IoT for Efficient Data Collection from Real World Resources

The Internet of Things is providing new ways of experiencing and reacting to the physical world through the ability of advanced electronic devices that collect data. At the same time, as new application scenarios are envisioned, with the assistance of information generated by sensors, new problems and obstacles will arise. This requires new development to meet business and technical requirements, such as interoperability between heterogeneous devices and confidence (such as validity, security and trust) over smart devices. With the increase of these complex requirements it becomes crucial to develop an infrastructure aimed at tackling such requirements mentioned. IoT middleware – a software layer that bridges the gap between devices and information systems. Thus, this work aims to study the mechanisms and methodology for data collection, devices interoperability and data filtering, closer to the data sources, in order to optimize the collection and pre-analysis of data that can then be used by various applications such as the ones in manufacturing industry

Integração de dados de sensores e gestão de ambientes inteligentes

Mestrado em Engenharia de Computadores e TelemáticaNum mundo de constante desenvolvimento tecnológico e acelerado crescimento populacional, observa-se um aumento da utilização de recursos energéticos. Sendo os edifícios responsáveis por uma grande parte deste consumo energético, desencadeiam-se vários esforços de investigações de forma a criarem-se edifícios energeticamente eficientes e espaços inteligentes. Esta dissertação visa, numa primeira fase, apresentar uma revisão das atuais soluções que combinam sistemas de automação de edifícios e a Internet das Coisas. Posteriormente, é apresentada uma solução de automação para edifícios, com base em princípios da Internet das Coisas e explorando as vantagens de sistemas de processamento complexo de eventos, de forma a fornecer uma maior integração dos múltiplos sistemas existentes num edifício. Esta solução é depois validada através de uma implementação, baseada em protocolos leves desenhados para a Internet das Coisas, plataformas de alto desempenho, e métodos complexos para análise de grandes fluxos de dados. Esta implementação é ainda aplicada num cenário real, e será usada como a solução padrão para gestão e automação num edifício existente.In a world of constant technological development and accelerated population growth, an increased use of energy resources is being observed. With buildings responsible for a large share of this energy consumption, a lot of research activities are pursued with the goal to create energy efficient buildings and smart spaces. This dissertation aims to, in a first stage, present a review of the current solutions combining Building Automation Systems (BAS) and Internet of Things (IoT). Then, a solution for building automation is presented based on IoT principles and exploiting the advantages of Complex Event Processing (CEP) systems, to provide higher integration of the multiple building subsystems. This solution was validated through an implementation, based on standard lightweight protocols designed for IoT, high performance and real time platforms, and complex methods for analysis of large streams of data. The implementation is also applied to a real world scenario, and will be used as a standard solution for management and automation of an existing buildin

A Framework for Secure Management of Web Services (SMaWS) in Enterprise Application Integration

This dissertation addresses challenges currently faced by enterprises that have embraced the new technology called Web Service in order to reduce the cost of enterprise application integration (EAI) as well as improve operational efficiency of their mission-critical business processes. The nature of Web Service introduces new challenges such as dependency among applications, and a failure in one application can lead to a failure in other dependent applications. Such challenges have led to a growing need for enterprises to confront Web Service monitoring and management issues as a priority. As a solution, this dissertation proposes a SMaWS (Secure Management of Web Services) infrastructure for secure monitoring and management of Web Services. Its goals are to provide deeper visibility into Web Service runtime activities as compared to currently Web Service management tools; access to information about the Quality of Service (QoS) of these Web Services; and a unified monitoring environment for Web Services deployed across enterprise business units. This enables an earlier detection of poor performance problem in each interdependent Web Service, which would lead to a faster diagnose and fixing of possible performance issue, and thus maximize availability. This dissertation describes the requirements analysis for monitoring and management of Web Services across an enterprise environment. It describes the architecture and design of the SMaWS infrastructure proposed for secure monitoring and management of Web Service. The proposed SMaWS framework enables the instrumentation of existing and newly developed Web Service applications, and extracts Web Service performance statistics. It determines Web Service identity, reliability, availability, security, usage, and license used by Web Service consumers to access a given service. This dissertation describes the SMaWS Repository and Security concepts that are proposed to address the challenges faced by most distributed architectures to enable the client applications determine the location of the server (“bootstrapping problem”), and at the same time ensuring both the integrity and confidentiality of parties involved. Finally, this dissertation presents a prototype implementation of SMaWS Manager Application and Sample SMaWS Web Service applications. The experimental results obtained, in terms of overhead induced by the SMaWS framework on the monitored Web Service applications, demonstrate the feasibility of the SMaWS infrastructure

Home Area Networking With Universal Plug And Play Technology

Tez (Yüksek Lisans) -- İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi, Fen Bilimleri Enstitüsü, 2007Thesis (M.Sc.) -- İstanbul Technical University, Institute of Science and Technology, 2007Bu çalışma, ev içerisindeki kablolu ya da kablosuz akıllı cihazların, farklı özellikteki bilgisayarların birbirlerine otomatik olarak bağlanması ve birlikte çalışması, ev yerel ağının işletim sisteminden, programlama dilinden, iletişim mekanizmalarından ve fiziksel ortamdan bağımsız olabilmesi için uçtan uca dağınık ağ mimari yapısına ve TCP/IP, HTTP, XML gibi farklı internet standartları ve protokollerine imkan tanıyan evrensel tak ve çalıştır teknolojisini inceler. Bu teknoloji, sıfır konfigürasyonlu ağ oluşturma ve otomatik cihaz keşfini sağlayarak ağ oluşturmayı kullanıcıların yapabilecekleri basit yapıya dönüştürür. Ayrıca, bu çalışma isteğe bağlı transfer protokollerini ve içerik formatlarını destekleyen, ses ve görüntü içeriğinin kontrol noktası tarafından herhangi bir müdaheleye gerek olmadan cihazlar arası akmasını, kontrol noktalarının herhangi bir cihaz tipinden, içerik formatından, transfer protokolünden bağımsız olmasını sağlayan, ortam çeviricisinin yakınındaki ortam sunucusunun servislerini keşfedip gerekli ayarlamaları otomatik olarak yaparak kullanıcının ev eğlence kullanımı senaryosuna uygun olarak favori parçasını seçmesine olanak sağlayıp kullanıcıdan herhangi bir yardım gerektirmeyen geniş kapsamlı evrensel tak ve çalıştır ses ve görüntü mimarisini tanımlar. Uygulama safhası, kullanıcı müdahelesi olmadan ortam içeriğini depolayan ve akışı başlatan ortam sunucusu ile içeriği ortam formatından tamamen bağımsız olarak çalınmaya uygun hale getiren ortam çeviricisi arasında, sıradan bir televizyona evrensel tak ve çalıştır kabiliyeti kazandırabilmek için donanımsal arabirimi ortam çeviricisi olarak oluşturarak ve dizüstü bilgisayarı kontrol noktası ve ortam sunumcusu olarak programlayarak, ses ve görüntü akışını sağlar.This study provides an overview of Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) technology, which allows an architecture for pervasive peer-to-peer network connectivity of intelligent devices, PCs of all form factors, and wireless devices within the home, and builds on Internet standards and technologies, such as TCP/IP, HTTP, and XML, to enable these devices to automatically connect with one another and work together to build home networking independent of any particular operating system, programming language, transport mechanisms, or physical medium. UPnP technology is all about making home networking simple and affordable for users, supporting zero-configuration networking and automatic discovery. The study also defines overall UPnP Audio/Video (A/V) Architecture which supports arbitrary transfer protocols and content formats, enables the A/V content to flow directly between devices without any intervention from Control Point (CP), makes CPs to remain independent of any particular device type, content format and transfer protocol and requires no assistance at all from the user since Media Renderer, can discover available services from Media Server in its neighborhood, perform the necessary setup automatically, and finally enable the user to select and play their favorite song in home entertainment usage scenario. Implementation phase provides A/V transport and streaming without any user intervention between server and renderer by building and programming an hardware interface as Media Renderer, in order to make an ordinary A/V device UPnP enabled and programming a laptop as CP and Media Server.Yüksek LisansM.Sc

Algorithmic Regulation using AI and Blockchain Technology

This thesis investigates the application of AI and blockchain technology to the domain of Algorithmic Regulation. Algorithmic Regulation refers to the use of intelligent systems for the enabling and enforcement of regulation (often referred to as RegTech in financial services). The research work focuses on three problems: a) Machine interpretability of regulation; b) Regulatory reporting of data; and c) Federated analytics with data compliance. Uniquely, this research was designed, implemented, tested and deployed in collaboration with the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Santander, RegulAItion and part funded by the InnovateUK RegNet project. I am a co-founder of RegulAItion. / Using AI to Automate the Regulatory Handbook: In this investigation we propose the use of reasoning systems for encoding financial regulation as machine readable and executable rules. We argue that our rules-based “white-box” approach is needed, as opposed to a “black-box” machine learning approach, as regulators need explainability and outline the theoretical foundation needed to encode regulation from the FCA Handbook into machine readable semantics. We then present the design and implementation of a production-grade regulatory reasoning system built on top of the Java Expert System Shell (JESS) and use it to encode a subset of regulation (consumer credit regulation) from the FCA Handbook. We then perform an empirical evaluation, with the regulator, of the system based on its performance and accuracy in handling 600 “real- world” queries and compare it with its human equivalent. The findings suggest that the proposed approach of using reasoning systems not only provides quicker responses, but also more accurate results to answers from queries that are explainable. / SmartReg: Using Blockchain for Regulatory Reporting: In this investigation we explore the use of distributed ledgers for real-time reporting of data for compliance between firms and regulators. Regulators and firms recognise the growing burden and complexity of regulatory reporting resulting from the lack of data standardisation, increasing complexity of regulation and the lack of machine executable rules. The investigation presents a) the design and implementation of a permissioned Quorum-Ethereum based regulatory reporting network that makes use of an off-chain reporting service to execute machine readable rules on banks’ data through smart contracts b) a means for cross border regulators to share reporting data with each other that can be used to given them a true global view of systemic risk c) a means to carry out regulatory reporting using a novel pull-based approach where the regulator is able to directly “pull” relevant data out of the banks’ environments in an ad-hoc basis- enabling regulators to become more active when addressing risk. We validate the approach and implementation of our system through a pilot use case with a bank and regulator. The outputs of this investigation have informed the Digital Regulatory Reporting initiative- an FCA and UK Government led project to improve regulatory reporting in the financial services. / RegNet: Using Federated Learning and Blockchain for Privacy Preserving Data Access In this investigation we explore the use of Federated Machine Learning and Trusted data access for analytics. With the development of stricter Data Regulation (e.g. GDPR) it is increasingly difficult to share data for collective analytics in a compliant manner. We argue that for data compliance, data does not need to be shared but rather, trusted data access is needed. The investigation presents a) the design and implementation of RegNet- an infrastructure for trusted data access in a secure and privacy preserving manner for a singular algorithmic purpose, where the algorithms (such as Federated Learning) are orchestrated to run within the infrastructure of data owners b) A taxonomy for Federated Learning c) The tokenization and orchestration of Federated Learning through smart contracts for auditable governance. We validate our approach and the infrastructure (RegNet) through a real world use case, involving a number of banks, that makes use of Federated Learning with Epsilon-Differential Privacy for improving the performance of an Anti-Money-Laundering classification model

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Principles and Practices of Programming in Java

This book contains the proceedings of the 4th international conference on principles and practices of programming in Java. The conference focuses on the different aspects of the Java programming language and its applications