Privacy remains among the toughest challenges for the consumer-facing Internet of Things (IoT). Privacy-by-Design (PbD) is the most recent attempt to address it. Thereby, privacy goals become part of the technical specification and are resolved directly in the development process. This contemplation opposes existing approaches that retrofit protection measures as an afterthought, often even aft...

Energy efficient building design, construction, and operations require the development and sharing of building information among different individuals, organizations, and computer applications. Building Information Modeling (BIM) servers are tools used to enable an effective exchange of data. This paper describes an investigation into the core BIM server requirements needed to effectively suppo...

The selection of a strategy to seismically upgrade an existing building is a difficult problem. In fact, several different technologies are available to this aim nowadays. Furthermore, many generally conflicting options have to be considered to assess the performance of each alternative. Decision support systems like the socalled multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM) methods may be useful in ma...

SencorpWhite’s Customer Satisfaction Group, with the industry’s largest team of direct Field Service Engineers, provides OEM parts, installation and project management, process and maintenance training, retrofit/rebuild/relocation, on-line and live technical support, and predictive, preventative, and emergency machine service. Uncompromising Commitment to Service Consignment stock & vendor mana...

Through clean-slate implementation of two storage optimizations—track-aligned extents and track-aligned RAIDs—this paper shows the values of independent validations. The experience revealed many unanticipated disk and storage data path behaviors as potential roadblocks for wide deployment of these optimizations, and also identified implementation issues to retrofit these concepts to legacy data...

Beginning with the Pronto4TM Strap-on Autonomy System — a retrofit kit that makes any existing vehicle with a steering wheel a drive-by-wire system — and including a flexible, shared variable software base running on an open architecture system, DesignJug is enhancing its technology by creating a new sensor platform with supporting software that provides input to the team’s Actively Refined Rea...

Surveys and socio-professional studies carried out at national and international levels contribute to a better understanding of the lighting retrofit process. Within the framework of the International Energy Agency Task 50 Advanced lighting solutions for retrofitting buildingsand its subtask C1 focusing on the analysis of workflows and needs, an online survey on lighting retrofit was initiated ...