Estudo da viabilidade econômica para implantação de redes de acesso banda larga em cenários amazônicos: um estudo de caso baseado no custo do bit aplicado ao programa NAVEGAPARÁ

Esta dissertação de mestrado propõe um estudo comparativo relacionado ao custo do bit gerado entre o programa NAVEGAPARÁ e as concessionárias prestadoras do serviço de telecomunicações nos municípios relacionados. Vários estudos são realizados analisando apenas o desempenho de tais sistemas, levando em consideração algumas métricas de avaliação de desempenho, entretanto, não relacionam o custo real para o usuário final. Três cenários reais foram utilizados no estudo de caso. Em cada cenário foi proposta a utilização de uma tecnologia ou mais combinadas para transmissão da informação, levando em consideração, alguns parâmetros como infraestrutura existente, distância entre usuários finais, taxa de transmissão, dentre outros. Algumas tecnologias de acesso, utilizadas neste trabalho, são comparadas com as soluções disponibilizadas pelas concessionárias prestadoras dos serviços existentes e atuantes nos cenários descritos.

Sistema de Comunicação Alternativa na Interação de um aluno com autismo e seu professor

Individuals with autism are often unable to communicate through speech, and the ones that are able to speak sometimes cannot begin or to maintain a conversation. This article presents a case study that observed the communicative profile of a young student with autism interacting with his teacher during classroom activities using adapted PECS. The results demonstrated that the autistic student enhanced communicative initiatives in the interaction with his teacher, and the augmentative and alternative communication system was a facilitating tool used in the communicative learning process.

Sistema de comunicação bluetooth voltada para automação residencial

Bluetooth technology found in smartphones and tablets can add an interesting feature focused on home automation. Through the implementation of a wireless network communication between a mobile device and receiver modules located in different points, or even on a single centralized point in residence, you can manage many household items with just a few taps on smartphones. With such applicability, allow the user greater integration with your home, comfort, safety and economy. In this context, this work presents a system design of low cost Bluetooth communication between a smartphone and a receiver module with microcontroller interface development control from the Android platform

Implementazione su fpga di un pre-distorsore digitale a banda larga per sistemi a microonde di backhaul

The development of next generation microwave technology for backhauling systems is driven by an increasing capacity demand. In order to provide higher data rates and throughputs over a point-to-point link, a cost-effective performance improvement is enabled by an enhanced energy-efficiency of the transmit power amplification stage, whereas a combination of spectrally efficient modulation formats and wider bandwidths is supported by amplifiers that fulfil strict constraints in terms of linearity. An optimal trade-off between these conflicting requirements can be achieved by resorting to flexible digital signal processing techniques at baseband. In such a scenario, the adaptive digital pre-distortion is a well-known linearization method, that comes up to be a potentially widely-used solution since it can be easily integrated into base stations. Its operation can effectively compensate for the inter-modulation distortion introduced by the power amplifier, keeping up with the frequency-dependent time-varying behaviour of the relative nonlinear characteristic. In particular, the impact of the memory effects become more relevant and their equalisation become more challenging as the input discrete signal feature a wider bandwidth and a faster envelope to pre-distort. This thesis project involves the research, design and simulation a pre-distorter implementation at RTL based on a novel polyphase architecture, which makes it capable of operating over very wideband signals at a sampling rate that complies with the actual available clock speed of current digital devices. The motivation behind this structure is to carry out a feasible pre-distortion for the multi-band spectrally efficient complex signals carrying multiple channels that are going to be transmitted in near future high capacity and reliability microwave backhaul links.