{"title":"Software defined connected prosumer communities","authors":"C. Chelmis, R. Kannan, V. Prasanna","doi":"10.1109/WF-IoT.2016.7845445","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WF-IoT.2016.7845445","url":null,"abstract":"Electricity generation from renewable sources is radically increasing in an effort to achieve the Sustainable Energy for All objective of doubling the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix by 2030. However, the current grid has difficulty accommodating variable power sources like wind and solar. To accelerate the integration of renewable distributed power generation there is a need for the development of a highly reliable, self-regulating, and efficient grid. To address this challenge, we propose Software Defined Connected Prosumer Communities (SDCPC), a transformative paradigm that leverages IoT-enabled energy infrastructure (i.e., smart metering techniques, digital sensors, and intelligent control systems) that turns the electric power infrastructure into an “Internet of Energy” (IoE) to provide power utilities with digital intelligence to the network of prosumers (i.e., consumers that co-generate electricity as a result of the continuous integration of renewable generation).","PeriodicalId":373932,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134466936","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":"Searching the social Internet of Things by exploiting object similarity","authors":"Michele Nitti, Virginia Pilloni, D. Giusto","doi":"10.1109/WF-IOT.2016.7845506","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WF-IOT.2016.7845506","url":null,"abstract":"One of the major issues of Internet of Things (IoT) is discovering which objects are able to execute specific services and provide the required data for applications to be correctly accomplished. In recent years, the Social IoT (SIoT) paradigm, where objects establish social-like relationships, has become popular as it presents several interesting features to improve network navigability and implement efficient discovery methods. This is due to the intrinsic capability of a SIoT network to come to a solution for a query and quickly reach the required object with a small number of hops, using object friendships. In this paper, a SIoT-based object discovery mechanism is proposed. The novelty of this algorithm is that the next hop to query is chosen based on two properties: one that is intrinsic to the network and is based on object friendships, and an external one that takes into account the similarity between the object and the query. Simulation results prove that a correct balance between the two introduced properties is needed and that the proposed algorithm is able to efficiently solve queries, independently of their popularity and complexity.","PeriodicalId":373932,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)","volume":"321 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133363353","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":"Event model to facilitate data sharing among services: Closing the gap between research and implementation","authors":"O. Kotevska, A. Lbath, J. Gelernter","doi":"10.1109/WF-IoT.2016.7845395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WF-IoT.2016.7845395","url":null,"abstract":"Development of smart city services is presently hindered because the data is too heterogeneous, despite the increasing availability of data in open data initiatives. We determined metadata fields and semantics for our proposed model after a survey of other event models, and after its trial implementation in actual applications. Our event metadata model is unique among event models in being extensible as needed. We illustrate our model by showing it with different data types, and we validate it using real-world data in a prototype smart cities service for pedestrian safety. Wide adoption of our event metadata model has the potential to broaden the number and scope of smart city services.","PeriodicalId":373932,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130066445","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":"A novel indoor healthcare with time hopping-based visible light communication","authors":"J. An, W. Chung","doi":"10.1109/WF-IoT.2016.7845438","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WF-IoT.2016.7845438","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the time hopping (TH) visible light communication (VLC) system for an electromagnetic wave free indoor healthcare. VLC technology has emerged as an alternative wireless communication due to various advantages such as ubiquity, low energy consumption, no radio frequency (RF) radiation, and security against undesired network access. Significant bio-medical signal including the electrocardiography (ECG) can be transferred with VLC even in places where RF is forbidden. This potential advantage of VLC could save more emergency patients. The time hopping scheme is adopted to transmit multiple medical data with keeping a simple system design. Multiple data streams go through an optical detector including a photodiode and multiple data are separated by TH demodulator at the receiver. Each separated signal is then monitored to serve the necessary medical care for the concerned patient.","PeriodicalId":373932,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130840160","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":"Adaptive environments for enabling senior citizens: An holistic assessment tool for housing design and IoT-based technologies","authors":"M. Zallio, D. Berry, Niccolò Casiddu","doi":"10.1109/WF-IOT.2016.7845463","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WF-IOT.2016.7845463","url":null,"abstract":"The population of older adults will continuously increase over the coming decades. As they get older, people will require assistance and regular monitoring, with higher costs for welfare system and families. Two vital aspects of a healthy lifestyle, are domestic autonomy and maintenance of relationships within the neighborhood. This leads to an interesting research issue: “Could houses and appliances have the potential to improve autonomy and quality of life of citizens? Which methods and tools could enhance wellbeing and healthy conditions? The house has the potential to be a safe, adaptive environment, integrated with technologies for life support. This work seeks to investigate the key implications of architectural accessibility, interior Design features and interactive technologies, related to User Experience Design. The proposed Design approach called “Environment Design to Sustain Users” is based on a scenario composed of two empirical strategies. The reported research aims to support the creation of a new standard of houses in which people can live in a healthy way, enjoying the opportunities of ICT, which shall be “enabling” and integrated in an unobtrusive way so as to be accepted by the user.","PeriodicalId":373932,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129544426","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}
P. Kolios, G. Ellinas, C. Panayiotou, M. Polycarpou
{"title":"Energy efficient event-based networking for the Internet of Things","authors":"P. Kolios, G. Ellinas, C. Panayiotou, M. Polycarpou","doi":"10.1109/WF-IoT.2016.7845489","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WF-IoT.2016.7845489","url":null,"abstract":"Autonomy is a key feature for sustainable operation of the Internet of Things (IoT), since the large deployment scale of IoT devices makes management a very challenging task. For that reason, energy efficiency has become a primary design consideration in emerging and future IoT solutions. Already, beaconing and discontinuous transmission/reception is included in the upcoming IoT standards to enable devices to duty cycle between the active and sleep states in order to save energy. In many cases however, this periodic mode of operation results in unnecessary wake-ups that greatly reduce energy efficiency. Event-based communication greatly outperforms periodic triggering in efficiency, since wake-ups occur only when particular events take place. The networking aspects of this promising approach are investigated herein with devices exchanging events for monitoring and control purposes. Both centralized optimal and distributed heuristic strategies are formulated to intelligently adjust the number of wake-up events in order to maximize energy efficiency. Extensive simulations are conducted to analyze the performance of the proposed strategies.","PeriodicalId":373932,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123592092","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}
Dario Bruneo, S. Distefano, F. Longo, Giovanni Merlino, A. Puliafito
{"title":"IoT-cloud authorization and delegation mechanisms for ubiquitous sensing and actuation","authors":"Dario Bruneo, S. Distefano, F. Longo, Giovanni Merlino, A. Puliafito","doi":"10.1109/WF-IOT.2016.7845494","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WF-IOT.2016.7845494","url":null,"abstract":"In the roadmap for the implementation of ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous sensing and actuation is a milestone still to be reached. It refers to providing sensing and actuation facilities anytime and everywhere. This does not just imply to interconnect sensors and actuators through the Internet, but also and mainly to provide this facilities. IoT-Cloud computing paradigms such as the sensing and actuation as a service one could be a proper way to address this problem. In past work we developed an SAaaS framework extending OpenStack with specific functionalities for resource constrained nodes, Stack4Things. In this paper we focus on access control, authorization and delegation mechanisms which are basic mechanisms for the implementation of the UbSA vision. Thus starting from Stack4Things, we describe how we adapted and extended mechanisms provided by OpenStack, with specific regard to Keystone, with new functionalities for delegation and access control. A use case in the smart city scenario of #SmartME describes the proposed solution in practice.","PeriodicalId":373932,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122368610","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":"A semantic interoperability architecture for Internet of Things data sharing and computing","authors":"J. Strassner, W. Diab","doi":"10.1109/WF-IoT.2016.7845422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WF-IoT.2016.7845422","url":null,"abstract":"The Internet of Things lacks standardized mechanisms for discovering new and changing knowledge. While vendors may have the ability to build applications for their own devices, this typically does not enable open communication and sharing of data and knowledge. This document describes an architecture that combines information and data models with ontologies to provide an extensible semantic interoperability layer. This ensures that the meaning of terms and objects in one device or system are not lost or altered when they are exchanged and used by other devices or systems.","PeriodicalId":373932,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126028257","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":"Traffic forensics for IPv6-based Wireless Sensor Networks and the Internet of Things","authors":"Vijay Kumar, G. Oikonomou, T. Tryfonas","doi":"10.1109/WF-IOT.2016.7845515","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WF-IOT.2016.7845515","url":null,"abstract":"Research and standardisation efforts in the fields of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) and the Internet of Things (IoT) are leading towards the adoption of TCP/IP for deployments of networks of severely constrained smart embedded objects. As a result, wireless sensors can now be uniquely identified by an IPv6 address and thus be directly connected to and reachable from the internet. This has a series of advantages but also exposes sensor deployments to new security vulnerabilities. Should a deployment be compromised, post-incident analysis can provide information about the nature of the attack by inspecting the network's state and traffic during the time period prior, during and after the attack. In this paper we adopt traffic forensic techniques in order to achieve post-hoc detection of attacks against availability in IPv6-based Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks. To this end, we first implement an attack which exploits inherent vulnerabilities of the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL). Subsequently, we present an automated method to detect and analyse this attack by examining network packet captures.","PeriodicalId":373932,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130744715","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}
Hamzeh Khazaei, Rodrigo Veleda, Marin Litoiu, A. Tizghadam
{"title":"Realtime big data analytics for event detection in highways","authors":"Hamzeh Khazaei, Rodrigo Veleda, Marin Litoiu, A. Tizghadam","doi":"10.1109/WF-IoT.2016.7845461","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/WF-IoT.2016.7845461","url":null,"abstract":"The unprecedented growing and accessibility of traffic data has materialized various opportunities to improve the quality of transportation related services. In this paper, we extend Sipresk, a big data analytic platform, to ingest real-time traffic data and provide online analytics for various stakeholders. We leverage extended Sipresk to detect and classify events in Ontario highways. More specifically, we designed and implemented a set of algorithms that detect four traffic patterns each of which detects a specific type of event. The platform reports the event specifications no later than 20 seconds that provides the opportunity to react promptly to incidents in highways. Also, we configure Sipresk to process traffic sensor data from January 2015 to June 2016 for detection and classification of events for every single day. In less than 2 minutes, Sipresk is able to process 24 hours of data and generate a list of events occurred during that specific date.","PeriodicalId":373932,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on Internet of Things (WF-IoT)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121454572","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}