Alexandros Bousdekis, Nikos Papageorgiou, B. Magoutas, Dimitris Apostolou, G. Mentzas
{"title":"Information Processing for Generating Recommendations Ahead of Time in an IoT-Based Environment","authors":"Alexandros Bousdekis, Nikos Papageorgiou, B. Magoutas, Dimitris Apostolou, G. Mentzas","doi":"10.4018/IJMSTR.2017100103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJMSTR.2017100103","url":null,"abstract":"TheevolutionofInternetofThings(IoT)hassignificantlycontributedtothedevelopmentofthe sensingenterpriseconceptandtotheuseofappropriateinformationsystemsforreal-timeprocessing ofsensordatathatareabletoprovidemeaningfulinsightsaboutpotentialproblemsinaproactiveway. Inthecurrentarticle,theauthorsoutlineaconceptualarchitectureanddescribethesystemdesign requirementsfordecidingandactingaheadoftimewiththeaimtoaddresstheDecideandtheAct phasesofthe“Detect-Predict-Decide-Act”proactiveprinciple,whicharestillunderexploredareas. Theassociateddevelopedinformationsystemiscapableofbeingintegratedwithsystemsaddressing theDetectandthePredictphasesinanEventDrivenArchitecture(EDA). KEywoRdS Big Data, Context-Awareness, Decision Making, Event-Driven Computing, Feedback, Information System, Internet of Things, Proactivity, Real-Time, Sensors","PeriodicalId":170761,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Monit. Surveillance Technol. Res.","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115688934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Data Security and Privacy Assurance Considerations in Cloud Computing for Health Insurance Providers","authors":"Amavey Tamunobarafiri, S. Aghili, S. Butakov","doi":"10.4018/IJMSTR.2017100101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJMSTR.2017100101","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud computing has been massively adopted in healthcare, where it attracts economic, operational, and functional advantages beneficial to insurance providers. However, according to Identity Theft Resource Centre, over twenty-five percent of data breaches in the US targeted healthcare. The HIPAA Journal reported an increase in healthcare data breaches in the US in 2016, exposing over 16 million health records. The growing incidents of cyberattacks in healthcare are compelling insurance providers to implement mitigating controls. Addressing data security and privacy issues before cloud adoption protects from monetary and reputation losses. This article provides an assessment tool for health insurance providers when adopting cloud vendor solutions. The final deliverable is a proposed framework derived from prominent cloud computing and governance sources, such as the Cloud Security Alliance, Cloud Control Matrix (CSA, CCM) v 3.0.1 and COBIT 5 Cloud Assurance.","PeriodicalId":170761,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Monit. Surveillance Technol. Res.","volume":"45 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121540654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Class Distribution Curve Based Discretization With Application to Wearable Sensors and Medical Monitoring","authors":"Nicholas Skapura, Guo-Yong Dong","doi":"10.4018/IJMSTR.2017100102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJMSTR.2017100102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":170761,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Monit. Surveillance Technol. Res.","volume":"34 12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126175386","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gowtham Muniraju, Sunil Rao, Sameeksha Katoch, A. Spanias, C. Tepedelenlioğlu, P. Turaga, M. Banavar, Devarajan Srinivasan
{"title":"A Cyber-Physical Photovoltaic Array Monitoring and Control System","authors":"Gowtham Muniraju, Sunil Rao, Sameeksha Katoch, A. Spanias, C. Tepedelenlioğlu, P. Turaga, M. Banavar, Devarajan Srinivasan","doi":"10.4018/IJMSTR.2017070103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJMSTR.2017070103","url":null,"abstract":"A cyber physical system approach for a utility-scale photovoltaic (PV) array monitoring and control is presented in this article. This system consists of sensors that capture voltage, current, temperature, and irradiance parameters for each solar panel which are then used to detect, predict and control the performance of the array. More specifically the article describes a customized machine-learning method for remote fault detection and a computer vision framework for cloud movement prediction. In addition, a consensus-based distributed approach is proposed for resource optimization, and a secure authentication protocol that can detect intrusions and cyber threats is presented. The proposed system leverages video analysis of skyline imagery that is used along with other measured parameters to reconfigure the solar panel connection topology and optimize power output. Additional benefits of this cyber physical approach are associated with the control of inverter transients. Preliminary results demonstrate improved efficiency and robustness in renewable energy systems using advanced cyber enabled sensory analysis and fusion devices and algorithms.","PeriodicalId":170761,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Monit. Surveillance Technol. Res.","volume":"11 8","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114012702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integration of Gaussian Processes and Particle Swarm Optimization for Very-Short Term Wind Speed Forecasting in Smart Power","authors":"M. Alamaniotis, G. Karagiannis","doi":"10.4018/IJMSTR.2017070101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJMSTR.2017070101","url":null,"abstract":"This article describes how the integration of renewable energy in the power grid is a critical issue in order to realize a smart grid infrastructure. To that end, intelligent methods that monitor and currently predict the values of critical variables of renewable energy are essential. With respect to wind power, such variable is the wind speed given that it is of great interest to efficient schedule operation of a wind farm. In this article, a new methodology for predicting wind speed is presented for very short-term prediction horizons. The methodology integrates multiple Gaussian process regressors (GPR) via the adoption of an optimization problem whose solution is given by the particle swarm optimization algorithm. The optimized framework is utilized for the average hourly wind speed prediction for a prediction horizon of six hours ahead. Results demonstrate the ability of the methodology in accurately forecasting the wind speed. Furthermore, obtained forecasts are compared with those taken from single Gaussian process regressors as well from the integration of the same multiple GPR using a genetic algorithm.","PeriodicalId":170761,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Monit. Surveillance Technol. Res.","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132328231","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Use of Images of Leaves and Fruits of Apple Trees for Automatic Identification of Symptoms of Diseases and Nutritional Disorders","authors":"Lucas G. Nachtigall, R. M. Araújo, G. Nachtigall","doi":"10.4018/IJMSTR.2017040101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJMSTR.2017040101","url":null,"abstract":"Rapid diagnosis of symptoms caused by pest attack, diseases and nutritional or physiological disorders in apple orchards is essential to avoid greater losses. This paper aimed to evaluate the efficiency of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to automatically detect and classify symptoms of diseases, nutritional deficiencies and damage caused by herbicides in apple trees from images of their leaves and fruits. A novel data set was developed containing labeled examples consisting of approximately 10,000 images of leaves and apple fruits divided into 12 classes, which were classified by algorithms of machine learning, with emphasis on models of deep learning. The results showed trained CNNs can overcome the performance of experts and other algorithms of machine learning in the classification of symptoms in apple trees from leaves images, with an accuracy of 97.3% and obtain 91.1% accuracy with fruit images. In this way, the use of Convolutional Neural Networks may enable the diagnosis of symptoms in apple trees in a fast, precise and usual way.","PeriodicalId":170761,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Monit. Surveillance Technol. Res.","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130407040","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using Physics Inspired Wave Agents in a Virtual Environment: Longitudinal Distance Control in Robots Platoon","authors":"Baudouin Dafflon, Maxime Guériau, Franck Gechter","doi":"10.4018/IJMSTR.2017040102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJMSTR.2017040102","url":null,"abstract":"The monitoring and the surveillance of industrial and agricultural sites have become first order tasks mainly for security or the safety reasons. The main issues of this activity is tied to the size of the sites and to their accessibility. Thus, it seems nowadays relevant to tackle with this problem with robots, which can detect potential issues with a low operational cost. To that purpose, in addition to individual patrolling behavior, robots need coordination schemes. The goal of this paper is to explore the possibility of using interference fringes and waves properties in a virtual environment to tackle with the longitudinal distance regulation in the platoon control issue. The proposed model, based on a multi-agent paradigm, is considering each vehicle as an agent wave generator in the virtual environment.","PeriodicalId":170761,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Monit. Surveillance Technol. Res.","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117017371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent Advances in Minimally-Obtrusive Monitoring of People's Health","authors":"A. Mali","doi":"10.4018/IJMSTR.2017040104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4018/IJMSTR.2017040104","url":null,"abstract":"Monitoring people's health is useful for enhancing the care provided to them by others or self-management of health. This article is a survey of the latest research on monitoring parameters indicating a person's current health or having potential to affect the person's health in future, using various physical sensors. These sensors include accelerometers, gyroscopes, electromyography sensors, fiber optic sensors, textile electrodes, thermistors, infrared sensors, force sensors, and photo diodes. The health parameters monitored include heart rate, respiration rate, weight, body mass index, calories burnt, pressure distribution, diet, blood pressure, blood glucose, oxygen saturation, posture, duration of sleep, quality of sleep, hand movement, body temperature, skin conductance, exposure to ultraviolet light, adherence to medication-intake schedule, gait characteristics, and steps taken. The population monitored includes elderly people, miners, stroke survivors, osteoarthritis patients, people suffering from anorexia nervosa, obese people, people with Parkinson's disease, people having panic attacks, and wheelchair users.","PeriodicalId":170761,"journal":{"name":"Int. J. Monit. Surveillance Technol. Res.","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132314590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}