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- A cloud-based IoT approach to support infrastructure monitoring needs by public civil protection organizationsPublication . Gomes, João Pedro; Cunha, Carlos R.; Noira, Gabriel; Santos, ArlindoThe evolution of technology in the last decade predicts a future where technology is disseminated in the environment in order to merge with the environment itself, being omnipresent. This world paradigm has been associated with the Internet of Things concept or, according to several authors, with the Internet of Everything concept. The potential massive dispersion of technology, which, with the progress of nanotechnology, will be increasingly miniaturized, combined with high-performance and universal communication networks, will revolutionize the concept of monitoring, resulting in profound changes in various sectors of activ- ity and knowledge. In this context, this article presents a cloud-based Internet of Things architecture in order to respond to the growing needs of monitoring by the Civil Protection Public Organizations, who are responsible for monitoring several parameters and produce multiple information and reports in the context of the security of populations and territories. Finally, it is presented a prototype imple- mented according to the proposed architecture capable of monitoring monoliths dispersed in the territory, as a way of acting preventively, avoiding merely reactive actions after disaster situations.
- Empowering users’ privacy through a centralized platform to respond to a pervasive and mobile computing worldPublication . Cunha, Carlos R.; Gomes, João Pedro; Morais, Elisabete PauloTechnologies for contextualization and Recognition of people and situations have made great progresses in the last years. Every time we use the Internet, pass by car in auto ways, enter inside a commercial shopping, even when we go on street, there are in-build space mechanisms capable of getting our personal data – video surveillance, our position through the tracking cell phones position or even when we post a message on some Social Network and we have GPS coordinates associated. Basically we share where we are, what we are doing and with time, we reveal our pattern behaviours. But what we get in return by sharing all this Information? Very few, but it could be a lot. That's the start point of this paper, that review the state of art of contextualization and recognition technologies, discuss is business and social potential and finishes with the presentation of an architecture for supporting a user-centered approach for the definition of a rules-engine capable of translating the users' interests and provide enterprises a source of useful information.
- The role of customers and their privacy in an IoT business contextPublication . Cunha, Carlos R.; Gomes, João Pedro; Santos, Arlindo; Morais, Elisabete PauloThe Internet of Things has revolutionized the way we can think about sales and customer relationship management strategies. In this context, a view of the world where technology is embedded in practically all objects and physical spaces will be an expectable reality. This reality opens up unprecedented oppor- tunities with regard to the levels of customization in the sales process, whether in virtual spaces or in physical spaces. However, IoT also poses enormous chal- lenges in the field of security and in particular in the field of user privacy. In this context, this article, after analyzing some of the main challenges for IoT in the privacy domain and what impact the IoT may have in the business domain and in particular in the subdomains of sales and advertising, presents a conceptual model to support customer empowerment while citizen with regard to the definition and management of privacy policies concerns a context that may go beyond the bound- aries of citizenship and be applied in scenarios without borders, whenever there is the possibility of defining policies and legislation above Country.
- Combining IoT and users’ profiles to provide contextualized information and servicesPublication . Fernandes, Daniel; Cunha, Carlos R.; Gomes, João Pedro; Santos, ArlindoTechnological evolution has led to the emergence of a set of solutions suitable to support mobility and ubiquity scenarios. Wireless computing and mobile devices together with the miniaturization of sensors and actuators, which are now embedded in physical spaces, are today’s reality. This phenomenon opened the door to a set of opportunities for reengineering how we perceive a given fact or situation and how we act on it. With regard to the delivery of information to users of a given physical space, there is now the possibility of radically transforming the mechanisms of interaction between the space and the user, redesigning the entire experience of interaction. This change allows the user to see the physical space around him adapt to himself and provide him with contextualized and personalized information according to his profile of interest. This approach can improve the way we manage customer relationships in a given business context. This article presents an overview of the state of the art of intelligent spaces and analyzes the potential of indoor positioning systems and techniques, and proposes a conceptual model for the detection of users in physical spaces and the consequent adaptation of an intelligent physical space to provide information aligned with the user's interest profile and in accordance with their privacy rules.