Project 1: Wireless in-Home Healthcare and Telemonitoring System Supervisor: Yonghui Li and Branka Vucetic Description: Nowadays, the

number of aged people and people suffering from chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart attacks and asthma has potentially increased. There has been an increased demand for more flexible in-home healthcare solutions. Recent advances in wireless communications have enabled the rapid development of wireless healthcare and telemonitoring system where a set of low-cost biomedical wireless sensors are located around the human body. This allows for the continuous supervising and monitoring of the patients health status without frequent visits by medical personal. The aim of this project is to develop a low-cost in-home healthcare and telemonitoring system, which can transfer real-time data, collected from biomedical wireless sensors of patients, to general practitioners, clinicians or family members. The key applications include ECG, EKG and blood pressure monitoring, mobility sensing, sleep quality monitoring and emergency alarm. The task of the project include the development of, a hardware and software interface between biomedical sensors and our recently developed Zigbee wireless devices, a GUI and an API to display the collected data, and software for analyzing the collected data. 3 students are required. The students participating in this project should have the knowledge of wireless sensor networks, microcontrollers and C programming. Java or C# experience may be required. Number of students required: 3 students

Project 2: Smart Gateway Supervisor: Yonghui Li and Branka Vucetic Description: The aim of the project is to design a multi-function gateway for the home automation system in smart grid. The gateway helps to integrate each house into the

smart grid network. It provides the bi-direction communication and control for home appliances, so that people can remotely control their home appliances, such as TV, and Air conditioner from the office or other places. The gateway shall support multiple communication protocols in the Home Area Network (HAN), such as Zigbee, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. It shall also provide the connection to 3G/4G network, so that the home security system can send alarm signals from the gateway to customers mobile phone. 2 or 3 students are needed to develop the smart gateway platform and the application software for multi-function gateway. The students participating in this project shall be familiar with one or more of the following: wireless sensor network, Linux, database and Webserver. Programming skills, such as C and C++, are essential. Java experience may be required. Number of students required: 2 or 3 students

Project 3: Musical Light Show Supervisor: Yonghui Li and Branka Vucetic Description: Brilliant light effect is often needed in both public and personal places. A musical light show is a type of animated light show for entertainment purposes that creates an aesthetic light effect. This is achieved by employing the effects of timed sound waves against light color and density. The task of this project is to design such a system that can control the lights according to the rhythm and range of music, using digital signal processer. 2 students are required. Student doing this project will require knowledge and experience in microcontroller programming and hardware design. Number of students required: 2 students

Project 4: Android App Development for Home Video Surveillance Supervisor: Zhendong Kyle Zhou and Branka Vucetic Description: Real-time video communication is an essential component of a home area network (HAN). Typical applications include home security, baby monitoring, aged care and so on. Most of existing products in these areas are based on proprietary hardware. As smart mobile devices, such as smart phones and tablets, are increasingly gaining popularity among people across a wide range of age groups, using the smart mobile devices as wireless user terminals of the HAN video communications can be both cost effective and convenient. In this project, students will develop applications (Apps) that run on Android based mobile phones and tablets. The Apps will enable the mobile devices to communicate with a gateway device in a HAN with either a WiFi connection or a 3G/4G connection. The Apps should have well designed graphic user interface (GUI) that enables two-way video/voice/data communications between end users and the gateway. The end user should be able to see the static video frame captured and sent by the gateway device as well as establish a videoconference with the gateway. Furthermore, the user needs to send commands to the gateway in response to warning alerts. 2 students are required. Android system is a Linux kernel based system with Java programming language. So students doing this project need to be familiar with Java programming and have working knowledge on software debugging in a hardware platform. Familiarity with Linux and network programming is a definite advantage. Number of students required: 2 students

Project 5: LTE-based MIMO Hardware Prototype Development Supervisor: Wibowo Hardjawana and Yonghui Li Description: Centre of Telecommunications has developed multiple algorithms to control multi user interference in wireless cellular networks and purchased a complete wireless cellular base station hardware platform. It uses the combination of base station

cooperative, multiple antenna and signal processing techniques to align signal beam forming direction at the transmitter and receivers so that multiple users, using the same spectrum, will not interfere with each other. This scheme is referred to as CoMP (coordinated Multipoint Processing) in the literature. We will develop CoMP multi user interference techniques and implement them in a LTE base station hardware and demonstrate them in a real time environment. LTE is a new high performance air interface standard for wireless cellular networks. The students will obtain significant understanding about LTE Standard and both software and hardware development skills. He/She will also obtain a specific skill in developing and testing algorithms which can easily be applied to any commercial engineering companies. Requirement: Two students with average WAM of 75% in the related field are required. Familiarity with communication theory, Matlab, VHDL and C are preferred.
Project 6: Traditional Chinese Medical Diagnosis System Supervisor: Yonghui Li and Branka Vucetic Description: In traditional Chinese medical science (TCMS), these is a famous theory and practice of examining peoples health condition and diagnosing various diseases based on the pulse manifestation. According to the theory, pulse manifestation is a window to observe the general health conditions of human body. Slight variations of characteristics of the pulse can reflect the status of not only the cardio system, but other major systems, such as digestive system, or other parts of human body. Traditionally, the doctors manually sense the pulse manifestation using their fingers. However, the accuracy can be affected by human factors. The aim of this project is to develop a pulse manifestation diagnosis system which combines modern technologies and TCMS together, to provide an in-home health care solution with low cost and high accuracy. There are two major tasks of this project: one is to design the wireless pulse manifestation sensing device which can capture, process and transmit the pulse information of human body with high accuracy; the other one is to develop the software which can analysis the pulse manifestation based on the theories from TCMS, to exam peoples health status and to help preventing potential diseases. 2 students are required. The students participating in this project should have the

knowledge of wireless sensor networks, microcontrollers, C programming, MySQL database. Java or php programming skills may be required. The students with average mark of 75 are preferred. Number of students required: 2 students