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Business Aspects of the Internet of Things Seminar 2008

Lecture: Thursday, 14-16; ML H 34.3 »

Lecturer: Dr. Florian Michahelles

Tel. +41 44 632 7477,  fmichahelles@ethz.ch



* Look also at the seminar of 2009 *

*** News - the seminar proceedings are available online: Business Aspects of the
Internet of Things Seminar of advanced topics, FS 2008, Florian Michahelles
***

Background

The Internet of Things describes the evolution from a network linking digital information to a network relating digital information to real world physical items.

Today, RFID represents the most prominent technology implementing the missing link between the physical and the digital world. RFID enables to identify physical objects from each other automatically and allows to link any kind of online data to these unique ID's. As a result, the real world and the Internet jointly represent the same reality.

What is this vision good for? Which new meanings and experiences can yield this sharing of information between things? Which enabling technology and infrastructure is needed in order to turn this vision into reality? What are the driving applications that should be designed into an Internet of Things?

Goals

The participants of this seminar will study the fundamental technologies needed to realize this technical vision. In addition to that, current and future business scenarios will be discussed in order to distinguish between realistic, critical, utopian and nightmarish scenarios of an Internet of things.
The first sessions will be dedicated to topics on current technology, concepts and implementations of RFID. In the later sessions participants will discuss and evaluate various business cases.

Afterwards, all participants who are interested in gaining even more knowledge of Internet of Things topics will be invited to develope own projects as subsequent Semester/Bachelor/Master Theses under the supervision of researchers of IM.

Schedule

Date Topic
21.2.2008 Introduction, Distribution of Topics, Administrative [slides]
28.2.2008 Talk 1:The Internet of Things: Scenarios, Potentials, Challenges [slides]

Will communicating objects dominate the internet and supercede human – document traffic? Scenarios, Potentials, Challenges.

  • 06.3.2
Talk 2: RFID and NFC Technology [slides]

How does RFID work? Which are the different core technologies? What are the characteristics, and which are the selection criteria?

  • Klaus Finkenzeller: "Fundamentals and Applications in Contactless Smart Cards and Identification", 2nd eddition (April 2003), Wiley & Sons LTD, Chapter 3
  • Steve Hodges, Mark Harrison: Demystifying RFID: Principles & Practicalities, Auto-ID Labs Whitepaper, [pdf]
13.3.2008 Talk 3: Privacy Issues and Solutions (Thomas Frendo) [slides]
20.3.2008
Talk 4: EPC-Network - an internet of things infrastructure (Cagri Balkesen) [slides]

The basic components of the EPC global network. How it works and which components are yet to be developed

27.3.2008

due date for paper submissions (EasyChair)

Spring Break,

recommended visit of Internet of Things conference more

03.4.2008 no class
10.4.2008

due date for paper reviews (EasyChair)

Talk 5: Data Visualization and User Interfaces (Dennis Gotta) [slides]
Augmenting physical item with RFID will yield a vast number of data. Methods have to be found to present and visualize these data in human perceivable formats.

17.4.2008
Talk 6: Applications for the insurance business: Pay as you drive (Lee  Yuanshan) [slides]

Sensing technologies potentially can provide deeper insides into the behaviour of insurees. Information such as distance, speed, etc. can be used for compiling a more fine-grain calculation of insurance premiums. This talk will elaborate on new opportunities for the insurance business at the example of pay as you drive.

24.4.2008
Talk 7: Anti-Counterfeiting - Prevention of counterfeit products (Eugene  Filimon) [slides]

  • Counterfeit Trade - Economics and Counter-measure, Dissertation, Thorsten Staake (can be provided upon request)
  • The Potential of RFID in Anti-Counterfeiting. Thorsten Staake.
  • From Identification to Authentication - A Review of RFID Product Authentication Techniques, M. Lehtonen, T. Staake, F. Michahelles, E. Fleisch. In: Printed handout of Workshop on RFID Security -- RFIDSec 06, July 2006, [PDF].
  • Probabilistic Approach for Location-Based Authentication, M. Lehtonen, F. Michahelles, E. Fleisch, 1st International Workshop on Security for Spontaneous Interaction IWSSI 2007, organized in 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing, Austria, September 2007, [PDF].
  • Anti-Counterfeiting 2.0 - A Consumer-Driven Approach towards Product Authentication, F. von Reischach, F. Michahelles, E. Fleisch, Late Breaking Results at the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2007), Austria, September 2007, [PDF].
  • Trust and Security in RFID-based Product Authentication Systems, M. Lehtonen, F. Michahelles, and E. Fleisch. IEEE Systems Journal, Special Issue on RFID Technology: Opportunities and Challenges, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 2007, [PDF].
01.5.2008

First of May, no class 
08.5.2008 Visit: SAP Future Retail Initiative, Regensdorf 14:30-15:30

adress: Althardstrasse 80, 8105 Regensdorf (map, directions)

Suggested transport: S6,

14:02 Zurich HB -> Regensdorf Watt 14:18

15:41 Regensdorf Watt -> Zurich HB 15:58

15.5.2008

due date for final revised papers

(EasyChair)

Talk 8:  Collaborative Consumer Applications (Laurent Aapro)

One foreseeable way to invite consumers into the world of the internet of things is to give them access to the Internet of Things, so they could easily get information about products and related services.

  • EPCFind: Implementing a Mobile Lost and Found Infrastructure Dominique Guinard, Florian Michahelles, Sassan Iraji, Harri Hirvola, Elgar Fleisch (ETH Zurich, Nokia Research Helsinki)
  • Mobile Prosumer Blog
  • Twitter
22.5.2008
Final Discussion
29.5.2008 no class


additional topics may be proposed, please contact Florian Michahelles if you have specific ideas or also questions.

Major Course Assessment (Leistungsnachweis)

Format

  1. Presentation
    • 30 min. per Person
    • Slides in English, Presentation could be in German
  2. Elaboration of a Paper
    • 4 to 6 pages per Person
    • Written in English
    • Usage of Style Template: 
      • IEEE 8.5x11 conference format, and formatted in strict accordance with the IEEE Computer Society author guidelines.
      • For your convenience, templates are available.
  3. Structure: Abstract, Introduction, Summary & Conclusions, References
  4. Peer Review Process:
    • Review Papers of others
    • Review Template (will be provided)
  5. Update Paper according to Reviews

General Literature

Writing a paper

Giving a talk

 

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