Rapid progress in information and communications technology (ICT) induces
improved and new telecommunications services and contributes greatly to society
in general and to vendors and network and service providers. In addition to existing
services such as telephony or leased line services, spread of ...
The first practical examples of mobile communications were used in many countries like
the USA, the UK and Germany in military services, and played a significant role in the
First World War to transfer important information from the front to headquarters to take
further actions. Good and secure wire ...
Nowadays sensors are part of everyday life in a wide variety of fields: scientific
applications, medical instrumentation, industrial field, ...and, last but not least,
popular mass production and low-cost goods, like smartphones and other mobile
devices. Markets and business behind the field of sens ...
This book is focused on designing and developing Representational State Transfer (REST)
platforms in Rails. REST is the architectural style of the Web, consisting of a set of
constraints that, applied to components, connectors, and data elements, constitute the
wider distributed hypermedia system th ...
For more than a century, overhead lines have been the most commonly used
technology for transmitting electrical energy at all voltage levels, especially on the
highest levels. However, in recent years, an increase in both the number and length
of HVAC cables in the transmission networks of different ...
I would like to thank you for purchasing the second edition of “Industrial Network
Security,” especially if you are one of the many supporters of the first edition.
When the second edition was announced, many people asked me, “why a second
edition?” and even more followed that up with, “and why ...
A modern power grid needs to become smarter in order to provide an affordable,
reliable, and sustainable supply of electricity. For these reasons, a smart grid is
necessary to manage and control the increasingly complex future grid. Certain
smart grid elements including renewable energy, storage, mi ...
LIKE SO MANY OTHERS , THIS BOOK WAS WRITTEN BECAUSE WE COULDN ’ T FIND ONE LIKE IT . We
needed something to hand to all of those people who have come to us asking for “a good
book to read on RFID.” When we looked for candidates we found some great books, but
most were aimed at electrical engineer ...
Have you ever looked at some gadget and wondered
how it really worked? Maybe it was a remote control
boat, the system that controls an elevator, a vending
machine, or an electronic toy? Or have you wanted
to create your own robot or electronic signals for a model railroad, or per-
haps you’d like t ...
There’s a story (it’s either an old vaudeville joke
or a Zen koan) in which a fisherman asks a fish,
“What’s the water like down there?” and the
fish replies “What is water?” If the story is just
a joke, the point is to make us laugh; but if it’s
a koan, the point is that the most obvious an ...
