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View article: Digital Twin Framework for Personalized Building Management in Ambient Assisted Living
Digital Twin Framework for Personalized Building Management in Ambient Assisted Living Open
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) systems, which integrate digital healthcare with Smart Home concepts, have become increasingly important for supporting independent living, particularly for aging populations and individuals with physical impa…
View article: Obfuscating Sensor-Based Activity Recognition in eHealth Applications: Is Encryption Enough Secure?
Obfuscating Sensor-Based Activity Recognition in eHealth Applications: Is Encryption Enough Secure? Open
This paper addresses the problem of data privacy in Human Activity Recognition (HAR) applications for eHealth. Cryptography, a proven privacy safeguard on the Internet, remains underutilized in the HAR context, as observed in the existing …
View article: Metaverse & Human Digital Twin: Digital Identity, Biometrics, and Privacy in the Future Virtual Worlds
Metaverse & Human Digital Twin: Digital Identity, Biometrics, and Privacy in the Future Virtual Worlds Open
Driven by technological advances in various fields (AI, 5G, VR, IoT, etc.) together with the emergence of digital twins technologies (HDT, HAL, BIM, etc.), the Metaverse has attracted growing attention from scientific and industrial commun…
View article: Trustworthy Localization in IoT Networks: A Survey of Localization Techniques, Threats, and Mitigation
Trustworthy Localization in IoT Networks: A Survey of Localization Techniques, Threats, and Mitigation Open
The Internet of Things (IoT) has revolutionized the world, connecting billions of devices that offer assistance in various aspects of users’ daily lives. Context-aware IoT applications exploit real-time environmental, user-specific, or sit…
View article: On the Impact of Flexibility on Demand‐Side Management: Understanding the Need for Consumer‐Oriented Demand Response Programs
On the Impact of Flexibility on Demand‐Side Management: Understanding the Need for Consumer‐Oriented Demand Response Programs Open
While demand response programs inherently depend on consumer acceptance in order to be successful, consumer behavior is often overlooked when designing such programs. This paper addresses the impact of consumer flexibility in terms of appl…
View article: Energy Consumption Profiling Of Appliances Inside Smart Buildings Based On k-means Clustering
Energy Consumption Profiling Of Appliances Inside Smart Buildings Based On k-means Clustering Open
Smart Building Energy Management Systems schedule appliances when it is more convenient, e.g. during off-peak times or when power is produced by Renewable Energy Sources (RES). In order to do so, it is necessary for the system to know the …
View article: IoT and Sensor Networks in Industry and Society
IoT and Sensor Networks in Industry and Society Open
The exponential progress of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is one of the main elements that fueled the acceleration of the globalization pace. Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data analytics ar…
View article: Daily Activities Monitoring of Users for Well-Being and Stress Correlation Using Wearable Devices
Daily Activities Monitoring of Users for Well-Being and Stress Correlation Using Wearable Devices Open
It has been largely demonstrated how human be-haviour can have a great impact on the quality of life. Some habits, such as those related to sleeping, exercising and working, directly affect people's psycho-physical health, either positivel…
View article: Task Allocation Among Connected Devices: Requirements, Approaches, and Challenges
Task Allocation Among Connected Devices: Requirements, Approaches, and Challenges Open
Task allocation (TA) is essential when deploying application tasks to systems of connected devices with dissimilar and time-varying characteristics. The challenge of an efficient TA is to assign the tasks to the best devices, according to …
View article: Smart Building Energy and Comfort Management Based on Sensor Activity Recognition and Prediction
Smart Building Energy and Comfort Management Based on Sensor Activity Recognition and Prediction Open
Thanks to Building Energy and Comfort Managements (BECM) systems, it is possible monitor and control buildings with the aim to ease appliance management and at the same time ensuring efficient use of them from the energetic point of view. …
View article: iABACUS: A Wi-Fi-Based Automatic Bus Passenger Counting System
iABACUS: A Wi-Fi-Based Automatic Bus Passenger Counting System Open
Since the early stages of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), one of the application scenarios that have been affected the most by this new paradigm is mobility. Smart Cities have greatly benefited from the awareness of some people’s habits to d…
View article: Virtual User in the IoT: Definition, Technologies and Experiments
Virtual User in the IoT: Definition, Technologies and Experiments Open
Virtualization technologies are characterizing major advancements in the Internet of Things (IoT) arena, as they allow for achieving a cyber-physical world where everything can be found, activated, probed, interconnected, and updated at bo…
View article: Application Task Allocation in Cognitive IoT: A Reward-Driven Game Theoretical Approach
Application Task Allocation in Cognitive IoT: A Reward-Driven Game Theoretical Approach Open
In this study we consider the scenario of sensors belonging to different platforms and owned by different owners that join the efforts in an opportunistic way to improve the overall sensing capabilities in a given geographical area by form…
View article: Sensor-Based Early Activity Recognition Inside Buildings to Support Energy and Comfort Management Systems
Sensor-Based Early Activity Recognition Inside Buildings to Support Energy and Comfort Management Systems Open
Building Energy and Comfort Management (BECM) systems have the potential to considerably reduce costs related to energy consumption and improve the efficiency of resource exploitation, by implementing strategies for resource management and…
View article: Assignment of Sensing Tasks to IoT Devices: Exploitation of a Social Network of Objects
Assignment of Sensing Tasks to IoT Devices: Exploitation of a Social Network of Objects Open
The Social Internet of Things (SIoT) is a novel communication paradigm according to which the objects connected to the Internet create a dynamic social network that is mostly used to implement the following processes: route information and…
View article: A Multidisciplinary Approach for the Development of Smart Distribution Networks
A Multidisciplinary Approach for the Development of Smart Distribution Networks Open
Electric power systems are experiencing relevant changes involving the growing penetration of distributed generation and energy storage systems, the introduction of electric vehicles, the management of responsive loads, the proposals for n…
View article: Multidisciplinary Approach for the Development of Smart Distribution Networks
Multidisciplinary Approach for the Development of Smart Distribution Networks Open
Electric power systems are experiencing relevant changes involving the growing penetration of distributed generation and energy storage systems, the introduction of electric vehicles, the management of responsive loads, the proposals for n…
View article: How Data Will Transform Industrial Processes: Crowdsensing, Crowdsourcing and Big Data as Pillars of Industry 4.0
How Data Will Transform Industrial Processes: Crowdsensing, Crowdsourcing and Big Data as Pillars of Industry 4.0 Open
We are living in the era of the fourth industrial revolution, namely Industry 4.0. This paper presents the main aspects related to Industry 4.0, the technologies that will enable this revolution, and the main application domains that will …
View article: An SDN-approach for QoE management of multimedia services using resource allocation
An SDN-approach for QoE management of multimedia services using resource allocation Open
Future networks will be accompanied by new heterogeneous requirements in terms of end-users Quality of Experience (QoE) due to the increasing number of application scenarios being deployed. Network softwarization technologies such as Softw…
View article: Dynamic Involvement of Real World Objects in the IoT: A Consensus-Based Cooperation Approach
Dynamic Involvement of Real World Objects in the IoT: A Consensus-Based Cooperation Approach Open
A significant role in the Internet of Things (IoT) will be taken by mobile and low-cost unstable devices, which autonomously self-organize and introduce highly dynamic and heterogeneous scenarios for the deployment of distributed applicati…
View article: Dynamic Carpooling in Urban Areas: Design and Experimentation with a Multi-Objective Route Matching Algorith
Dynamic Carpooling in Urban Areas: Design and Experimentation with a Multi-Objective Route Matching Algorith Open
This paper focuses on dynamic carpooling services in urban areas to address the needs of mobility in real-time by proposing a two-fold contribution: a solution with novel features with respect to the current state-of-the-art, which is name…
View article: IoT Architecture for a Sustainable Tourism Application in a Smart City Environment
IoT Architecture for a Sustainable Tourism Application in a Smart City Environment Open
In the past few years, the Smart Cities concept has become one of the main driving forces for the urban transition towards a low carbon environment, sustainable economy, and mobility. Tourism, as one of the fastest growing industries, is a…
View article: Smart Home Energy Management Including Renewable Sources: A QoE-driven Approach
Smart Home Energy Management Including Renewable Sources: A QoE-driven Approach Open
Smart Home Energy Management (SHEM) systems can introduce adjustments in the working period and operations of the home appliances to allow for energy cost savings, which can however affect the Quality of Experience (QoE) perceived by the u…