Smart cards is a security technology that is becoming more and more popular. As a result, they are targets of criminals who wish to break their encryption in order to abuse what they protect. One form of attacks that can be used is the differential fault attack (DFA). This report will cover what are DFA’s, how they can be carried out against a smart card and solutions that can defend such an at...

Clustering is an important concept for structuring large networks of cameras. In this research we investigate the various trade offs of clustering in networks of smart cameras. Major research questions in this context are (i) how to model clustering, (ii) how to deal with the heterogeneity in large camera networks, and (iii) how to integrate clustering in real-world networks. We have developed ...

In this paper we describe the process of designing this tool and the different steps preceding its programming. We start up with a feasibility study which is a crucial step in a project of this extent. The feasibility study includes an assessment of the current operations’ mode and existing processes and a precise description of the human, material and organizational factors surrounding the pil...

Changes in the UK electricity market, particularly with the roll out of smart meters, will provide greatly increased opportunities for initiatives intended to change households’ electricity usage patterns for the benefit of the overall system. Users show differences in their regular behaviours and clustering households into similar groupings based on this variability provides for efficient targ...

Pedestrian mobility is an important component in urban mobility concepts. Walking is a highly flexible means to reach nearby places, to access public transport, or to bridge the “last mile” between the parking space and one’s office or home. Smart pedestrian mobility devices (PMD) can support pedestrians’ activities, either by offering ride-on functions or assistance in everyday activities (e.g...

1 SUMMARY Possibilities of new applications of smart devices arise with the development of new generation wind turbines. Rotor up-scaling implies a need to control dynamic characteristics of loads transferred from blades to the hub and tower. The motivation for this work was to demonstrate an approach to control dynamic reaction force resulting from a wind blow. A controllable gas spring was ch...

Social networks drive todays opinion and content diffusion. Humans interact in social media on the basis of their emotional states and it is important to capture people emotional scales for a particular theme. Such interactions are facilitated and become evident in smart environments characterized by mobile devices and new smart city contexts. This work proposes a sentiment analysis approach wh...

In recent works on the Internet of Vehicles (IoV), “intelligent” and “sustainable” have been the buzzwords in the context of transportation. Maintaining sustainability in IoV is always a challenge. Sustainability in IoV can be achieved not only by the use of pollution-free vehicular systems, but also by maintenance of road traffic safety or prevention of accidents or collisions. With the aim of...

Zone-level occupancy counting is a critical technology for smart buildings and can be used for several applications such as building energy management, surveillance, and public safety. Existing occupancy counting techniques typically require installation of large number of occupancy monitoring sensors inside a building as well as an established network. In this study, in order to achieve occupa...

Data collected by Automated Fare Collection (AFC) systems are a valuable resource for studying the travel habits of large city inhabitants. In this paper, we present an approach to mining the temporal behavior of the passengers in a public transportation system in order to extract relevant and easily interpretable clusters. Such classification can be useful for several applications. It may help...