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Assistive Technologies devices and systems aim to improve the quality of life of people with disabilities by providing a wide range of assistive services. The AsTeRICS framework provides a Runtime Environment and a toolset that can be... more
the need for a non-intrusive evaluation infrastructure platform to support research on reliable pervasive healthcare in the unsupervised setting is analyzed and challenges and possibilities are identified. A list of requirements is... more
Nowadays, due to major technological developments, specifically in the area of multifunctional mobile devices, it is unthinkable not to imagine the evolution of smart home middlewares to integrate such kind of equipment, as it will... more
Peer-to-peer computing is becoming a very popular computing paradigm due to the wide diffusion of Internet file sharing applications. The growing number of mobile personal computing devices, together with the proliferation of wireless and... more
The goal of the paper is to give an overview of the most relevant aspects of mobile crowdsensing that are already utilized by the society. The paper focuses on best practices applied in smart cities today, how these applications can be... more
The widespread availability of mobile devices with multiple wireless interfaces, such as UMTS/GPRS, IEEE 802.11a/b/g and Bluetooth, is pushing for the support of multihoming and multi-channel connectivity, also enabled by multihop... more
Mobile devices, including smartphones and tablets, have fundamentally changed Internet access and communication patterns, enabling today's ubiquitous consumption of Web and multimedia content as well as social and locationaware services.... more
Crowdsensing is emerging as a powerful paradigm capable of leveraging the collective, though imprecise, monitoring capabilities of common people carrying smartphones or other personal devices, which can effectively become real-time mobile... more
The goal of the paper is to give an overview of the most relevant aspects of mobile crowdsensing that are already utilized by the society. The paper focuses on best practices applied in smart cities today, how these applications can be... more
This paper presents a scalable and collaborative mobile crowdsensing framework for efficient collective understanding of users, contexts, and their environments. Collaborative mobile crowdsensing enables information to be gathered and... more
Opportunistic crowdsensing empowers citizens carrying hand-held devices to sense physical phenomena of common interest at a large and fine-grained scale without requiring the citizens' active involvement. However, the resulting... more
Among other strategic action points, the Ambient Assisted Living Joint Programme framework has defined telemedicine and remote monitoring as major applications for improved quality of care. With the advent of novel, gamechanging mobile... more
Preserving user privacy is crucial for the wide adoption of crowdsensing and participatory sensing applications that rely on personal devices. Currently, each application comes with its own hardwired and possibly undocumented privacy... more
The recent success of general purpose crowdsourcing platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk paved the way for a plethora of crowd-enabled applications and workflows. However, the variety of tasks which can be approached via such... more
Mobile RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a newly emerging technology which uses the mobile phone as an RFID reader with a wireless technology and provides new valuable services to the user by integrating RFID and ubiquitous sensor... more
The recent success of general purpose crowdsourcing platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk paved the way for a plethora of crowd-enabled applications and workflows. However, the variety of tasks which can be approached via such... more
Today, the healthcare monitoring is not limited to take place in primary care facilities simply due to deployment of ICT. However, to support an ICT-based health monitoring, proper health parameters, sensor devices, data communications,... more
Crowdsourcing using mobile devices, known as mobile crowdsourcing, is a powerful approach incorporating human wisdom into mobile computations to solve problems while exploiting the advantages of mobility and context-awareness. The... more
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) stands for information and communication technology enabled smart home environment that serves persons, especially the elderly and disabled in their independent living. Among many already developed AAL... more
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) stands for information and communication technology enabled smart home environment that serves persons, especially the elderly and disabled in their independent living. Among many already developed AAL... more
In Ambient Assisted Living research and development, a significant effort has been dedicated to issues like gathering continuous information at home, standardizing formats in order to create environments more easily, extracting further... more
— Mobile Crowd Sensing has emerged as a new sensing paradigm, efficiently exploiting human intelligence and mobility in conjunction with advanced capabilities and proliferation of mobile devices. In order for MCS applications to reach... more
The problem of providing assistive services to elderly in smart cities is becoming important due to the aging of population in the developed countries. The possibility of using personal devices like smartphones to be assisted also outside... more
Today, the healthcare monitoring is not limited to take place in primary care facilities simply due to deployment of ICT. However, to support an ICT-based health monitoring, proper health parameters, sensor devices, data communications,... more
Mobile smartphones along with embedded sensors have become an efficient enabler for various mobile applications including opportunistic sensing. The hi-tech advances in smartphones are opening up a world of possibilities. This paper... more
The goal of this survey paper is to give an overview of the most relevant aspects of mobile crowdsensing that are already utilized by the society. The paper focuses on best practices applied in smart cities today, how these applications... more
Mobile RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a newly emerging technology which uses the mobile phone as an RFID reader with a wireless technology and provides new valuable services to the user by integrating RFID and ubiquitous sensor... more
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology will be a ubiquitous reality in daily life in the near future. The R&D groups in global now have paid attention to integrate RFID with mobile phone devices as well as to associate with the... more
Mobile RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a new application to use mobile phone as RFID reader with a wireless technology and provides new valuable services to user by integrating RFID and ubiquitous sensor network infrastructure... more
Recently, mobile RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) services such as in smart poster or supply chain are rapidly growing up as a newly generating industry. Here, mobile RFID service is defined as a special type of mobile service using... more
Different forms of parallel computing have been proposed to address the high computational requirements of many applications, following the principle that large computational problems can often be divided into smaller ones. Building on... more
RFID (radio-frequency identification) technology is widely used for supply chain management and inventory control. Furthermore, RFID has been recognized as a tool to realize a ubiquitous environment. The typical architecture of RFID... more
Mobile Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a newly emerging technology which uses the mobile phone as an RFID reader with a wireless technology and provides new valuable services to the user by integrating RFID and ubiquitous sensor... more
Recently, RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology is practically applied to a number of logistics processes as well as asset management, and RFID is also expected to be permeated in our daily life with the name of 'Ubiquitous... more
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology will be a ubiquitous reality in daily life in the near future. The R&D groups in global now have paid attention to integrate RFID with mobile phone devices as well as to associate with the... more
Mobile RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a new application to use mobile phone as RFID reader with a wireless technology and provides new valuable services to user by integrating RFID and ubiquitous sensor network infrastructure... more
Mobile RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a newly emerging technology which uses the mobile phone as an RFID reader with a wireless technology and provides new valuable services to the user by integrating RFID and ubiquitous sensor... more
RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technology will be a ubiquitous reality in daily life in the near future. The R&D groups in global now have paid attention to integrate RFID with mobile phone devices as well as to associate with the... more
technology is practically applied to a number of logistics processes as well as asset management, and RFID is also expected to be permeated in our daily life with the name of 'Ubiquitous Computing' or 'Ubiquitous Network' within the near... more
In the mobile RFID (Radio-Frequency Identification) environment, scanning RFID tags which are personalized can bring some privacy infringement issues. In spite of the case that private information is not stored in those tags, one can... more
We describe the core components of a mobile RFID system, and they include components such as mobile RFID reader, platform architecture and network architecture. Although there are several kinds of mobile RFID readers in the market, we... more
Recently, mobile RFID has been studied actively as a primary technology in computing environments. The mobile RFID service is defined as a special type of mobile service using RFID tag packaging objects and RFID readers attached to mobile... more
Mobile RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a new application to use mobile phone as RFID reader with a wireless technology and provides new valuable services to user by integrating RFID and ubiquitous sensor network infrastructure... more
The typical Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) architecture, defined by EPCglobal, comprises RFID tags, which are embedded or attached to objects, an RFID reader and Information Services (ISs) server. The RFID reader can be stationary... more
technology is practically applied to a number of logistics processes as well as asset management, and R+I-is also e?pected to be permeated in our daily life with the name of @Abiquitous ComputingC or @Abiquitous DetworkC within the near... more
The mobile RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a new application to use mobile phone as RFID reader with a wireless technology and provides new valuable services to user by integrating RFID and ubiquitous sensor network... more
Recently, mobile RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) services such as in smart poster or supply chain are rapidly growing up as a newly generating industry. Here, mobile RFID service is defined as a special type of mobile service using... more
The mobile RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is a technology for developing a RFID reader embedded in a mobile terminal and providing various application services over wireless networks. Various security issues -Inter domain security,... more
This paper proposes light-weight security mechanism which is constructed by mobile RFID (Radio Frequency IDentification) security mechanism based on WIPI (Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability) mobile platform. WIPI-based... more