The aim of this Code of Practice is to provide knowledge, understanding and good practice guidance on the design, evaluation, implementation and improvements on the use of automated controls used in mechanical and electrical engineering systems within the built environment.

The aim of this Code of Practice is to provide information and guidance in a coherent and consistent way to individuals and organisations working within the highway electrical sector to enable them to manage the risks associated with this sector.

This book has been written as a practice aid for the examination you will need to take to complete the Level 3 Award in Requirements for Electrical Installations: BS 7671 (2382-18). It sets out methods of studying, offers advice on exam preparation and provides details of the scope and structure of the examinations.

This book focuses on innovative EMF exposure research for future generations of mobile and wireless communications. This timely publication highlights the novel work done on reducing EMF emissions in future mobile communication systems and how to develop smart integrated technical solutions.

This book introduces a wide range of existing and potential applications for asynchronous circuits, each accompanied with the corresponding circuit design theory, sample circuit implementations, results, and analysis.

Presenting a detailed framework as well as comparative case studies for security protection, data integrity, privacy preservation, scalability, and healthcare legislation, this book covers state of the art research and addresses privacy and security methods and technologies for EHRs.

Recent advancements in carbon and molecular electronics have opened the door to a new generation of electronic nanoscale components. This book outlines the basic principles of electromagnetic-based communication at this nanoscale using terahertz and optical frequencies with a focus on theoretical principles and applications.

The authors present a broad overview of the recent efforts in computational electromagnetics to develop and implement more robust, accurate and efficient algorithms. With the recent improvement in available computing power, this is a timely overview of a rapidly developing subject.

This book presents advanced forensic detective control and obfuscation techniques for securing hardware IP cores by exploring beyond conventional technologies.

This book introduces a new framework which addresses the problem of radar imaging and target recognition as it jointly looks at optimising the use of multiple channels to significantly outperform classical radar imaging systems. It has been used in the military within NATO for the last few years and the technology is now declassified.

This book summarises recent developments and enhancements in post-processing techniques that increase the quality and effectiveness of modern antenna measurements. Recent advances in near to far field transformation algorithms for enhancing measurement accuracy in the presence of different common error sources are explained in detail.

The book provides a comprehensive insight in the state of the art of C-ITS and automated driving, especially addresses the role of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) infrastructure, and presents the main achievements (both theory and practice), as well as the challenges in the domain in Europe, the US and Asia/Pacific.

This book provides a basis for full integration of electric vehicles into the smart grid, through the use of ICT tools. It looks at transport and energy system modelling, simulation and optimisation processes; vehicle on-line optimal control, estimation and prediction; energy system strategic planning; and services such as smart charging.

This book gathers the contributions from The 36th International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC-2018) held in October 2018.

This updated third edition of this popular book covers all types of printed microstrip antenna design, from rectangular to circular, broadband and dual band, and millimeter wave microstrip antenna to microstrip arrays. The book features new analysis of rectangular and circular microstrip antenna efficiency, and surface wave phenomena.

Electrical steels are critical components of magnetic cores used in applications ranging from large rotating machines, including energy generating equipment, and transformers to small instrument transformers and harmonic filters. This comprehensive handbook provides full coverage of the state-of-the-art in electrical steels.

This book brings together contributions from international experts with academic and industry backgrounds to provide a systematic overview of ocean energy technologies, their readiness and modelling, as well as installation and grid connection technologies.

VLSI and Post-CMOS Electronics is a useful reference guide for researchers, engineers and advanced students working in the area of design and modelling of VLSI and post-CMOS devices and their circuits.

VLSI and Post-CMOS Electronics is a useful reference guide for researchers, engineers and advanced students working in the area of design and modelling of VLSI and post-CMOS devices and their circuits.

This book presents an overview of theory and recent advances concerning the shadowing function, an important element in the simulation and calculation of electromagnetic waves scattering at randomly rough surfaces.

The transfer of responsibility for decisions and actions from humans to machines presents difficult problems for all those concerned with new concepts, their development and use. This book gives practical help by discussing the issues in the context of product design, and gives a methodology to solve them.

This book outlines the potential for microwave photonics in radar and electronic warfare systems, covering basic concepts and functions, comparing performance with conventional systems, describing its impact on digital signal processing, and exploring integration issues.

Written by a team of leading experts in the field, this book presents recent advances in the design of RF/microwave planar filters. It covers a wide range of different design types, technologies and applications for wireless, microwave, communications and radar systems.

This book covers the current state of research in navigation, modelling and control of marine autonomous vehicles, and deals with various related topics, including collision avoidance, communication, and a range of applications.

This detailed and comprehensive reference considers how to combine the disciplines of wireless communications and machine learning. Coverage includes channel modelling, signal estimation and detection, energy efficiency, cognitive radios, wireless sensor networks, vehicular communications and wireless multimedia communications.

Developed by an international team of experts, this book covers free space optical (FSO) communication technologies for realising high speed large-capacity terrestrial and aerospace communications.

This book covers the state-of-art global research on authentication technologies for security and privacy in information systems, including applications, research challenges and future research directions.

Electrical steels are critical components of magnetic cores used in applications ranging from large rotating machines, including energy generating equipment, and transformers to small instrument transformers and harmonic filters. This comprehensive handbook provides full coverage of the state-of-the-art in electrical steels.

This book, written by international experts from academia as well as industry, compiles and describes several key technologies available to reduce a residential building's energy consumption. Key themes include local energy generation, such as the use of sunlight to reduce heating needs, and photovoltaics for electricity.

This book discusses variability, scalability, and stability of microgrids. It includes coverage of virtual plants and storage, providing numerous examples and case studies as well as simulation/experimental results in each chapter.

This book combines experimental and theoretical research on big data recommender systems to help computer scientists develop new concepts and methodologies for complex applications. It includes original scientific contributions in the form of theoretical foundations, comparative analysis, surveys, case studies, techniques and tools.

This book combines experimental and theoretical research on big data recommender systems to help computer scientists develop new concepts and methodologies for complex applications. It includes original scientific contributions in the form of theoretical foundations, comparative analysis, surveys, case studies, techniques and tools.

This book examines various topics and approaches related to the security and privacy in big data and cloud computing, where authors share their expertise in their respective chapters on a broad range of security and privacy challenges and state of the art solutions.

This handbook introduces a variety of concepts in discrete mathematics and mathematical modeling for languages and computation. The authors pay special attention to the implementation of mathematical concepts to explain clearly how to encode them in computational practice. All computer programs are written in C#.

This edited book covers analytical techniques for handling the huge amount of data generated by the Internet of Things, from architectures and platforms to security and privacy issues, applications, and challenges as well as future directions.

This book presents important results and methods towards achieving sustainable ultrascale computing systems. The book covers state-of-the-art technologies and methodologies to address the huge computer processing requirements of big data and the Internet of Things.

The primary aim of this book is to provide a timely and coherent account of the recent advances in many-core computing research. Starting with programming models, operating systems and their applications; it presents runtime management techniques, followed by system modelling, verification and testing methods, and architectures and systems.

This book aims to provide comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of RF and microwave power amplifier design with in-depth descriptions of current and potential future approaches.

This book aims to provide comprehensive, state-of-the-art coverage of RF and microwave power amplifier design with in-depth descriptions of current and potential future approaches.

This book addresses the key concepts of self-healing processes, from their occurrences in nature through to recent advances in academic and industrial research. It includes a detailed description and explanation of a wide range of materials and applications such as polymeric, anticorrosion, smart paints, and carbon nanotubes.

This book addresses the critical challenge of developing Fibre Bragg Gratings (FBGs) for applications as sensors in harsh and space environment. Coverage ranges from the basic principles through design, fabrication, and testing to their industrial implementation.

This book discusses the latest LCD technologies. There is a particular focus on display quality such as image sticking, contrast ratio and colour hue that has not been dealt with thoroughly elsewhere. Current and future trends in liquid crystal materials and technologies based on their evolving role and new applications are discussed.

This book discusses the latest LCD technologies. There is a particular focus on display quality such as image sticking, contrast ratio and colour hue that has not been dealt with thoroughly elsewhere. Current and future trends in liquid crystal materials and technologies based on their evolving role and new applications are discussed.

IP Core Protection and Hardware-Assisted Security for Consumer Electronics presents established and novel solutions for security and protection problems related to IP cores (especially those based on DSP/multimedia applications) in consumer electronics.

This book introduces magnetorheological fluids and elastomers, and explores their material properties, related modelling techniques and applications in turn. The book offers insights into the relationships between the properties and characterisation of MR materials and their current and future applications.

The book covers fibre and diode laser systems from academic and industrial perspectives, discusses the latest trends in high-power fibre laser development and applications, offers an overview of developments in diode laser systems, and addresses advanced applications of high-power lasers.

This book examines future video coding from the perspective of hardware implementation and architecture design. The book identifies challenges in deploying VLSI architectures for video coding and postulates potential solutions with reference to recent research.

This book offers a thorough reference guide to the theory, elements and design of basic electronic circuits, providing a solid foundation for those who plan to move into the field of electronics engineering, and essential information for anyone who uses electronic circuitry in their profession or research.

This book provides an up-to-date review of the experimental and theoretical methods used for studying defects in semiconductors, this book focuses on recent developments driven by the requirements of new materials, including nitrides, oxide semiconductors and 2-D semiconductors.

This book discusses how digital enhancement can be used to address key challenges relevant to analog components in terms of shrinking CMOS technology, increasing user demand for higher flexibility and data traffic in communications networks, and the drive to reduce power consumption.

This book describes recent research on terahertz CMOS design for high-speed wireless communication. The topics covered include fundamental technologies for terahertz CMOS design, amplifier design, physical design approaches, transceiver design, and future prospects.

RF and Microwave Module Level Design and Integration presents a thorough introduction to the basic elements of radio frequency and microwave modules, followed by a discussion of system-level concepts and measures that can be applied to real-world designs.

Covering radar sensor hardware, digital signal processing and machine learning, the book provides researchers and practitioners with insights into the latest advancements in the field.

Using important examples, this book showcases the potential of the latest data-based and data-driven methodologies for filter and control design. It discusses the most important classes of dynamic systems, along with the statistical and set membership analysis and design frameworks.

This book focuses on the technologies constituting the IoT from a sensor perspective, for an audience of researchers, scientists, engineers and graduate students with an interest in the field. Applications covered include connected sensors for smart cities, energy infrastructure, emergency management, and smart ports.

This book describes the advanced tools required to design state-of-the-art inference algorithms for inference in wireless sensor networks. Written for the signal processing, communications, sensors and information fusion research communities, it covers the emerging area of data fusion in wireless sensor networks.

This Guide provides clarity on the technical and practical requirements of BS 7671:2018 The IET Wiring Regulations 18th Edition and BS 7909:2011 Code of Practice for temporary electrical systems for entertainment and related purposes that are relevant to all those working with temporary power systems.

This is a timely review of the fundamentals, the latest developments and the diverse applications of nature-inspired algorithms in cyber security and resiliency. Based on concepts from natural processes, phenomena and organisms, it presents novel methodologies to cope with cyber security challenges.

This book provides a framework of different modeling and control algorithms using MATLAB®/Simulink®, and presents design, simulation and experimental verification techniques for the design of lower cost and more reliable and performant systems.

This book covers important topics and approaches related to the modeling and simulation of complex communication networks from a complex adaptive systems perspective. The authors present different modeling paradigms and approaches as well as surveys and case studies.

This book is dedicated to the use of sensor devices, smart textiles and other wearable technologies applied to smart sensing in healthcare. The book includes discussions on activity recognition, RF propagation and channel measurement.

This book focuses on the feature extraction methods used in Electroencephalographic (EEG) signal processing. It presents state-of-the-art aspects of EEG interpretation and the value of EEG; gives practical tips on interpretation and covers specific areas where EEG is most useful.

Wind Energy Modeling and Simulation: Turbine and system is the second book in a comprehensive two-volume set on wind farm power modelling; the key to efficient wind plant design and wind power growth.

Wind Energy Modeling and Simulation: Atmosphere and plant is the first book in a comprehensive two-volume set on wind farm power modelling; the key to efficient wind plant design and wind power growth.