Consumer adoption of smart phones is growing globally at an exponential rate presenting significant commercial opportunities for all organizations. The percentage of the population using mobile phones in Ireland is the largest in Europe, with market revenue of i2 billion in 2009, and 117.3 percent penetration. However, the commercial growth potential of smart phones is being hindered by an indu...

Providing web services from smart phones is current recent research topic, this happened because of smart phones are used almost every area, where today’s user uses for mobile banking, emailing, searching location and data. Smart phones are advanced in terms of processing power, memory with an embedded camera, sensors and same time parallel advancement in wireless network and software web techn...

Excessive drinking among college students is a significant public health issue. Electronic Screening Brief Intervention (e-SBI) has been shown to be an effective prevention tool, and it has been implemented on personal computers, web, mobile phones and social networking platforms. In this research, we asked college students to discuss about their perception of BACtrack Mobile Pro, the FDA-appro...

Real-time statistics on smart meter consumption data must preserve consumer privacy and tolerate smart meter failures. Existing protocols for this private distributed aggregation model suffer from various drawbacks that disqualify them for application in the smart energy grid. Either they are not fault-tolerant or if they are, then they require bidirectional communication or their accuracy decr...

The Smart Grid concept is conceived as a means to optimize the operation and to improve the reliability of the electric delivery system. As environmental concerns and energy consumption continue to increase, utilities are looking at cost effective strategies for improved network operation and consumer consumption. Smart Grid is a collection of next generation power delivery concepts that includ...

internet is one of the most promising future energy infrastructures which could enhance energy efficiency and improve system operating flexibility. In analog to the micro-grid, micro energy internet puts more emphasis on distribution level and consumer side. The concept and design principles of smart micro energy internet are proposed to accommodate micro-grids, distributed poly-generation syst...

Creating security architectures and processes that directly interact with consumers, especially in consumer electronics, has to take into account usability, user-experience and skill level. Smart cards provide secure services, even in malicious environments, to end-users with a fairly straightforward limited usage pattern that even an ordinary user can easily deal with. The way the smart card i...

BACKGROUND Technological advances have seen a burgeoning industry for accelerometer-based wearable activity monitors targeted at the consumer market. The purpose of this study was to determine the convergent validity of a selection of consumer-level accelerometer-based activity monitors. METHODS 21 healthy adults wore seven consumer-level activity monitors (Fitbit One, Fitbit Zip, Jawbone UP,...

name of conference: LATE BREAKING PAPER. In this paper, we propose to add blockchains as a mechanism to store cloud attestations. Blockchains are: 1) cryptographically auditable, 2) append only, 3) accessible to all, 4) tamper resistant. Blockchains also require no central trust mechanism (hence, no central point of failure). Smart contracts are a recent advance of blockchain technology that al...