Graceful Degradation in IoT Security

As the consumer grade IoT devices industry advances, personal privacy is constantly eroded for the sake of convenience. Current security solutions, although available, ignore convenience by requiring the purchase of additional hardware, implementing confusing, out of scope updates for a non-technical user, or quarantining a device, rendering it useless. This paper proposes a solution that simultaneously maintains convenience and privacy, tailored for the Internet of Things. We propose a novel graceful degradation technique which targets individual device functionalities for acceptance or denial at the network level. When combined with current anomaly detection and fingerprinting methods, graceful degradation provides a personalized IoT security solution for the modern user

Smart Itinerary Smartphone Tourism Application

Even though tourism is a large and important part of the Armenian economy, Armenia’s tourism infrastructure is not as robust as other more mature tourist locations around the world. This project was focused on designing a mobile tourism application, tailored to Armenia that will help develop and mature its tourism market. We hoped to empower Armenia by bolstering interest in and access to Armenia and developing its tourism industry. Smart Itinerary stands out from other tourist applications due to its vast collection of Armenia-specific information along with its ability to provide a unique itinerary for each individual tourist based on their personal interests. Overall, we believe we have designed a tourism application that will help make Armenia a more accessible tourist location