Modern factories are moving towards modular layouts with more generic production cells, allowing rapid production customization. Here, the cell's edge nodes exhibit considerable heterogeneity, ranging from simple microcontrollers to fully-fledged ...

Water scarcity is nowadays a critical global concern and an efficient management of water resources is paramount. This paper presents an original approach for monitoring Water Distribution Systems (WDSs) through Internet of Things (IoT) that involves the ...

Cyber-physical systems (CPS), robotics, the Internet of Things (IoT), and automotive systems are integral to modern technology. They are characterized by their safety criticality, accuracy, and real-time control requirements. Control software plays a ...

Recent advancements in low-power electronics and machine-learning techniques have paved the way for innovative wearable Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, these devices suffer from limited battery capacity and computational power. Hence, energy ...

Intermittent computing systems allow devices to operate under unstable and weak power conditions. When a device performing long tasks is interrupted due to power instability, a checkpoint mechanism is used to save data to non-volatile memory before the ...

Soil moisture level sensing is essential for enabling smart irrigation, which is crucial for our food security and sustainable agriculture. Existing soil moisture sensing systems face limitations such as single-layer sensing, limited depth, power supply ...

Reliable cross medium (e.g., air-water) communication using radio frequency (RF) has remained an open-problem for decades. Currently, underwater devices cannot communicate directly with land-based or airborne devices. Typical solutions are inadequate ...

To improve the energy efficiency of commercial buildings, we have developed a Reinforcement Learning (RL) based system named Chiller Plant Automation (CPA). We have implemented it in 39 hospitals, located in different geographies of India with varied ...

Multi-sensor IoT devices often rely on renewable energy and batteries to support diverse field deployments. A device’s sensors use significant energy, so careful energy management is needed to maximize its operating time while meeting application ...

Integrating cameras into wireless smart rings has been challenging due to size and power constraints. We introduce IRIS, the first wireless vision-enabled smart ring system for smart home interactions. Equipped with a camera, Bluetooth radio, inertial ...

Ensuring relative consistency in executing temporal queries to access real-time sensor data streams maintained in a database is a challenging problem, particularly when data transmission delays are lengthy and highly variable. Due to the unordered ...

Today’s Internet of Things (IoT) devices can colocate multiple applications on a platform with hardware resource sharing. Such colocations allow for increasing the throughput of contemporary IoT applications, similar to the use of multi-tenancy in clouds. ...

Efficient long-range communication is critical for environmental monitoring, especially when dealing with large data transfers in remote areas. We present an AI-driven dynamic RF configuration mode, which combines the advanced capabilities of a novel AI^*...

Digital Twins (DT) constitute complex software systems that need to be continuously modified/updated to meet evolving user requirements and priorities, and support continual improvement. Because they aim at monitoring and improving different system ...

Household energy use data may contain sensitive inferences into family life, yet its potential for surveillance is imperfectly understood. To explore this space, we developed Household Wattch, a speculative eco-feedback ‘provotype’ that profiles ...

Developing and debugging software for microcontrollers can be rather challenging. Firstly, microcontrollers are often programmed in low-level languages. Secondly, debugging tools are often very limited or simply non-existent. Thirdly, the non-...

With the advent of WebAssembly (Wasm), programming microcontrollers (MCUs) has become possible by leveraging on a wide range of languages (e.g., Rust, AssemblyScript, C, C#, Go, C++) that compile to Wasm. However, current WebAssembly debugging support is ...

The short message service (SMS) is a service for exchanging texts via mobile networks that has been developed not only as a means of text communication between subscribers but also as a means to remotely manage Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, ...

Public spaces are created for the convenience of visitors, but frequently, their operation does not match individual visitors' needs. We propose instant social control as a new approach for controlling devices deployed in public spaces, envisioning the ...

In this paper, we introduce SmartDampener, an open-source tennis analytics platform that redefines the traditional understanding of vibration dampeners. Traditional vibration dampeners favored by both amateur and professional tennis players are utilized ...