Integrated mobile systems

Chemical Detection and Warning Integrated Mobile Systems... 

Ken Kurani and his associates at ITS-Davis also paint a very large picture. They see hydrogen FCVs as far more than a successor to the conventional motor vehicle. To them, FCVs could form a system that fully integrates automobility, electricity, and information. This will be accomplished, in part, by the transformation of automobiles from their current design and role as primarily mobility tools. In a technological sense, automobiles will become integrated mobility/electricity/information platforms in a behavioral sense, they will become mobile activity locales, new sites for a range of activities now conducted in homes or business offices. 

The army has recently fielded two new systems, the FOX and the Biological Integrated Detection System (BIDS), which are discussed below. Each of these new systems integrates a variety of detectors into a mobile, crew-served system the composite detectors are vastly superior to any individual detector previously available. 

The XM31 Biological Integrated Detection System (BIDS) consists of a lightweight, multipurpose, collective protection shelter mounted on a heavy high-mobility, multipurpose, wheeled vehicle... 

Another key observation is that heterogeneous networking will mean that the core of the network will have to be based on an open architecture, for example, an IP backbone. This core will be very fast and will be surrounded by slower peripheral wireless networks. However, the openness of the core network will give rise to a number of security threats such as denial-of-service (DoS) attacks that we see in the Internet today. So security must also be integrated into future mobile networks to deal with these threats. Thus, future mobile systems must encompass communications, mobility, QoS, and security. A new framework is therefore required to build such systems. 

This paper has explored mechanisms for building future networks. These systems will have to integrate mobility, via vertical handover, QoS, and security. The required mechanisms have been explored in the context of the Y-Comm architecture. Proactive handover mechanisms as well as QoS and Security were integrated to provide secure vertical handover. Future work will involve using the mechanisms detailed in this paper to build a prototype system. 

Galus M.D., Waraich R.A., Noembrini F. 2012. Integrating Power Systems, Transport Systems and Vehicle Technology for Electric Mobility Impact Assessment and Efficient Control. IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 3(2) 934-49. 

Internal and External Phases. When dyeing hydrated fibers, for example, hydrophUic fibers in aqueous dyebaths, two distinct solvent phases exist, the external and the internal. The external solvent phase consists of the mobile molecules that are in the external dyebath so far away from the fiber that they are not influenced by it. The internal phase comprises the water that is within the fiber infrastmcture in a bound or static state and is an integral part of the internal stmcture in terms of defining the physical chemistry and thermodynamics of the system. Thus dye molecules have different chemical potentials when in the internal solvent phase than when in the external phase. Further, the effects of hydrogen ions (H" ) or hydroxyl ions (OH ) have a different impact. In the external phase acids or bases are completely dissociated and give an external or dyebath pH. In the internal phase these ions can interact with the fiber polymer chain and cause ionization of functional groups. This results in the pH of the internal phase being different from the external phase and the theoretical concept of internal pH (6). 

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