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Fabian, Benjamin. "Secure name services for the internet of things." Doctoral thesis, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/15829.
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Mit dem Begriff Internet der Dinge (IOT) wird eine im Entstehen begriffene globale, Internet-basierte Architektur von Informationsdiensten bezeichnet, die Informationen Ÿber mit RFID-Chips versehene GegenstŠnde bereitstellt. Das IOT soll den Informationsaustausch Ÿber GŸter in in globalen Logistiknetzen erleichtern, ihre Transparenz erhšhen und somit Effizienzsteigerungen erreichen. Namensdienste fŸr das IOT sind verteilte Systeme, die bei Eingabe eines Identifikators fŸr einen Gegenstand, z.B. eines Elektronischen Produktcodes (EPC), eine Liste von Internetadressen fŸr Dienste zurŸckgeben, die weitere Informationen Ÿber den Gegenstand anbieten. Die vorliegende Arbeit hat die Herausforderungen an die Informationssicherheit von IOT-Namensdiensten (IOTNS) zum Thema. Hierbei leisten wir die folgenden ForschungsbeitrŠge: Erstens werden die Anforderungen an einen IOTNS herausgearbeitet, wobei insbesondere mehrseitige Sicherheit und die Perspektive der IOTNS-Clients berŸcksichtigt werden, die in den Standards und der Forschungsliteratur zum IOT bisher vernachlŠssigt worden sind. Zweitens fŸhren wir eine Sicherheitsanalyse des einflu§reichen Standards Object Naming Service (ONS) durch. Drittens werden Verbesserungen des ONS diskutiert, die einen Teil der ONS-Sicherheitsprobleme beheben kšnnten, ohne den etablierten Standard vollstŠndig zu verŠndern. Hierbei werden insbesondere eine Architektur fŸr Multipolares ONS und ihr Prototyp vorgestellt, bei der die internationale AbhŠngigkeit von dem Land reduziert werden kann, das den ONS-Root kontrolliert. Viertens prŠsentieren wir eine neue IOTNS-Architektur und ihre Implementierung auf der Forschungsplattform PlanetLab, die auf verteilten Hashtabellen basiert und von der gezeigt wird, dass sie verbesserte Sicherheitseigenschaften gegenŸber ONS aufweist -- bei vergleichbarem oder sogar erhšhtem Grad an FunktionalitŠt, Skalierbarkeit und Systemleistung.The term Internet of Things (IOT) describes an emerging global, Internet-based information service architecture for RFID-tagged items (Radio-Frequency Identification). In the vision of its proponents, this IOT will facilitate information exchange about goods in global supply chain networks, increase transparency, and enhance their efficiency. Name Services for the IOT are distributed systems that serve the following fundamental lookup function: Given an identifier for a real-world object, e.g., an Electronic Product Code (EPC), they return a list of Internet addresses of services, which offer additional information about this object. This thesis discusses the information security challenges involved in the design and use of an IOT Name Service (IOTNS). Our main contributions are the following: First, the requirements for an IOTNS are collected and discussed, including multilateral security and the client perspective, which have been neglected in IOT standards and research literature so far. Second, we conduct a detailed security analysis of the most influential standard Object Naming Service (ONS). This extends our previous article that initiated this new research line in the field of RFID and IOT security. Third, enhancements to ONS are discussed, which could mitigate some of the ONS security shortcomings in an evolutionary way without completely abandoning the established standard. In particular, we describe an architecture and prototype for Multipolar ONS, which reduces international dependency on a single country controlling the ONS Root. Fourth, we present a new IOTNS architecture based on Distributed Hash Tables (DHT) and its implementation on the research platform PlanetLab. This architecture is shown to offer enhanced overall security compared to ONS while delivering equivalent or even better functionality, scalability, and performance.
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Forsström, Stefan. "Enabling fully distributed global services on the Internet-of Things." Doctoral thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Avdelningen för informations- och kommunikationssystem, 2014. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-24027.
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Ringvall, Robert. "The Impact of Internet of Things on Building Services Engineering." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad fysik och elektronik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-136002.
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Today communicating sensors are everywhere. There are sensors in our smart phones, in our vehicles, even in our homes. As the technology in electronics and wireless communication is developed more devices is installed all around us. The Internet connected network of physical objects is called the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT devices send, receive and exchange data in order to control, monitor and optimize. The possible appliances for IoT spans industries, healthcare, cities, airports, and much more. This project targets the current state of IoT, how the development of IoT might affect building services engineering and possible future IoT appliances in buildings. The main appliances of IoT in buildings are energy saving procedures, maintenance improvements, chore automation and security enhancements. Energy saving in buildings has been a hot topic for many years due to global warming. IoT offers the possibility to reduce greenhouse gases, not only locally but also on a grander scheme. This project investigate possible energy savings by assuming that IoT can create an optimal ventilation and heating schedules. The analysis is carried out by simulating energy consumption in an apartment building using IDA ICE. The apartment building used as a reference model is located in Lycksele, Sweden. The result shows a modest energy saving of 100 kWh/apartment for heating and 250 kWh/apartment for ventilation optimization. The conclusion is that energy saving potential of IoT lies in interoperability between devices and the possibility to find correlations between data, not in individual optimizations. The main focus of IoT today in the building sector is to assist facility management with supervision of real estate. Sensors that send information about the state of devices decreases the supervision time of operating technicians. It's fundamental for facility management companies to cooperate with building engineering companies in order to avoid a constant change of batteries in IoT devices installed in buildings. By settle necessary power connections during the construction phase of a building the need for batteries is limited.
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Dahbi, Abdelmounaim. "Supply Chain Discovery Services in an Internet of Things Environment." Thesis, Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10393/36060.
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Electronic Product Code (EPC) refers to a numbering standard developed to uniquely identify physical objects, loads, locations, assets and other entities which are to be
tracked or otherwise identified. The tracking technology consists of assigning Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, holding universally unique EPC codes, to the entities to be identified. While the EPC-RFID technology is used to identify and capture data about the physical objects to be tracked in a supply chain, the EPCglobal Network ensures the exchange of the captured data between supply chain stakeholders. Such a real-time data exchange increases visibility and efficiency throughout the supply chain, and thus it increases both company profitability and customer satisfaction. The EPCglobal Network can be regarded as the backbone for the future Internet of Things (IoT). We focus our work in this thesis on Discovery Services (DS); a suite of network lookup services enabling users to retrieve all relevant information sources with regards to a given EPC. They can be viewed as search engines for the future business infrastructure deployed in the IoT. Motivated by the unprecedented and incessantly growing amount of EPC data, the expected epidemic growth in the solicitation frequency of the lookup service, and also the foreseen exceptionally large flow of highly sensitive EPC information, we focus on proposing solutions to problems pertaining to two main challenges; architecture design of Discovery Services and their security. On the architecture design level, we propose novel DS architectures with focus directed towards meeting four major requirements; network scalability, query responsiveness, service extensibility and
acceptance. On the security level, we propose probabilistic security schemes aiming at securing even further Discovery Services in the IoT in general, and in the EPCglobal network in particular.
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Yousif, Robert. "A Practical Approach of an Internet of Robotic Things Platform." Thesis, KTH, Mekatronik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-244412.
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This thesis aims to design and develop a platform based on a novel concept - the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) constructed by a robotic platform, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform and cloud computing services. A robotic platform enables hardware abstraction, facilitating the management of input/output between software, mechanical devices andelectronic systems. The IoT platform is a global network enabling a massive number of devices known as things to communicate with each other and transfer data over the Internet. Cloud computing is a shared pool of scalable hardware usually provisioned as cloud services by third party cloud vendors. The integration of these concepts constitutes the core of the IoRT platform, as a global infrastructure facilitating robots to interconnect over the Internet utilizing common communication technology. Moreover, the pool of cloud resources shared by the connected robots enables scalable storage and processing power. The IoRT platform developed in this study constitutes firstly of the Amazon Web Service (AWS) IoT core serving as the IoT platform. Secondly, it incorporates the Robot Operating system (ROS) as the robotic platform and thirdly the cloud services Amazon DynamoDB and AWS Lambda for data storing and data processing respectively.The platform was evaluated in terms of delays & utilization and visualization capabilities. The platform demonstrates promising result in terms of delays exchanging small packages of data, round-trip delays in order of 50-60ms were obtained between a robot placed in Stockholm and the communication platform AWS IoT placed in Dublin, Ireland. Most of the delay is due to the traveling distance, where a round trip ping between Stockholm and Dublin takes around 50ms. The platforms ability to visualize streaming data from the robots, enables an operator to visualize selected data from any service in the platform over the Internet in near real-time, with round-trip delays in order of 250-300ms where the data propagates through multiple cloud service. In conclusion, this report illustrates the feasibility of merging two major platforms together: ROS and AWS IoT, and moreover, the accessibility to exploit the power and potential enabled by the modern data centers.Avhandlingens syfte är att utforma och utveckla en plattform baserat på konceptet Internet of Robotic Things konstruerat av en robotikplattform, en Internet of Things plattform och molntjänster. En Internet of Things plattform är ett globalt nätverk som tillåter många enheter att kommunicera med varandra och överföra data över Internet. En robotikplattform underlättar kontrollen av in/ut mellan mjukvara, mekaniska enheter och elektroniska system. Molntjänster är en gemensam pool av skalbar hårdvara som vanligtvis erbjuds av tredje parts molnleverantörer. En Internet of Robotic Things plattform är en global infrastruktur som underlättar avancerade robotar att interagera över Internet genom en gemensam kommunikationsteknik, en pool av molntjänster som delas av alla uppkopplade robotar som tillåter skalbar lagring och processorkraft.Plattformens huvudkomponenter är robotikplattformen Robot Operating System, Internet of Things plattformen AWS IoT Core och molntjänsterna Amazon DynamoDB och AWS Lambda för lagring och databearbetning.Plattformen evalueras i form av plattformegenskaperna, fördröjningar & funktionstid och visualiseringsförmåga. Plattformen visar lovande resultat i from av fördröjningar mellan två robotar som utbyter data med hjälp av IoT plattformen, där fördröjningarna är begränsade av distanssträckan. Plattformens egenskap att visualisera strömmande data från robotar möjliggör för en operatör att visualisera utvald data från plattformen över internet i realtid.
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Grimsmo, Sverre Bye. "Reliability Issues when Providing M2M Services in the Internet of Things." Thesis, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Department of Telematics, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:no:ntnu:diva-9971.
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Overview of aspects that come into play when providing reliable Machine-to-Machine (M2M) services. Additionally the effect of an ever increasing number of M2M devices world wide will be analysed.
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Lobe, kome Ivan Marco. "Identity and consent in the internet of persons, things and services." Thesis, Ecole nationale supérieure Mines-Télécom Atlantique Bretagne Pays de la Loire, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019IMTA0131/document.
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La course à la miniaturisation des appareils informatiques est en train de transformer notre relation avec ces derniers, ainsi que leurs rôles dans notre société. Le nombre d’ordinateurs miniatures contrôlés à distance augmente considérablement et ces objets connectés - comme ils sont communément appelés - sont de plus en plus sollicités pour effectuer des tâches à la place de l’Homme. La tendance actuelle consiste à créer une place dans Internet pour ces objets connectés, autrement dit, à construire des protocoles adaptés à leurs ressources limitées. Cette tendance est connue comme l’Internet desObjets - ou l’acronyme anglais IoT - qui est différent des protocoles destinés à une utilisation exclusivement par des humains dit Internet des Personnes ou IoP en anglais. Avec l’adoption de cette séparation conceptuelle, comment est-ce qu’une personne échangerait ses informations avec des objets sans sacrifier la sécurité ? Pour aider à réduire cet écart, on a besoin d’un intermédiaire et la mise en réseau de ces intermédiaires amène à construire le concept d’Internet des Services ou IoS en anglais. Les personnes et les objets sont connectés à travers les services. Le réseau dans son ensemble, incluant les personnes, les objets et les services est donc l’Internet des Personnes, des Objets et des Services. Notre travail se situe à l’intersection de ces trois domaines et notre contribution est double. Premièrement, nous assurons que la liaison entre l’identité d’une personne et de ses objets ne se fasse pas au détriment des propriétés de sécurité telles que l'Intégrité, l'Anonymat et la confidentialité. Et deuxièmement, nous abordons la gestion de la confidentialité des données avec les objets dits connectés. Dans la quête d’une meilleure intégration des objets connectés à Internet, nous avons contribué à la définition de protocoles autant sur la couche applicative que sur la couche réseau du modèle OSI, avec pour préoccupations principales les contraintes de l’IoT et la sécuritéThe constant efforts of miniaturization of computing machines is transforming our relationships with machines and their role in society. The number of tiny computers remotely controlled is skyrocketing and those connected things are now more and more asked to do things on human behalf. The trend consists in making room for these specific machines into the Internet, in other words, building communication protocols adapted to their limited resources. This trend is commonly known as the Internet of Things (IoT) which consist of appliances and mechanisms different from those meant to be used exclusively by humans, the Internet of Persons (IoP). This conceptual separation being adopted, how would a Person exchange information with Things ?Sorts of brokers can help bridging that gap. The networking of those brokers led to the concept of Internetof Services (IoS). Persons and Things are connected through Services. This global networking is called the Internet of Persons Things and Services (IoPTS). Our work is on the edge of these 3 Internet areas and our contributions are two fold. In the first hand, we tackle the secure biding of devices’ and persons’ identities while preserving the Integrity, Anonymity and Confidentiality security properties. On the other hand, we address the problem of the secrecy of data on constrained Internet-connected devices. Other mechanisms must be created in order to seamlessly bind these conceptual areas of IoP, IoT andIoS. In this quest for a better integration of Internet connected-devices into the Internet of Persons, our work contributes to the definition of protocols on application and network layers, with IoT concerns and security at heart
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Manmohanlal, Danilo. "A middleware for service oriented computing in dynamic environments." Master's thesis, Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10362/5398.
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Dissertação apresentada na Faculdade de
Ciências e Tecnologia da Universidade Nova
de Lisboa para a obtenção do Grau de Mestre
em Engenharia InformáticaThe last years have witnessed a convergence on the SOA paradigm from industrial processes enterprises (like logistics or manufacturing), using standards for data and communication. SOA promotes reusability, interoperability and loose-coupling of applications. The convergence towards SOA shows that we are leading to an infrastructure composed by several heterogeneous devices, the "Internet of Things". In this infrastructure everything can be abstracted as a service, such as household appliances, mobile devices, or industrial machinery. It is expected that this trend will continue, and as these devices interoperate in service composition, new functionalities may be discovered. Existing approaches for service composition, namely in business processes, are too bound to BPEL. Several alternatives and extensions of BPEL have been developed, but they feel more like patches than solutions. In this context SeDeUse [29] model has been proposed as an exercise to define new language constructs promoting a separation from service awareness and use. The model also relies on a middleware layer to support the execution of the application in dynamic environments. The goal of this dissertation is to instantiate the SeDeUse model in a widely used programming language in order to provide a framework for its assessment and for its future development. The work consists on implementing a concrete syntax for the model, a compilation process, and a middleware layer. The syntax contains the new language constructs that are integrated in the hosting language. The compilation process is responsible for service definition and code generation. Finally, the middleware acts as a support for the application (generated code) requests. We have seamlessly integrated SeDeUse in the Java programming language and developed a functional prototype. To assess the prototype capability, three scenarios were developed in which we demonstrated that our implementation provides a new, and simpler, approach for abstracting resources as services.
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Sääf, Alexander. "Cloud Services for Building the Modern Internet of Things : An Examination of IoT Cloud Service Providers." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Institutionen för datavetenskap, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-162090.
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As the IoT has grown in popularity, modern Cloud Providers have begun offering IoT-specific features. These features could provide IoT developers with a lot of aid, but they are new and relatively unexplored. This study aims to explore these IoT-specific features in order to build a better foundation for developers looking to leverage them to improve their IoT systems or development process. To do this, a literature study combined with a case study was carried out. The literature study gives insight into the current research around IoT and IoT cloud providers, for example with common issues and possible applications. The case study provides a reference of how a simple proof-of-concept system can be developed using two of the available providers: AWS IoT and Azure IoT.
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Reetz, Eike S. "Service testing for the 'Internet of Things'." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2016. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/810848/.
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Services that represent sensor and actuator nodes, together with service orchestration, aid in overcoming the heterogeneous structure of the Internet of Things (IoT). Interconnecting different sensor and actuator nodes and exposing them as services is a complex topic which is even more demanding for testing. Further effort is needed to enable common and effcient methodologies for testing IoT-based services. IoT-based services differ from web services since they usually interact with the physical environment via sensor and actuator nodes. This changes how testing can be performed. An open research question is thereby how to apply Model-Based Testing (MBT) approaches for facilitating scalable and ef cient test automation. This thesis introduces a novel test framework to facilitate functional evaluation of IoT- based services based on MBT methodologies. The concept separates the service logic from connected sensor and actuator nodes in a sandbox environment. Furthermore, a new IoT service behaviour model is designed for representing relevant characteristics of IoT-based services and ensuring the automated emulation of sensor nodes. The IoT-behaviour model proves to be automatically transformable into executable Test Cases (TCs). As a proof of concept, the automated test approach is prototypically implemented as a novel test tool. The execution of the TCs reveals, that crucial failures, such as unexpected messages, data types, or data values, can be detected during test execution. Deriving tests from a test model typically result in huge number of TCs, which cannot be executed within a reasonable time and with limited resources. To enhance the diversity of executed TCs, similarity investigation algorithms are proposed and validated. The results show that the proposed Diversity-based Steady State Genetic algorithm can outperform existing solutions up to 11.6 % with less computation time. With regard to verifying the failure detection rate, experiments show that the proposed Group Greedy algorithm can enhance the rate up to 29 %.
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Hussein, Ali Dina. "A social Internet of Things application architecture : applying semantic web technologies for achieving interoperability and automation between the cyber, physical and social worlds." Thesis, Evry, Institut national des télécommunications, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TELE0024/document.
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Récemment, l'intégration entre les environnements informatiques et de réseautage a été largement promu pour fournir des services intelligents à des utilisateurs finaux ainsi que l'utilisation efficace des ressources. Cette convergence a ouvert la voie à l'émergence de l'internet des objets (IdO). Le paradigme de l'IdO repose principalement sur la fabrication d'objets, appelés les choses, disparaître et se tissent dans le tissu de notre vie de tous les jours pour nous soutenir dans l'accomplissement des activités quotidiennes. L'évolutivité et l'hétérogénéité sont parmi les principaux défis qui entravent la réalisation à grande échelle de services de l'IdO dans la vie quotidienne des utilisateurs. Afin de relever les défis de l'IdO, un nouveau volet de recherche est venu en avant dans la littérature comme une classe paradigmatique des Cyber-physiques systèmes sociaux (CSPR), qui est connu comme l'Internet social des choses (Siot). Le SIOT se fonde sur la notion soulignée par phénomène petite-monde où la structure sociale permettant relation sociale fondée sur la confiance entre les personnes et les objets, d'une manière qui ressemble à des services de réseaux sociaux traditionnels (SNS) est suggérée de relever les défis de l'IdO. Cependant, depuis SIOT hérite des caractéristiques de différents informatiques et de réseautage environnements (par exemple, l'IdO et SNS) cela, en fait, augmente la quantité et la variété des données contextuelles qui doit être manipulé pour Adaptive fourniture de services dans Siot, qui agit comme le principal défi adressé dans cette thèse. Autrement dit, dans cette thèse, nous proposons la notion de contexte cognitif lorsque, dans certaine situation spatio-temporelle, le raisonnement sur les aspects objectifs du cadre, ce qui représente l'environnement physique, avec le contexte subjective, qui représente les aspects comportementaux et sociaux, est considéré comme l'amélioration des services SIOT intelligence et la capacité d'adaptation aux besoins conjoncturels des utilisateurs. Nous envisageons technologies du Web sémantique pour déployer notre contexte cognitif proposé dans deux domaines d'application; sensible au contexte recommandation des tâches quotidiennes dans les maisons intelligentes et structure sociale dépendant de la situation des choses. Un prototype de preuve de concept a été développé pour chaque domaine d'application, dans le but de démontrer l'intégration harmonieuse des objets sur le Web pour la réalisation de certaines applications. Nos résultats empiriques montrent un niveau de service amélioré l'adaptabilité et la complexité en temps de fonctionner lors de l'application de notre contexte cognitif suggéréThe paradigm of the Social Internet of Things (SIoT) is being promoted in the literature to boost a new trend wherein the benefits of social network services are exhibited within the network of connected objects i.e., the Internet of Things (IoT). The novel user-friendly interaction framework of the SIoT opens the doors for enhancing the intelligence required to stimulate a shift in the IoT from a heterogeneous network of independently connected objects towards a manageable network of everything. In practice, achieving scalability within the large-scale and the heterogeneous paradigm of the IoT while maintaining on top of its user-friendly and intuitive services to bridge human-to-machine perceptions and encourage the technology’s adaptation is a major challenge which is hindering the realization and deployment of the IoT technologies and applications into people’s daily live. For the goal of handling IoT challenges, as well as improve the level of smart services adaptability to users’ situational needs, in this thesis, novel SIoT-based application architecture is provided. That is, Semantic Web Technologies are envisaged as a means to develop automated, value-added services for SIoT. While, interoperability and automation are essential requirement to seamlessly integrate such services into user life, Ontologies are used to semantically describe Web services with the aim of enabling the automatic invocation and composition of these services as well as support interactions across the cyber, physical and social worlds. On the other hand, handling the variety of contextual data in SIoT for intelligent decision making is another big challenge which is still in very early stages of research. In this thesis we propose a cognitive reasoning approach taking into consideration achieving situational-awareness (SA) in SIoT. This reasoning approach is deployed within two application domains where results show an improved level of services adaptability compared to location-aware services which are previously proposed in the literature
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Kapeso, Mando Mulabita. "An Internet of things model for field service automation." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/18641.
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Due to the competitive nature of the global economy, organisations are continuously seeking ways of cutting costs and increasing efficiency to gain a competitive advantage. Field service organisations that offer after sales support seek to gain a competitive advantage through downtime minimisation. Downtime is the time between service requests made by a customer or triggered by equipment failure and the completion of the service to rectify the problem by the field service team. Researchers have identified downtime as one of the key performance indicators for field service organisations. The lack of real-time access to information and inaccuracy of information are factors which contribute to the poor management of downtime. Various technology advancements have been adopted to address some of the challenges faced by field service organisations through automation. The emergence of an Internet of Things (IoT), has brought new enhancement possibilities to various industries, for instance, the manufacturing industry. The main research question that this study aims to address is “How can an Internet of Things be used to optimise field service automation?” The main research objective was to develop and evaluate a model for the optimisation of field services using an IoT’s features and technologies. The model aims at addressing challenges associated with the inaccuracy or/and lack of real-time access to information during downtime. The model developed is the theoretical artefact of the research methodology used in this study which is the Design Science Research Methodology (DSRM). The DSRM activities were adopted to fulfil the research objectives of this research. A literature review in the field services domain was conducted to establish the problems faced by field service organisations. Several interviews were held to verify the problems of FSM identified in literature and some potential solutions. During the design and development activity of the DSRM methodology, an IoT model for FSA was designed. The model consists of:The Four Layered Architecture; The Three Phase Data Flow Process; and Definition and descriptions of IoT-based elements and functions. The model was then used to drive the design, development, and evaluation of “proof of concept” prototype, the KapCha prototype. KapCha enables the optimisation of FSA using IoT techniques and features. The implementation of a sub-component of the KapCha system, in fulfilment of the research. The implementation of KapCha was applied to the context of a smart lighting environment in the case study. A two-phase evaluation was conducted to review both the theoretical model and the KapCha prototype. The model and KapCha prototype were evaluated using the Technical and Risk efficacy evaluation strategy from the Framework for Evaluation of Design Science (FEDS). The Technical Risk and Efficacy strategy made use of formative, artificial-summative and summative-naturalistic methods of evaluation. An artificial-summative evaluation was used to evaluate the design of the model. Iterative formative evaluations were conducted during the development of the KapCha. KapCha was then placed in a real-environment conditions and a summative-naturalistic evaluation was conducted. The summative-naturalistic evaluation was used to determine the performance of KapCha under real-world conditions to evaluate the extent it addresses FSA problems identified such as real-time communication and automated fault detection.
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Han, Ngoc Son. "Semantic service provisioning for 6LoWPAN : powering internet of things applications on Web." Thesis, Evry, Institut national des télécommunications, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TELE0018/document.
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L'Internet des objets (IoT) implique la connexion des appareils embarqués tels que les capteurs, les électroménagers, les compteurs intelligents, les appareils de surveillance de la santé, et même les lampadaires à l'Internet. Une grande variété d'appareils intelligents et en réseau sont de plus en plus à la disposition de bénéficier de nombreux domaines d'application. Pour faciliter cette connexion, la recherche et l'industrie ont mis un certain nombre d'avancées dans la technologie microélectronique, de la radio de faible puissance, et du réseautage au cours de la dernière décennie. L'objectif est de permettre aux appareils embarqués de devenir IP activé et une partie intégrante des services sur l'Internet. Ces appareils connectés sont considérés comme les objets intelligents qui sont caractérisés par des capacités de détection, de traitement, et de réseautage. Les réseaux personnels sans fil à faible consommation d'IPv6 (6LoWPANs) jouent un rôle important dans l'IoT, surtout sur la consommation d'énergie (de faible puissance), la disponibilité omniprésente (sans fil), et l'intégration d'Internet (IPv6). La popularité des applications sur le Web, aux côtés de ses standards ouverts et de l'accessibilité à travers d'une large gamme d'appareils tels que les ordinateurs de bureau, les ordinateurs portables, les téléphones mobiles, les consoles de jeu, fait que le Web est une plateforme universelle idéale pour l'IoT à l'avenir. Par conséquent, quand de plus en plus d'objets intelligents se connectent à l'Internet, l'IoT est naturellement évolué pour la provision des services des objets intelligents sur le Web, comme des millions de services Web d'aujourd'hui. Puis vient une nouvelle opportunité pour des applications vraiment intelligentes et omniprésentes qui peuvent intégrer des objets intelligents et des services Web conventionnels en utilisant des standards Web ouverts. Nous appelons ces applications les applications IoT sur le Web. Cette thèse propose une solution complète pour la provision de 6LoWPAN avec une annotation sémantique pour pousser le développement d'applications IoT sur le Web. Nous visons à offrir des services d'objets intelligents pour le Web et les rendre accessibles par beaucoup d'API Web qui existe en considérant des contraintes de 6LoWPAN comme les ressources limitées (ROM, RAM et CPU), la faible puissance, et la communication à faible débit. Il y a quatre contributions: (i) La première contribution est sur l'architecture globale de la provision sémantique de services pour les applications IoT sur le Web qui comprennent trois sous-systèmes: le système de communication des services, le système de provision des services, et le système d'intégration des services. (ii) La deuxième contribution étudie un modèle d'interconnexion entre les réseaux 6LoWPAN et les réseaux IPv6 réguliers par la conception, la mise en oeuvre et l'évaluation de la performance d'un 6LoWPAN qui constitué des MTM-CM5000-MSP TelosB motes pour les objets intelligents, et le Raspberry Pi pour un routeur de bordure. (iii) La troisième contribution présente en détails de l'architecture, des algorithmes et des mécanismes pour la provision des services des objets intelligents fiables, évolutifs et sécurisés en respectant des contraintes de ressources limitées; (iv) La quatrième contribution est composée de deux applications innovantes IoT sur le Web pour l'intégration des services dans lesquels nous appliquons l'architecture proposée: un système d'automatisation de la construction (SamBAS) et une plateforme Social IoT (ThingsChat)This dissertation proposes a complete solution to provision 6LoWPAN services with semantic annotation that enables the development of IoT applications on Web. We aim to bring smart object services to the Web and make them accessible by plenty of existing Web APIs in consideration of 6LoWPAN constraints such as limited resources (ROM, RAM, and CPU), low-power, and low-bitrate communication links. There are four contributions: (i) The first contribution is about the overall architecture of the semantic service provisioning for IoT application on Web consisting of three subsystems: service communication, service provisioning, and service integration. (ii) The second contribution studies the internetworking model between 6LoWPAN and regular IPv6 networks by a design, implementation, and performance evaluation of a 6LoWPAN consisting of MTM-CM5000-MSP TelosB motes with TI MSP430F1611 microprocessors and CC2420 IEEE 802.15.4 radio transceivers for smart objects, and Raspberry Pi for an edge router; (iii) The third contribution presents the detailed architecture, algorithms, and mechanisms for provisioning reliable, scalable, and secure smart object services with respect to its resource-constrained requirements; (iv) The fourth contribution is in application domain for service integration in which we apply the proposed architecture on two innovative IoT applications on Web: a building automation system (SamBAS) and a Social IoT platform (ThingsChat)
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Bahers, Quentin. "AI Planning-Based Service Modeling for the Internet of Things." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2015. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-246212.
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It is estimated that by 2020, more than 50 billion devices will be interconnected, to form what is called the Internet of Things. Those devices range from consumer electronics to utility meters, including vehicles. Provided with sensory capabilities, those objects will be able to transmit valuable information about their environment, not only to humans, but even more importantly to other machines, which should ultimately be able to interpret and take decisions based on the information received. This “smartness” implies gifting those devices with a certain degree of automation. This Master’s Thesis investigates how recent advances in artificial intelligence planning can be helpful in building such systems. In particular, an artificial intelligence planner able to generate workflows for most of IoT-related use cases has been connected to an IoT platform. A performance study of a state-of-the planner, Fast Downward, on one of the most challenging IoT application, Smart Garbage Collection (which is similar to the Traveling Salesman Problem) has also been carried out. Eventually, different pre-processing and clustering techniques are suggested to tackle the latest AI planners’ inefficiency on quickly finding plans for the most difficult tasks.
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MONTEIRO, RUHAN DOS REIS. "A REAL-TIME REASONING SERVICE FOR THE INTERNET OF THINGS." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2018. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=36169@1.
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PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIROCOORDENAÇÃO DE APERFEIÇOAMENTO DO PESSOAL DE ENSINO SUPERIOR
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O crescimento da Internet das Coisas (IoT) nos trouxe a oportunidade de criar aplicações em diversas áreas com o uso de sensores e atuadores. Um dos problemas encontrados em sistemas de IoT é a dificuldade de adicionar relações semânticas aos dados brutos produzidos por estes sensores e conseguir inferir novos fatos a partir destas relações. Além disso, devido à natureza destes sistemas, os dados produzidos por eles, conhecidos como streams, precisam ser analisados em tempo real. Streams são uma sequência de elementos de dados com variação de tempo e que não devem ser tratados como dados a serem armazenados para sempre e consultados sob demanda. Os dados em streaming precisam ser consumidos rapidamente por meio de consultas contínuas que analisam e produzem novos dados relevantes. A capacidade de inferir novas relações semânticas sobre dados em streaming é chamada de inferência sobre streams. Nesta pesquisa, propomos um modo semântico e um mecanismo para processamento e inferência sobre streams em tempo real baseados em Processamento de Eventos Complexos (CEP), RDF (Resource Description Framework) e OWL (Web Ontology Language). Apresentamos um middleware que suporta uma inferência contínua sobre dados produzidores por sensores. As principais vantagens de nossa abodagem são: (a) considerar o tempo como uma relação-chave entre a informação; (b) processamento de fluxo por ser implementado usando o CEP; (c) é geral o suficiente para ser aplicado a qualquer sistema de gerenciamento de fluxo de dados (DSMS). Foi desenvolvido no Laboratório de Colaboração Avançada (LAC) utlizando e um estudo de caso no domínio da detecção de incêndio é conduzido e implementado, elucidando o uso de inferência em tempo real sobre streams.
The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) has brought the opportunity to create applications in several areas, with the use of sensors and actuators. One of the problems encountered in IoT systems is the difficulty of adding semantic relations to the raw data produced by the sensors and being able to infer new facts from these relations. Moreover, due to the fact that many IoT applications are online and need to react instantly on sensor data collected by them, they need to be analyzed in real-time. Streams are a sequence of time-varying data elements that should not be stored forever and queried on demand. Streaming data needs to be consumed quickly through ongoing queries that continue to analyze and produce new relevant data, i.e. stream of output/result events. The ability to infer new semantic relationships over streaming data is called Stream Reasoning. We propose a semantic model and a mechanism for real-time data stream processing and reasoning based on Complex Event Processing (CEP), RDF (resource description structure) and OWL (Web Ontology Language). This work presents a middleware service that supports continuous reasoning on data produced by sensors. The main advantages of our approach are: (a) to consider time as a key relationship between information; (b) flow processing can be implemented using CEP; (c) is general enough to be applied to any data flow management system (DSMS). It was developed in the Advanced Collaboration Laboratory (LAC) and a case study in the field of fire detection is conducted and implemented, elucidating the use of real-time inference on streams.
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Hachem, Sara. "Service oriented Middleware for the large scale Internet of things." Versailles-St Quentin en Yvelines, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014VERS0003.
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L'Internet of Things (IoT) est caractérisé par l'introduction, auprès des utilisateurs, d'un nombre grandissant d'objets (ou things) capables d'acquérir des données depuis leur environnement et d'agir sur celui-ci, et dotés de capacités de calcul et de communication sophistiquées. Une grande partie de ces objets ont pour avantage d'être mobiles, mais cette particularitéprovoque aussi l'émergence de problèmes nouveaux. Les plus critiques d'entre eux découlent directement de l'Internet actuel, sous une forme amplifiée, et portent sur la gestion du grand nombre d'utilisateurs et d'objets connectés, l'interopérabilité entre des objets aux technologies hétérogènes et les changements d'environnement dus à la mobilité d'un très grand nombre d'objets. Cette thèse se propose d'étudier et de résoudre les problèmes susmentionnés en adaptant l’Architecture Orientée Service (SOA) pour que les capteurs et les actionneurs intégrés aux objets puissent être présentés comme des services et, de fait, réduire le couplage entre ces services et leurs hôtes de façon à abstraire leur nature hétérogène. Toutefois, en dépit de ses avantages, SOA n'a pas été conçue pour gérer une aussi grande échelle que celle de l'IoT mobile. En conséquence, la contribution principale de cette thèse porte sur la conception d'une Thing-based Service-Oriented Architecture repensant les fonctionnalités de SOA, et tout particulièrement les mécanismes de découverte et de composition de services. Cette nouvelle architecture a été mise en oeuvre au sein de MobIoT, un middleware spécifiquement conçu pour gérer et contrôler le très grand nombre d'objets mobiles impliqués dans les opérations propres à l'IoT. Dans le but d'évaluer cette nouvelle architecture, nous avons implémenté un prototype et analysé ses performances au travers de nombreuses expériences qui démontrent que les solutions que nous proposons sont viables et pertinentes, notamment en ce qui concerne le passage à l'échelleThe Internet of Things (IoT) is characterized by a wide penetration in the regular user’s life through an increasing number of Things embedding sensing, actuating, processing, and communication capacities. A considerable portion of those Things will be mobile Things, which come with several advantages yet lead to unprecedented challenges. The most critical challenges, that are directly inherited from, yet amplify, today’s Internet issues, lie in handling the large scale of users and mobile Things, providing interoperability across the heterogeneous Things, and overcoming the unknown dynamic nature of the environment, due to the mobility of an ultra-large number of Things. This thesis addresses the aforementioned challenges by revisiting the commonly employed Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) which allows the functionalities of sensors/actuators embedded in Things to be provided as services, while ensuring loose-coupling between those services and their hosts, thus abstracting their heterogeneous nature. In spite of its benefits, SOA has not been designed to address the ultra-large scale of the mobile IoT. Consequently, our main contribution lies in conceiving a Thing-based Service-Oriented Architecture, that revisits SOA interactions and functionalities, service discovery and composition in particular. We concretize the novel architecture within MobIoT, a middleware solution that is specifically designed to manage and control the ultra-large number of mobile Things in partaking in IoT-related tasks. To assess the validity of our proposed architecture, we provide a prototype implementation of MobIoT and evaluate its performance through extensive experiments that demonstrate the correctness, viability, and scalability of our solution
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Xiao, Bin. "Data-Centric Network of Things : A Method for Exploiting the Massive Amount of Heterogeneous Data of Internet of Things in Support of Services." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Institutionen för data- och systemvetenskap, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-142342.
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Internet of things (IoT) generates massive amount of heterogeneous data, which should be efficiently utilized to support services in different domains. Specifically, data need to be supplied to services by understanding the needs of services and by understanding the environment changes, so that necessary data can be provided efficiently but without overfeeding. However, it is still very difficult for IoT to fulfill such data supply with only the existing supports of communication, network, and infrastructure; while the most essential issues are still unaddressed, namely the heterogeneity issue, the recourse coordination issue, and the environments’ dynamicity issue. Thus, this necessitates to specifically study on those issues and to propose a method to utilize the massive amount of heterogeneous data to support services in different domains. This dissertation presents a novel method, called the data-centric network of things (DNT), which handles heterogeneity, coordinates resources, and understands the changing IoT entity relations in dynamic environments to supply data in support of services. As results, various services based on IoT (e.g., smart cities, smart transport, smart healthcare, smart homes, etc.) are supported by receiving enough necessary data without overfeeding. The contributions of the DNT to IoT and big data research are: firstly the DNT enables IoT to perceive data, resources, and the relations among IoT entities in dynamic environments. This perceptibility enhances IoT to handle the heterogeneity in different levels. Secondly, the DNT coordinates IoT edge resources to process and disseminate data based on the perceived results. This releases the big data pressure caused by centralized analytics to certain degrees. Thirdly, the DNT manages entity relations for data supply by handling the environment dynamicity. Finally, the DNT supply necessary data to satisfy different service needs, by avoiding either data-hungry or data-overfed status.
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Thyagaraj, Arjun, and Krishnakumar Narayanan. "Internet of Things (IoT) adoption in Indian Healthcare Industry-A case study from a hospital." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Akademin för företagande, innovation och hållbarhet, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-45313.
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Purpose: Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology and is a technological paradigm that is revolutionizing the healthcare industry all over the world. The purpose of our thesis is to investigate the phenomenon of IoT adoption in the healthcare industry in the context of a developing country to find out the barriers and how the industry is trying to overcome them. As the second highest population with a landmark of topping the table of developing country list, India has significant potential to bring interest in the IoT adoption in healthcare. Our unit of analysis is a hospital in India. Method: To reach our research, we have chosen a qualitative research approach and systematic combining method as our research strategy, which will facilitate us to narrow down the findings of the phenomenon by using a back and forth process. Semi-structured interviews have been conducted with participants of the case hospital as part of the data collection process. Finding and Analysis: The first part of the empirical finding is analyzed by the thematic analysis tool, which we have used for the data analysis. This enabled us to interpret the themes in our own way going back to data collected and previous literature references. The study helped us identify some of the main factors affecting IoT adoption in the hospital, categorized under three different sections: technological, organizational, and environmental. The findings indicate that IoT adoption barriers in hospital are categorized as per our tentative framework with theoretical frame reference in the literature review part. Adoption challenges were found mainly centred on technological acceptance, complexity, organizational behaviour, lack of expertise and infrastructure, lack of stringent regulations and standard and finally, the security and privacy concerns. They have initiated a well organizational structure with experts, providing rigorous training for key staff and visionary leadership to facilitate the adoption process.
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Abed, Javad. "A NOVEL FRAMEWORK FOR SOCIAL INTERNET OF THINGS: LEVERAGING THE FRIENDSHIPS AND THE SERVICES EXCHANGED BETWEEN SMART DEVICES." VCU Scholars Compass, 2019. https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/5980.
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As humans, we tackle many problems in complex societies and manage the complexities of networked social systems. Cognition and sociability are two vital human capabilities that improve social life and complex social interactions. Adding these features to smart devices makes them capable of managing complex and networked Internet of Things (IoT) settings.
Cognitive and social devices can improve their relationships and connections with other devices and people to better serve human needs. Nowadays, researchers are investigating two future generations of IoT: social IoT (SIoT) and cognitive IoT (CIoT). This study develops a new framework for IoT, called CSIoT, by using complexity science concepts and by integrating social and cognitive IoT concepts. This framework uses a new mechanism to leverage the friendships between devices to address service management, privacy, and security. The framework addresses network navigability, resilience, and heterogeneity between devices in IoT settings. This study uses a new simulation tool for evaluating the new CSIoT framework and evaluates the privacy-preserving ability of CSIoT using the new simulation tool. To address different CSIoT security and privacy issues, this study also proposes a blockchain-based CSIoT. The evaluation results show that CSIoT can effectively preserve the privacy and the blockchain-based CSIoT performs effectively in addressing different privacy and security issues.
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Ghiselli, Nicola. "Edge-to-Cloud Service Migration in Constrained Internet of Things Scenarios." Master's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2018.
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In this thesis we will treat the Edge-to-Cloud services in the mobile Internet of Things context. Edge-to-Cloud services are services that, up to reach their goals, must run partially on the Cloud and partially on the Edge. This scenario has been chosen for two reasons: it is a very hop-topic nowadays, but these technologies have many treats and weakness to be solved. To refine those problems we considered some Edge-to-Cloud services and so by using some Cloud resources together with other resources, available on the IoT devices. In particular, to use Edge-to-Cloud services, we will move some resources from the Cloud to the device and so, Edge-to-Cloud service can also help the developer to make the deployment of his applications and this is an important feature in the IoT context. In this work our intent will be to make a support system for the developers and for the applications that helps to handle all the application life-cycle, offering a solution that will behave as a Middleware and so that is able to offer some service to the final applications in an almost transparent way. Between al the possible services, we focused our attention in the Migration services and so those services that allow to migrate the requests or application components. To do that we decided to split the applications in components, giving the possibility to the support system on the device to intercept the communication messages between the components. After having intercepted a message, the support system must autonomously take a decision for the application and it must decide if use a Cloud or a local resource to complete the task. Moreover, in most cases, this scenario is a constrained scenario, where the constrain are given by the application requirements. Up to offer a support system that will be more general as possible, we will introduce some user policies, by which the user will give some guidelines to the Edge-to-Cloud support system behavior.
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Celosia, Guillaume. "Privacy challenges in wireless communications of the Internet of Things." Thesis, Lyon, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020LYSEI069.
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Également connue sous le nom d'Internet des Objets (IdO), la prolifération des objets connectés offre des opportunités sans précédent aux consommateurs. Des moniteurs d'activité physique aux assistants médicaux, en passant par les appareils électroménagers pour maisons intelligentes, les objets IdO évoluent dans une pléthore de domaines d'application. Cependant, les avantages qu'ils peuvent apporter à notre société augmentent conjointement avec leurs implications en matière de vie privée. Communiquant continuellement de précieuses informations par le biais de liaisons non filaires telles que le Bluetooth et le Wi-Fi, ces appareils connectés accompagnent leurs propriétaires dans leurs activités. La plupart du temps émises sur des canaux ouverts, et parfois en l'absence de chiffrement, ces informations sont alors facilement accessibles pour tout attaquant passif à portée. Dans cette thèse, nous explorons deux problèmes de vie privée majeurs résultant de l'expansion de l'IdO et de ses communications sans fil : le traçage physique et l'inférence d'informations utilisateurs. Sur la base de deux grands ensembles de données composés de signaux radio issus de périphériques Bluetooth/BLE, nous mettons d'abord en échec les fonctionnalités anti-traçage existantes avant de détailler plusieurs applications invasives pour la vie privée. En s'appuyant sur des attaques passives et actives, nous démontrons également que les messages diffusés contiennent des informations en clair allant des caractéristiques techniques des appareils aux données personnelles des utilisateurs telles que des adresses e-mail et numéros de téléphone. Dans un second temps, nous concevons des contre-mesures pratiques pour résoudre les problèmes de vie privée identifiés. Dans ce sens, nous fournissons des recommandations aux fabricants, et proposons une approche afin de vérifier l'absence de failles dans l'implémentation de leurs protocoles. Enfin, dans le but d'illustrer davantage les menaces de vie privée enquêtées, nous implémentons deux démonstrateurs. Par conséquent, Venom introduit un système de traçage physique visuel et expérimental, tandis qu'Himiko propose une interface humaine permettant d'inférer des informations sur les appareils IdO et leurs propriétairesAlso known as the Internet of Things (IoT), the proliferation of connected objects offers unprecedented opportunities to consumers. From fitness trackers to medical assistants, through smarthome appliances, the IoT objects are evolving in a plethora of application fields. However, the benefits that they can bring to our society increase along with their privacy implications. Continuously communicating valuable information via wireless links such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, those connected devices support their owners within their activities. Most of the time emitted on open channels, and sometimes in the absence of encryption, those information are then easily accessible to any passive attacker in range. In this thesis, we explore two major privacy concerns resulting from the expansion of the IoT and its wireless communications: physical tracking and inference of users information. Based on two large datasets composed of radio signals from Bluetooth/BLE devices, we first defeat existing anti-tracking features prior to detail several privacy invasive applications. Relying on passive and active attacks, we also demonstrate that broadcasted messages contain cleartext information ranging from the devices technical characteristics to personal data of the users such as e-mail addresses and phone numbers. In a second time, we design practical countermeasures to address the identified privacy issues. In this direction, we provide recommendations to manufacturers, and propose an approach to verify the absence of flaws in the implementation of their protocols. Finally, to further illustrate the investigated privacy threats, we implement two demonstrators. As a result, Venom introduces a visual and experimental physical tracking system, while Himiko proposes a human interface allowing to infer information on IoT devices and their owners
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Fredriksson, Marcus, Andreas Pehrson, and Dennis Sandmark. "Investigating Federated Object Naming Service as Directory Service for the Internet of Things." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för informationsteknologi, 2011. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-146694.
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The vision of the Internet of Things (IoT) covers not only the well-regulated processes of the supply chain, but also a more diffuse concept of items in the physical world being connected to attributes in the virtual world. Achieving this goal will require unique identification of every item and a homogenous, interoperable, robust infrastructure to provide access to the item’s inherent attributes as well as those acquired as it moves around. Access to data that is stored somewhere in cyberspace and to which the exact address is unknown is generally achieved by using DNS with its naming hierarchy. RFCs 3401 to 3404 [45][47][46][44] describe a complementary method for using DNS as a distributed database for re-write rules that can be used to locate custom services. In this thesis, two demonstrators are designed and built to show a reliable and trust-worthy way of using the Internet of Things to efficiently connect products with services. In two real-life scenarios the demonstrators show the benefits of having products connected with useful information on the Internet. The directory service used is shown to be robust and scalable for connecting objects with services in the Internet of Things.
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El, Rachkidi Elie. "Modelling and placement optimization of compound services in a converged infrastructure of cloud computing and internet of things." Thesis, Université Paris-Saclay (ComUE), 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017SACLE030/document.
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La convergence de l’Internet des Objets IdO (Internet of Things) et de l’Informatique en Nuage (Cloud Computing) est une approche prometteuse. D’une part, l’Informatique en Nuage fournit des ressources de calcul, de réseau, et de stockage théoriquement illimitées, et d’autre part, l’IdO permet l’interaction des services en nuage avec des objets du monde réel. Une convergence efficace de ces deux technologies aura un impact certainement important sur les innovations dans les domaines des services IT par l’introduction de nouveaux modèles de services d’IdO à la demande. Dans un tel contexte, les objets connectés sont virtualisés et offerts comme étant des services en nuage accessibles sur Internet depuis n’importe où et à n’importe quel moment. Ces services sont connus sous le nom d’Objets Virtuels (OVs). Ils cachent l’hétérogénéité de l’IdO et lient les objets connectés aux services en nuage traditionnels (i.e. services de stockage) pour fournir des applications IdO. Dans cette thèse, nous considérons d’abord une intégration partielle de l’IdO et de l’Informatique en Nuage. Cette intégration fournit l’IdO au sein d’un seul niveau de service de l’Informatique en Nuage. Dans ce cas, les ressources de l’IdO et de l’Informatique en Nuage sont approvisionnées séparément. Nous nous concentrons dans ce travail sur l’orchestration des OVs dans une infrastructure en Nuage. Nous définissons un algorithme d’approvisionnement basé sur une stratégie de partage où chaque objet connecté est associé à un seul OV et peut être consommé par plusieurs applications. Nous proposons deux programmes linéaires pour effectuer l’approvisionnement des OVs. Le premier en cas où il n’y a pas des OVs précédemment déployés dans l’infrastructure, tandis que l’autre prend en compte le cas où il y a des OVs déjà déployés. Notre approche minimise les coûts opérationnels des OVs et la latence de communication par rapport aux approches qui considèrent une stratégie de non-partage. La deuxième partie de cette thèse considère une intégration complète de l’IdO et de l’Informatique en Nuage. Nous appelons cette intégration le Nuage des Objects (NdO). Dans ce contexte, un client sera capable de demander un approvisionnement, un déploiement, et une mise à l’échelle automatique d’une application IdO de bout en bout à la volée avec un minimum d’efforts de gestion. En particulier, nous abordons l’aspect de l’approvisionnement. Nous définissons un modèle orienté ressources capable de décrire une demande d’une application IdO et une infrastructure NdO sur différents niveaux de service. Nous basons notre modèle sur les spécifications OCCI définies par l’OGF. En outre, nous définissons un algorithme d’approvisionnement en une étape coordonnée pour orchestrer une application IdO dans une infrastructure NdO. L’algorithme considère les ressources de l’IdO et de l’Informatique en Nuage simultanément. Les simulations montrent qu’un processus d’approvisionnement en une étape coordonnée est 10%−20% plus efficace que deux processus d’orchestration des ressources de l’IdO et de l’Informatique en Nuage séparésThe convergence of the Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud Computing technologies is a promising approach. On the one hand, Cloud Computing provides virtually unlimited computing, networking, and storage resources for constrained IoT devices. On the other hand, the IoT enables the interaction of cloud services with real world things. Such integration stimulates innovation in both areas and provides novel service delivery models such as the Sensingas a Service in different application domains (i.e. healthcare, transportation, smart-city, smartbuilding).In such convergence, things are abstracted and offered as cloud services accessible over the Internet from any place and at any time. Such abstractions are known as Virtual Objects (VOs) and connect things to traditional cloud services (e.g. data analytics, storageservices) to deliver IoT applications. In this thesis, we consider first a partial integration of the IoT and Cloud Computing. Such integration focuses on delivering the IoT within a single service level of Cloud Computing,namely: the application, the platform, or the infrastructure level. In this context, IoT and CloudComputing resources are provisioned separately. We focus in this work on the orchestration of VOs in a cloud infrastructure. For this purpose, we define a provisioning algorithm based on a sharing strategy where each connected object is associated with a single VO and can be consumed by multiple applications. We propose two linear programs to perform the provisioning of VOs. The first considers no previously deployed VOs in the infrastructure, while the other takes into consideration pre-deployed VOs. Our approach minimizes VOs operational cost and communication latency in both cases compared to those with a non-sharing strategy. The second part of this thesis considers a full integration of the IoT and Cloud Computing. We refer to such integration as the Cloud of Things (CoT). In this context, a customer should be able to request end-to-end IoT application provisioning, deployment, auto-scaling, and release on the fly with minimal management efforts. In this thesis, we address the provisioning aspect. We define a resource-oriented model able to describe an IoT application request and a CoT infrastructure on different service levels. We base our model on the OCCI specifications defined by the OGF. Furthermore, we define a single stage provisioning algorithm to orchestrate a described IoT application into a CoT infrastructure. The algorithm considers cloud and IoT resources simultaneously. Simulations show that a one-stage provisioning process is 10%−20%more efficient than two separate orchestration processes for cloud and IoT resources
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Ben, Fredj Sameh. "Intergiciel sémantique pour la recherche des services de l'internet des objets." Thesis, Paris, ENST, 2014. http://www.theses.fr/2014ENST0063/document.
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Avec l’avènement de l’Internet des Objets, nous sommes confrontés à une prolifération des appareils connectés répartis sur des emplacements physiques, appelés des espaces intelligents et qui offrent des services de l’Internet des Objets. La découverte simple et transparente de ces services est cruciale pour le succès de l’Internet des Objets. Les caractéristiques des services de l’Internet des objets, tels que leur nombre, leur hétérogénéité et leur dynamicité induite par la mobilité des appareils connectés, rendent leur découverte difficile. Dans cette thèse, nous proposons une architecture de système et ses mécanismes associés pour permettre une découverte efficace et scalable des services de l’Internet des Objets, en se basant sur le Web Sémantique et en supportant des contextes dynamiques. Notre approche repose sur les passerelles distribuées qui intègrent des mécanismes de regroupement, d’agrégation de l’information et de routage sémantiqueWith the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), we are facing a proliferation of connected devices distributed over physical locations, so called smart spaces and offering IoT services. Enabling an easy and seamless discovery of these IoT services is crucial for the success of the Internet of Things. The characteristics of IoT services, such as their sheer number, their heterogeneity and their dynamicity induced by the mobility of the related devices, make discovering them a challenge. In this thesis, we propose a system architecture and the associated mechanisms to enable efficient and scalable semantic-based IoT service discovery supporting dynamic contexts. Our approach relies on distributed semantic gateways that embed clustering, information aggregation and semantic routing mechanisms
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Kemas, Muslim Lhaksmana. "Multiagent Systems for Robust IoT Services." 京都大学 (Kyoto University), 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/2433/217203.
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Guo, Jia. "Trust-based Service Management of Internet of Things Systems and Its Applications." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/82854.
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A future Internet of Things (IoT) system will consist of a huge quantity of heterogeneous IoT devices, each capable of providing services upon request. It is of utmost importance for an IoT device to know if another IoT service is trustworthy when requesting it to provide a service. In this dissertation research, we develop trust-based service management techniques applicable to distributed, centralized, and hybrid IoT environments.
For distributed IoT systems, we develop a trust protocol called Adaptive IoT Trust. The novelty lies in the use of distributed collaborating filtering to select trust feedback from owners of IoT nodes sharing similar social interests. We develop a novel adaptive filtering technique to adjust trust protocol parameters dynamically to minimize trust estimation bias and maximize application performance. Our adaptive IoT trust protocol is scalable to large IoT systems in terms of storage and computational costs. We perform a comparative analysis of our adaptive IoT trust protocol against contemporary IoT trust protocols to demonstrate the effectiveness of our adaptive IoT trust protocol. For centralized or hybrid cloud-based IoT systems, we propose the notion of Trust as a Service (TaaS), allowing an IoT device to query the service trustworthiness of another IoT device and also report its service experiences to the cloud. TaaS preserves the notion that trust is subjective despite the fact that trust computation is performed by the cloud. We use social similarity for filtering recommendations and dynamic weighted sum to combine self-observations and recommendations to minimize trust bias and convergence time against opportunistic service and false recommendation attacks. For large-scale IoT cloud systems, we develop a scalable trust management protocol called IoT-TaaS to realize TaaS. For hybrid IoT systems, we develop a new 3-layer hierarchical cloud structure for integrated mobility, service, and trust management. This architecture supports scalability, reconfigurability, fault tolerance, and resiliency against cloud node failure and network disconnection. We develop a trust protocol called IoT-HiTrust leveraging this 3-layer hierarchical structure to realize TaaS.
We validate our trust-based IoT service management techniques developed with real-world IoT applications, including smart city air pollution detection, augmented map travel assistance, and travel planning, and demonstrate that our trust-based IoT service management techniques outperform contemporary non-trusted and trust-based IoT service management solutions.Ph. D.
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Sanchis, Cano Ángel. "Economic analysis of wireless sensor-based services in the framework of the Internet of Things. A game-theoretical approach." Doctoral thesis, Universitat Politècnica de València, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10251/102642.
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El mundo de las telecomunicaciones está cambiando de un escenario donde únicamente las personas estaban conectadas a un modelo donde prácticamente todos los dispositivos y sensores se encuentran conectados, también conocido como Internet de las cosas (IoT), donde miles de millones de dispositivos se conectarán a Internet a través de conexiones móviles y redes fijas. En este contexto, hay muchos retos que superar, desde el desarrollo de nuevos estándares de comunicación al estudio de la viabilidad económica de los posibles escenarios futuros. En esta tesis nos hemos centrado en el estudio de la viabilidad económica de diferentes escenarios mediante el uso de conceptos de microeconomía, teoría de juegos, optimización no lineal, economía de redes y redes inalámbricas. La tesis analiza la transición desde redes centradas en el servicio de tráfico HTC a redes centradas en tráfico MTC desde un punto de vista económico. El primer escenario ha sido diseñado para centrarse en las primeras etapas de la transición, en la que ambos tipos de tráfico son servidos bajo la misma infraestructura de red. En el segundo escenario analizamos la siguiente etapa, en la que el servicio a los usuarios MTC se realiza mediante una infraestructura dedicada. Finalmente, el tercer escenario analiza la provisión de servicios basados en MTC a usuarios finales, mediante la infraestructura analizada en el escenario anterior.
Gracias al análisis de todos los escenarios, hemos observado que la transición de redes centradas en usuarios HTC a redes MTC es posible y que la provisión de servicios en tales escenarios es viable. Además, hemos observado que el comportamiento de los usuarios es esencial para determinar la viabilidad de los diferentes modelos de negocio, y por tanto, es necesario estudiar el comportamiento y las preferencias de los usuarios en profundidad en estudios futuros. Específicamente, los factores más relevantes son la sensibilidad de los usuarios al retardo en los datos recopilados por los sensores y la cantidad de los mismos. También hemos observado que la diferenciación del tráfico en categorías mejora el uso de las redes y permite crear nuevos servicios empleando datos que, de otro modo, no se aprovecharían, lo cual nos permite mejorar la monetización de la infraestructura. También hemos demostrado que la provisión de capacidad es un mecanismo válido, alternativo a la fijación de precios, para la optimización de los beneficios de los proveedores de servicio. Finalmente, se ha demostrado que es posible crear roles específicos para ofrecer servicios IoT en el mercado de las telecomunicaciones, específicamente, los IoT-SPs, que proporcionan servicios basados en sensores inalámbricos utilizando infraestructuras de acceso de terceros y sus propias redes de sensores.
En resumen, en esta tesis hemos intentado demostrar la viabilidad económica de modelos de negocio basados en redes futuras IoT, así como la aparición de nuevas oportunidades y roles de negocio, lo cual nos permite justificar económicamente el desarrollo y la implementación de las tecnologías necesarias para ofrecer servicios de acceso inalámbrico masivo a dispositivos MTC.The communications world is moving from a standalone devices scenario to a all-connected scenario known as Internet of Things (IoT), where billions of devices will be connected to the Internet through mobile and fixed networks. In this context, there are several challenges to face, from the development of new standards to the study of the economical viability of the different future scenarios. In this dissertation we have focused on the study of the economic viability of different scenarios using concepts of microeconomics, game theory, non-linear optimization, network economics and wireless networks. The dissertation analyzes the transition from a Human Type Communications (HTC) to a Machine Type Communications (MTC) centered network from an economic point of view. The first scenario is designed to focus on the first stages of the transition, where HTC and MTC traffic are served on a common network infrastructure. The second scenario analyzes the provision of connectivity service to MTC users using a dedicated network infrastructure, while the third stage is centered in the analysis of the provision of services based on the MTC data over the infrastructure studied in the previous scenario. Thanks to the analysis of all the scenarios we have observed that the transition from HTC users-centered networks to MTC networks is possible and that the provision of services in such scenarios is viable. In addition, we have observed that the behavior of the users is essential in order to determine the viability of a business model, and therefore, it is needed to study their behavior and preferences in depth in future studios. Specifically, the most relevant factors are the sensitivity of the users to the delay and to the amount of data gathered by the sensors. We also have observed that the differentiation of the traffic in categories improves the usage of the networks and allows to create new services thanks to the data that otherwise would not be used, improving the monetization of the infrastructure and the data. In addition, we have shown that the capacity provision is a valid mechanism for providers' profit optimization, as an alternative to the pricing mechanisms. Finally, it has been demonstrated that it is possible to create dedicated roles to offer IoT services in the telecommunications market, specifically, the IoT-SPs, which provide wireless-sensor-based services to the final users using a third party infrastructure. Summarizing, this dissertation tries to demonstrate the economic viability of the future IoT networks business models as well as the emergence of new business opportunities and roles in order to justify economically the development and implementation of the new technologies required to offer massive wireless access to machine devices.
El món de les telecomunicacions està canviant d'un escenari on únicament les persones estaven connectades a un model on pràcticament tots els dispositius i sensors es troben connectats, també conegut com a Internet de les Coses (IoT) , on milers de milions de dispositius es connectaran a Internet a través de connexions mòbils i xarxes fixes. En aquest context, hi ha molts reptes que superar, des del desenrotllament de nous estàndards de comunicació a l'estudi de la viabilitat econòmica dels possibles escenaris futurs. En aquesta tesi ens hem centrat en l'estudi de la viabilitat econòmica de diferents escenaris per mitjà de l'ús de conceptes de microeconomia, teoria de jocs, optimització no lineal, economia de xarxes i xarxes inalàmbriques. La tesi analitza la transició des de xarxes centrades en el servici de tràfic HTC a xarxes centrades en tràfic MTC des d'un punt de vista econòmic. El primer escenari ha sigut dissenyat per a centrar-se en les primeres etapes de la transició, en la que ambdós tipus de tràfic són servits davall la mateixa infraestructura de xarxa. En el segon escenari analitzem la següent etapa, en la que el servici als usuaris MTC es realitza per mitjà d'una infraestructura dedicada. Finalment, el tercer escenari analitza la provisió de servicis basats en MTC a usuaris finals, per mitjà de la infraestructura analitzada en l'escenari anterior. Als paràgrafs següents es descriu amb més detall cada escenari. Gràcies a l'anàlisi de tots els escenaris, hem observat que la transició de xarxes centrades en usuaris HTC a xarxes MTC és possible i que la provisió de servicis en tals escenaris és viable. A més a més, hem observat que el comportament dels usuaris és essencial per a determinar la viabilitat dels diferents models de negoci, i per tant, és necessari estudiar el comportament i les preferències dels usuaris en profunditat en estudis futurs. Específicament, els factors més rellevants són la sensibilitat dels usuaris al retard en les dades recopilats pels sensors i la quantitat dels mateixos. També hem observat que la diferenciació del tràfic en categories millora l'ús de les xarxes i permet crear nous servicis emprant dades que, d'una altra manera, no s'aprofitarien, la qual cosa ens permet millorar la monetització de la infraestructura. També hem demostrat que la provisió de capacitat és un mecanisme vàlid, alternatiu a la fixació de preus, per a l'optimització dels beneficis dels proveïdors de servici. Finalment, s'ha demostrat que és possible crear rols específics per a oferir servicis IoT en el mercat de les telecomunicacions, específicament, els IoT-SPs, que proporcionen servicis basats en sensors inalàmbrics utilitzant infraestructures d'accés de tercers i les seues pròpies xarxes de sensors. En resum, en aquesta tesi hem intentat demostrar la viabilitat econòmica de models de negoci basats en xarxes futures IoT, així com l'aparició de noves oportunitats i rols de negoci, la qual cosa ens permet justificar econòmicament el desenrotllament i la implementació de les tecnologies necessàries per a oferir servicis d'accés inalàmbric massiu a dispositius MTC.
Sanchis Cano, Á. (2018). Economic analysis of wireless sensor-based services in the framework of the Internet of Things. A game-theoretical approach [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/102642
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Butt, Talal A. "Provision of adaptive and context-aware service discovery for the Internet of Things." Thesis, Loughborough University, 2014. https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/2134/14083.
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The IoT concept has revolutionised the vision of the future Internet with the advent of standards such as 6LoWPAN making it feasible to extend the Internet into previously isolated environments, e.g., WSNs. The abstraction of resources as services, has opened these environments to a new plethora of potential applications. Moreover, the web service paradigm can be used to provide interoperability by offering a standard interface to interact with these services to enable WoT paradigm. However, these networks pose many challenges, in terms of limited resources, that make the adaptability of existing IP-based solutions infeasible. As traditional service discovery and selection solutions demand heavy communication and use bulky formats, which are unsuitable for these resource-constrained devices incorporating sleep cycles to save energy. Even a registry based approach exhibits burdensome traffic in maintaining the availability status of the devices. The feasible solution for service discovery and selection is instrumental to enable the wide application coverage of these networks in the future. This research project proposes, TRENDY, a new compact and adaptive registry-based SDP with context awareness for the IoT, with more emphasis given to constrained networks, e.g., 6LoWPAN It uses CoAP-based light-weight and RESTful web services to provide standard interoperable interfaces, which can be easily translated from HTTP. TRENDY's service selection mechanism collects and intelligently uses the context information to select appropriate services for user applications based on the available context information of users and services. In addition, TRENDY introduces an adaptive timer algorithm to minimise control overhead for status maintenance, which also reduces energy consumption. Its context-aware grouping technique divides the network at the application layer, by creating location-based groups. This grouping of nodes localises the control overhead and provides the base for service composition, localised aggregation and processing of data. Different grouping roles enable the resource-awareness by offering profiles with varied responsibilities, where high capability devices can implement powerful profiles to share the load of other low capability devices. Thus, it allows the productive usage of network resources. Furthermore, this research project proposes APPUB, an adaptive caching technique, that has the following benefits: it allows service hosts to share their load with the resource directory and also decreases the service invocation delay. The performance of TRENDY and its mechanisms is evaluated using an extensive number of experiments performed using emulated Tmote sky nodes in the COOJA environment. The analysis of the results validates the benefit of performance gain for all techniques. The service selection and APPUB mechanisms improve the service invocation delay considerably that, consequently, reduces the traffic in the network. The timer technique consistently achieved the lowest control overhead, which eventually decreased the energy consumption of the nodes to prolong the network lifetime. Moreover, the low traffic in dense networks decreases the service invocations delay, and makes the solution more scalable. The grouping mechanism localises the traffic, which increases the energy efficiency while improving the scalability. In summary, the experiments demonstrate the benefit of using TRENDY and its techniques in terms of increased energy efficiency and network lifetime, reduced control overhead, better scalability and optimised service invocation time.
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Derhamy, Hasan. "Towards Interoperable Industrial Internet of Things : An On-Demand Multi-Protocol Translator Service." Licentiate thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för system- och rymdteknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-138.
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The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is the result of the intersection between advancements in technology and the demand for more efficient and sustainable industry. Technology has provided a means for a large and heterogeneous collection of networks, devices, developers, owners, users and other stakeholders. From this there is a clear need for highly interoperable and independently developed systems. Interoperability is a communication challenge which affects all layers in a system. Communication protocols such as HTTP, CoAP, XMPP, OPC-UA and MQTT are above the network layer and below a semantic layer. This challenge includes overcoming interaction pattern differences, such as session and session-less protocols or publish/subscribe and request/response protocols. Common interoperability methods look at utilizing, a) middleware, such as in-system adapters and protocol gateways or b) restricting protocols to one or two possibilities. However, these solutions do not fit IIoT well as they are costly to adapt as the protocol landscape evolves, are intrusive to design or increase development costs. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) has been identified as having a great potential for integrating independent systems. When applied to industrial contexts, SOA late-binding and service composition offers opportunities for enhancing interoperability. However, SOA-based service contracts still require complete agreement between provider and consumer in order to exchange service. In this thesis an approach toward interoperability is proposed which leverages SOA principles and a multi-protocol translator. The proposed approach is first contextualized with a set of requirements pulled from existing literature and from application domain requirements. The thesis asks the question; how can late-binding and service composition be used to support a multi-protocol network of systems? The result, a new approach of a secure, on-demand and transparent protocol translator, is proposed. Conceptually satisfying the requirements defined, the design is backed up with empirical testing on usability and latency of the solution. The proposed solution differs from middleware in that, it is a participant (alongside the application system), it is on-demand (only used when needed), it is not intrusive (no design time dependencies) and it operates transparently (to application systems). A complete interoperability solution is deemed as future work, which could extend to full security, general encoding and semantic interoperability.
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Djamaa, B. "Pervasive service discovery in low-power and lossy networks." Thesis, Cranfield University, 2016. http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/10670.
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Pervasive Service Discovery (SD) in Low-power and Lossy Networks (LLNs) is expected to play a major role in realising the Internet of Things (IoT) vision. Such a vision aims to expand the current Internet to interconnect billions of miniature smart objects that sense and act on our surroundings in a way that will revolutionise the future. The pervasiveness and heterogeneity of such low-power devices requires robust, automatic, interoperable and scalable deployment and operability solutions. At the same time, the limitations of such constrained devices impose strict challenges regarding complexity, energy consumption, time-efficiency and mobility.
This research contributes new lightweight solutions to facilitate automatic deployment and operability of LLNs. It mainly tackles the aforementioned challenges through the proposition of novel component-based, automatic and efficient SD solutions that ensure extensibility and adaptability to various LLN environments. Building upon such architecture, a first fully-distributed, hybrid pushpull SD solution dubbed EADP (Extensible Adaptable Discovery Protocol) is proposed based on the well-known Trickle algorithm. Motivated by EADPs’ achievements, new methods to optimise Trickle are introduced. Such methods allow Trickle to encompass a wide range of algorithms and extend its usage to new application domains. One of the new applications is concretized in the TrickleSD protocol aiming to build automatic, reliable, scalable, and time-efficient SD. To optimise the energy efficiency of TrickleSD, two mechanisms improving broadcast communication in LLNs are proposed. Finally, interoperable standards-based SD in the IoT is demonstrated, and methods combining zero-configuration operations with infrastructure-based solutions are proposed.
Experimental evaluations of the above contributions reveal that it is possible to achieve automatic, cost-effective, time-efficient, lightweight, and interoperable SD in LLNs. These achievements open novel perspectives for zero-configuration capabilities in the IoT and promise to bring the ‘things’ to all people everywhere.
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Lemoine, Frédéric. "Internet des Objets centré service autocontrôlé." Thesis, Paris, CNAM, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019CNAM1235/document.
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A l'heure du numérique, la quantité d'objets connectés ne cesse de croître et de se diversifier. Afin de supporter cette complexité croissante, nous avons souhaité apporter un maximum d'automatismes à l'Internet des Objets de manière à garantir une qualité de service (QoS) de bout en bout. Pour ce faire, un composant de service autocontrôlé est proposé pour intégrer l'objet dans l'écosystème digital. Grâce à la calibration de chaque service, qui permet la connaissance du comportement, une composition automatisée devient possible. Nous avons illustré la faisabilité de notre approche à travers un cas d'étude. Nous avons également montré comment les objets connectés peuvent s'assembler eux-mêmes, coopérant pour atteindre un objectif commun, tout en répondant aux exigences de QoS globalesIn the digital era, the number of connected objects continues to grow and diversify. To support this increasing complexity, we wanted to bring a maximum of automatisms to the Internet of Things in order to guarantee end-to-end quality of service (QoS). To do this, a self-controlled service component is proposed to integrate the object into the digital ecosystem. Thanks to the calibration of each service, which makes it possible to know the behaviour, an automated composition becomes possible. We have illustrated the feasibility of our approach on a case study. We also have shown how connected objects can assemble themselves, cooperating to achieve a common objective, while meeting global QoS requirements
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Ledwaba, Lehlogonolo P. I. "Determining the performance costs in establishing cryptography services as part of a secure endpoint device for the Industrial Internet of Things." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/66210.
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Endpoint devices are integral in the realisation of any industrial cyber-physical system (ICPS) application. As part of the work of promoting safer and more secure industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) networks and devices, the Industrial Internet Consortium (IIC) and the OpenFog Consortium have developed security framework specifications detailing security techniques and technologies that should be employed during the design of an IIoT network. Previous work in establishing cryptographic services on platforms intended for wireless sensor networks (WSN) and the Internet of Things (IoT) has concluded that security mechanisms cannot be implemented using software libraries owing to the lack of memory and processing resources, the longevity requirements of the processor platforms, and the hard real-time requirements of industrial operations. Over a decade has passed since this body of knowledge was created, however, and IoT processors have seen a vast improvement in the available operating and memory resources while maintaining minimal power consumption. This study aims to update the body of knowledge regarding the provision of security services on an IoT platform by conducting a detailed analysis regarding the performance of new generation IoT platforms when running software cryptographic services. The research considers execution time, power consumption and memory occupation and works towards a general, implementable design of a secure, IIoT edge device. This is realised by identifying security features recommended for IIoT endpoint devices; identifying currently available security standards and technologies for the IIoT; and highlighting the trade-offs that the application of security will have on device size, performance, memory requirements and monetary cost.Dissertation (MSc)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
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Wang, Chen. "Location based services and location based behavior in a smart city." Thesis, Lyon, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LYSEC017/document.
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Le concept de ”Smart Cities” a émergé au cours des dernières années pour décrire comment les investissements dans le capital humain et social, et dans les technologies de la communication (TIC) infrastructures et services électroniques peuvent maintenir la croissance durable et la qualité de vie, par une gestion judicieuse des ressources naturelles et par un gouvernement participatif. Pour nous, Smart City est un environnement réel augmenté permettant l’informatique ubiquitaire, avec web 2.0, qui est collaborative, mobile et contextuelle, les acteurs humains, ainsi que des objets connectés faisant désormais partie intégrante de l’Internet. Dans le contexte de notre projet international France-Chine sur Smart City, nous avons utilisé une approche MOCOCO (Mobilité, Contextualisation, Collaboration) à mener des travaux de recherche avec de multiples applications dans des situations de travail professionnels et à domicile, des situations d’apprentissage mobile contextuelles, ainsi que des applications de Smart City sont prises en compte - le transport, la distribution des marchandises, et des activités sportives et culturelles. Cette thèse se concentre sur les services basés sur la localisation (LBS), et Internet des Objets (IdO), qui sont deux aspects importants de Smart City. Le choix de la Gestion Dynamique des Voies de Circulation comme une étude de cas dans cette thèse est également une bonne pratique d’intégration de nouvelles technologies pour rendre la ville plus intelligente et pour rendre notre vie plus confortable. Selon Schiller et Voisard (2004), les services basés sur la localisation peuvent ˆêtre définis comme des services qui intègrent l’emplacement ou la position d’un dispositif mobile avec d’autres informations afin de fournir une valeur ajoutée à un utilisateur. L’objectif est d’utiliser la mise en œuvre IdO pour améliorer LBS, fournissant l’intelligence ambiante et d’assurer la facilité d’utilisation pour usagers dans des situations dynamiques. L’aspect théorique de nos contributions est que nous examinons la possibilité et la faisabilité de l’utilisation de l’IdO pour augmenter LBS. L’architecture de l’IdO a une capacité d’intégrer divers objets, ce qui fournit à LBS une meilleure gestion des dispositifs de géolocalisation; l’intergiciel de l’IdO, capable de faire l’abstraction des objets et la composition de services, donne la possibilité de déployer des composants de service plus intelligents et personnalisés, ainsi peut améliorer l’intergiciel de LBS. L’aspect pratique de nos contributions est que nous avons choisi une problématique de gestion dynamique des voies comme une étude de cas, validant notre approche d’utiliser l’IdO pour augmenter LBS dans une application de Smart City. L’objectif du système de gestion dynamique des voies est d’assurer une meilleure utilisation de voie de circulation par l’allocation dynamique de voies à différents types de transport. Nous avons fourni l’architecture du système du point de vue de TIC, et un environnement de simulation pour valider la conception de la solution. Nous avons également développé une preuve de concept pour valider les aspects technologiques du système. L’environnement de simulation comprend un simulateur pour simuler la fonction du système et les comportements des véhicules, un éditeur de scénario, et un générateur de trafic en tant qu’outils d’initialisation. Différentes formes de visualisation de résultats de simulation sont également prises en compte. En outre, nous avons développé un outil d’évaluation basé sur la visualisation en 3D, qui permet l’interaction entre l’utilisateur et l’outil en temps réel, pour effectuer des tests d’utilisation comme l’étude des aspects IHM, puisque les facteurs humains devraient toujours être mis en premiers dans le contexte de Smart City. [...]The concept of “Smart Cities” has emerged during the last few years to describe how investments in human and social capital and modern Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) infrastructure and e-services fuel sustainable growth and quality of life, enabled by a wise management of natural resources and through participative government. To us, Smart City is a real augmented environment allowing ubiquitous computing, with up-to-date web 2.0, which is collaborative, mobile and contextual, human actors as well as different things (connected objects) are now an integral part of internet. In the international France-China project on Smart City we used the MOCOCO approach (Mobility, Contextualization, Collaboration) to conduct research work with multiple applications in working, learning and social situations; professional and home working situations, professional and teenager contextual mobile learning situations as well as Smart City applications are taken into account – transportation, goods distribution and local sport and cultural activities. This dissertation focuses on Location Based Services, and Internet of Things, which are both important aspects of Smart City. The choice of dynamic management of road lanes as a case study in this thesis, is also a good practice of integrating new technologies to make the city smarter and to make our life more comfortable. According to Schiller and Voisard (2004), Location Based Services (LBS) can be defined as services that integrate a mobile device’s location or position with other information so as to provide added value to a user. During recent years, LBS has evolved from simple GIS applications and positioning of emergent phone callers to more complicated, proactive, application-oriented services adapted to different users. However, heterogeneity of devices, data management and analysis, and HCI aspects are always main challenges for LBS. Our goal is to make the LBS meet the requirements of Smart City, with use of Internet of Things (IoT), integrating a certain degree of ambient intelligence. The theoretical aspect of our contributions is that we examine at component level the possibility and feasibility of using IoT to better support LBS. The ability of IoT architecture of integrating various objects gives LBS a better management of location-aware devices; the sensors can also enrich the data source of LBS. The middleware of IoT, good at objects abstraction and service composition, provides possibilities to deploy more intelligent and customized service components, thus can enhance the middleware of LBS. The practical aspect of our contributions is that we choose a dynamic lane management problem as a use case study demonstrating our approach in regard to combining LBS with IoT for a Smart City application. The goal of the dynamic lane management system is to make a better use of road lanes by dynamic allocation of lanes to different types of transportation. We provide the system architecture, user interfaces and a simulation environment to validate the solution design. We also develop a proof of concept to validate the technological aspects of the lane management system. The simulation environment of the lane management system is another important part of our contributions, it includes a core simulator to simulate the function of the system and the behaviors of the vehicles, and an editor of scenario and a generator of traffic as initialization tools. Different visualization methods of simulation results are also taken into consideration. In addition, we develop an evaluation tool which allows for real time user interaction, based on the visualization of the results of the simulator to conduct user tests for HCI aspects, as human factors should always be considered in the context of Smart City. [...]
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Djemai, Tanissia. "Placement optimisé de services dans les architectures fog computing et internet of things sous contraintes d'énergie, de QoS et de mobilité." Thesis, Toulouse 3, 2021. http://www.theses.fr/2021TOU30019.
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L'avènement de l'Internet of Things (IoT) soulève diverses problématiques, tant au niveau du développement que du déploiement des applications IoT dans les infrastructures de calculs. Par ailleurs, l'infrastructure de calcul la plus répandue de nos jours est celle du Cloud Computing reposant sur des centres de données centralisés communicants entre eux et avec les utilisateurs par le biais d'équipements réseau monolithiques et peu flexibles. L'importance de revoir ce schéma a été mise en avant dans le but de faire face aux défis d'un environnement IoT, hétérogène, mobile et générant une grande quantité de données exigeant des temps de traitements quasi-instantanés. Le modèle classique de l'IoT amenant les objets IoT à envoyer des informations via leurs passerelles au Cloud, qui ensuite fournit les services aux applications trouve des extensions dans l'approche Fog ou Edge permettant de rapprocher les services des usagers en s'appuyant notamment sur des équipements de calcul et de communication intermédiaires entre les utilisateurs et les centres de données. L'architecture Fog Computing est considérée comme étant l'un des schémas permettant d'exploiter la capacité de calcul et de stockage de l'infrastructure réseau en plus de celle du Cloud pour le déploiement des services IoT au plus près des objets IoT. Cependant, les équipements réseau sont hétérogènes et à faible capacité de calcul, ils couvrent une large zone géographique et doivent faire face à la mobilité des utilisateurs IoT. Tout ceci complexifie le problème du placement et de l'ordonnancement des services dans le but d'optimiser divers paramètres tels que l'énergie consommée, les différents coûts liés au placement et l'amélioration de la qualité de service des applications. L'objectif de notre thèse est de proposer des stratégies de placement de services IoT dans une architecture Fog tout en prenant en compte la nature dynamique de l'environnement apportée par la mobilité des objets IoT, le coût énergétique des infrastructures de calcul et les exigences en qualité de service des applications déployéesThe advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) raises various issues, both in terms of the development and deployment of IoT applications in computing infrastructures. Cloud Computing is the most widespread computing infrastructure today. It is based on data centers that communicate with each other and with users via monolithic, inflexible network equipments. The importance of revising this schema has been highlighted in order to meet the challenges of an IoT environment that is heterogeneous, mobile and generates a large amount of data that requires rapid processing. The classic IoT model, in which IoT objects send information via their gateways to the Cloud, which then provides services to the applications, finds extensions in the Fog or Edge approach, which enables services to be brought closer to users by relying on intermediate computing and communication equipments between users and data centers. The Fog Computing architecture allows exploiting the computing and storage! capacities of the network infrastructure, in addition to that of the Cloud, for the deployment of IoT services and thus extending and bringing services closer to IoT objects. However, network equipments are heterogeneous and with low computing capacity, they cover a large geographical area and must cope with the mobility of IoT users. All this adds complexity to the problem of service placement and scheduling in order to optimize various parameters such as energy consumption, different costs related to placement and improving the applications quality of service requirements. The objective of our thesis is to propose IoT service placement strategies in a Fog infrastructure while taking into account the dynamic nature of the environment brought by user mobility, the energy cost of computing infrastructures and the QoS requirements of deployed applications
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Gavatta, Alex. "Integration Platforms-as-a-Service per Internet of Things: IFTTT come caso di studio." Bachelor's thesis, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, 2016. http://amslaurea.unibo.it/12379/.
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L'integrazione della enorme quantità e della estrema eterogeneità dei dati ottenuti tramite gli oggetti di IoT (Intenet of Thing) sarà una delle criticità da affrontare nel prossimo futuro.
Il luogo dell'integrazione di tutti questi dati eterogenei si sta spostando nella rete, luogo di nascita di IoT e del cloud, e sta diventando un servizio sotto il nome di integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS).
Nella tesi viene presentata una analisi formale ed esplicita delle specifiche necessarie per l’attuazione di questa visione futura tramite iPaaS, elencando e motivando le caratteristiche che deve possedere per poter essere considerato come uno dei pilastri delle tecnologie abilitanti dello IoT.
Con la parte pratica della tesi si è dimostrato come si possa rendere, sempre grazie all’utilizzo di un iPaaS e di un piccolo processore programmabile, qualunque oggetto una parte utilizzabile ed integrata di IoT, interfacciabile in maniera totalmente trasparente con qualunque altro servizio.
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Mendoza, Carolina Veronica Lezama. "Distributed trust management mechanism for the internet of things using a multi-service approach." reponame:Repositório Institucional da UFABC, 2014.
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Orientador: Prof. Dr. João Henrique KleinschmidtDissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Federal do ABC, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia da Informação, 2015.
Na Internet das Coisas os objetos físicos têm um componente virtual capaz de prover ou requisitar determinados serviços. É uma tendência que trará vantagens sem precedentes para a automação de processos e diversas aplicações. A análise de modelos de gerenciamento de confiança para IoT para detectar comportamentos maliciosos tem recebido poucas contribuições da comunidade científica. Alguns pesquisadores trataram desta questão, mas poucos trabalhos analisam os requisitos para a correta implementação da IoT. O objetivo desta dissertação é identificar o comportamento malicioso de nós e prevenir possíveis ataques que interrompam os serviços da rede. Neste trabalho são feitas diferentes abordagens para pesquisar um modelo de gerenciamento de confiança capaz de caracterizar o comportamento dos nós. O modelo proposto usa informações diretas geradas pelas comunicações entre os nós e recomendações de outros nós para calcular a confiança. Usa uma abordagem multi-serviço em que cada nó provê diversos serviços para os outros nós da rede. A habilidade de um nó em prover um serviço é recompensada, enquanto que um nó que não forneça um serviço corretamente é punido. Cada nó tem uma tabela de confiança dos seus vizinhos, que pode ser compartilhada com os outros nós como recomendações. A abordagem distribuída permite que os nós sejam completamente autônomos em tomar decisões sobre o comportamento dos nós. A avaliação de confiança dos nós é um meio efetivo de encorajar a colaboração na rede e ao mesmo tempo melhorar a segurança em redes distribuídas. Três ataques são testados para verificar a validade do modelo de confiança: ataque On-Off, ataque Seletivo e Bad mouthing. O modelo de gerenciamento de confiança foi implementado no Contiki, um sistema operacional desenvolvido para IoT e redes de sensores. Extensivas simulações foram feitas no simulador Cooja-Contiki para ilustrar os ataques e avaliar o desempenho do modelo proposto. Os resultados de simulação mostram que o modelo tem um bom desempenho em detectar os nós maliciosos.
In Internet of Things (IoT), the physical objects have a virtual component able to provide or require determined services. It is a trend that will bring unprecedented advantages to the process automation. The analysis of the trust management models for IoT to detect the malicious behavior on the network, has been undervalued and with little scientific contribution in the academic field. In spite of researchers has already addressed the issue, only few give a theoretic analysis on the requirements for the proper implementation of IoT. The purpose of this thesis work is to identify the malicious behavior of the nodes and prevent possible attacks that disrupt entire network to IoT context. In this thesis different approaches are followed to investigate a lightweight model of trust management able to characterize the behavior of the nodes with little effort. Our model use direct information generated from direct communication of nodes and recommendations of the others nodes to evaluate the trust. We use a multi-service approach where each node provides several services to others node. The ability to provide a service is rewarded and, punished when it is not provided. In our trust model each node has a trust table of their neighbors in the same radio coverage, which will be shared to others nodes as recommendations. This distributed approach allows nodes to be completely autonomous in making decisions about the behavior of other nodes. The trust evaluation of nodes is an effective method to encourage the collaboration on the network and at the same time to improve network security in distributed networks. In this thesis work, we present three attacks that can undermine the accuracy of trust evaluation. Based on our investigation on attacks and defense, we designed and implemented a trust management model based on the construction of Contiki, an operating system developed for IoT and sensor networks. Extensive simulations were performed using COOJA-Contiki to illustrate On-OFF attack, Selective attack and Bad mouthing attack, the effectiveness of the techniques used, and the overall performance of the proposed trust model. Simulation results shows effectiveness against these attacks and also a good performance to recognize the malicious nodes especially to the Bad mouthing attack when are used direct information and recommendations wherein is obtained a reduction time compared when is used only the direct information.
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Cherrier, Sylvain. "Architecture et protocoles applicatifs pour la chorégraphie de services dans l'Internet des objets." Thesis, Paris Est, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PEST1078/document.
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Les défis que l'Internet des objets posent sont à la mesure des transformations que cette technologie est susceptible d'entraîner dans notre rapport quotidien à notre environnement. Nos propres objets, et des milliards d'autres, disposeront de capacités de traitement des données et de connexion au réseau, certes limitées mais effectives. Alors, ces objets se doteront d'une dimension numérique, et deviendront accessibles d'un façon tout à fait nouvelle. Ce n'est pas seulement la promesse d'un accès original à l'objet, mais bel et bien l'avènement d'une nouvelle perception et interaction avec ce qui nous entoure. Les applications de l'Informatique ubiquitaire utiliseront majoritairement les interactions entre objets, et la somme de leurs actions/réactions offrira une véritable valeur ajoutée. Mais l'hétérogénéité des composants matériels et des réseaux empruntés freine considérablement l'essor de l'Internet des objets. L'objectif de cette thèse est de proposer une solution effective et le cadre nécessaire à la construction de telles applications. Après avoir montré la pertinence des solutions chorégraphiées et quantifié le gain acquis sur des structures de communication arborescentes, nous présenterons D-LITe, notre framework, qui appréhende chaque objet comme étant fournisseur de services. Grâce à son approche REST assurant l'interopérabilité dans l'assortiment des composants et réseaux de l'Internet des objets, le framework D-LITe, hébergé par chaque objet (et adapté à ses contraintes), fournit un contrôle distant, aussi bien pour sa reprogrammation dynamique que les échanges avec ses partenaires. Nous poursuivrons en présentant SALT, le langage de programmation compris par D-LITe, basé sur les transducteurs à états fini. Outre son expressivité étendue aux particularités du domaine, SALT accorde un accès aux fonctionnalités de l'objet au travers d'une couche d'abstraction matérielle. Enfin, profitant de la standardisation offerte par D-LITe pour la programmation de chaque composant en particulier, une solution de composition, BeC3, va offrir un moyen efficace pour construire une application complète par assemblage des comportement distribués, tout en respectant la cohérence des interactions entre objets, par l'intermédiaire d'une abstraction des échanges et de leur modélisation. Aussi sommes-nous, par la résolution des problématiques rencontrées à chacun des différents niveaux, capables de présenter une solution simple, cohérente et fonctionnelle à même de bâtir réellement et efficacement des applications robustes pour l'Internet des objetsThe challenges which the Internet of objects put are for the measure of the transformations which this technology may pull in our daily report to our environment. Our own objects, and billions of others, will have processing capacities of the data and connection to the network, certainly limited but effective. Then, these objects will be equipped with a digital dimension, and will become accessible in a completely new way. It is not only the promise of an original access to the object, but well and truly the succession of a new perception and an interaction with what what surrounds us. The applications of the ubiquitaire Computing will use mainly the interactions between objects, and the sum of their actions / reactions will offer a real added value
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Amanda, Nordhamn. "Design and implementation of a demonstrator for a Bluetooth Low Energy based fleet service system for hand-held gardening and forestry products." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Datorteknik, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-304787.
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Today, large companies specialized in forestry or park maintenance may own very large machine fleets consisting of hundreds of trimmers, chainsaws and brush cutters. Husqvarna Group, whose core business lies within high-end forestry and gardening products, has noticed that such companies tend to buy cheaper, low quality forestry and gardening products. The reason is thought to be that the companies lack a proper overview of the service status and utilization levels of their machines, leading to insufficient service, causing machines to break prematurely and making it hard to motivate investments in more expensive products. Hence, the companies usually adopt a consumerist approach, and buy cheaper products that are thrown away upon breaking. To make their products more attractive to machine park owners, Husqvarna want to explore the area of Internet of Things and equip their machines with sensing and communication capabilities. Collected data could be used to provide an overview of machine usage and service requirements to the machine parks owners, and could make it easier for machine park owners to dimension their machine fleet. In addition to this, a machine monitoring system where specific operator behavior can be tracked could enable identification of operators who consistently mistreat their machines by, for example, running the machine engine at non-optimal rotation speeds. In this master's thesis, a demonstrator of the working principle of a Bluetooth Low Energy based Fleet Service System is designed and implemented, complete with an evaluation of if received signal strength indicator (RSSI) is a good enough distance estimator to determine which operator operates a certain machine. Experiments carried out indicate that while RSSI is not a good estimator of distance, it could be used to determine the operator in closest proximity given that operators are not allowed to work closer than within a 10 m radius of each other.
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Gatouillat, Arthur. "Towards smart services with reusable and adaptable connected objects : An application to wearable non-invasive biomedical sensors." Thesis, Lyon, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018LYSEI123/document.
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La prolifération des objets communicants fixes et mobiles soulève la question de leur intégration dans les environnements quotidiens, par exemple dans le cadre de la e-santé ou de la domotique. Les principaux défis soulevés relèvent de l’interconnexion et de la gestion de la masse de donnée produite par ces objets intelligents. Notre premier objectif est d’adopter une démarche des couches basses vers les couches hautes pour faciliter l’intégration de ces objets à des services intelligents. Afin de développer celle-ci, il est nécessaire de d’étudier le processus de conception des objets intelligents indépendamment de considérations matérielles et logicielles, au travers de la considération de leur propriétés cyber-physiques. Pour mener à bien la réalisation de services intelligents à partir d’objets connectés, les deux axes de recherche suivant seront développés : la définition d’une méthode de conception orientée service pour les objets connectés intégrant une dimension formelle ainsi de valider le comportement de ceux-ci, l’auto-adaptation intelligente dans un contexte évolutif permettant aux objets de raisonner sur eux même au travers d’un langage déclaratif pour spécifier les stratégies d’adaptation. La validation de ces contributions s’effectuera par le biais du développement et de l’expérimentation à grandeur nature d’un service de diagnostic médical continu basé sur la collecte de données médicales en masse par des réseaux non-intrusifs de capteurs biomédicaux portables sur le corps humainThe rapid growth of fixed and mobile smart objects raises the issue of their integration in everyday environment, e.g. in e-health or home-automation contexts. The main challenges of these objects are the interoperability, the handling of the massive amount of data that they generate, and their limited resources. Our goal is to take a bottom-up approach in order to improve the integration of smart devices to smart services. To ensure the efficient development of our approach, we start with the study of the design process of such devices regardless of specific hardware or software through the consideration of their cyber-physical properties. We thus develop two research directions: the specification of a service-oriented design method for smart devices with formal considerations in order to validate their behavior, and the proposal of a self-adaptation framework in order to handle changing operating context through self-reasoning and the definition of a declarative self-adaptation objectives specification language. The testing of these contributions will be realized through the development of a large-scale experimental framework based on a remote diagnostics case-study relying on non-invasive wearable biomedical sensors
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Ulander, David. "Software Architectural Metrics for the Scania Internet of Things Platform : From a Microservice Perspectiv." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Datorteknik, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-325592.
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There are limited tools to evaluate a microservice architecture and no common definition of how the architecture should be designed. Moreover, developing systems with microservices introduces additional complexity to the software architecture. That, together with the fact the systems are becoming more complex has led to a desire for architecture evaluation methods. In this thesis a set of quality attributes measured by structural metrics are used to evaluate Scania's IoT Offboard platform. By implementing a metrics evaluation program the quality of the software architecture can be improved. Also, metrics can assist developers and architects while they are becoming more efficient since they better understand how performance is measured, i.e. which quality attributes are the most important and how these are measured. For Scania's IoT Offboard platform the studied quality attributes are listed in decreasing importance: flexibility, reusability and understandability. All the microservices are loosely coupled in the platform, which results in a loosely coupled architecture. This indicates a flexible, reusable and understandable system, in terms of coupling. Furthermore, the architecture is decentralized, i.e. the system is unflexible and difficult to change. The other metrics were lacking a reference scale, hence they will act as a point of reference for future measurements as the architecture evolves. To improve the flexibility, reusability and understandability of the architecture the large microservices should be divided into several smaller microservices. Also aggregators should be utilized more to make the system more flexible.
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GOMES, Yuri Farias. "Uma arquitetura orientada a serviços para integração de redes de sensores e atuadores heterogêneos na internet das coisas." Universidade Federal de Campina Grande, 2016. http://dspace.sti.ufcg.edu.br:8080/jspui/handle/riufcg/698.
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A visão da Internet das Coisas possibilitou o desenvolvimento de uma diversidade de aplicações e serviços que antes não era possível devido a uma série de limitações. Apesar de algumas dificuldades ainda existentes no hardware, como poder de processamento limitado e utilizações de baterias, pesquisas indicam que no ano de 2016 mais de 6,4 bilhões de dispositivos estarão conectados. A alta diversidade destes aparelhos cria a necessidade de infraestruturas capazes de lidar com dispositivos altamente heterogêneos e suas limitações de hardware. Neste trabalho propõe-se uma arquitetura orientada a serviços para integrar dispositivos na Internet das Coisas e resolver grande parte dos problemas que essa integração ocasiona. A partir desta arquitetura, serviços e aplicações poderão acessar sensores e atuadores através da web utilizando modelos de dados definidos a partir de padrões na Internet. O gerenciamento dos nós conectados a esta infraestrutura é realizado a partir de um middleware conectado a dispositivos ou gateways para a tradução de informações na tecnologia de comunicação utilizada (ie. Bluetooth, ZigBee, entre outros). Esta proposta foi avaliada com o desenvolvimento de um middleware baseado na especificação UPnP e uma aplicação Android para simulação dos dados de sensores. Resultados do experimento demonstram a viabilidade de utilização da arquitetura proposta na Integração com aplicações, serviços e outras arquiteturas disponíveis na Internet através da web e modelos de dados padronizados.
The vision of Internet of Things enabled the development of a diverse range of applications and service not possible before due to a number of limitations. Despite some remaining problems still exists on hardware, such as limited processing power and battery usage, researches indicates that in 2016, more than 6.4 billion devices will be connected. The high diversity of the sedevices creates the need of a infrastructure capable of managing high ly heterogeneous devices and their hardware limitations. This work proposes an service-oriented architecture to integrate Io Tdevices and solvemostissues that this integration brings. Using this architecture, services and applications will be able to access sensors and actuators from the web using data models from repositories on the Internet. The management of connected devices is performed by a middleware that can be connected directly to the devices or through gateways that can translate information to the communication technology used (ie. Bluetooth, ZigBee, and others). This proposal was evaluated with the development of a middleware based on the UPnP specification and an Android application to simulate sensor data. Results from this evaluation shows the feasibility of the solution with the integration with applications, services and other architectures available on the Internet through the web using the same data model.
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Sebei, Mouna. "Diffusion du commerce électronique en Tunisie : une analyse et modélisation des comportements d’adoption de l’internet et des services marchands par les jeunes." Thesis, Université Côte d'Azur (ComUE), 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018AZUR0030/document.
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A l’ère de la troisième révolution internet, celle de l’internet des objets (IoT), beaucoup d’espoir sont tournés vers les technologies numériques pour développer les économies et notamment dynamiser le commerce local. Dans les pays du Maghreb, en Tunisie notamment, ses espoirs sont tournés du côté de la demande. Plus précisément, à l’issu du printemps arabe, et en raison du rôle qu’ont joué les réseaux sociaux (Facebook notamment) pour mobiliser les jeunes à manifester dans les rues de Tunis, le nouveau ministère du commerce fonde ses espoirs dans cette population jeune pour développer le commerce électronique. Partant de ce constat, cette thèse propose d’étudier si les jeunes tunisiens sont les early adopters qui permettront de diffuser le commerce électronique en Tunisie. Pour cela, la problématique de recherche porte sur les facteurs d’adoption du commerce électronique par les jeunes en Tunisie. Pour répondre à cette question de recherche, la thèse propose dans un premier temps de dresser l’état des lieux de la diffusion de l’internet au sein d’un population de jeunes étudiants. Préalablement, elle propose dans la première partie de la thèse un état des lieux de la couverture du territoire en technologies d’accès aux services numériques. Cet état des lieux est discuté à l’appui d’une revue de la littérature sur la fracture numérique. Dans un deuxième temps, elle propose une analyse empirique et exploratoire menée auprès d’un échantillon de 400 étudiants tunisiens environ. Cette étude porte sur les facteurs d’adoption de l’internet et des services marchands (commerce électronique). Structurée en deux parties, le premier volet de l’enquête est exploité à l’aide de statistiques économétriques et le deuxième volet mobilise les méthodes d’analyse d’équations structurelles. Les résultats de la thèse montrent que si l’usage de l’internet est relativement bien diffusé auprès des jeunes tunisiens, la disposition à adopter le commerce électronique doit en revanche être encouragée. Pour cela, un modèle d’adoption est proposé en deuxième partie de la thèse. Il met en évidence quels facteurs favorisent ou inhibent l’adoption du commerce électronique en Tunisie. Les résultats de ce modèle et des travaux menés dans la partie 1 permettent dans la partie conclusive de la thèse de formuler différentes recommandations à l’égard des entreprises engagées dans un projet de mise en ligne de leur activité commerciale d’une part, et d’autre part envers les acteurs publics pour favoriser l’adoption des services internet marchands en TunisieIn the era of the third Internet revolution, that of the Internet of Things (IoT), a lot of hope is turned to digital technologies to develop economies and boost local trade. In the Maghreb countries, especially in Tunisia, those hope are turned on the demand side. More specifically, at the end of the Arab Spring, and because of the role played by social networks (Facebook in particular) to mobilize young people to demonstrate in the streets of Tunis, the new Ministry of Commerce hopes in this population young to develop e-commerce. Based on this observation, this thesis proposes to study whether young Tunisians are the early adopters who will disseminate e-commerce in Tunisia. For this, the research problematic focuses on the factors of adoption of e-commerce by young people in Tunisia. To answer this research question, the thesis proposes at first to draw up the inventory of the diffusion of the internet within a population of young students. Before doing so, we propose in the first part of the thesis an inventory of the technologies territory’s coverage of the access to digital services. This inventory is discussed in support of a review of the literature on the digital divide. In a second step, she proposes an empirical and exploratory analysis conducted with a sample of about 400 Tunisian students. This study focuses on the adoption factors of the Internet and market services (e-commerce). Structured in two parts, the first part of the survey is exploited using econometric statistics and the second part uses structural equation analysis methods. The results of the thesis show that while the use of the internet is relatively well distributed to young Tunisians, the willingness to adopt e-commerce should be encouraged. For this, an adoption model is proposed in the second part of the thesis. It highlights what factors encourages or inhibit the adoption of e-commerce in Tunisia. The results of this model and the work carried out in Part 1 allow in the concluding part of the thesis to make various recommendations to companies engaged in a project to put their commercial activity online on one hand, and on the other hand towards the public actors to encourage the adoption of the internet marketing services in Tunisia
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Petrolo, Riccardo. "Semantic-based discovery and integration of heterogeneous things in a Smart City environment." Thesis, Lille 1, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016LIL10093/document.
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Une ville intelligente peut être considérée comme un système complexe dans lequel les différents acteurs coopèrent afin d’améliorer la zone urbaine, la rendant plus efficace et plus durable. Pour atteindre cet objectif, les technologies de l’information et de la communication et, en particulier l’Internet des Objets, sont appelées à jouer un rôle clé pour la mise en œuvre des solutions innovantes, des services et des applications. Cependant, en regardant l’état actuel de la ville intelligente, la réalisation d’un tel concept est encore loin d’être atteinte; le scénario réel est en effet caractérisé par un niveau élevé de fragmentation en raison de la pléthore de technologies et de dispositifs présents dans une ville. Afin de combler cette lacune, dans cette thèse, l’évolution de l’Internet des objets vers le Cloud of Things (CoT) est démontrée. Pour démontrer ce concept, le système d’exploitation VITAL est introduit. Dans le CoT, et en général dans le contexte Smart City, l’un des défis les plus importants est la découverte de données-sources appropriées aux besoins des utilisateurs. Cette découverte est une opération qui peut être exécutée directement in-network et / ou out-network. Dans cette thèse, les deux processus sont discutés en introduisant deux solutions différentes. En ce qui concerne la découverte in-network, la conception d’une passerelle pour le Cloud of Things est introduite. Cette passerelle est capable de découvrir et de gérer différents objets sur une base sémantique et, d’autre part, d’agir comme point final pour la présentation des données aux utilisateurs, combinant ainsi tous les aspects de cette thèseA Smart City can be seen as a complex system in which different actors cooperate in order to improve, the urban area, making it efficient and sustainable. To achieve this goal, the Information and Communication Technologies, and especially the prominent Internet of Things, are called to play a key role for implementing innovative solutions, services, and applications. However, looking at the current status, the realization of the Smart City is still far from being realized; the real scenario is indeed characterized with a high level of fragmentation due to the plethora of technologies and devices present in a city. In order to bridge this gap, in this thesis, the evolution of the Internet of Things towards the Cloud of Things (CoT) is demonstrated. To demonstrate this concept, the VITAL operating system is introduced. Within the CoT, and in general in the Smart City context, one of the most important challenges is the discovery of appropriate data-sources that satisfy user requirements. The discovery is an operation that can be performed directly in-network and/or out-network. In this thesis, both processes are discussed by introducing two different solutions. Going deeply towards an horizontal unification of different data-sources and the need to have processing capabilities closer to the network, in the last part of the dissertation, the design of a gateway for the Cloud of Things is introduced. This gateway is capable to discover and manage different semantic-like things and, on the other hand, to act as end-point for the presentation of data to users, bridging the contributions of this thesis
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Rönnholm, Jesper. "Integration of OPC Unified Architecture with IIoT Communication Protocols in an Arrowhead Translator." Thesis, Luleå tekniska universitet, Institutionen för system- och rymdteknik, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-70347.
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This thesis details the design of a protocol translator between the industrial-automation protocol OPC UA, and HTTP. The design is based on the architecture of the protocol translator of the Arrowhead framework, and is interoperable with all of its associated protocols. The design requirements are defined to comply with a service-oriented architecture (SOA) and RESTful interaction through HTTP, with minimal requirement of the consuming client to be familiar with OPC UA semantics. Effort is put into making translation as transparent as possible, but limits the scope of this work to exclude a complete semantic translation. The solution presented in this thesis satisfies structural- and foundational interoperability, and bridges interaction to be independent of OPC UA services. The resulting translator is capable of accessing the content of any OPC UA server with simple HTTP-requests, where addressing is oriented around OPC UA nodes.
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Bhatti, Areeb. "Internet of Equipment : Enhancing customer value and experience." Thesis, Internationella Handelshögskolan, Högskolan i Jönköping, IHH, Företagsekonomi, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-43933.
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Background: Organizations are continuously challenged to create differentiated customer value and experience to increase profitability and gain competitive advantage. At the same time, the fast-paced advancement of technologies provides the opportunity to the organizations to create a differentiated customer value by offering innovative products and services. Internet of things (IoTs) is one such emerging technology that brings within itself opportunities and challenges to be addressed. However, so far research has not sufficiently followed how the utilization of IoTs can enhance customer value and experience. Purpose: The purpose of conducting this study is to explore how the utilization of IoTs enhance customer value and experience in an equipment manufacturers context and what are the associated opportunities and challenges. The study also aims to contribute to gap identified in the literature about how organizations can utilize IoTs to enhance customer value and experience. Method: The qualitative study utilized a single instrumental case study to explore the research questions. The data is collected by conducting semi-structured in-depth interviews. Conclusion: The study reveals that the utilization of IoTs can significantly improve customer value and experience in many ways. This may involve enabling user to monitor, control and optimally use the equipment, sharing useful information, allowing value co-creation and synergistic values and finally by providing autonomous equipment’s or solutions. However, the study also reveals that the utilization of IoTs also pose certain challenges along with the opportunities which must be carefully evaluated.
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Paul, Erik. "Service Level Modell – Erweiterung der Kundenbasis für das Internet der Dinge." Master's thesis, Dresden International University, 2018. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-235626.
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In der vorliegenden Masterarbeit wird die Thematik eines Service-Level-Modells für das Kunden-Reporting eines hochtechnologisierten Unternehmens analysiert. Die stetig kürzer werdenden Technologiezyklen, der zunehmende Druck von anderen Wettbewerbern sowie die Flut an aufkommenden Kleinkunden, durch Technologien des Internet der Dinge, verlangen nach einer konsequenten Report-Standardisierung. Aufgrund der unterschiedlichen Ansätze im Kunden-Reporting des Unternehmens wurde untersucht, inwiefern die Erfahrungen mit Großkunden auf Kleinkunden nachhaltig und zielgerichtet adaptiert werden können. Die Analyse der theoretischen Grundlagen unterstreicht die Relevanz dieser Thematik und verdeutlicht die Gemeinsamkeiten zwischen dem unternehmensinternen Management-Reporting sowie dem Reporting für B2B-Kunden. Im Anschluss daran erfolgt eine Bestandsaufnahme des Customer-Reportings in Bezug auf das Foundry-Unternehmen. Dabei wurden alle kundenrelevanten Berichte der Fachabteilungen begutachtet. Im Nachgang dazu konnten entsprechende Optimierungsansätze herausgearbeitet sowie ein nachhaltiges Reporting-Konzept für Kleinkunden aufgezeigt werden. Das erarbeitete Konzept soll zukünftig seitens der Foundry als Grundlage für aufkommende Neukunden mit niedrigem Produkt-Volumina dienen. Betrachtet man nun das Resultat dieser Untersuchung bleibt festzuhalten, dass durch dieses Instrument dem Effekt der Informationsüberflutung auf Kundenseite deutlich entgegengewirkt wird. Überdies wird erreicht, dass auf Seiten der Foundry sowie dem B2B-Kunden ein homogenes Verständnis, in Bezug auf die technischen Inhalte, generiert wird.
Insgesamt betrachtet, liefert diese Arbeit einen wertvollen Beitrag zum Thema Customer-Reporting im hochtechnologisierten Umfeld. Man kann daher den Schluss ziehen, dass es gelingen kann, den vielfältigen Anforderungen der aufkommenden Kleinkunden mit einem generellen Reporting-Standard zu begegnen.
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Garcia, Vera Tudela Karen Rocio, and Ramon Eduardo Ian Astonitas. "Plan de negocio para comercializar servicios de gestión energética basados en IoT." Master's thesis, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10757/629077.
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El sector MIPYME (Micro, Pequeña y Mediana empresas), representa el 99.5% de empresas formales. El 96.2% son microempresas, 3.2% pequeña y 0.1% mediana (Ministerio de la Producción, 2017). El sector manufactura evoluciona constantemente y para ello requiere incorporar el uso de maquinaria especializada, dicha maquinaria opera principalmente con energía eléctrica.
En 2015, el mayor consumo de energía se registró en el sector minero e industrial con 56% (22 440 GWh) del total a nivel nacional. Con respecto a 1995, el consumo del sector minero e industrial se incrementó 466% (Osineming, 2016).
Por su lado, la producción de energía eléctrica no ha crecido con la misma magnitud, lo que ha ocasionado el aumento del costo del servicio. Por ejemplo, el cargo por energía activa para Lima Norte se ha incrementado 42% en el periodo 2005-2016 al pasar de 32.8 ctm S/. por kWh a 46.6 ctm S/. por kWh (Osineming, 2016).
Actualmente la implementación de medidas de eficiencia energética, particularmente en energía eléctrica, requieren de personal especializado y son ejecutadas como parte de labores de mantenimiento en periodos definidos. Se propone el uso del IoT (Internet of Things) para identificar medidas de eficiencia energética desde una aplicación web, la que puede ser manejada por personal no especializado. El objetivo es definir una línea base de consumo y monitorear el consumo de energía eléctrica, para luego enviar alertas en real cuando el consumo se aleje de la línea base de consumo definida, de manera que el responsable pueda tomar las acciones correctivas necesarias inmediatamente y reducir la facturación generada por uso indebido de energía eléctrica.
Estimamos que nuestro servicio tendrá un pago mensual de US$ 520.00, para su inversión estimamos se requiere de $250,000.00. Resultando un VAN de US$ 330 mil y una TIR de 41%, lo que resulta atractivo para inversionistas.The micro, small and medium-sized businesses (MIPYME, as abbreviated in Spanish) represent 99.5% of formal businesses in Peru. Out of this number, 96.2% are micro, 3.2% are small and 0.1%, medium businesses (Peruvian Ministry of Production, 2017). The manufacturing sector is constantly evolving, which requires incorporating the use of specialized machinery. Such machinery operates mainly with electrical energy. In 2015, the highest energy consumption was recorded in the mining and industrial sector totaling 56% (22,440 GWh) at a national level. The consumption of the mining and industrial sector has increased 466% when compared to 1995 figures (Osinergmin, 2016). Meanwhile, the production of electrical energy has not grown to match these consumption rates, which has caused the costs of the service to increase. Energy costs for northern Lima have increased in 42% from 2005-2016 (actual cost of S/ 46.60 ctm/kWh from S/ 32.80 ctm/kWh) according to Osinergmin (Osinerming, 2016). Currently, the implementation of energy efficiency measures, particularly for electric energy, require specialized staff and are executed as part of maintenance work that takes place at specified times. This paper proposes the use of the IoT (Internet of Things) to identify energy efficiency measures from a web application, which can be handled by non-specialized staff. The objective is to define a baseline consumption and monitor the consumption of electrical energy. As consumption moves away from this baseline, alerts should prompt corrective actions that reduce the turnover generated by excessive electric power. We believe that our service will have a monthly fee of US$ 520.00. A total of US$ 250,000.00 has been calculated as total investment. In addition, an NPV of approximately US$ 330K and an IRR of 41% make it attractive to potential investors.
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PERSSON, ALEXANDER. "Internet of Things and connected home living : -A case study on how manufacturing firms in thekitchen and furniture industry is implementing and developing IoT products and services." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för industriell teknik och management (ITM), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-232442.
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Chagas, Everton. "A influência da internet das coisas no desenvolvimento de produtos e serviços das operadoras de telecomunicações no Brasil." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/20683.
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Após avanços significativos nas redes e infraestrutura de telecomunicações nas últimas décadas, surge o conceito da Internet das Coisas, termo em inglês Internet of Things (IoT). O campo de pesquisa sobre a IoT perpassa diversas áreas de conhecimento, como computação, engenharias, telecomunicações, economia e negócios. Esse estudo considera o fato de que a IoT pode permitir uma verdadeira transformação no segmento de telecomunicações para fornecedores e operadoras. A Internet das Coisas poderá influenciar vários componentes do modelo de negócios das operadoras de telecomunicações, os quais podem ser estudados sob vários aspectos. Entretanto, este trabalho trata especificamente do desenvolvimento de produtos e serviços da IoT no ambiente das operadoras de telecomunicações no Brasil. Desse modo, o objetivo principal deste estudo exploratório é identificar a influência da demanda por aplicações da IoT no desenvolvimento de produtos e serviços das operadoras de telecomunicações no Brasil. Essa influência é analisada a partir do estudo de caso múltiplo realizado em três operadoras, observando em cada uma delas aspectos ligados à demanda por soluções da IoT, ao desenvolvimento de produtos e serviços da IoT e à oferta das soluções ligadas à IoT. Os resultados mostram que, na percepção das operadoras, a demanda por soluções ligadas à IoT tem crescido fortemente, principalmente no segmento empresarial, justamente onde as operadoras têm atuado com maior foco. Contudo, o modelo de desenvolvimento de produtos e serviços para a IoT pede uma clara adaptação, exigindo mais participação de parceiros tecnológicos, apoio a aceleradoras de startups e laboratórios de tecnologia, abrindo espaço para a utilização de metodologias ágeis nesse processo de desenvolvimento, objetivando consolidar e ampliar o portfólio de ofertas para a IoT, que, apesar dos esforços recentes das operadoras, mostra-se reduzido.
After significant advances in telecommunications networks and infrastructure in recent decades, there emerges the concept of Internet of Things (IoT). The field of research on IoT spreads through several knowledge areas, such as computing, engineering, telecommunications, economics and business. The present study considers the fact that IoT can make an actual transformation in the telecommunications industry possible both for suppliers and operators. The Internet of Things may influence various components of telecommunications operators’ business model, which can be studied from various perspectives. However, this work deals specifically with IoT product and service development in the environment of Brazil’s telecommunications operators. Thus, the main goal of this exploratory study is to identify how the demand for IoT applications can influence telecommunications operators’ product and services development in Brazil. We analyzed this influence based on the multiple case study we conducted with three communications operators, examining each of them for aspects related to IoT solution demand, IoT product and service development and offer IoT solutions. Results show that the operators perceive IoT-related solution demand to have increased strongly, mainly in the corporate segment, precisely where the operators have been focusing most on. However, the IoT product and service development model calls for a clear adaptation, i.e., it requires a greater participation of technology partners, support for startup accelerators and technology labs, thus making way for the use of agile methodologies in this development process, in order to consolidate and expand the IoT offer portfolio, which, despite these operators’ recent efforts, has so far proved small.
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Jaworska, Persson Alexander. "Internet of Things and connected home living : - A case study on how manufacturing firms in the kitchen and furniture industry is implementing and developing IoT products and services." Thesis, KTH, Industriell ekonomi och organisation (Inst.), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-209844.
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This thesis provides insight to the dynamics that come with the emergence of IoT in the furniture and kitchen manufacturing industry. The study is empirically grounded in an explorative case study that involves interviews with six manufacturing companies in the different industry sectors. The purpose has been to shed light on how incumbent companies adapt and implement IoT and the study highlight product features, aspects and challenges that companies are investigating and dealing with as they set out to work with IoT and connected products. The results indicate that companies are viewing IoT as an enabler that better can respond to customer needs and provide users with new experiences. By implementing the concept of IoT companies are currently evaluating how internal knowledge and skillsets correspond to the new technical requirements that the emerging digital setting outlines and by directing internal research they are learning more about IoT and connected products as they proceed. One current major problem is that there are no open protocols that can connect all products regardless of supplier. Nevertheless, implementation of IoT does not solely involve technical aspects and companies are also faced with the dilemma on how to design and develop corresponding commercial processes. To this point early product implementations have arrived on the consumer markets and the future vision is to achieve full integration that imbeds connectivity and interaction among all products in the home.