SPARTACUS: Enabling Space Technologies in Security Research

2016 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 145-151
Author(s):  
Clemente Fuggini ◽  
Ivan Tesfai
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Management ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Dead Reckoning ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Location Awareness ◽  
Rescue Service ◽  
Security Research ◽  
Mission Critical

GALILEO together with EGNOS will provide more robust positioning capability enhancing the adoption of satellite technologies in services where signal continuity and integrity are required, such as those related to Public Regulated Service (PRS) and Safety of Life (SOL) applications. This will have an impact on various sectors and applications, including emergency and disaster management, Search and Rescue Service (SAR) tasks and location-based services (LBS) supporting responders in mission critical operations. In this scenario, in November 2013, the SPARTACUS project started to design, realize and test in simulated and real world scenarios GALILEO-ready tracking solutions that can be deployed in operative missions for enhancing Location Awareness in emergency management and crisis operations. SPARTACUS developed new EU-specific services to ensure precise positioning and timing capabilities to three application areas: 1) tracking, tracing and localization of critical transport assets in case of major failure of existing networks; 2) tracking the flow of relief support goods from the sending side to the receiving/end place; 3) supporting coordination of first responders in disaster management operations, ensuring their safety. By its Consortium, SPARTACUS innovations include hardware adaptations, algorithms for precision improvement, dead reckoning functionalities, location awareness, and ad-hoc independent communication networks.

Biometric Authentication in Broadland Networks for Location-Based Services

2007 ◽  
pp. 84-96
Author(s):  
Stelios C.A. Thompoulos ◽  
Nikolaos Argyreas
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Networks ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
User Authentication ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Biometric Authentication ◽  
Identity Verification ◽  
Broadband Wireless ◽  
Wireless Broadband ◽  
Hoc Networks

Broadband communication networks have begun to spread rapidly over fixed networks, with wireless networks following at close distance. The excess capacity allows the offering of broadband services at competitive rates. Location based services (LBS) over wireless broadband networks are becoming mainstream in an emerging ambient intelligence society. For LBS over broadband and, in particular, pier-to-pier networks, such as ad-hoc networks, unambiguous user authentication is of paramount importance to user trust and safety, thus ultimately to the success of such service. Biometric authentication is an approach to providing irrefutable identity verification of a user, thus providing the highest level of security. This chapter addresses some of the issues associated with the use of biometric ID for user and apparatus authentication over broadband wireless networks (e.g. GPRS, UMTS, WiFi, LANs) and narrow band local networks (e.g. BlueTooth, Zigbee, PANs, BANs).

Biometric Authentication in Broadband Networks for Location-Based Services

2013 ◽  
pp. 726-735
Author(s):  
Stelios C.A. Thomopoulos ◽  
Nikolaos Argyreas
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Networks ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
User Authentication ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Biometric Authentication ◽  
Broadband Networks ◽  
Identity Verification ◽  
Wireless Broadband ◽  
Hoc Networks

Broadband communication networks have begun to spread rapidly over fixed networks, with wireless networks following at close distance. The excess capacity allows the offering of broadband services at competitive rates. Location-based services (LBS) over wireless broadband networks are becoming mainstream in an emerging ambient intelligence society. For LBS over broadband and, in particular, peer-to-peer networks, such as ad hoc networks, unambiguous user authentication is of paramount importance to user trust and safety, thus ultimately to the success of such service. Biometric authentication is an approach to providing irrefutable identity verification of a user, thus providing the highest level of security. This chapter addresses some of the issues associated with the use of biometric ID for user and apparatus authentication over broadband wireless networks (e.g., GPRS, UMTS, WiFi, LANs) and narrow band local networks (e.g., bluetooth, Zigbee, PANs, BANs).

Biometric Authentication in Broadband Networks for Location-Based Services

2010 ◽  
pp. 422-432
Author(s):  
George Kakaletris ◽  
Dimitris Varoutas ◽  
Dimitris Katsianis ◽  
Thomas Sphicopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Networks ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
User Authentication ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Biometric Authentication ◽  
Broadband Networks ◽  
Identity Verification ◽  
Wireless Broadband ◽  
Hoc Networks

Broadband communication networks have begun to spread rapidly over fixed networks, with wireless networks following at close distance. The excess capacity allows the offering of broadband services at competitive rates. Location-based services (LBS) over wireless broadband networks are becoming mainstream in an emerging ambient intelligence society. For LBS over broadband and, in particular, pier-to-pier networks, such as ad hoc networks, unambiguous user authentication is of paramount importance to user trust and safety, thus ultimately to the success of such service. Biometric authentication is an approach to providing irrefutable identity verification of a user, thus providing the highest level of security. This chapter addresses some of the issues associated with the use of biometric ID for user and apparatus authentication over broadband wireless networks (e.g., GPRS, UMTS, WiFi, LANs) and narrow band local networks (e.g., bluetooth, Zigbee, PANs, BANs).

Biometric Authentication in Broadland Networks for Location-Based Services

2011 ◽  
pp. 4110-4120
Author(s):  
Stelios C.A. Thompoulos ◽  
Nikolaos Argyreas
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Networks ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
User Authentication ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Biometric Authentication ◽  
Identity Verification ◽  
Broadband Wireless ◽  
Wireless Broadband ◽  
Hoc Networks

Broadband communication networks have begun to spread rapidly over fixed networks, with wireless networks following at close distance. The excess capacity allows the offering of broadband services at competitive rates. Location based services (LBS) over wireless broadband networks are becoming mainstream in an emerging ambient intelligence society. For LBS over broadband and, in particular, pier-to-pier networks, such as ad-hoc networks, unambiguous user authentication is of paramount importance to user trust and safety, thus ultimately to the success of such service. Biometric authentication is an approach to providing irrefutable identity verification of a user, thus providing the highest level of security. This chapter addresses some of the issues associated with the use of biometric ID for user and apparatus authentication over broadband wireless networks (e.g. GPRS, UMTS, WiFi, LANs) and narrow band local networks (e.g. BlueTooth, Zigbee, PANs, BANs).

scholarly journals A Multimedia Data Visualization Based on Ad Hoc Communication Networks and Its Application to Disaster Management

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 2004-2018
Author(s):  
Youhei Kawamura ◽  
Markus Wagner ◽  
Hyongdoo Jang ◽  
Hajime Nobuhara ◽  
Takeshi Shibuya ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Communication Networks ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Data Visualization ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Multimedia Data

scholarly journals S-PDR: SBAUPT-Based Pedestrian Dead Reckoning Algorithm for Free-Moving Handheld Devices

Geomatics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-176
Author(s):  
Maan Khedr ◽  
Naser El-Sheimy
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Dead Reckoning ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
Indoor Navigation ◽  
Location Based Services ◽  
Navigation Systems ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Navigation Solution ◽  
Correction Technique ◽  
Pedestrian Dead Reckoning

Mobile location-based services (MLBS) are attracting attention for their potential public and personal use for a variety of applications such as location-based advertisement, smart shopping, smart cities, health applications, emergency response, and even gaming. Many of these applications rely on Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) due to the degraded GNSS services indoors. INS-based MLBS using smartphones is hindered by the quality of the MEMS sensors provided in smartphones which suffer from high noise and errors resulting in high drift in the navigation solution rapidly. Pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) is an INS-based navigation technique that exploits human motion to reduce navigation solution errors, but the errors cannot be eliminated without aid from other techniques. The purpose of this study is to enhance and extend the short-term reliability of PDR systems for smartphones as a standalone system through an enhanced step detection algorithm, a periodic attitude correction technique, and a novel PCA-based motion direction estimation technique. Testing shows that the developed system (S-PDR) provides a reliable short-term navigation solution with a final positioning error that is up to 6 m after 3 min runtime. These results were compared to a PDR solution using an Xsens IMU which is known to be a high grade MEMS IMU and was found to be worse than S-PDR. The findings show that S-PDR can be used to aid GNSS in challenging environments and can be a viable option for short-term indoor navigation until aiding is provided by alternative means. Furthermore, the extended reliable solution of S-PDR can help reduce the operational complexity of aiding navigation systems such as RF-based indoor navigation and magnetic map matching as it reduces the frequency by which these aiding techniques are required and applied.

Peacebuilding Functions of International Environmental Governance

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Ole Kristian Fauchald
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Management ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
International Environmental Governance ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Sustainable Peace ◽  
Conflict Situations ◽  
Institutional Structures ◽  
Subject Specific ◽  
Key Aspects

This chapter seeks to focus on ‘peacebuilding’ as a construct of peace among groups that have previously been in conflict. This calls for moving beyond peacemaking and conflict resolution to consider the longer-term efforts at establishing sustainable peace. Notwithstanding the longstanding efforts of UNEP’s Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch, there has been very limited development of international normative and institutional structures targeting the process of post-conflict sustainable peacebuilding. How far the current international environmental governance (IEG) regimes are responsive to the specific challenges to post-conflict situations? It seeks to briefly consider four key aspects of IEG regimes: (i) Ad- hoc and subject specific (ii) Incremental and facilitative (iii) Degree of reciprocity and (iv) Science-based.

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