An open virtual neighbourhood network to connect IoT infrastructures and smart objects — Vicinity: IoT enables interoperability as a service

Guan, Yajuan; Vasquez, Juan C.; Guerrero, Josep M.; Samovich, Natalie; Vanya, Stefan; Oravec, Viktor; García‐Castro, Raúl; Serena, Fernando; Poveda‐Villalón, María; Radojicic, Carna; Heinz, Christopher; Grimm, Christoph; Tryferidis, Athanasios; Tzovaras, Dimitrios; Dickerson, Keith; Paralič, Marek; Skokan, M.; Sabol, Tomáš

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“…It should also be possible to configure these devices, change operational settings, upgrade their software remotely, querying the status and support reporting of any error conditions. According to Saverio Romeo, Principal Analyst at Beecham Research, there are more than 300 IoT platforms today [34]. We decided not to use one of these platforms, but to improve an existing one [8], as it already had facilities to implement model predictions and predictive control.…”

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Wireless Sensors and IoT Platform for Intelligent HVAC Control

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Abstract:Energy consumption of buildings (residential and non-residential) represents approximately 40% of total world electricity consumption, with half of this energy consumed by HVAC systems. Model-Based Predictive Control (MBPC) is perhaps the technique most often proposed for HVAC control, since it offers an enormous potential for energy savings. Despite the large number of papers on this topic during the last few years, there are only a few reported applications of the use of MBPC for existing buildings, under normal occupancy conditions and, to the best of our knowledge, no commercial solution yet. A marketable solution has been recently presented by the authors, coined the IMBPC HVAC system. This paper describes the design, prototyping and validation of two components of this integrated system, the Self-Powered Wireless Sensors and the IOT platform developed. Results for the use of IMBPC in a real building under normal occupation demonstrate savings in the electricity bill while maintaining thermal comfort during the whole occupation schedule.

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“…Students learn to program and design IoT applications and to remotely control and monitor IoT sensors and devices. The main focus of these laboratories is on the smart home, smart city and other similar IoT topics where special attention is given to improving energy efficiency and improving quality of life aspects [26,29]. In the scope of the VICINITY project, a platform linking various ecosystems providing "interoperability as a service" for infrastructures in the IoT was built and demonstrated.…”

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“…In the scope of the VICINITY project, a platform linking various ecosystems providing "interoperability as a service" for infrastructures in the IoT was built and demonstrated. The following use cases are analyzed: Intelligent Building System, Smart Parking, Smart Energy System and eHealth and Assistive Living Home [29]. The communication part of these laboratories mainly comprises common communication technologies and standards like Ethernet, ZigBee, Bluetooth.…”

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“…The communication part of these laboratories mainly comprises common communication technologies and standards like Ethernet, ZigBee, Bluetooth. Besides education purposes, IoT laboratories are also typically used for efficient IoT application development and testing [29]. Usually, IoT laboratories are concerned with pure IoT aspects like IoT applications and IoT devices, and not with the communication infrastructure and communication link parameters that can have a serious impact on the overall IoT ecosystem.…”

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“…A model to correct measure deviations is also presented. Again, the most common usage of these laboratories is for smart home and smart city solutions [29].The laboratory environment proposed in this paper focuses mainly on the IoT communication infrastructure and its impact on a maritime surveillance network, unlike the other laboratories. The laboratory was extensively used during the design process of multi-sensor data integration algorithms [31,32] in order to provide the designers of the aforementioned algorithms insight into real communication infrastructure behavior.…”

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The steady increase of the world population and economy leads to an increase in both types and amounts of goods transported over seas, which further inevitably leads to an increase of criminal activities in the maritime arena. In order to stifle criminal activities nations are forced to develop sophisticated sensor networks. The backbone of any sensor network is a communication network which connects all sensors with the command centers, most often located hundreds of kilometers away from the sensors. In developing countries, communication networks are very often poorly developed, leaving only satellite links as somewhat reliable means of communication. Henceforth, in this paper, a laboratory for the Internet of Things (IoT) communication infrastructure environment designed to facilitate maritime sensor network design process in areas where communication network is dependent on data transfer over satellite links is presented. In order to successfully describe and develop a laboratory for IoT communication infrastructure environment, necessary data are collected during the design and deployment of a maritime surveillance network in the Gulf of Guinea. The main advantage of the proposed laboratory environment is the inclusion of satellite link simulation in the IoT laboratory environment. This feature provides an opportunity to cover a much broader scope of IoT solutions compared to other IoT laboratories.2 of 20 fishing [5]. More importantly, overly excessive fishing can lead to the complete depletion of biological resources and thus endanger the marine ecosystem to the point of no return [6]. On the other hand, according to [7], maritime piracy is becoming quite common in some regions of the world. Attacks are mostly performed in order to hijack a vessel and request a ransom for crew and vessel itself or to steal valuable cargo such as crude oil. Regardless of the final goal of the pirate attack, it is clear pirate attacks must be stopped. The very same is true for illegal fishing, which is probably even more important, since permanently damaging oceans ecosystems will definitely endanger a human survival on this planet.In order to provide a safer maritime environment, firstly a sensor network for continuous monitoring of maritime activities in territorial sea and EEZ must be established. On the other hand, since EEZs are huge bodies of water that can cover hundreds of thousands of square kilometers, complete monitoring is much easier said than done. To the best of our knowledge, there are only two ways to achieve complete EEZ monitoring. The first approach utilizes optical and microwave sensors on platforms such as satellites and airplanes, thus avoiding the limitations of the sensors, but this introduces limitations in the platform. The most limiting factor is the interrupted data availability, since no airplane is able to stay in the air constantly during the whole year and during all weather conditions. Meanwhile, satellites, which are orbiting around the Earth, are over the zone of interest for a limited tim...

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An open virtual neighbourhood network to connect IoT infrastructures and smart objects — Vicinity: IoT enables interoperability as a service

Cited by 20 publications

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Wireless Sensors and IoT Platform for Intelligent HVAC Control

Wireless Sensors and IoT Platform for Intelligent HVAC Control

Designing Laboratory for IoT Communication Infrastructure Environment for Remote Maritime Surveillance in Equatorial Areas Based on the Gulf of Guinea Field Experiences

Demand‐Side Flexibility in Smart Grids

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