Editorial for SM 160 – Design and Implementation of Mobile Smart Objects Special Issue

Mobile Networks and Applications, Apr 2016

Pietro Manzoni, Claudio Palazzi

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Editorial for SM 160 – Design and Implementation of Mobile Smart Objects Special Issue

Mobile Netw Appl Editorial for SM 160 - Design and Implementation of Mobile Smart Objects Special Issue Pietro Manzoni 0 Claudio Palazzi 0 0 University of Padua , Padova , Italy - Editorial: This special issue features six selected high quality papers from SMARTOBJECTS 2015, a Workshop on experiences with the design and implementation of smart objects, held of September 7th, 2015 in Paris, FRANCE. It focuses on experiences with the design, implementation, deployment, operation and evaluation of novel communication approaches and systems for smart objects in the emerging cooperative environments. In the first article, BAn NFC Anti-Counterfeiting Framework for ID Verification and Image Protection^, Wei Hsun Lee, Chien Ming Chou, and Szu Wen Wang propose an NFC anti-counterfeiting framework with a two-layered digital image protection mechanism. In this system, an application certificate signed by the service provider and image metadata are hidden in the personal digital image using digital watermarking, and the image metadata is protected by the secure element in the NFC device. Several procedures are designed to ensure the originality of the photo and signature images, so that the process of digital image authentication is as secure and practical as using printed images on a plastic card. The second article titled BThe Coordinated Vehicle Recovery Mechanism in City Environments^, by GwoJiun Horng, presents the design and analysis of an innovative, optimized and coordinated vehicle recovery network system. This system safeguards private property for all citizens, significantly enhances an existing vehicle recovery and anti-theft system, and improves the success rate for vehicle recovery. This study is not only applicable to a single vehicle but also considers the entire vehicle anti-theft communication network and connects all individual vehicles to an innovative, optimized and coordinated vehicle recovery network. The next article BA Network Coverage Algorithm for Message Broadcast in Vehicular Networks^, by Armir Bujari, proposes an enhancement of an existent optimal message propagation scheme proposed in the context of one dimensional vehicular networks, namely Fast-Broadcast. This proposal generalizes the former with the objective of guiding message dissemination to an entire area of interest in generic road topologies. The proposed scheme exploits bloom filter properties to further advance message propagation into the network. The fourth article is titled BWearable HUD for Ecological Field Research Applications: A Development Experience on the Design of a Wearable Mobile System^. Its authors, Saul Delabrida, Thiago D’Angelo, Ricardo Augusto Rabelo Oliveira, and Antônio Alfredo F. Loureiro, overview wearable architectures found in the literature and present a novel wearable device for monitoring ecological environments. The wearable includes a Head-UP Display (HUD) assembled with Google Cardboard API and sensors connected to a development board. This device provides several functionalities such as distance measurement to objects and weather conditions monitoring. Camera and green lasers combined with a digital image-processing algorithm are used to measure the distance to objects. The fifth article, BSensing Pollution on Online Social Networks: A Transportation Perspective^, by Rita Tse, Yubin Xiao, Giovanni Pau, Serge Fdida, Marco Roccetti, and Gustavo Marfia, verifies the feasibility of sensing air pollution from social networks and of integrating such information with real sensors feeds, unveiling how people advertise such phenomenon, acting themselves as smart objects, and how online posts relate to true pollution levels. This work explores a new dimension in pollution sensing for the benefit of environmental and transportation research in future smart cities, confronting over 1,500,000 posts and pollution readings obtained from governmental on-the-field sensors over a 1-year span. In the last article titled BA Mission-Oriented Coordination Framework for Teams of Mobile Aerial and Terrestrial Smart Objects^, the authors (Pasquale Pace, Gianluca Aloi, Giuseppe Caliciuri, and Giancarlo Fortino) propose and investigate a novel framework to support both the management and the collaboration of Mobile Smart Objects (MSOs) considered as terrestrial and aerial drones (i.e., UAVs, UGVs). MSOs are equipped with embedded sensors and/or actuators and can move autonomously always remaining connected, accessible and controllable. The proposed framework allows the programming and management of smart drones and the coordination of teams of drones according to a mission-oriented paradigm. The guest editors are thankful to our reviewers for their effort in reviewing the manuscripts. We also thank the Editor-in-Chief, Dr. Imrich Chlamtac for his supportive guidance during the entire process. Prof. Pietro Manzoni received the MS degree in computer science from the BUniversità degli Studi^ of Milan, Italy, in 198 (...truncated)


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Pietro Manzoni, Claudio Palazzi. Editorial for SM 160 – Design and Implementation of Mobile Smart Objects Special Issue, Mobile Networks and Applications, 2016, pp. 644-645, Volume 21, Issue 4, DOI: 10.1007/s11036-016-0720-x