Research

Research Topic

In short: Monitoring physical infrastructures using Internet of Things devices, Semantics and Microservices Architectures.

The aim of the research, within the framework of the industrial doctorate I am doing, is to cover from start to finish what can be accomplished based on the reading of an IoT sensor. With these data, be able to obtain the information embedded in it, monitor it, and be able to act if necessary.

Part of the work within this research will be to find a way to generalize or homogenise or the data input format from the sensors to the system, adding semantics and ontologies to it. To provide it with a common data input format for the entire IoT ecosystem, and to propose alternatives for the academic world in general.

In addition, research to deploy the whole environment under microservices architecture. It mainly contributes to having each functionality separated by different modules. In short, it means improved fault isolation, simplicity in understanding the system, technology flexibility, faster technical deployments, and more easily scalable.

Keywords: Internet of Things, Semantics, Cyber-Physical Systems, Microservices

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Publications

• Relating Context and Self Awareness in the Internet of Things. D. Arnaiz, M. Vila, E. Alarcón, F. Moll, M.-R. Sancho, E. Teniente. International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems, CoopIS, 2023.

• Critical Infrastructure Awareness based on IoT Context Data. M. Vila, M.-R. Sancho, E. Teniente, X. Vilajosana. Advances in Context-awareness in Internet of Mobile Things. Internet of Things Journal, Volume 23, 2023.

• Modeling Context-Aware Events and Responses in an IoT Environment. M. Vila, M.-R. Sancho, E. Teniente. International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE, 2023.

• Monitoring, IoT Devices, and Semantics. M. Vila, M.-R. Sancho, E. Teniente. International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, Demo Track, PerCom, 2023.

• Internet of Things Semantic-Based Monitoring of Infrastructures using a Microservices Architecture. M. Vila. International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing. Ph.D. Symposium, ICSOC Workshops, 2022.

• Edge-to-Cloud Sensing and Actuation Semantics in the Industrial Internet of Things. M. Vila, V. Casamayor, S. Dustdar, E. Teniente. Pervasive and Mobile Computing Journal, 2022.

• Semantics for Connectivity Management in IoT Sensing. M. Vila, MR. Sancho, E. Teniente, X. Vilajosana. International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, ER, 2021.

• XYZ Monitor: IoT Monitoring of Infrastructures Using Microservices. M. Vila, MR. Sancho, E. Teniente. International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing, STRAPS, ICSOC Workshops, 2020.

• Consuming data sources to generate actionable items.
  M. Vila, MR. Sancho, J. Gorchs, 2019 (MSc Thesis).

• APi-City: Integrant i-City en Android.
  M. Vila, J. Montero, J. Casanovas, 2016 (BSc Thesis).