With the introduction of smart grid technology, the electricity market paradigm is transformed into consumers-oriented from suppliers-oriented. Thus, a study on diffusion of smart grid in perspective of users is necessary. This research examines factors affecting the adoption and diffusion of smart grid technology from user’s perspective and provides strategic guidelines of diffusing smart grid...

Smart well technology is attracting increasing attention because it promises to add operation flexibility and potentially increases oil recovery. However, it remains difficult to find the best strategy for production optimization. One challenge is to find a good optimization algorithm, as some optimization algorithms require prohibitive work to compute the gradients of the objective function wi...

The next generation wearable devices are Smart health monitoring device and Smart sousveillance hat which are capable of using wearable sensors for measuring physiological information, sousveillanace, navigation, as well as smart device to smart device communications over cellular coverage. Smart health monitoring device collect and observe different health related information deploying biosens...

With the world’s science and technology becoming more and more mature and perfect, as well as the environment of supporting policy optimized and application prospects become more extensive, new terms, such as, smart earth, smart city, smart scenic spots, smart hotels, smart services, and smart marketing process have swept the world. The era of smart travel has arrived. However, it must be reali...

Over the past years, the amount as well as the provided functionality of (smart) devices raised, with increasing tendency. In terms of ubiquitous computing and smart home solutions, systems get more embedded into ambient spaces. Recent studies showed, that users are often overwhelmed even in interacting with everday objects, which can be applied to smart objects and gesture control as well. In ...

The smart grid architecture amalgamates the physical power grid and a communication grid into a single monolithic network. It poses several security threats that are well known (Li et al. in IEEE Trans Smart Grid 3:1540–1551, 2012 [1], McDaniel and McLaughlin in IEEE Secur Priv 7:75, 77, 2009 [2], Bisoi and Dash 2011 [3]). However, it faces unknown threats from the cyber-physical interfaces whe...

The growing market for smart home IoT devices promises new conveniences for consumers while presenting new challenges for preserving privacy within the home. Many smart home devices have always-on sensors that capture users’ offline activities in their living spaces and transmit information about these activities on the Internet. In this paper, we demonstrate that an ISP or other network observ...

As electronic devices become more and more pervasively integrated in our daily routine, security concerns start to become evident. In the last years, there has been an increasing interest on the topic of security in smart environments. One of the most challenging environments regarding security are smart offices due to the high number of potential users, devices and spaces, and the diversity of...

The number of smart appliances and devices in the home and office has grown dramatically in recent years. Unfortunately, these devices rarely interact with each other or the environment. In order to move from environments filled with smart devices to smart environments, there must be a framework for devices to communicate with each other and with the environment. This enables reasoners and auto...

In the 21st century, 'Smart City' and 'Smart Community' have been attracting attention in many cities around the world, in order to utilize limited resources effectively and utilize limited resources as well as establish sustainable cities. However, this smart city debate has not been activated as much as I thought. In this study, we discuss the concept of a smart city and examine cyber securit...