Walid Balid

• PhD. in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Distinguished Engineer at Panduit

Object recognition is a broad area that covers several topics including face recognition, gesture recognition, human gait recognition, traffic road signs recognition, among many others. Object recognition plays a vital role in several real-time applications such as video surveillance, traffic analysis, security systems, and image retrieval. This wo...

The required talent of 21 st century engineering and technology human resource is significantly different and more complex than what has been needed ever before. Numerous relevant studies have been conducted during the last decade or two. The studies generally follow a needs based approach rather than a systemic study. In a systemic study for under...

Recent studies emphasize the needs of a wider set of skills engineers require than ever thought. In this paper, authors report on a systematic literature review on this issue. Findings of the review are spanned over two main folds: 1-A conceptual ontological framework of engineering skills in the context of generic-and employability-skills of KBS a...

Providing reliable, real-time vehicle volume and classification information is vital for 21st century intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Large vehicles have a major impact on traffic flow, as well as road maintenance. Information about passenger car versus truck volume is crucial for all transportation agencies. The work presented here provi...

Real-time traffic surveillance is essential in today's intelligent transportation systems and will surely play a vital role in tomorrow's smart cities. The work detailed in this paper reports on the development and implementation of a novel smart wireless sensor for traffic monitoring. Computationally efficient and reliable algorithms for vehicle d...

An automated computerized system comprises a computer system executing traffic monitoring software. The traffic monitoring software reads data corresponding to a magnetic field of a first vehicle collected by a first node. The traffic monitoring software may determine a unique magnetic signature for the first vehicle from the data collected by the...

This paper presents extensive experimental characterization and empirical modelling of 802.11 temporal behavior. A detailed characterization of 802.11b/g/n homogeneous and heterogeneous network traffic patterns is featured, including idle time distribution and channel utilization. A complete modelling of 802.11 networks in the 2.4GHz Industrial, Sc...

Reliable, real-time traffic surveillance is an integral and crucial function of the 21st century intelligent transportation systems (ITS) network. This technology facilitates instantaneous decision-making, improves roadway efficiency, and maximizes existing transportation infrastructure capacity, making transportation systems safe, efficient, and m...

The increasing use of shared, unlicensed spectrum bands by medical devices and nonmedical products highlights the need to address wireless coexistence to ensure medical device safety and effectiveness. This paper provides the first step to approximate the probability of a device coexisting in its intended environment by providing a generalized fram...

Traffic monitoring systems play a key role in the transition toward smart cities and more efficient transportation systems. Roads and highways are now equipped with sensors to measure traffic flow, predict congestion, and adaptively control traffic routes. Traffic planning applications rely on sensors to provide accurate information about vehicles...

The 2.4 GHz ISM band is crowded with a wide variety of wireless devices operating under various access protocols, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) among them. Low power requirements, low cost, and ease of integration have promoted BLE's rapidly growing popularity. BLE applications range from providing wireless interface for monitoring household equipment...

Wireless technology has become an invaluable facilitator in many aspects of daily life. Healthcare environments in particular have gained noticeable agility and flexibility by integrating wireless functionality into various medical equipment. As of late, chipsets designed to implement communication standards in the Industrial, Scientific and Medica...

Abstract—The 2.4 GHz ISM band is crowded with a wide variety of wireless devices operating under various protocols. For many reasons, medical device manufacturers are increasingly incorporating wireless technologies into their devices, many of which operate in the ISM band. Monitoring and characterizing wireless spectrum utilization is vital to bet...

Real-time traffic surveillance is essential in today's intelligent transportation systems. This paper reports on the design of a novel, cost-effective, and intelligent real-time traffic monitoring systems using wireless smart sensor networks. Reliable and computationally efficient algorithms were developed for vehicle counting and speed estimation....

Wireless sensor network (WSN) technology is rapidly maturing and gaining momentum as an enabling technology for Internet-of-things, and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs). This paper introduces the design of a novel, cost-effective intelligent vehicle counting and classification sensor system. Distinctive algorithms for vehicles detection, c...

The rapid proliferation of newly developed wireless technologies has created an ever-increasing demand for additional radio spectrum. Because most usable bands have been already allocated, spectrum occupancy measurements are essential for wireless networks planning and deployment. Duty cycle is a measure of channel occupancy. As the amount of data...

This paper presents a scheme for comprehensive experimental measurements of Wi-Fi networks spectrum occupancy in the ISM band. The work presented herein provides duty cycle measurements for single and multiple communicating Wi-Fi pairs. Duty cycle results are provided for 802.11b, g and n Wi-Fi standards at different throughput levels. Lower values...

Embedded Microcontroller (MCU) Systems is one of the most important engineering topic that is normally taught in undergraduate electrical & electronics engineering (EEE) and computer engineering (CE) curriculums. Lab sessions are vitally important in teaching/learning of MCUs. Unfortunately, most commercially available MCU development kits are not...

The required talent of 21st century engineering and technology human resource is significantly different and more complex than what has been needed ever before. Numerous relevant studies have been conducted during the last decade or two. The studies generally follow a needs based approach rather than a systemic study. In a systemic study for unders...

Recent studies emphasize the needs of a wider set of skills engineers require than ever thought. In this paper, authors report on a systematic literature review on this issue. Findings of the review are spanned over two main folds: 1- A conceptual ontological framework of engineering skills in the context of generic- and employability- skills of KB...

Embedded systems play vital role in modern applications [1]. They can be found in autos, washing machines, electrical appliances and even in toys. FPGAs are the most recent computing technology that is used in embedded systems. There is an increasing demand on FPGA based embedded systems, in particular, for applications that require rapid time resp...

Embedded systems play vital role in modern applications [1]. They can be found in autos, washing machines, electrical appliances and even in toys. FPGAs are the most recent computing technology that is used in embedded systems. There is an increasing demand on FPGA based embedded systems, in particular, for applications that require rapid time resp...

Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) is an established educational psychology track of expertise and research. In SRL, learners carry out large extent of the learning process independently utilizing different forms of regulatory processes. From systems and control engineering (technical cybernetics), SRL can be viewed in terms of a closed-loop system. In...

Systems and Cybernetics can be found elsewhere in natural and engineering sciences. Control systems methods (technical cybernetics) are the nerve of the industrial revolution; they have recently penetrated some social sciences, especially economics and finance. However, the methods are seldom used for quantitative and analytical analysis in pedagog...

AVR MCUs Programming Lab Sessions (EEA308-2012); Communication Engineering Department Video Files: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9528EAFF8A568DC9 Details about the course in Arabic: فيما يلي ثمانية محاضرات عملية تطبيقية أعطيتها هذا الفصل لطلاب الثالث اتصالات ضمن مادة المتحكمات والمعالجات المصغرة... المحاضرات تضمنت برمجة متحكمات AVR في البي...

Programming AVR MCUs using BASCOM - Crash Course 2012 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL88169225C768CB85 Details about the Course: Session-01 Topics: - Introduction to Embedded Systems. - Introduction to AVR Microcontrollers-1. Session-02 Topics: - Introduction to AVR Microcontrollers-2. - Write your first Program in BASCOM-AVR. Session-0...

The notion of orchestrating learning has gained acceptance within the TEL research community in recent years. However, there is little consensus about what orchestration means, and what orchestrating learning in a concrete educational context entails. This paper aims to address these two concerns. Through a literature review focused especially on t...

A rich assessment project based learning pedagogical methodology was investigated whether it would enhance the students learning outcome and engagement or not. The students were divided into two equivalent groups, classical teaching approach group and experimental group follows the PBL (Project-based Learning) teaching approach. In the classical gr...

This paper reports on a study where the PBL was investigated whether it would enhance the students learning and engagement of an MCU laboratory course or not. The students were divided into two equivalent groups, experimental and control. The control group students were taught the lab in the classical way, i.e. attending the lab session only. The e...

In this paper, we report on the development of an open source multipurpose interactive embedded systems kit for laboratory education. The kit development aimed at designing a rather universal training board that can cover a range of experiments for the electronics, communication, control, and power departments of the electrical and electronics engi...

Laboratory education is a concrete part in engineering and science degrees, however, there has been little attention paid for it during the past four decades. Many research papers refer to poor constructivist learning during the laboratory sessions, indicating the need for reforming the laboratory education in a way that facilitates constructivist...

Laboratory education is a concrete part in engineering and science degrees, however, there has been little attention paid for it during the past four decades. Many research papers refer to poor constructivist learning during the laboratory sessions, indicating the need for reforming the laboratory education in a way that facilitates constructivist...

This paper reports on the development of an Open-Source multipurpose interactive embedded systems kit for laboratory education. The kit development aimed at designing a universal training board that can cover a wide range of experiments for the electronics, communication, control, and power departments of the electrical and electronics engineering....

Embedded System Microcontroller Interactive Course using BASCOM-AVR Experiments 1. Programming the MCU ports for displaying LEDs light movements 2. Interfacing switches with the MCU ports 3. Interfacing 4x4 Hexadecimal Array Keypad (16key) with the MCU 4. Interfacing and programming the MCU with a 20x4 LCD 5. Interfacing and programming the MCU wi...

The main task of the designed system is to control three phase induction motor using single phase power source, the proposed control principle is by keeping the ratio V/f constant. First of all, modeling and identifying unknown parameters of the motor were achieved, then model order reduction were applied, and a PID controller were carefully tuned...