{"title":"CESoc Malaysia Chapter Runs a Workshop on Consumer-Centric IoT","authors":"Thinagaran Perumal","doi":"10.1109/mce.2019.2953735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mce.2019.2953735","url":null,"abstract":"& WEB DEVELOPMENT AND programming have gone through a major transformation in recent years. Today’s web development is no longer focused on generic content, but rather ability to display dynamic content across heterogeneous platforms. Internet of Things (IoT) devices is among the new plethora of platforms that are being transformed by web development and programming. Web development and programming for IoT systems are vital as there are many devices that need to display and exchange web content, such as dashboards on mobile apps and wearables. A good example would be Amazon’s Echo with virtual assistant called Alexa. Alexa would be able to search the web with a back-end browser without interfering with front-end interface, clearly an indicator of how IoT is changing the way we deal with the web. Angularjs, Ionic, Laravel, and JavaScript are some of the popular choices needed for web development and programming for IoT devices. Realizing the importance of the trend, the CESoc Malaysia Chapter co-organized a workshop on consumer-centric IoT with the Foundation in Science Department, University of Nottingham Malaysia (UNMC), Semenyih, Malaysia. The workshop themed as “Future of Web Development and Programming” was held on 11th July, 2019. The event saw participation of 16 groups consisting of Foundation in Science students. This is a continuous initiative by the CESoc Malaysia chapter collaborating with academia and industry in Malaysia to expose the technological trends related to consumer-centric IoT. The event is led by Dr. Bavani Ramayah from the School of Foundation in Science, within the same campus. The primary purpose of the event is merely to explore new programming frameworks and web development technologies for IoT devices. Participants presented their working prototypes and these models had been evaluated by Dr. Thinagaran Perumal. Certificates were presented to best three prototypes to the respective groups. The event was a milestone for the Malaysia Chapter in promoting educational outreach. In the future, the CESoc Malaysia Chapter plans to host an extended version of such workshops in other Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCE.2019.2953735","PeriodicalId":179001,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Consumer Electron. Mag.","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126260846","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":"Security-Smart is of Paramount Importance for Autonomous Vehicles","authors":"S. Mohanty","doi":"10.1109/mce.2019.2927970","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mce.2019.2927970","url":null,"abstract":"& I WELCOME THE readers to the last issue of year 2019, the November 2019 issue, of the IEEE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE (MCE). This becomes our second issue after Consumer Electronic Society decided to move from the previous editorial service to new one called “Common Design Service” for its production. I bring excellent news to your attention. I came to know about the 2018 impact factor of MCE. It is a pleasure to learn that the Impact Factor of MCE for year 2018 is 3.273. Based on my experiences, I consider this as an extraordinary achievement for a 7-year-old magazine. This is 128.24% increase with respect to the 2017 impact factor of 1.434. I would like to thank all the members of the editorial board and the enthusiastic authors who made this possible. I am hopeful that we will maintain the same quality and standards and momentum trend for future years. The current issue of MCE has a theme of vehicular security. I have discussed the concept of Energy-Smart, Security-Smart, and Response-Smart (ESR-Smart) in the past in my editorials as well many keynote addresses. This theme on vehicular security is a specific example of security-smart. Securitysmart deals with the security, privacy, or ownership-protection of electronic systems as well as that of the data that these systems capture, process, or store. In many articles and keynote addresses, I have formally defined smart cities as well as discussed the technologies and components needed for their design and operations. The smart cities use one or multiple smart components, which are essentially cyber-physical systems built using Internet-of-things (IoT). The components include smart healthcare, smart transportation, smart agriculture, smart infrastructure, and smart grids. Security and privacy are important for any of these components of smart cities. However, the challenges to provide the security/privacy solutions are not the same for different components and technologies deployed in the smart cities. The smart healthcare domain that uses various devices in the Internet-of-Medical-Things (IoMT) framework need to have security/privacy solutions which do not introduce much energy overheads. The IoMT devices include medical sensors, implantable medical devices (IMDs), or wearable medical devices (WMDs). The IMDs which, in the current generation design may have communications capabilities along with WMDs, are collectively defined as implantable and wearable medical devices (IWMDs). I envision that IWMDs in the framework of IoMT may lead to the realization of Internet-of-Everything Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCE.2019.2927970","PeriodicalId":179001,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Consumer Electron. Mag.","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124997306","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":"Emerging Paradigms in Vehicular Cybersecurity","authors":"H. Thapliyal, S. Mohanty, S. Prowell","doi":"10.1109/mce.2019.2928066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/mce.2019.2928066","url":null,"abstract":"& CURRENT GENERATION VEHICLES include an average of 100 million lines of code and 60 electronic control units (ECUs). It is estimated that there will be 220 million connected cars, globally, by 2020. With the growth of Internet-of-Things-enabled technologies in vehicles, such as power and infotainment systems, remote locking and unlocking, remote engine start, navigation, and autonomous driving features, the potential threat vectors for malicious cyberattacks are rapidly expanding. A taxonomy of vehicular security attacks to provide the general outline of an attack including who the attackers could be, what tools they might use in the attack, the actions taken with those tools, and the attackers’ overall objective for the attack is presented in Figure 1. As an example, software vulnerabilities could be exploited to remotely take control of safety-critical systems including the brakes in the vehicle. Thus, there is a growing concern that vehicles can be hacked, and the user data can be stolen. These cyberattacks are a threat to the reliability and safety of the car and to the privacy of the driver. As per the report “Cybersecurity Best Practices for Modern Vehicles” published by National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the United States Department of Transportation (DOT)’s top priority is to enhance vehicle cybersecurity for mitigating cyber threats that could present unreasonable safety risks to the public or compromise sensitive information such as consumers’ personal data. Various vehicular attacks can be broadly classified into the following categories.","PeriodicalId":179001,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Consumer Electron. Mag.","volume":"167 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133644331","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":"The Malaysia Project Competition on the IoT for Humanitarian Causes [Society News]","authors":"Thinagaran Perumal","doi":"10.1109/MCE.2019.2905480","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MCE.2019.2905480","url":null,"abstract":"Presents information on the Malaysia Project Competition on the Internet of Things for humanitarian purposes.","PeriodicalId":179001,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Consumer Electron. Mag.","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133498915","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":"As a Service? [Bits Versus Electrons]","authors":"B. Frankston","doi":"10.1109/MCE.2019.2905540","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MCE.2019.2905540","url":null,"abstract":"Reports on initiatives by communications companies to buy services via 5G mobile communications. Examines the technological, political, and economic aspects of these initiatives and examples the implications for consumers.","PeriodicalId":179001,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Consumer Electron. Mag.","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123037014","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":"Society Name Change-It Is the Time to Do It to Respond to and Reflect the Dynamic Changes in Industry [President's Message]","authors":"W. Almuhtadi","doi":"10.1109/MCE.2019.2909506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MCE.2019.2909506","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":179001,"journal":{"name":"IEEE Consumer Electron. Mag.","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115737409","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}