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While wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been traditionally tasked with single applications, we have witnessed the emergence of multiapplication paradigms in the sensor network field such as Shared Sensor Networks and Virtual Sensor Networks. As the number of applications in a WSN increases, it also increases the WSN complexity and the amount of required transmitted messages. A major requirement...
Large-scale Smart Environments (LSEs) are open and dynamic systems where issues related to scalability and interoperability require to be carefully addressed. Moreover, as such systems typically extend on a wide area and include a huge number of interacting devices, aspects concerning services and objects discovery and reputation assessment require being managed. Despite the increasing interest in...
The advent of Internet of Things (IoT) has fueled the implementation of Smart Environments (SEs) where the information made available by the “Things” is processed and utilized to increase the livability, the safety and the security of the environment, and to make easier the life of its inhabitants. In literature there are many attempts to create specific SEs or platform for the SEs realization. Although...
Smart Cyber-Physical Environments are augmented physical environments whose behaviours are enhanced through the use of ICT technologies. The goal is to offer new services and functionalities devoted to meet people's needs and preferences, and to better exploit existing services and infrastructures. The use of IoT technologies, paired with the edge computing, fosters the development of Smart Environment...
A smart environment is a physical environment enriched with sensing, actuation, communication and computation capabilities aiming at acquiring and exploiting knowledge about the environment so as to adapt it to inhabitants' preferences and requirements. In this domain, there is the need of tools supporting the design and analysis of applications. In this paper, a meta-model framework for smart environments...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a large-scale complex networked cyber physical system in which the Smart Objects (SOs) will be the fundamental building blocks. Although, many research efforts in the IoT realm have been to date devoted to device, networking and application service perspectives, software engineering approaches for the development of IoT systems are still in their infancy. This paper...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) introduce significant flexibility in the management of smart buildings. The elimination of wires allows to deploy battery-powered sensor and actuator nodes everywhere in both new, old and historical buildings. Thus, WSNs can allow to monitor the building structural health, to manage electric loads for energy saving, to control the comfort environmental conditions, to...
In the future Internet of Things (IoT), smart objects will be the fundamental building blocks for the creation of cyber-physical smart pervasive systems in a great variety of application domains ranging from health-care to transportation, from logistics to smart grid and cities. The implementation of a smart objects-oriented IoT is a complex challenge as distributed, autonomous, and heterogeneous...
This paper proposes a service-oriented gateway architecture for remote monitoring and control of wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSAN). It is specifically designed to enable multi-user, remote monitoring and automation of even complex buildings. The gateway can be effectively exploited to manage energy, comfort, structural health, safety and security of buildings as well as social interactions...
Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are networks of cooperating tiny wireless devices having computational, communication and sensing capabilities. To effectively program WSNs, specific high-level frameworks exist that make transparent the low-level mechanisms of sensor platforms. However, deployment of applications developed by such frameworks onto real WSNs is a challenge, specifically as some design...
The Internet of Things (IoT) term is recently emerging to envision a global infrastructure of networked physical objects. As different definitions of IoT do currently exist, we specifically refer to IoT as a loosely coupled, decentralized system of smart objects (SOs), which are autonomous physical/digital objects augmented with sensing/actuating, processing, and networking capabilities. SOs are able...
In this paper we propose an agent-based approach for the integration of building networks (BNs) and body sensor networks (BSNs). Such an integration has the potential to enable a novel set of smart environments for ambient assisted livings further enhancing the concept of smart buildings. Specifically, inhabitants of buildings who are equipped with a BSN can expose their real and virtual sensed data...
The aim of this paper is to propose the wireless body sensor networks (WBSNs) as an enabling technology for a rich variety of application domains, from e-Health to e-Factory. In particular, the paper will describe reference network architectures, effective programming frameworks and novel applications in important application domains for WBSNs. Finally, a WBSN-based system in the e-Health application...
Future buildings will be smart to support personalized people comfort and building energy efficiency as well as safety, emergency, and context-aware information exchange scenarios. In this work we propose a decentralized and embedded architecture based on agents and wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSANs) for enabling efficient and effective management of buildings. The main purpose of the agent-based...
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