Problem Description:
With one in ten people worldwide lacking access to clean water, the World Economic Forum in 2015 named the water crisis as the #1 global risk based on impact to society “as a measure of devastation”. A key contributor to this overarching issue is the problem of chronic exposure to arsenic in drinking water, which affects over 140 million people in 70 countries, leading...
Introduction:
Developments in Connectivity, Big Data and Structured Data Analytics promise significant advances in many important societal areas, including healthcare. Indeed, a number of predictions about future technological advances relate to "Smart Healthcare", wherein the connected world and Internet of Things (IoT) will impact our understanding of disease and offer material benefits to...
Traditionally there has always been a rigid separation between control and Data AcQuisition (DAQ) systems for detectors. This comes from the fact that historically very different technologies were applied to these types of systems and that the main system requirements, i.e. high reliability vs. high speed, were considered incompatible. The situation is different today, and this proposal aims...
IDSERM: Intelligent Decision Support System for Environmental Risk Management
Wildfire activity is strongly affected by four factors: fuels, climate weather, ignition agents and people. Where fuel is available, weather is the most important factor in shaping fire regimes in many areas of the world.
In 2009, ISO published the international standard “Risk Management – Principles and...
With the increased need for scalable data acquisition systems, we see high potential in modular designs not only for software, but also for the hardware elements. Oftentimes, the on-detector electronics sends and receives data over point-to-point links which are connected to custom processing units. This proposal aims at minimizing the need for custom devices, by introducing an intermediate...
Introduction
Energy dissipation currently represents the major bottleneck towards exascale computing. High end instruction set processors including many/multi – core processors and graphics processing units (GPUs) adopt an instruction stream based/temporal model of computation which is energy inefficient. Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and Application Specific Integrated Circuits...
In future detector systems for particle physics and photon science the ever-increasing number of electronic channels results in a keen demand for data read-out capacity. The data transmission from the detector front-end to the counting room relies more and more on optical links. In state-of-the art solutions, individual optical fibers connect directly modulated laser diodes to a corresponding...
