D. Giovanelli, B. Milosevic, C. Király, A. Murphy, Elisabetta Farella
{"title":"Dynamic group management with Bluetooth Low Energy","authors":"D. Giovanelli, B. Milosevic, C. Király, A. Murphy, Elisabetta Farella","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580822","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580822","url":null,"abstract":"The flourishing ecosystem of the Internet of Things (IoT) provides the enabling technologies for the development of smart cities. In intelligent urban settings, integrated and sustainable mobility plays a key role, especially for children, whose ability to move independently throughout their neighborhood is fundamental, both for themselves and their community. Our case study comes from a stepping stone toward independent mobility, namely a group of children walking to school under adult supervision. For this scenario, we offer a tool based on wireless, wearable nodes that supports adults to safely form and manage a group of children. We describe the application requirements, generalizing them beyond this particular use case. We also offer a prototype implementation that exploits Bluetooth Low Energy connectionless communication to build bi-directional information exchange for group management. Simulations and pilot tests validate the proposed approach in terms of scalability, network performance and battery life.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"97 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123974110","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":"Cloud computing for s-health and the data protection challenge: Getting ready for the General Data Protection Regulation","authors":"R. Ducato","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580803","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580803","url":null,"abstract":"The recently approved General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will change deeply the European privacy framework. Despite the aim of updating the legislative provisions to the challenges of the information society, the GDPR leaves open serious questions and shortcomings, especially in the context of cloud computing for s-health. The purpose of the paper is twofold: after having outlined the major innovations of the new GDPR for ensuring data protection in cloud environments, paying particular attention to the processing in the healthcare sector, the main unresolved issues will be critically addressed.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"38 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125078846","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":"Experimental validation of a wireless distributed system for smart public lighting management","authors":"F. Viani, A. Polo, F. Robol, E. Giarola, A. Ferro","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580852","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the validation of a wireless system for the smart management of the public lighting network aimed at reducing the power consumptions of the lamps. The distributed and adaptive control of the dimming profiles has been investigated taking in consideration the time-varying environmental conditions. The presented system is able to control each single lamp thanks to the integration of smart wireless devices in the existing light poles. A demonstrative deployment has been installed in different areas of the city of Trento, Italy, in cooperation with the municipality of Trento, which is responsible for the control and maintenance of the public lighting. The advantages and the limitations of the proposed solution have been experimentally assessed and the energy saving performances have been evaluated.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129417971","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}
M. Brenna, F. Foiadelli, M. Longo, S. Bracco, F. Delfino
{"title":"Smart microgrids in smart campuses with electric vehicles and storage systems: Analysis of possible operating scenarios","authors":"M. Brenna, F. Foiadelli, M. Longo, S. Bracco, F. Delfino","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580794","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580794","url":null,"abstract":"Today, innovative Smart Grids work in synergy with Electric Vehicle (EV) infrastructures, not only for a sustainable mobility, but also for their flexibility in supporting the electric grid. These technologies are adopted by many institutional and university campuses to reduce the primary energy consumption, increase the renewable source exploitation and provide a green mobility. The aim of this work, after a presentation of the Smart MicroGrid project at the Savona Campus of the Genoa University, is focused on the storage systems in a local smart microgrid. In particular, the purpose of the present work is the evaluation of the role of electric vehicles to replace or improve part of fixed storage batteries in order to reduce operating costs of the whole energy infrastructure.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129829594","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":"Ambient RF power harvesting: Application to remote supply of a batteryless temperature sensor","authors":"H. Takhedmit","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580800","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580800","url":null,"abstract":"This paper deals with the design and experiments of an efficient rectenna circuit, operating in the ISM band at 2.45 GHz, intended to remotely supply a batteryless temperature sensor. More than 80% efficiency is experimentally achieved at medium and low power densities. The circuit contains a symmetric and dual-access RF-to-dc rectifier and 2 patch antennas. The temperature sensor performs measurements every 10 seconds and requires 1 V voltage and 30 μJ energy per period. It operates from low power densities of only 0.4μW/cm2 (E = 1.22 V/m).","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122569084","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":"SPArTaCuS: Service priority adaptiveness for emergency traffic in smart cities using software-defined networking","authors":"Rohit Abhishek, Shuai Zhao, D. Medhi","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580854","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580854","url":null,"abstract":"Network congestion during disasters and big events is a major issue, especially in metropolitan areas. Although different network operators have their own strategies to address such types of incidents, a smarter and more efficient way to address such situations is needed for Smart Cities. In this paper, we propose SPArTaCuS, a framework to prioritize network traffic adaptively for such situations for smart cities using a software-defined network (SDN) approach, where services that require priority are placed in virtualized networks and the mechanism is accomplished through a priority management layer in SDN architecture.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"203 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126079808","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":"Crowdsourced electricity demand forecast","authors":"Kenneth Humphreys, Jia Yuan Yu","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580784","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580784","url":null,"abstract":"We propose a new approach to forecasting the demand for a commodity in which the supplier asks each consumer to forecast its own demand in return for a monetary reward that is proportional to the accuracy of the forecast. Such an approach is applicable when demand for a perishable commodity is uncertain and forecast error leads to waste for suppliers. In this paper, we apply this approach to forecast residential electricity demand over 24 hours, i.e., short-term load forecasting (STLF). Accurate STLF is vital to meeting the large daily fluctuations in the demand for electricity in a reliable and economical way. Improving STLF accuracy can reduce the variable costs incurred by power system operators and energy retailers through more precise generation scheduling and energy purchasing. We propose a new method to model both the true demand profiles for individual residential electricity consumers, and their own forecasts of those demand profiles. This work is a first step in understanding interactions between the consumer-forecaster and the supplier-rewarder.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121253051","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":"Low-cost, Long-range open IoT for smarter rural African villages","authors":"C. Pham, A. Rahim, Philippe Cousin","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580823","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580823","url":null,"abstract":"Recent long-range radio technologies are promising to deploy Low Power WAN at a very low-cost for a large variety of IoT applications. However, even though, there are several issues that need to be addressed when considering deploying IoT solutions for low-income developing countries. In this article, we first explain these issues and show how they can be addressed in the context of rural sub-saharan African applications, one of them being smarter villages and farms in a small and micro deployment model. We then describe our low-cost, long-range IoT framework which takes cost of hardware and services as the main challenge to be addressed as well as flexibility, quick appropriation and customization by third parties.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115277701","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":"Applying social norms to high-fidelity pedestrian and traffic simulations","authors":"Marco Robol, P. Giorgini, P. Busetta","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580808","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580808","url":null,"abstract":"Smart cities are founded on complex interactions among architectural and urban designs, sensors, actuators and crowds of people with their devices. In this context, simulation becomes essential to study the effects of the technology and to understand how to improve its effectiveness on the social environment. The majority of the current pedestrian and traffic simulations adopt a bird-eye view and are driven by statistical models. While this is enough in many cases, e.g. to study traffic flow under common conditions assuming average cases, it is not appropriate when a higher level of fidelity is required. Simulated people need to show both a plausible behavior and mechanisms to coordinate with human participants in a natural way. Much of this coordination happens silently and is driven by social norms, that may vary according to culture and context. In this paper, we propose an approach to represent social norms in multi-agent systems that enables implicit coordination driven by observations of others' behaviors. This is applied specifically to the case of pedestrian movement. In order to allow for a more effective participation of humans in the simulation, our approach does not use central coordinators or coordination protocol, but rather each agent takes its own decision so to make more realistic interactions. A software architecture and initial experimental results are presented and discussed.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121022771","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}
E. Bellocchio, G. Costante, S. Cascianelli, P. Valigi, T. A. Ciarfuglia
{"title":"SmartSEAL: A ROS based home automation framework for heterogeneous devices interconnection in smart buildings","authors":"E. Bellocchio, G. Costante, S. Cascianelli, P. Valigi, T. A. Ciarfuglia","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580798","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580798","url":null,"abstract":"With this paper we present the SmartSEAL inter-connection system developed for the nationally founded SEAL project. SEAL is a research project aimed at developing Home Automation (HA) solutions for building energy management, user customization and improved safety of its inhabitants. One of the main problems of HA systems is the wide range of communication standards that commercial devices use. Usually this forces the designer to choose devices from a few brands, limiting the scope of the system and its capabilities. In this context, SmartSEAL is a framework that aims to integrate heterogeneous devices, such as sensors and actuators from different vendors, providing networking features, protocols and interfaces that are easy to implement and dynamically configurable. The core of our system is a Robotics middleware called Robot Operating System (ROS). We adapted the ROS features to the HA problem, designing the network and protocol architectures for this particular needs. These software infrastructure allows for complex HA functions that could be realized only levering the services provided by different devices. The system has been tested in our laboratory and installed in two real environments, Palazzo Fogazzaro in Schio and “Le Case” childhood school in Malo. Since one of the aim of the SEAL project is the personalization of the building environment according to the user needs, and the learning of their patterns of behaviour, in the final part of this work we also describe the ongoing design and experiments to provide a Machine Learning based re-identification module implemented with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). The description of the adaptation module complements the description of the SmartSEAL system and helps in understanding how to develop complex HA services through it.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121167132","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}