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  • Does inspiratory muscle training (IMT) change aerobic capacity in young football players?
    Publication . Tomás, Maria Teresa; Soares, Rafael; Valeriano, João; Jesus, Ricardo
    Introduction and background: Inspiratory muscle training (IMT) is used in several programs of pulmonary rehabilitation with good results. However, for sports performance, results are yet scarce and in football, no studies were found. Aims and objectives: The purpose of our study was to verify if an exercise training program for inspiratory muscles with eight weeks of duration will influence inspiratory muscle strength (IMS) and cardiorespiratory capacity (VO2).
    2020-10Conference object Open access Show more
  • Open-source power outlet system for IoT-based smart homes
    Publication . Dias, Tiago; Sampaio, Pedro; Cardoso, Diogo; Prates, Cláudio; Jesus, Ricardo; Costa, Tiago
    This paper presents an open-source wireless Smart Power Outlet (SPO) system to improve the control and monitoring of household appliances in IoT-based smart homes. The system supports not only the most typical SPO functionalities, such as remote on/off control or real-time monitoring of the current consumption, but also other important functionalities, like programming of the power supply time schedule, automatic interruption of vampire currents, or prevention of electrocutions. Moreover, the devised system architecture allows to connect multiple SPOs, even with different capabilities, in an IEEE 802.15.4 Sub-1 GHz Personal Area Network (PAN). This network is managed by a Controller that also acts as a border router, providing remote access to the SPOs. A prof-of-concept prototype of the system has been implemented and tested. The considered SPO and Controller were based on Simple-Link Sub-1 GHz CC1310 wireless microcontrollers running the Contiki OS. The obtained results demonstrate the basic functionalities offered by the proposed open-source SPO and suggest that it can be used to make the next generation of homes smarter at lower costs.
    2020-09-22Conference object Restricted access Show more