Real-Time Vehicle Emission Monitoring and Location Tracking Framework

Natural gas has been forecast to continue grow up to 30% for the next 40 years and will remain as a key energy source. Alongside this projected growth, both the government and the industry have committed to reduce emission reductions. A critical focus is fugitive emissions, which are related to leaks or unintended losses of methane from sources such as hydrocarbon production, processing, transport, storage, transmission and distribution. The need for measuring and monitoring these emissions has been recognised in significant environmental inquiries related to the gas industry, such as the Northern Territory Fracking Inquiry (Pepper et al. 2018) and required in section D of the NT Code of Practice. This study describes an autonomous emission monitoring station developed to address the challenge of characterising temporally varying fugitive methane emissions. It has been designed specifically to tolerate the Australian outback’s extreme climateswhile providing laboratory-grade measurements in real-time at locations where there will be no access to grid power and standard telecommunications. Preliminary results demonstrating the continuous real-time measurements of methane and ethane concentrations of temporally varying phenomena will be presented. Specifically, the detection of methane and ethane concentrations and temporal changes related to bushfire progress will be shown.

Download Full-text

A Dynamic HMM-based Real-time Location Tracking System Utilizing UHF Passive RFID

IEEE Journal of Radio Frequency Identification ◽

10.1109/jrfid.2021.3102507 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-1

Author(s):

Bijoy Dripta Barua Chowdhury ◽

Sara Masoud ◽

Young-Jun Son ◽

Chieri Kubota ◽

Russell Tronstad

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Tracking System ◽

Location Tracking ◽

Passive Rfid

Download Full-text

Real Time Location Tracking and Health Monitoring of Police Force

2018 International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Communication for Smart World (I2C2SW) ◽

10.1109/i2c2sw45816.2018.8997132 ◽

2018 ◽

Author(s):

V. Mekala ◽

Rosalin Ruby Angela ◽

M. Manimegalai ◽

VibinMammen Vinod

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Health Monitoring ◽

Police Force ◽

Location Tracking

Download Full-text

Privacy-Dangers and Protections

Information Security and Ethics ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-937-3.ch016 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 218-224 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

William H. Friedman

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Cell Phone ◽

New Technology ◽

Location Tracking ◽

Fire Services ◽

Global Positioning ◽

Prey Location ◽

Getting Lost ◽

Key Terms ◽

Potential Customers

It is no wonder that the average citizen is concerned about the difficulty of guarding one’s privacy. Now, your own cell phone can reveal your ever-changing whereabouts by means of “location technology” (Lagesse, 2003). Chips that receive coordinates from global positioning satellites now make it possible to locate persons, cars, merchandise, in short, whatever we value. Like most new technology, it is easy to see advantages as well as drawbacks. Some positives of location technology are that ambulances, police and fire services can reach victims more quickly; driving suggestions can be delivered in real time to motorists (thus helping to avoid traffic tie-ups and prevent getting lost); advertisers can inform potential customers of the existence of a nearby hotel, store or restaurant; stores utilizing RFID (see the KEY TERMS section for explanations of possibly unfamiliar terms) can trace merchandise movement to reduce waste, replenish inventory, and stem shoplifting. Some negatives are that nefarious agents can also use location technology to track their prey; location-tracking history can be subpoenaed by one’s legal adversaries; and it is inevitable that corporations and government will have an interest in conducting such monitoring (Griffin & Whitehead, 2001, 2002).

Download Full-text

Privacy-Dangers and Protections

Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, First Edition ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-553-5.ch407 ◽

2005 ◽

pp. 2308-2313

Author(s):

Willian H. Friedman

Keyword(s):

Real Time ◽

Cell Phone ◽

New Technology ◽

Location Tracking ◽

Fire Services ◽

Global Positioning ◽

Prey Location ◽

Getting Lost ◽

Key Terms ◽

Potential Customers

It is no wonder that the average citizen is concerned about the difficulty of guarding one’s privacy. Now, your own cell phone can reveal your ever-changing whereabouts by means of “location technology” (Lagesse, 2003). Chips that receive coordinates from global positioning satellites now make it possible to locate persons, cars, merchandise, in short, whatever we value. Like most new technology, it is easy to see advantages as well as drawbacks. Some positives of location technology are that ambulances, police and fire services can reach victims more quickly; driving suggestions can be delivered in real time to motorists (thus helping to avoid traffic tie-ups and prevent getting lost); advertisers can inform potential customers of the existence of a nearby hotel, store or restaurant; stores utilizing RFID (see the KEY TERMS section for explanations of possibly unfamiliar terms) can trace merchandise movement to reduce waste, replenish inventory, and stem shoplifting. Some negatives are that nefarious agents can also use location technology to track their prey; location-tracking history can be subpoenaed by one’s legal adversaries; and it is inevitable that corporations and government will have an interest in conducting such monitoring (Griffin & Whitehead, 2001, 2002).

Download Full-text