Water is a vital source for life and natural environments. This is the reason why water sources should be constantly monitored in order to detect any pollutants that might jeopardize the quality of water. This paper presents a low-cost internet-of-things system that is capable of measuring and reporting the quality of different water sources. It comprises the following components: Arduino UNO board, Bluetooth module BT04, temperature sensor DS18B20, pH sensor—SEN0161, TDS sensor—SEN0244, turbidity sensor—SKU SEN0189. The system will be controlled and managed from a mobile application, which will monitor the actual status of water sources. We propose to monitor and evaluate the quality of water from five different water sources in a rural settlement. The results show that most of the water sources we have monitored are proper for consumption, with a single exception where the TDS values are not within proper limits, as they outperform the maximum accepted value of 500 ppm.

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New trends in the automotive industry such as autonomous driving and Car2X require a large amount of data to be exchanged between different devices. Radar sensors are key components in developing vehicles of the future, therefore these devices are used in a large spectrum of applications, where data traffic is of paramount importance. As a result, communication traffic volumes have become more complex, leading to the research of optimization approaches to be applied at the AUTOSAR level. Our paper offers such an optimization solution at the AUTOSAR communication level. The radar sensor is accessed in a remote manner, and the experiments aimed at performance measurements revealed that our solution is superior to the Full AUTOSAR implementation in terms of memory usage and runtime measurements.

The aim of this paper is to present business ethics as practiced in Norway. Based on an article published in 1959, a vision of business ethics history in Norway under the rise of industrialism is described. Subsequently, the role of the Council on Ethics for the Norwegian Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG) is explained and its guidelines are presented. Aiming to obtain an overview of business ethics in Norway during both industrial and modern era and understand how views have changed during the time, a comparison is conducted.

The aim of this paper is to review available literature in the field of value-added analysis and value creation. Value added analysis techniques and approaches which are described in the literature are to be presented and systematized. Subsequently a case study is presented and suggestions for process improvement are presented. Aiming to obtain an overview from both the theoretical and practical sides, papers and books from 2006 to 2020 were collected and classified. First according to the genre of the text, secondly, according to the industry meant to be improved, and thirdly, according to the use of single or multiple approaches of value creation. The papers have been grouped into four categories: the first group relates to papers approaching Value Stream Mapping (VSM), the second group contains papers describing and/or using Seven Wastes as value identification technique, the third concerns Process Mapping (PM) approaches and the fourth group concerns a different approach of Nonvalue Added Analysis.