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Automatic Identification of Static Harbor Objects Based on Camera Images from a Highly Autonomous Dredger Ship Open
Possible collisions with port infrastructure are a big challenge in the automation of commercial shipping. The first step to avoiding these collisions is identifying static port infrastructure. To minimize the risk of collisions of automat…
Towards MASS-Ready Ports: Mitigating Blind Spots with Local Sensor Systems (LSS) Open
The increasing adoption of Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS) poses significant challenges to the safe operation of maritime infrastructure. As most maritime accidents occur in port and coastal areas, there is a pressing need to addr…
Wireless BMS Architecture for Secure Readout in Vehicle and Second life Applications Open
Battery management systems (BMS) are becoming increasingly important in the modern age, where clean energy awareness is getting more prominent. They are responsible for controlling large battery packs in modern electric vehicles. However, …
Establishing Dynamic Secure Sessions for ECQV Implicit Certificates in Embedded Systems Open
Be it in the IoT or automotive domain, implicit certificates are gaining ever\nmore prominence in constrained embedded devices. They present a\nresource-efficient security solution against common threat concerns. The\ncomputational require…
Trust your BMS: Designing a Lightweight Authentication Architecture for Industrial Networks Open
With the advent of clean energy awareness and systems that rely on extensive\nbattery usage, the community has seen an increased interest in the development\nof more complex and secure Battery Management Systems (BMS). In particular, the\n…
Comment on gmd-2022-58 Open
Abstract. Terrain parameters like topographic horizon and sky view factor (SVF) are used in numerous fields and applications. In atmospheric and climate modelling, such parameters are utilised to parameterise the effect of terrain geometry…
A Novel Approach for Providing Client-Verifiable and Efficient Access to Private Smart Contracts Open
Distributed Ledger Technology is a powerful tool to support direct collaboration between organisations, without requiring full trust into a centralised infrastructure. By defining a program logic and access policies with smart contracts, a…
A Novel Secure NFC-based Approach for BMS Monitoring and Diagnostic Readout Open
In modern systems that rely on the use of Battery Management Systems (BMS),\nlongevity and the re-use of battery packs have always been important topics of\ndiscussion. These battery packs would be stored inside warehouses where they\nwoul…
SMARTY - Digital Business Model for Rail Freight Transportation Open
Rail freight transport is characterized by a shrinking market share. The reasons for this are outdated technology, inadequate customer orientation, a high degree of inflexibility and lacking sustainability concerning the business models. T…
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Quality Management Framework for Climate Datasets Open
Data from a variety of research programmes are increasingly used by policy makers, researchers, and private sectors to make data-driven decisions related to climate change and variability. Climate services are emerging as the link to narro…
Secure and Trustworthy NFC-Based Sensor Readout for Battery Packs in Battery Management Systems Open
Wireless Battery Management Systems (BMS) are increasingly being considered for modern applications. The ever-increasing complexity and production costs of BMS modules and wired connections resulted in a necessity for new ideas and approac…
Trustful Remote-Sensing Architectures based on Hardware-Security Open
Information, probably the most valuable good nowadays, is collected by billions of connected devices around the world and beyond. The processing of information is mostly done remotely with respect to the sensed environment. Therefore, it i…
Generating a PUF Fingerprint from an on-Chip Resistive Ladder DAC and ADC Open
This paper introduces an approach of extracting process variations inside System-on-Chips (SoCs) to derive a Physical Unclonable Function (PUF). The process variations are extracted from the architecture of a Digital-to-Analog Converter (D…
Towards a More Flexible IoT SAFE Implementation Open
The Internet of Things (IoT) is disseminating our daily life and gets ubiquitous not only in industry. With this growth, device and communications security is increasingly important. Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) are integrated into IoT…
Towards a More Flexible IoT SAFE Implementation Open
The Internet of Things (IoT) is disseminating our daily life and gets ubiquitous not only in industry. With this growth, device and communications security is increasingly important. Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) are integrated into IoT…
Towards a More Flexible IoT SAFE Implementation Open
The Internet of Things (IoT) is disseminating our daily life and gets ubiquitous not only in industry. With this growth, device and communications security is increasingly important. Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) are integrated into IoT…
Towards Trustworthy NFC-based Sensor Readout for Battery Packs in Battery Management Systems Open
In the last several years, wireless Battery Management Systems (BMS) have\nslowly become a topic of interest from both academia and industry. It came from\na necessity derived from the increased production and use in different systems,\nin…
Embedded Platform Patterns for Distributed and Secure Logging Open
With the advent of modern embedded systems, logging as a process is becoming more and more prevalent for diagnostic and analytic services. Traditionally, storage and managing of the logged data are generally kept as a part of one entity to…
velink - A Blockchain-based Shared Mobility Platform for Private and Commercial Vehicles utilizing ERC-721 Tokens Open
Transportation of people and goods is important and crucial in the context of smart cities. The trend in regard of people’s mobility is moving from privately owned vehicles towards shared mobility. This trend is even stronger in urban area…
System Architecture and Security Issues of Smartphone-based Point-Of-Care Devices Open
In recent years, personalized healthcare has become increasingly popular in our society. Wearable devices started a trend for monitoring physical health parameters. The next evolution after wearable devices are Point-Of-Care (POC) devices,…
Global and Secured UAV Authentication System based on Hardware-Security Open
UAVs are gaining traction outside their usual markets of hobbyists, areal recordings, and surveillance services with cloud computing enabled applications and their massive combined computing power. These applications rapidly grow the UAV m…
Trust-Provisioning Infrastructure for a Global and Secured UAV Authentication System Open
UAVs are gaining momentum in various areas, whether it is in the commercial or private sector. Novel scenarios are extending the seemingly endless list of use cases for this emerging technology. To avoid ungoverned proliferation and abando…
Towards Synchronisation of Multiple Independent MEMS-based Micro-Scanning LiDAR Systems. Open
In intelligent vehicles, it is indispensable to have reliable Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) on board. These ADAS require various types of sensors, like Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR). Nowadays, drivers delegate some respon…
Sensing Danger: Exploiting Sensors to Build Covert Channels Open
Recent incidents have shown that sensor-equipped devices can be used by adversaries to perform malicious activities, such as spying on end-users or for industrial espionage. In this paper, we present a novel attack scenario that uses unsec…
Fast Angle Adaption of a MEMS-based LiDAR System Open
The amount of Advanced Driver-Assistance Systems (ADAS) in middle-class cars are increasing steadily. Next generation ADAS will take control in fully automated vehicles. Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) will be one of the key enablers f…
Towards Continuous Sensor Operation: Modelling a Secured Smart Sensor in a Sparse Network Operated by Energy Harvesting Open
In modern society sensors are omnipresent. They gather information about their environment in order to optimize production flows, minimize energy usage, learn about the environment, or maximize the owner’s comfort. To achieve the desired g…
Towards Synchronous Mode of Multiple Independently Controlled MEMS Mirrors Open
Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) will be one of the key enablers of smart mobility. Smart mobility creates a fully connected urban environment with graceful benefits for the city such as quality of life, reduced costs and more efficient…
Review of LiDAR Sensor Data Acquisition and Compression for Automotive Applications Open
Due to specific dynamics of the operating environment and required safety regulations, the amount of acquired data of an automotive LiDAR sensor that has to be processed is reaching several Gbit/s. Therefore, data compression is much-neede…