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Front Cover IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2021-02-03
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COVID-19 Claims CES 2021 IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-12-02 Michael Mattioli
CES is the world's largest consumer electronics exhibition. Throughout its decades-long history, various iconic technologies have made their debut at CES. Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, CES 2021 will be a virtual event. While there will be no in-person gathering in Las Vegas, NV, USA (the show's typical venue), CES will continue to be the center of the world's technological innovation that sets
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Glare-Free High-Beam Control for Oncoming Vehicle Safety in Nighttime IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-12-07 Chengming Luo; Gaifang Xin; Han Xu; Wen Tang
Improper use of high beams can cause glare interference to oncoming drivers or pedestrian. In this article, an adaptive high-beam controlling system is designed to avoid glare interference. The adaptive high beams are illuminated by group light-emitting diode (LED) particles as the light source. The luminous intensity distribution of single LED particle is determined along with the lighting zones of
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Data-Trading Standard's Potential to Uncover the Value of Data Reserve IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-12-28 Ryuji Suzuki; Hiroshi Mano
People say data is the new dominant raw material replacing oil, to emphasize its economic significance. Many companies have unused data, and collectively, there is a massive amount of unutilized or residual data, which could enable new business models. On the other hand, not all businesses have a complete set of data to implement their ultimate goals. Therefore, the data's values could increase if
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VISU: A 3-D Printed Functional Robot for Crowd Surveillance IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-10-09 Sibi C. Sethuraman; Pranav Kompally; Srikar Reddy
This article presents a novel three-dimensional printed robot for crowd surveillance called VISU. VISU captures surroundings using inbuilt camera and transmits them to the cloud. VISU's cloud architecture is connected to the criminal and suspect database provided by police authority. The captured crowd data is compared with criminal or suspect images and the authorities are alerted in case of any match
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Market-Based Values—Learning From the Game IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-10-13 David Alan Grier
Gaming is now very much a consumer activity with multiple business models and large revenue streams. If we view it as some kind of educational activity, we can rightly ask, "What does it teach us about consumer electronics?" Consumer Engineers are responding to the requirements of businesses and the requirements of Consumers. Certainly, they still need to show that their technology will be acceptable
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Novel Cybersecurity Paradigms for Consumer Technology IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-12-04 Fernando Pescador; Saraju P. Mohanty
Almost all the current generation consumer electronics (CE) and consumer technology (CT) have the feature of Internet connectivity. This connectivity comes with the major challenge of cybersecurity. Cybersecurity threats in for CE devices and systems have multiple forms including software, hardware, and communications networks. The cybersecurity attacks can come from remote locations through Internet
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A Reverse Hash Chain Path-Based Access Control Scheme for a Connected Smart Home System IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-10-14 DaeYoub Kim; Jihoon Lee
As smart home systems increasingly utilize AI technology, a user-friendly and intelligent smart home system becomes increasingly popular. However, a home generally consists of various devices with different capabilities from different vendors. Hence, it is difficult to apply high-performance security solutions to such a smart home system. Recently, although a blockchain is mentioned as an alternative
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Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc) - Industry and Standards Activities (ISA) IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-12-04
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Consumer Technology Versus 5G IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-11-26 Bob Frankston
At its inception in the 19th-century, the talking telegraph (AKA the telephone) was an amazing feat of engineering using analog technology. One could speak into a micro-phone in one city and be heard in another city. Accom-plishing this required a very large investment in technol-ogy. The customers were consumers of the service.
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A Privacy-Preserved and Cost-Efficient Control Scheme for Coronavirus Outbreak Using Call Data Record and Contact Tracing IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-11-16 Shibli Nisar; Muhammad Ali Zuhaib; Abasin Ulasyar; Muhammad Tariq
Coronavirus or COVID-19, which has been declared pandemic by the World Health Organization, has incurred huge losses to the lives of people throughout the world. Although the scientists, researchers, and doctors are working round the clock to develop a vaccine for COVID-19, it may take a year or two to make a safe and effective vaccine available for the world. In current circumstances, a solution must
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Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Medical Research Support Platform Against COVID-19: A Blockchain-Based Approach IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-11-03 Keping Yu; Liang Tan; Xinglin Shang; Junjie Huang; Gautam Srivastava; Pushpita Chatterjee
COVID-19 is a major global public health challenge and difficult to control in a short time completely. To prevent the COVID-19 epidemic from continuing to worsen, global scientific research institutions have actively carried out studies on COVID-19, thereby effectively improving the prevention, monitoring, tracking, control, and treatment of the epidemic. However, the COVID-19 electronic medical records
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Large Area Pressure Sensor for Smart Floor Sensor Applications—An Occupancy Limiting Technology to Combat Social Distancing IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-10-26 Venkatarao Selamneni; Aastha Dave; Saroj Mondal; Pedja Mihailovic; Parikshit Sahatiya
With the advent of the recent coronavirus pandemic, it has become crucial to maintain social distancing within public spaces. To achieve this, it is important to keep a count of the number of people entering the premises and maintain low occupancy within it. This article presents a very large area pressure sensor based on nickel sulfide deposited on a paper using facile hydrothermal, and sheet to sheet
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A Smart Mask for Active Defense Against Coronaviruses and Other Airborne Pathogens IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-10-22 Rohan Reddy Kalavakonda; Naren Vikram Raj Masna; Anamika Bhuniaroy; Soumyajit Mandal; Swarup Bhunia
Face masks provide effective, easy-to-use, and low-cost protection against airborne pathogens or infectious agents, including SARS-CoV-2. Existing masks are all passive in nature, i.e., simply act as air filters for the nasal passage and/or mouth. This article presents a new “active mask” paradigm, in which the wearable device is equipped with smart sensors and actuators to both detect the presence
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History of Video Game Distribution IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-10-21 Michael Mattioli
Video games were originally distributed through fixed-function appliances or gaming consoles. As technology improved, various forms of physical media were used to distribute games, such as cartridges and discs. While this provided versatility, it also carried physical design considerations and complexities surrounding backward-compatibility. Today, digital distribution is growing rapidly and beginning
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Crowd Size Estimation Using CommSense Instrument for COVID-19 Echo Period IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-10-21 Santu Sardar; Amit K. Mishra; Mohammed Z. A. Khan
The period after the COVID-19 wave is called the Echo-period. Estimation of crowd size in an outdoor environment is essential in the Echo-period. Making a simple and flexible working system for the same is the need of the hour. This article proposes and evaluates a nonintrusive, passive, and cost-effective solution for crowd size estimation in an outdoor environment. We call the proposed system as
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Novel MEC Based Approaches for Smart Hospitals to Combat COVID-19 Pandemic IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-10-15 Pasika Ranaweera; Madhusanka Liyanage; Anca Delia Jurcut
COVID-19 or coronavirus has thrilled the entire world population with uncertainty over their survival and well-being. The impact this pathogen has caused over the globe has been profound due to its unique transmission features; that urges for contact-less strategies to interact and treat the infected. The impending 5G mobile technology is immersing the applications that enable the provisioning of medical
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Can IoMT Help to Prevent the Spreading of New Coronavirus? IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-09-25 Firat Aydemir
This article presents a potential solution based on the Internet of Medical Things for the COVID-19 epidemic, which determines the symptoms of the disease without required any user action and warns the user. In medical studies on COVID-19 in the literature, the most common symptoms encountered since the onset of COVID-19 disease have been reported as fever, dry cough, fatigue, anorexia, anosmia, and
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Working From Home With External Storage IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-09-14 Tom Coughlin
During the 2020 Covid-19 epidemic, many people who worked in “non-essential” industries, were working from home.
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After TV: The Age of “Content” IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-09-07 Bob Frankston
The author discusses an inflection point as it is happening. COVID-19 is a factor that is accelerating the pace of change by forcing us to embrace technology for essential services such as healthcare and education. Broadband Everywhere is the public face of the accelerating transition to universal connectivity. Even though there are still many traditional cable users - probably the majority of people
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Smart Healthcare for Diabetes During COVID-19 IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-08-24 Amit M. Joshi; Urvashi P. Shukla; Saraju P. Mohanty
Diabetic patients are at higher risk from novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) that spreads through Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). There are around 20% to 50% of COVID-19 cases who had diabetes across the different regions of the world. This article discusses recommendations and associated risks for diabetic patients to balance glycemic profiles during the COVID-19
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Impact of COVID-19 on the Consumer Electronics Market IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-08-14 Tom Coughlin
It is argued that without communication and modern digital electronics, many people would not be able to work during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. Likewise, modern consumer technology is extremely dependent upon connectivity, processing, and memory/storage. With the general economic impact on many consumers,1 overall consumer technology sales will be down in 2020, but people are more dependent than
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When Do We Need the Blockchain? IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-08-11 Deepak Puthal; Saraju P. Mohanty; Elias Kougianos; Gautam Das
The questions “When do we use the blockchain?” or “Where do we use the blockchain?” or “Why do we use the blockchain?” look simple, but these questions become complicated due to the increasing utilization of the blockchain. These days, it is being explored as a standard security solution. The blockchain has unique properties, and these are entirely different from other standard security or cryptography
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IEEE Brain Data Bank Challenge - 2020: Call For Participation IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-08-04
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Table of Contents IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-08-04
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Masthead IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-08-04
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Our Society Is Now Called “IEEE Consumer Technology Society (CTSoc)” IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-08-04 Wahab Almuhtadi
Reports on the changing of the Consumer Electronics Society to the Changing Technology Society as of August 16, 2020.
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Healthcare Cyber-Physical System is More Important Than Before IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-08-04 Saraju P. Mohanty
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Segmentation Masks for the Mini-Mammographic Image Analysis Society (mini-MIAS) Database IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-08-04 Mario Muštra; Andrija Štajduhar
Computer-aided diagnosis is a fast-developing area in medical practice and relies on the appropriate preprocessing of images from two dominant acquisition technologies, analog or film-based, and digital. Preprocessing consists of intensity equalization and segmentation of various objects in images. Here, we propose a methodology for the extraction of masks from manually segmented mammograms using affordable
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COVID-19 Contact Trace App Deployments: Learnings From Australia and Singapore IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-06-15 Roba Abbas; Katina Michael
As the COVID-19 pandemic has gripped nation states around the world, technological fixes based on smartphone solutions have been proposed as a means to mitigate the risk posed to humans, prevent further economic loss, and overcome societal and business challenges. This article provides an account of the learning from Singapore and Australian implementations of TraceTogether.
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Behind COVID-19 Contact Trace Apps: The Google–Apple Partnership IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-06-15 Katina Michael; Roba Abbas
The focus of this paper is on examining the role of Google and Apple in proposed smartphone-centric contact tracing capabilities in response to the novel coronavirus COVID-19.
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Machine Learning for End Consumers IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-08-04 Alvis Fong; Muhammad Usman
The articles in this special section examine machine learning (ML) for end consumers. ML is a discipline that grew out of artificial intelligence (AI). At a minimum, an intelligent agent needs to perceive the environment around it, deliberate, and take the best course of actions to maximize some actual or estimated performance measures. ML was originally a trait of AI that concerned training intelligent
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Juice Recipe Recommendation System Using Machine Learning in MEC Environment IEEE Consum. Electron. Mag. (IF 4.016) Pub Date : 2020-08-04 Juyong Lee; Jihoon Lee
The combination of machine learning with healthcare services is emerging. However, when machine learning functions are executed on resource-constrained mobile consumer devices, the computing overhead will increase, and the user experience will deteriorate. In essence, the existing approaches delegate such tasks to a central cloud data center. However, data processing on remote cloud servers results
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