1. Background and Related Work

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1.1 Introduction

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1.2 Concepts

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These are examples of citations to books Rita Thapa, Hom Bahadur Rijal, Masanori Shukuya, Hikaru Imagawa, 2019. Study on the wintry thermal improvement of makeshift shelters built after Nepal earthquake 2015. Energy and Buildings, 199, pp.62 - 71, ISSN 0378-7788. and Kazuko Obayashi, Shigeru Masuyama, 2020. Pilot and Feasibility Study on Elderly Support Services Using Communicative Robots and Monitoring Sensors Integrated With Cloud Robotics. Clinical Therapeutics, ISSN 0149-2918., a chapter on a smart companion Alexandre Soares dos Reis, Elien Gielen, Ko Wopereis, Marcel Pasternak, Vaido Sooäär, Tobias Schneider, Abel J. Duarte, Benedita Malheiro, Jorge Justo, Cristina Ribeiro, Manuel F. Silva, Paulo Ferreira, Pedro Guedes, 2020. Smart Companion Pillow – An EPS@ISEP 2019 Project. Robot 2019: Fourth Iberian Robotics Conference, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp.465–476, ISBN 978-3-030-36150-1., articles on IoT Abdelbaset S. Hamza, Rahman Tashakkori, Bejamen Underwood, William O'Brien, Chris Campell, 2023. BeeLive: The IoT platform of Beemon monitoring and alerting system for beehives. Smart Agricultural Technology, 6, pp.100331, ISSN 2772-3755., blimps Manuel Mahn, Markus Kemper, 2006. A BEHAVIOUR-BASED NAVIGATION SYSTEM FOR AN AUTONOMOUS INDOOR BLIMP. IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 39, pp.837-842, ISSN 1474-6670., cloud computing B. Sotomayor, Ruben S. Montero, I.M. Llorente, I. Foster, Sept 2009. Virtual Infrastructure Management in Private and Hybrid Clouds. Internet Computing, IEEE, 13, pp.14-22., gas emissions Ranjith, V. Velmurugan, S. Thanikaikarasan, 2020. Prediction of Exhaust Gas Emission characteristics using Neem oil blended bio-diesel in diesel engine. Materials Today: Proceedings, 21, pp.870 - 875, ISSN 2214-7853., pedestrian crossing behaviour Anae Sobhani, Bilal Farooq, 2018. Impact of smartphone distraction on pedestrians crossing behaviour: An application of head-mounted immersive virtual reality. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 58, pp.228 - 241, ISSN 1369-8478., smart bicycles YeongKyun Lee, Jongpil Jeong, 2018. Design and Implementation of Monitoring System Architecture for Smart Bicycle Platform. Procedia Computer Science, 134, pp.464–469, ISSN 1877-0509. and diaper moisture Tareq Khan, May 2018. A Smart Wearable Gadget for Noninvasive Detection and Notification of Diaper Moister. 2018 IEEE International Conference on Electro/Information Technology (EIT), pp.0240-0244, ISSN 2154-0373., and to Web resources Android Open Source Project, 2014. Android Developers: Android 4.1 APIs. [Accessed in April 2017]., Cloud Expo, 2008. Twenty-One Experts Define Cloud Computing. [Accessed in April 2021]. and Gartner, 2021. Gartner Magic Quadrant for Data Science and Machine Learning Platforms. [Accessed in April 2021]..

1.3 Products

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1.4 Projects

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1.5 Comparative Analysis

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1.6 Summary

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Based on this study of the state of the art, the team decided to adopt the following <specify here the architecture, technique(s), material(s), component(s)> because <specify here the technical/scientific reasons>.