Internet of robotic things : converging sensing/actuating, hypoconnectivity, artificial intelligence and IoT Platforms

The Internet of Things (IoT) concept is evolving rapidly and influencing newdevelopments in various application domains, such as the Internet of MobileThings (IoMT), Autonomous Internet of Things (A-IoT), Autonomous Systemof Things (ASoT), Internet of Autonomous Things (IoAT), Internetof Things Clouds (IoT-C) and the Internet of Robotic Things (IoRT) etc.that are progressing/advancing by using IoT technology. The IoT influencerepresents new development and deployment challenges in different areassuch as seamless platform integration, context based cognitive network integration,new mobile sensor/actuator network paradigms, things identification(addressing, naming in IoT) and dynamic things discoverability and manyothers. The IoRT represents new convergence challenges and their need to be addressed, in one side the programmability and the communication ofmultiple heterogeneous mobile/autonomous/robotic things for cooperating,their coordination, configuration, exchange of information, security, safetyand protection. Developments in IoT heterogeneous parallel processing/communication and dynamic systems based on parallelism and concurrencyrequire new ideas for integrating the intelligent “devices”, collaborativerobots (COBOTS), into IoT applications. Dynamic maintainability, selfhealing,self-repair of resources, changing resource state, (re-) configurationand context based IoT systems for service implementation and integrationwith IoT network service composition are of paramount importance whennew “cognitive devices” are becoming active participants in IoT applications.This chapter aims to be an overview of the IoRT concept, technologies,architectures and applications and to provide a comprehensive coverage offuture challenges, developments and applications

High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications

This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1406 “High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications (cHiPSet)“ project. Long considered important pillars of the scientific method, Modelling and Simulation have evolved from traditional discrete numerical methods to complex data-intensive continuous analytical optimisations. Resolution, scale, and accuracy have become essential to predict and analyse natural and complex systems in science and engineering. When their level of abstraction raises to have a better discernment of the domain at hand, their representation gets increasingly demanding for computational and data resources. On the other hand, High Performance Computing typically entails the effective use of parallel and distributed processing units coupled with efficient storage, communication and visualisation systems to underpin complex data-intensive applications in distinct scientific and technical domains. It is then arguably required to have a seamless interaction of High Performance Computing with Modelling and Simulation in order to store, compute, analyse, and visualise large data sets in science and engineering. Funded by the European Commission, cHiPSet has provided a dynamic trans-European forum for their members and distinguished guests to openly discuss novel perspectives and topics of interests for these two communities. This cHiPSet compendium presents a set of selected case studies related to healthcare, biological data, computational advertising, multimedia, finance, bioinformatics, and telecommunications

Mobile Big Data Analytics in Healthcare

Mobile and ubiquitous devices are everywhere around us generating considerable amount of data. The concept of mobile computing and analytics is expanding due to the fact that we are using mobile devices day in and out without even realizing it. These mobile devices use Wi-Fi, Bluetooth or mobile data to be intermittently connected to the world, generating, sending and receiving data on the move. Latest mobile applications incorporating graphics, video and audio are main causes of loading the mobile devices by consuming battery, memory and processing power. Mobile Big data analytics includes for instance, big health data, big location data, big social media data, and big heterogeneous data. Healthcare is undoubtedly one of the most data-intensive industries nowadays and the challenge is not only in acquiring, storing, processing and accessing data, but also in engendering useful insights out of it. These insights generated from health data may reduce health monitoring cost, enrich disease diagnosis, therapy, and care and even lead to human lives saving. The challenge in mobile data and Big data analytics is how to meet the growing performance demands of these activities while minimizing mobile resource consumption. This thesis proposes a scalable architecture for mobile big data analytics implementing three new algorithms (i.e. Mobile resources optimization, Mobile analytics customization and Mobile offloading), for the effective usage of resources in performing mobile data analytics. Mobile resources optimization algorithm monitors the resources and switches off unused network connections and application services whenever resources are limited. However, analytics customization algorithm attempts to save energy by customizing the analytics process while implementing some data-aware techniques. Finally, mobile offloading algorithm decides on the fly whether to process data locally or delegate it to a Cloud back-end server. The ultimate goal of this research is to provide healthcare decision makers with the advancements in mobile Big data analytics and support them in handling large and heterogeneous health datasets effectively on the move

High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications

This open access book was prepared as a Final Publication of the COST Action IC1406 “High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications (cHiPSet)“ project. Long considered important pillars of the scientific method, Modelling and Simulation have evolved from traditional discrete numerical methods to complex data-intensive continuous analytical optimisations. Resolution, scale, and accuracy have become essential to predict and analyse natural and complex systems in science and engineering. When their level of abstraction raises to have a better discernment of the domain at hand, their representation gets increasingly demanding for computational and data resources. On the other hand, High Performance Computing typically entails the effective use of parallel and distributed processing units coupled with efficient storage, communication and visualisation systems to underpin complex data-intensive applications in distinct scientific and technical domains. It is then arguably required to have a seamless interaction of High Performance Computing with Modelling and Simulation in order to store, compute, analyse, and visualise large data sets in science and engineering. Funded by the European Commission, cHiPSet has provided a dynamic trans-European forum for their members and distinguished guests to openly discuss novel perspectives and topics of interests for these two communities. This cHiPSet compendium presents a set of selected case studies related to healthcare, biological data, computational advertising, multimedia, finance, bioinformatics, and telecommunications

Monitoring the waste to energy plant using the latest AI methods and tools

Solid wastes for instance, municipal and industrial wastes present great environmental concerns and challenges all over the world. This has led to development of innovative waste-to-energy process technologies capable of handling different waste materials in a more sustainable and energy efficient manner. However, like in many other complex industrial process operations, waste-to-energy plants would require sophisticated process monitoring systems in order to realize very high overall plant efficiencies. Conventional data-driven statistical methods which include principal component analysis, partial least squares, multivariable linear regression and so forth, are normally applied in process monitoring. But recently, latest artificial intelligence (AI) methods in particular deep learning algorithms have demostrated remarkable performances in several important areas such as machine vision, natural language processing and pattern recognition. The new AI algorithms have gained increasing attention from the process industrial applications for instance in areas such as predictive product quality control and machine health monitoring. Moreover, the availability of big-data processing tools and cloud computing technologies further support the use of deep learning based algorithms for process monitoring. In this work, a process monitoring scheme based on the state-of-the-art artificial intelligence methods and cloud computing platforms is proposed for a waste-to-energy industrial use case. The monitoring scheme supports use of latest AI methods, laveraging big-data processing tools and taking advantage of available cloud computing platforms. Deep learning algorithms are able to describe non-linear, dynamic and high demensionality systems better than most conventional data-based process monitoring methods. Moreover, deep learning based methods are best suited for big-data analytics unlike traditional statistical machine learning methods which are less efficient. Furthermore, the proposed monitoring scheme emphasizes real-time process monitoring in addition to offline data analysis. To achieve this the monitoring scheme proposes use of big-data analytics software frameworks and tools such as Microsoft Azure stream analytics, Apache storm, Apache Spark, Hadoop and many others. The availability of open source in addition to proprietary cloud computing platforms, AI and big-data software tools, all support the realization of the proposed monitoring scheme

System Support For Stream Processing In Collaborative Cloud-Edge Environment

Stream processing is a critical technique to process huge amount of data in real-time manner. Cloud computing has been used for stream processing due to its unlimited computation resources. At the same time, we are entering the era of Internet of Everything (IoE). The emerging edge computing benefits low-latency applications by leveraging computation resources at the proximity of data sources. Billions of sensors and actuators are being deployed worldwide and huge amount of data generated by things are immersed in our daily life. It has become essential for organizations to be able to stream and analyze data, and provide low-latency analytics on streaming data. However, cloud computing is inefficient to process all data in a centralized environment in terms of the network bandwidth cost and response latency. Although edge computing offloads computation from the cloud to the edge of the Internet, there is not a data sharing and processing framework that efficiently utilizes computation resources in the cloud and the edge. Furthermore, the heterogeneity of edge devices brings more difficulty to the development of collaborative cloud-edge applications. To explore and attack the challenges of stream processing system in collaborative cloudedge environment, in this dissertation we design and develop a series of systems to support stream processing applications in hybrid cloud-edge analytics. Specifically, we develop an hierarchical and hybrid outlier detection model for multivariate time series streams that automatically selects the best model for different time series. We optimize one of the stream processing system (i.e., Spark Streaming) to reduce the end-to-end latency. To facilitate the development of collaborative cloud-edge applications, we propose and implement a new computing framework, Firework that allows stakeholders to share and process data by leveraging both the cloud and the edge. A vision-based cloud-edge application is implemented to demonstrate the capabilities of Firework. By combining all these studies, we provide comprehensive system support for stream processing in collaborative cloud-edge environment