scientific studies lens experiments are part of the curriculum. The conducted experiments are meant to give the students a basic understanding for the laws of optics and its applications. Most of the experiments need special hardware like e.g. an optical bench, light sources, apertures and different lens types. Therefore it is not possible for the students to conduct any of the experiments outside of the university’s laboratory. Simple optical software simulators enabling the students to virtually perform lens experiments already exist, but are mostly desktop or web browser based.
Augmented Reality (AR) is a special case of mediated and mixed reality concepts, where computers are used to add, subtract or modify one’s perception of reality. As a result of the success and widespread availability of handheld mobile devices, like e.g. tablet computers and smartphones, mobile augmented reality applications are easy to use. Augmented reality can be easily used to visualize a simulated optical bench. The students can interactively modify properties like e.g. lens type, lens curvature, lens diameter, lens refractive index and the positions of the instruments in space. Light rays can be visualized and promote an additional understanding of the laws of optics. An AR application like this is ideally suited to prepare the actual laboratory sessions and/or recap the teaching content.
The authors will present their experience with handheld augmented reality applications and their possibilities for light and optic experiments without the needs for specialized optical hardware.
Monitors are in the center of media productions and hold an important function as the main visual interface. Tablets and smartphones are becoming more and more important work tools in the media industry. As an extension to our lecture contents an intensive discussion of different display technologies and its applications is taking place now. The established LCD (Liquid Crystal Display) technology and the promising OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) technology are in the focus.
The classic LCD is currently the most important display technology. The paper will present how the students should develop sense for display technologies besides the theoretical scientific basics. The workshop focuses increasingly on the technical aspects of the display technology and has the goal of deepening the students understanding of the functionality by building simple Liquid Crystal Displays by themselves.
The authors will present their experience in the field of display technologies. A mixture of theoretical and practical lectures has the goal of a deeper understanding in the field of digital color representation and display technologies. The design and development of a suitable learning environment with the required infrastructure is crucial. The main focus of this paper is on the hands-on optics workshop “Liquid Crystal Display in the do-it-yourself”.
Sicher funken mit 2,45 GHz
(2015)
Crowdinvesting als alternative Unternehmensfinanzierung - Grundlagen und Marktdaten in Deutschland
(2015)
Skills, abilities and capability of our freshmen are increasingly heterogeneous, regarding age, attained levels of education and motivational aspects. Additionally, students tend to recoil from subjects dealing with mathematical backgrounds. As a result high, drop-out numbers are a huge problem in technical degree programs.
Since mechanics is based on physics and mathematics our students face enormous difficulties. To deal with them, a form of teaching and learning has been developed that is composed of the following arrangements:
1. Problems and tasks of different levels are solved during lessons. The access to theoretical issues is being developed by or rather as a result of solving these problems. By doing so, especially students with yet insufficient skills are enabled to develop their methodological skills.
2. Challenging students to independently transfer these skills on other problems is helpful. At the end of each lecture two students are selected randomly. Each of them is faced with an exercise they have to solve and present at the beginning of the next lecture. Because of small student numbers, chances are high that every student participates at least once by the end of semester. Surveys show that particularly weaker students benefit from that kind of model learning.
3. We are surrounded by mechanical issues. Given that, students are presented with “every-day-life” problems which students can apply their theoretical knowledge on. The problems are analyzed by groups of students, which leads to an enhanced and reflective perception of each and every one. Some examples are: “A broomstick in equilibrium”, “Sensitive cups”, “Transforming a roman basilica into a gothic cathedral”.
4. All lectures have been filmed by the staff of the Information Center of the Offenburg University during the previous term. Additionally to the notes taken by the students individually during the lectures, these recordings are helpful in the process of preparation and post-processing of the material. The recordings are accessible via the university’s learning management system “Moodle”.
Surveys show that students benefit from the great variety of the provided, interactive learning arrangements. It is interesting to discover that students not only take positive advantages in the lecture “mechanics 1/statics” but tend to transfer these positive experiences on other subjects.