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
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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)