Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Blockchain technology can solve current interoperability challenges in health information systems and provide the technical standard which ensures a secure sharing of electronic health data between individuals, healthcare providers, medical care ...

In recent days, the Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is commonly employed in different aspects of healthcare applications. Owing to the increasing necessitates of IoT, a huge amount of sensing data is collected from distinct IoT gadgets. To ...

Internet of Things (IoT) deployed healthcare systems to provide ubiquitous services and assistance for the end-users/patients through their handheld devices/user equipment. The processing of sensitive medical information involves the transfer of ...

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is a kind of associated smart-medical device infrastructure with applications, health services, and systems. These medical devices and applications are linked via the Internet to healthcare systems. The ...

A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-021-01626-0

Without a proper mechanism to track and authenticate drugs, both stakeholder and consumer experience dilemmas. The dilemmas arise between stakeholders and consumers are related to of coordination, inventory management, human resource dependency, ...

Smart healthcare systems manage and deal with a large amount of data generated by the Internet of Medical Things (IOMT) devices. This big data processing requires efficient computer-aided diagnostic (CAD) systems. Recently, IOMT-based systems are ...

In cloud computing, the combinations of various computing units are globally separated, however, electronically connected. In recent years, the number of cloud users has adequately increased in the modern societies. In order to restrict the ...

Cyber-surveillance and connected devices can be misused to monitor, harass, isolate, and otherwise, harm individuals. In particular, these devices gather high volumes of personal data such as account details with shared passwords, person’s ...

Fast and automated recognizing of abnormal behaviors in crowded scenes is significantly effective in increasing public security. The traditional procedure of recognizing abnormalities in the Web of Thing (WoT) platform comprises monitoring the ...

Rapid advancement in the sophistication of malware has posed a serious impact on the device connected over the Internet. Malware writing is driven by economic benefits; thus, an alarming increase in malware variants is witnessed. Recently, a large ...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are applicable in numerous fields ranging from very common to those demanding critical security concerns. It is recommended to provide external users a direct access to the data from sensors as per their need for ...

Digital watermarking is a technology that allows users to add copyright notifications or other confirmation messages to digital media. Image recognition is one of the applications of digital watermarking, which is used to identify digital images. ...

Mechanical equipment in the process of operation appears a variety of faults due to different reasons. These faults affect the operation of machinery, causing economic losses, moreover, it may cause accidents, or even casualties. Predicting the ...

Following the rise of computers, the Internet, and mobile communications, the Internet of Things is the prelude to a new round of industrial development. With the opening of emerging industries related to the Internet of Things, concepts such as ...

Significant technological advancements in the Internet of Vehicles (IoV) incentivize the rapid development of various vehicular communication technologies for wireless connectivity among vehicles, roadside devices, and pedestrians. Despite the ...

Recommendation systems are gaining popularity on Internet platforms such as Amazon, Netflix, Spotify or Booking. As more users are joining these online consumer and entertainment sectors, the profile-based data for providing accurate just-in-time ...

Recent W3C recommendations for the Web of Things (WoT) and the Social Web are turning hypermedia into a homogeneous information fabric that interconnects heterogeneous resources: devices, people, information resources, abstract concepts, etc. The ...

The advances in Internet of things lead to an increased number of devices generating and streaming data. These devices can be useful data sources for activity recognition by using machine learning. However, the set of available sensors may vary ...

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The timely delivery of life-saving products such as medicines from the pharmacy to the patient’s location requires availability of an adequate road infrastructure and reliable directions to the patient’s home. However, in many regions of low- and ...

As data collected and provided by Internet of Things (IoT) devices power an ever-growing number of applications and services, it is crucial that this data can be trusted. Data provenance solutions combined with blockchain technology are one way to ...

Similarly to the standardization effort initiated for the World Wide Web in the 1990s, the World Wide Web Consortium is currently working on the Web of Things (WoT) specification. This initiative aims to tackle current fragmentation in the so-...

Bluetooth (BT) data has been extensively used for recognizing social patterns and inferring social networks, as BT is widely present in everyday technological devices. However, even though collecting BT data is subject to random noise and may ...

Sleep behavior is traditionally monitored with polysomnography, and sleep stage patterns are a key marker for sleep quality used to detect anomalies and diagnose diseases. With the growing demand for personalized healthcare and the prevalence of ...

An important capability of most smart, Internet-of-Things-enabled spaces (e.g., office, home, hospital, factory) is the ability to leverage context of use. Location is a key context element, particularly indoor location. Recent advances in radio ...