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 customer’s 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 people’s 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 people’s 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