Publications related to Smart object

A WAY TO GET STUDENTS TO CONSIDER ETHICS AND SUSTAINABILITY IN IOT PROJECTS

Sustainability and ethical topics can be embedded and assessed in existing technical courses within an engineering curriculum. This article describes how we integrated a reflection on the importance of ethical and environmental aspects of connected objects ...

2023

Assessment of Monitoring Strategies for Inhalation Exposure and Occupancy in Office Environments

Seoyeon Yun

Given people's significant time spent indoors, ensuring good indoor air quality (IAQ) is essential because it significantly influences occupants' health and productivity. Office buildings consume about 50% of commercial building energy and 18% of total bui ...

EPFL2023

In-Memory Hardware and Architectural Extensions for Workloads Acceleration

William Andrew Simon

Utilization of edge devices has exploded in the last decade, with such use cases as wearable devices, autonomous driving, and smart homes. As their ubiquity grows, so do expectations of their capabilities. Simultaneously, their formfactor and use cases lim ...

EPFL2022

Safeguarding the IoT From Malware Epidemics: A Percolation Theory Approach

Ainur Zhaikhan

The upcoming Internet of Things (IoT) is foreseen to encompass massive numbers of connected devices, smart objects, and cyber-physical systems. Due to the large scale and massive deployment of devices, it is deemed infeasible to safeguard 100% of the devic ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

On Smart-Buildings and their Integration into the Smart-Grid

Olivier Valentin Henri Van Cutsem

Today's electrical grid is undergoing deep changes, resulting from the large integration of distributed Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in an effort to decarbonize the generation of electrical energy. In addition to the emergence of this volatile electricit ...

EPFL2020

Ontology-Based Resource Allocation for Internet of Things

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Damiano Nunzio Arena, Zeinab Nezami

The Internet of Things has revolutionized the lifestyle in all aspects. Considering the huge number of connected objects and the plethora of real-time services, edge computing approaches have emerged. Resource allocation is one of the most important challe ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Toward ultra-low power design methodology for frequency generation in the IoT design space

Mathieu Yves Hervé Coustans

Today, the semiconductor industry is feeding our digital world with more and more data coming from compact embedded electronics that are monitoring our environment and feeding analytics for action. Interaction with our digital world is mostly achieved thro ...

EPFL2019

Special Session-Online Laboratories in Engineering Education: Innovation, Disruption, and Future Potential

Denis Gillet

This special session will focus on innovative and disruptive implementations of online labs and the challenges of their management within educational institution infrastructures. A short presentation of a Draft IEEE Standard P1876(TM) on Networked Smart Le ...

IEEE2018

Heterogeneous and Inexact: Maximizing Power Efficiency of Edge Computing Sensors for Health Monitoring Applications

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Miguel Peon Quiros, Soumya Subhra Basu, Loris Gérard Duch

In the Internet-of-Things (IoT) era, there is an increasing trend to enable intelligent behavior in edge computing sensors. Thus, a new generation of smart wearable devices for health monitoring is being developed, able to perform complex Digital Signal Pr ...

IEEE2018

Design and Applications of Approximate Circuits by Gate-Level Pruning

Christian Enz, Vincent Frédéric Camus, Jérémy Lucien Maurice Schlachter

Energy-efficiency is a critical concern for many systems, ranging from Internet of things objects and mobile devices to high-performance computers. Moreover, after 40 years of prosperity, Moore's law is starting to show its economic and technical limits. N ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2017

Towards the next generation of intelligent building: An assessment study of current automation and future IoT based systems with a proposal for transitional design

Maher Kayal, Georgios Lilis, Gilbert Didier Francis Conus, Nastaran Asadi Zanjani

The intelligent building, a major smart city research and development domain, has grown beyond the scope of automation, currently focusing on the occupant centered approaches and the ancillary services offered to the power grid. The Internet of Things (IoT ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

An Event-driven Low Power Electronics for Loads Metering and Control in Smart Buildings

Maher Kayal, Georgios Lilis, Gilbert Didier Francis Conus, Nastaran Asadi Zanjani

The Internet of Things market is experiencing a period of intense growth. From 7 to 10 billion of connected devices in 2013, it is expected to reach 26 to 30 billion in 2020. Smart buildings represent between 2 to 21% of this market. Indeed, the possibilit ...

Ieee2016

An Extensible Architecture for the Integration of Remote and Virtual Laboratories in Public Learning Tools

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann, Sten Govaerts

Remote laboratories are software and hardware tools that allow students to remotely access real equipment located in universities. The integration of remote laboratories in learning tools (learning management systems, content man- agement systems, or perso ...

2015

Cryptography in radio frequency identification and fair exchange protocols

Gildas Avoine

This PhD thesis focuses on fair exchange protocols and radio frequency identification protocols. Fair exchange stems from a daily life problem: how can two people exchange objects (material or immaterial) fairly, that is, without anyone being hurt in the e ...

EPFL2005