Generic Patterns for Intrusion Detection Systems in Service-Oriented Automotive and Medical Architectures

To implement new software functions and more flexible updates in the future as well as to provide cloud-based functionality, the service-oriented architecture (SOA) paradigm is increasingly being integrated into automotive electrical and electronic architecture (E/E architectures). In addition to the automotive industry, the medical industry is also researching SOA-based solutions to increase the interoperability of devices (vendor-independent). The resulting service-oriented communication is no longer fully specified during design time, which affects information security measures. In this paper, we compare different SOA protocols for the automotive and medical fields. Furthermore, we explain the underlying communication patterns and derive features for the development of an SOA-based Intrusion Detection System (IDS)

ANGELAH: A Framework for Assisting Elders At Home

The ever growing percentage of elderly people within modern societies poses welfare systems under relevant stress. In fact, partial and progressive loss of motor, sensorial, and/or cognitive skills renders elders unable to live autonomously, eventually leading to their hospitalization. This results in both relevant emotional and economic costs. Ubiquitous computing technologies can offer interesting opportunities for in-house safety and autonomy. However, existing systems partially address in-house safety requirements and typically focus on only elder monitoring and emergency detection. The paper presents ANGELAH, a middleware-level solution integrating both ”elder monitoring and emergency detection” solutions and networking solutions. ANGELAH has two main features: i) it enables efficient integration between a variety of sensors and actuators deployed at home for emergency detection and ii) provides a solid framework for creating and managing rescue teams composed of individuals willing to promptly assist elders in case of emergency situations. A prototype of ANGELAH, designed for a case study for helping elders with vision impairments, is developed and interesting results are obtained from both computer simulations and a real-network testbed

Use of location data for the surveillance, analysis, and optimization of clinical processes

Thesis (S.M.)--Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, 2006.Includes bibliographical references (leaves 33-35).Location tracking systems in healthcare produce a wealth of data applicable across many aspects of care and management. However, since dedicated location tracking systems, such as the oft mentioned RFID tracking system, are still sparsely deployed, a number of other data sources may be utilized to serve as a proxy for physical location, such as barcodes and manual timestamp entry, and may be better suited to indicate progress through clinical workflows. INCOMING!, a web-based platform that monitors and tracks patient progress from the operating room to the post-anesthesia care unit (PACU), is one such system that utilizes manual timestamps routinely entered as standard process of care in the operating room in order to track a patient's progress through the post-operative period. This integrated real time system facilitates patient flow between the PACU and the surgical ward and eases PACU workload by reducing the effort of discharging patients.(cont.) We have also developed a larger-scale integrated system for perioperative processes that integrates perioperative data from anesthesia and surgical devices and operating room (OR) / hospital information systems, and projects the real-time integrated data as a single, unified, easy to visualize display. The need to optimize perioperative throughput creates a demand for integration of the datastreams and for timely data presentation. The system provides improved context-sensitive information display, improved real-time monitoring of physiological data, real-time access to readiness information, and improved workflow management. These systems provide improved data access and utilization, providing context-aware applications in healthcare that are aware of a user's location, environment, needs, and goals.by Mark A. Meyer.S.M

Context classification for service robots

This dissertation presents a solution for environment sensing using sensor fusion techniques and a context/environment classification of the surroundings in a service robot, so it could change his behavior according to the different rea-soning outputs. As an example, if a robot knows he is outdoors, in a field environment, there can be a sandy ground, in which it should slow down. Contrariwise in indoor environments, that situation is statistically unlikely to happen (sandy ground). This simple assumption denotes the importance of context-aware in automated guided vehicles

HUC-HISF: A Hybrid Intelligent Security Framework for Human-centric Ubiquitous Computing

制度:新 ; 報告番号:乙2336号 ; 学位の種類:博士(人間科学) ; 授与年月日:2012/1/18 ; 早大学位記番号:新584

EmergenSIG: an integrated location-based system for emergency management

Several solutions have been proposed for emergencies scenarios. These solutions include real-time data communication, location-aware, coordination, and decision-making support systems. In this context, this dissertation presents a location-awareness system fully oriented to emergency scenarios, called EmergenSIG. This approach provides and gathers important field information from an occurrence (emergency situation) and shares it to all the different agents. They include police, firefighters, medical emergency teams, among others, mobilized to the same operations theater (OT). Therefore, allowing a faster and integrated response to all the involved agents, enhancing the emergency management of the occurrence. The core of this proposal is based on a low cost solution oriented to the agents on the field (EmergenSIG mobile application), which interacts with the EmergenSIG Web application, oriented to the civil protection entities, through REST Web services. EmergenSIG focuses on medical emergencies and wildfires. It was evaluated and demonstrated in different mobile devices considering different screen sizes following a usercentered design. The system was also been evaluated and validated by real entities and civil protection agents on simulated emergency scenarios.Várias soluções têm sido propostas para cenários de emergências médicas . Estas soluções incluem comunicações de dados em tempo real ,sensíveis á localização , coordenação e sistemas de apoio à tomada de decisão. Neste contexto, esta dissertação apresenta um sistema sensível à localização totalmente orientada para cenários de emergência, chamada EmergenSIG. Esta abordagem proporciona e reúne importantes informações de uma ocorrência (situação de emergência) compartilhando-a para todos os diferentes agentes. Nos quais se incluem a polícia, bombeiros, equipas de emergência médica, entre outros, que se mobilizaram para o mesmo teatro de operações (TO). Portanto, permite uma resposta mais rápida e integrada para todos os agentes envolvidos, aumentando a eficácia da gestão da emergência de uma ocorrência. O cerne desta proposta é baseada numa solução de baixo custo direcionada para os agentes no terreno (aplicação móvel EmergenSIG), que interage com o aplicativo Web EmergenSIG, orientada para as entidades da proteção civil, através de serviços Web REST. O EmergenSIG centra-se em emergências médicas e incêndios florestais. Foi avaliada e demonstrada em diferentes dispositivos móveis, considerando diferentes tamanhos de ecrã e seguindo um design centrado no utilizador. O sistema também foi avaliado e validado por entidades reais e agentes da proteção civil em cenários de emergência simulados