Internet of Things

A Privacy-Enabled Platform for COVID-19 Applications

We present our experiences in adapting and deploying TIPPERS, a novel privacy-enabled IoT data collection and management system for smart spaces, to facilitate the monitoring of adherence to COVID-19 regulations in a university campus and a military …

Transitioning from testbeds to ships: an experience study in deploying the TIPPERS Internet of Things platform to the US Navy

This paper describes the collaborative effort between privacy and security researchers at nine different institutions along with researchers at the Naval Information Warfare Center to deploy, test, and demonstrate privacy-preserving technologies in …

SmartBench: A Benchmark For Data Management In Smart Spaces

This paper proposes SmartBench, a benchmark focusing on queries resulting from (near) real-time applications and longer-term analysis of IoT data. SmartBench, derived from a deployed smart building monitoring system, is comprised of: 1) An extensible …

Abstracting Interactions with IoT Devices Towards a Semantic Vision of Smart Spaces

This paper describes a middleware framework for IoT smart spaces, SemIoTic, that provides application developers and end-users with the semantic domain-relevant view of the smart space, hiding the complexity of having to deal with/understand …

SemIoTic: Bridging the Semantic Gap in IoT Spaces

This demonstration showcases the SemIoTic middleware which provides inhabitants of an IoT space, as well as developers of applications, with a semantic view of the space. Participants will have an opportunity to see how useful IoT applications can be …

SemIoTic

Facilitating the development of applications in IoT spaces

Trustworthy Privacy Policy Translation in Untrusted IoT Environments

Internet of Thing (IoT) systems, such as smart buildings and smart cities, provide services to users (individuals and organizations) in various aspect of our lives. To provide such services, IoT systems need to handle data captured from multiple …

Exploring fairness in participatory thermal comfort control in smart buildings

Current buildings rely on predefined rules to control the temperature in rooms disregarding their residents’ thermal comfort. Multiple approaches have been presented in the literature to tackle this issue (e.g., by enabling occupants to express their …