The concepts of Microservices and Organic Computing contribute to a fully distributed architecture of the Internet of Things (IoT), avoiding single points of failure through massive service distribution. The distribution and the lack of structure, however, come with large communication overheads. We discuss the necessity ...

For a long time, the Internet of Things was considered the vision of interconnecting every device, leading to fundamentally new and pervasive application scenarios. In practice, however, the projected growth and realisation of IoT scenarios is often impeded by practical problems. The BASE MoVE research project, a cooperation ...

The increasing popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) applications leads to a continuous expansion into further application areas. Since each application poses its own challenges and requirements, many different solutions have been developed to build parts of the IoT. However, this diversity results in new challenges as ...

Since Edge Computing (EC) became more important in industry and research several standardisation groups and initiatives are considering related technologies in their strategies and future roadmaps. The work includes the definition of reference architecture models, access interfaces but also addresses edge node autonomy ...

Recently, IoT usage has grown rapidly. Security risks are rising analogously, though. Our paper introduces an approach to identify and address security threats by applying the PASTA (Process for Attack Simulation and Threat Analysis) threat model to the IoT domain. By adapting PASTA, we optimize the threat analysis based ...

Optimizing the maintenance of large-scale infrastructure can be a significant cost driver for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). This paper presents a feasible approach to combine data from real-world physical structures collected through an automated maintenance process with cloud-based AI services to generate ...

The management of former mining areas requires knowledge about local weather and environmental conditions in order to ensure the compliance with governmental regulations. Since mining areas are typically of large geographic scale, equipping them with sensors is a challenge at high cost. One approach to keep these low is ...