Objectives Back pain, especially lower back pain, is experienced in 60% to 80% of adults at
some points during their lives. Various studies have found that lower back pain is a very …

We present ELIOT, an Erlang-based development framework expressly conceived for
heterogeneous and massively decentralized sensing/actuation systems: a vision commonly …

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are large, distributed embedded systems integrated with
various sensors and actuators. CPS are rapidly emerging as an important computing …

The world of embedded, communication-oriented devices has never been richer than in
these last few years. While on one hand Wireless Sensor Networks are known and have …

The typical approach for consuming data from wireless sensor networks (WSN) and Internet
of Things (IoT) has been to send data back to central servers for processing and analysis …

Early Wireless Sensor Networks aimed simply to collect as much data as possible for as
long as possible. While this remains true in selected cases, the majority of future sensor …

Our everyday shop** lives have been significantly augmented by rapid advances in
Commerce Technologies. Buying and Selling of items as well as payments are currently …

Although increase of hardware resources is the general trend in information technology,
resource-constrained systems continue to be of relevance. In wireless sensor networks …