The vast proliferation of sensor devices and Internet of Things enables the applications of sensor-based activity recognition. However, there exist substantial challenges that could influence the performance of the recognition system in practical scenarios. Recently, as...

Recent years have seen the rapid development and integration of the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing. The market is providing various consumer-oriented smart IoT devices; the mainstream cloud service providers are building their software stacks to support I...

Reactive synthesis is an automated procedure to obtain a correct-by-construction reactive system from its temporal logic specification. This short paper discusses the software engineering challenges in applying reactive synthesis to robotics, beyond the synthesis algori...

This work proposes a cloud solution to build an Internet of Things (IoT) platform applied in a greenhouse crop production context. Real-time and historical data, as well as prediction models, can be accessed by means of RESTful (Representational State Transfer) web serv...

Purpose A rotary kiln is a pyro processing device that is used to raise the temperature of materials in cement factories. Temperature monitoring is an essential process in the rotary kiln to yield high quality clinker. Temperature measurement is a challenging task in c...

In the era of the internet of things (IoT), software-enabled inter-connected devices are of paramount importance. The embedded systems are very frequently used in both security and privacy-sensitive applications. However, the underlying software (a.k.a. firmware) very o...

BACKGROUND: Many inpatients become anxious or frightened about scheduled treatment processes, and medical staff do not have sufficient time to provide emotional support. The recent advancement of information and communications technology (ICT) and the use of artificial ...

This chapter describes IoT Vertical Markets and Connected Ecosystems. It first introduces the top IoT verticals that include Agriculture & Farming, Energy, Enterprise, Finance, Healthcare, Industrial, Retail and Transportation. Such verticals include a plethora of senso...

This chapter defines the IoT protocol stack and compares it to the existing Internet protocol stack. It provides a layer-by-layer walkthrough of that stack, and, for each such layer, discusses the challenges brought forward by the IoT requirements of the previous chapte...

Abstract River basins are one of the most dynamic terrains on Earth, therefore, river morphology should be monitored continuously and its effects on the environment (i.e. natural hazards) should be mapped whenever possible. This study was carried out to quantify and vis...