Internet of Things (IoT) seems a viable way to enable the Smart Cities of the future. iNUIT (Internet of Things for Urban Innovation) is a multi-year research program that aims to create an ecosystem that exploits the variety of data coming from multiple sensors and connected objects installed on the scale of a city, in order to meet specific needs in terms of development of new services (physi...

In academia as well in the industry there is currently an increasing interest in the concept of smart tourism destination. Specifically, it has been widely underlined the relevant role that ICTs, Internet of Things and Cloud Computing exert in providing instruments and platforms that can facilitate the dissemination of information and knowledge among stakeholders, thus enhancing innovation and ...

Smart devices are becoming more sophisticated with increased capabilities while they remain a relatively low-cost technology. Also, many of these smart devices rely on the prevalence of highspeed wireless networks, including 4G cellular networks. With the Internet of Things, every object can retrieve information from the environment and then manage and share that information with other devices ...

One of the most significant achievements in digital photogrammetry in the last decade is the development of large format digital mapping cameras. In addition to large format digital mapping cameras, a number of medium format digital mapping cameras systems have also been developed. At Pictometry, a medium format digital imaging system has been developed and been widely used for acquisition of b...

Application of smart materials technology in nuclear industry offer new opportunities in this industrial sector for safety enhancement, reduced personal exposure, life-cycle cost reduction, and performance improvement. However, the radiation environments associated with nuclear operations represent a unique challenge to the testing, qualification and use of smart materials. The present study as...

This paper deals with a protection of the national and European infrastructure. It is issue nowadays. The paper deals with the perspectives and possibilities of "smart solutions" to critical infrastructure protection. The research project deals with computers aided technologies are used from the perspective of new, better protection of selected infrastructure objects. Protection is focused on c...

The classical view of cyber-physical systems is that the integration of computing, communication and control elements are considering only the physical and computational elements, neglecting the human one. This paper presents a view on an anthropocentric cyber-physical reference architecture for smart factories (ACPA4SF), where the key characteristic of its reference model relies on is its unif...

Emerging Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) such as connected vehicles and smart cities span large geographical areas. These systems are increasingly distributed and interconnected. Hence, a hierarchy of cloudlet and cloud deployments will be key to enable scaling, while simultaneously hosting the intelligence behind these systems. Given that CPS applications are often safety-critical, existing techn...

The CPSoS project is developing a roadmap for future research activities in Cyber-Physical Systems of Systems. To support this process, the project has set up three Working Groups to capture the views of industry and academia: The working groups currently comprise of 35 members, leading specialists from industry and academia, and include delegates from ongoing EU-funded projects in the area of ...