This book offers comprehensive insights into digital forensics, guiding readers through analysis methods and security assessments. Expert contributors cover a range of forensic investigations on computer devices, making it an essential resource for professionals, scholars, and students alike. Chapter 1 explores smart home forensics, detailing IoT forensic analysis and examination of different smart home devices. Chapter 2 provides an extensive guide to digital forensics, covering its origin, objectives, tools, challenges, and legal considerations. Chapter 3 focuses on cyber forensics, including secure chat application values and experimentation. Chapter 4 delves into browser analysis and exploitation techniques, while Chapter 5 discusses data recovery from water-damaged Android phones with methods and case studies. Finally, Chapter 6 presents a machine learning approach for detecting ransomware threats in healthcare systems. With a reader-friendly format and practical case studies, this book equips readers with essential knowledge for cybersecurity services and operations. Key Features: 1.Integrates research from various fields (IoT, Big Data, AI, and Blockchain) to explain smart device security. 2.Uncovers innovative features of cyber forensics and smart devices. 3.Harmonizes theoretical and practical aspects of cybersecurity. 4.Includes chapter summaries and key concepts for easy revision. 5.Offers references for further study.

This book explores the intersection of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in sustaining a green environment, sustainable societies, and thriving industries. It offers a comprehensive exploration of how these technologies intersect and transform various sectors to enhance environmental conservation, societal well-being, and industrial progress. The book features a diverse array of case studies, methodologies, and notes on technological advancements. Readers will gain valuable insights into the impact of AI and IoT on sustainable initiatives through real-world examples, research findings, and discussions on future directions. Key themes AI in complex and versatile scenarios: Chapters 1 and 4 explore AI applications in combatant identification and COVID-19 monitoring IoT for efficiency and data-driven decision-making: Chapters 2, 3, and 7 focus on IoT implementations in battery monitoring for electric vehicles, healthcare systems, and precision farming AI for diagnostics and computer vision: Chapters 5, 9, and 13 highlight AI-driven solutions for plant disease detection, fetal spine disorder detection, and defect detection Industry applications: Chapters 6, 8, 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17 cover AI and IoT in healthcare, transportation, supply chain management, endangered species protection, crop management, and pollution detection, showcasing their transformative potential across various domains. This book is ideal for readers with multidisciplinary backgrounds, including researchers, academics, professionals, and students interested in IoT, AI, environmental sustainability, healthcare, agriculture, smart technologies, and industrial innovation.

This handbook provides a comprehensive understanding of computational linguistics, focusing on the integration of deep learning in natural language processing (NLP). 18 edited chapters cover the state-of-the-art theoretical and experimental research on NLP, offering insights into advanced models and recent applications. Highlights: - Foundations of NLP: Provides an in-depth study of natural language processing, including basics, challenges, and applications. - Advanced NLP Techniques: Explores recent advancements in text summarization, machine translation, and deep learning applications in NLP. - Practical Applications: Demonstrates use cases on text identification from hazy images, speech-to-sign language translation, and word sense disambiguation using deep learning. - Future Directions: Includes discussions on the future of NLP, including transfer learning, beyond syntax and semantics, and emerging challenges. Key Features: - Comprehensive coverage of NLP and deep learning integration. - Practical insights into real-world applications - Detailed exploration of recent research and advancements through 16 easy to read chapters - References and notes on experimental methods used for advanced readers Ideal for researchers, students, and professionals, this book offers a thorough understanding of computational linguistics by equipping readers with the knowledge to understand how computational techniques are applied to understand text, language and speech.

6G Wireless Communications and Mobile Networking introduces the key technologies behind 6G wireless communication and mobile networking to the reader. The book starts with a general vision of 6G technology, which includes the motivation that drives 6G research, the international organizations working on 6G standardization and recent progress in 6G research. Separate chapters on millimeter-wave and terahertz-wave technologies in 6G, the development of latest 6G antenna technology as well as related wireless communication applications are included in the contents. The book also provides details about the 6G network layer, such as self-organizing network driven by network slicing, software-defined networking and network function virtualization. Finally, it covers some popular research topics, including the challenges and solutions to massive 6G IoT networks, 6G cloud/edge computing and big data systems that may appear in the foreseeable future. </p> Key Features: </p> - Provides a complete introduction to 6G vision and technology </p> - Consists of both basic theories and frontier technologies </p> - Separate chapters on key topics such as 6G physical layers, millimeter wave and terahertz technology and advanced antenna arrays </p> - Covers future trends and applications such as intelligent management systems, 6G IoT networks, cloud/edge computing and big data applications </p> This focused reference will significantly enhance the knowledge of engineering students and apprentices involved in the field of telecommunications. Readers interested in cutting-edge wireless networking technologies will also benefit from the information provided.

Microalgae could play an important role in the achievement of sustainability goals related to the generation of renewable energy and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. These photosynthetic microorganisms are able to capture CO2 and, therefore, can be used to produce biofuels such as ethanol, methane and green diesel. Other factors, such as their high growth rate, ability to use wastewater as a culture medium and the ability to grow on non-arable land makes them a potentially economical source of biofuel production on a large scale. This monograph introduces the reader to the basic and applied science of microalgal biofuel production. Chapters in the volume give information about bioethanol and biogas production from microalgal sources, the fermentation process, optimization of culture parameters and industrial applications of biomass projects. The book is a useful reference for biotechnology and environmental science graduates and professionals interested in biofuel production.

This book presents information about the application of various flexible AC transmission system devices to wind energy conversion systems. Devices such as unified power flow controllers, superconducting magnetic energy storage and static synchronous compensators are covered in this book. Chapters detail features of the topology and basic control systems of each device. Additionally, case studies are presented where necessary to demonstrate practical applications. This book is a reference for students and technicians studying wind power and AC transmission systems in advanced engineering courses.

Researchers, politicians and lay persons around the world agree that renewable energy technologies will play an increasingly important role in strengthening national economies in the future. The renewable energy industry has the potential to significantly increase power capacity of several countries and subsequently create many jobs. This book examines recent advances in specific renewable energy systems. Readers will learn about theoretical and applied perspectives which are key to addressing the major issues associated with such systems. Chapters cover solar energy systems, thermal energy storage, bioenergy, hydrogen production, geothermal energy and measurement techniques for these energy systems. Students in engineering programs, and engineers working in academia and the renewable energy sector will be able to broaden their understanding of complex renewable energy projects through the comprehensive overview of both the fundamental concepts and the technical issues covered in the text.

Solar Chimney Power Plants: Numerical Investigations and Experimental Validation summarizes the effect of the geometrical parameters of a solar chimney on the airflow behavior inside a solar chimney power plant. Chapters in this experimental handbook are presented in two parts with the goal of equipping readers with the information necessary to study and determine key factors which affect the performance of the solar chimney power plant. In the first part, the authors present a simulation developed by using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling software ANSYS Fluent to model the airflow. The adopted CFD models include k-ɛ turbulence model, the DO radiation model and the convection heat flux transfer model. These models have been validated with anterior experimental results. In the second part, the simulated models are then tested with alternate geometric configurations of the solar chimney power plant. The numerical studies allow readers to consider ways to expand on the design optimizing of the solar chimney when constructing a prototype. Geometrical parameters include the height, the diameter of the chimney and the dimensions of the solar collector and their effect on the temperature and air pressure is documented to validate models used for experimental simulations. The handbook also includes a study of an experimental prototype, constructed at ENIS. The researchers have gathered data on the environmental temperature, distribution of the temperature, air velocity and the power output generated by the turbine, the solar radiation and the gap of temperature in the collector of the prototype.

This handbook is a guide to numerical and experimental processes that are used to analyze and improve the efficiency of vertical axis rotors. Chapters present information that is required to optimize the geometrical parameters of rotors or understand how to augment upstream water velocity. <p> The authors of this volume present a numerical model to characterize the water flow around the vertical axis rotors using commercial CFD code in Ansys Fluent®. The software has been used to select adequate parameters and perform computational simulations of spiral Darrieus turbines. The contents of the volume explain the experimental procedure carried out to evaluate the performance of the spiral Darrieus turbine, how to characterize the water flow in the vicinity of the tested turbine, and the method to assess the spiral angle influence on the turbine performance parameters. Results for different spiral angles (ranging from 10° to 40°) are presented. <p> This volume is a useful handbook for engineers involved in power plant design and renewable energy sectors who are studying the computational fluid dynamics of vertical axis turbines (such as Darrieus turbines) that are used in hydropower projects. <p> Key features: <p> - 4 chapters that cover the numerical and experimental analysis of vertical axis rotors and hydrokinetic turbines <p> - Simple structured layout for easy reading (methodology, models and results) <p> - Bibliographic study to introduce the reader to the subject <p> - A wide range of parameters included in experiments <p> - A comprehensive appendix of tables for mechanical parameters, statistical models, rotor parameters and geometric details.

This book encapsulates current information about the science behind solar energy and the solar thermal systems available to meet domestic needs. Several scholars have contributed to the chapters in the text in an effort to distill research-oriented topics for learners. The book starts with an explainer on the fundamentals of thermodynamics, heat transfer and solar energy in the first 2 chapters. The basics of some solar thermal devices along with their thermal modeling are covered in the next few chapters, along with solar distillation systems. This is followed by information about the design, development and applications of solar cookers along with their thermal modeling. Thermal modeling of semi-transparent PVT systems and their applications are discussed in Chapter 9. Chapter 10 covers the development in solar photovoltaic technology. Chapter 11 and Chapter 12 discusses thermal modeling of greenhouse solar dryers and presents a case study on a hybrid active greenhouse solar dryer. Chapter 13 covers the thermal analysis of photovoltaic thermal (PVT) air heaters employing thermoelectric modules (TEM). The applications of various solar systems in building sectors and the development in this field are covered in Chapter 14. Chapter 15 deals with energy and environ- economics analysis of bio-gas integrated semi-transparent photo-voltaic thermal (Bi-iSPVT) systems for Indian climates. The book has a broad scope and is intended as a resource for students, researchers and teachers in universities, industries, and national and commercial laboratories to help learn the fundamentals and in-depth knowledge of thermal modeling and recent developments in solar heating systems.