TITLE: Hard Disk Drive Prognostics for Holistic Lifecycle Management
of Personal Computers via Embedded Sensors

SPEAKER: Associate Professor Sagar
Kamarthi

ABSTRACT:

This talk presents a vision for holistic product lifecycle
management via embedded sensors. The main goal of the proposed product
monitoring framework is to cut down the product repair/service costs, boost the
recovery of end-of-life products, and curtail the product disposal rate. The
talk focuses on personal computers to demonstrate the approach; however the
concepts and methods presented herein are equally applicable to a wide variety
of consumer products. It is in this context that the talk presents the
technical details of the hard disk drive prognostics and a novel feature
extraction method through discrete wavelet transforms.