Ciprian Dobre

Universitatea Națională de Știință și Tehnologie Politehnica București | UPB · Department of Computers

The past two years have undoubtedly made digital health necessary, especially due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The integration of digital technology into the field of medicine has brought about significant advancements, particularly in the realm of neurological diseases. The key areas where digital health has made a substantial impact are represented...

Data plays a role of great importance in research, and making it open means freedom to use, reuse, or redistribute it. For research purposes, science has been called to be more open and adhere to the FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable), resulting in a growing trend of open research data. However, there are limitations to...

Ensuring a high level of security and privacy for medical data is the primary task of e-health systems. From the point of view of the EU General Data Protection Regulation, medical data is considered to be sensitive data, as they are one of the main cybercrime targets due to the concentration of confidential personal information such as identity, c...

The essential criterion for developing an intelligent age-friendly environment is evaluating and monitoring the provision of services. Our research aims to allow the deployment of a broad range of digital healthcare solutions interconnected in an IoT network ecosystem. Through their interoperability, we will be able to cultivate age-friendly smart...

The vINCI technology represents an innovative instrument developed specifically but not exclusively for older adults by technology researchers together with a medical team specialized in geriatrics and gerontology. It was designed to be independently and effortlessly used by older adults in the comfort and safety of their own environment. It is a m...

Physical activity is essential to a healthy lifestyle and influences people's health and well-being. The growing need for integrated solutions that promote active aging and independent living, with user-centred applications, leads to development projects that monitor older adults through various smart devices and dedicated applications. This paper...

Background Quality of life (QOL) is a complex concept known for being influenced by socio-demographic characteristics, individual needs, perceptions and expectations. The study investigates influences of such heterogeneous variables and aims to identify and describe subgroups of older patients who share similar response patterns for the four domain...

Analyzing pedestrian dynamics has since long been an active and practical field of interest. Since the introduction of, in particular, smartphones, various organizations saw a simple means for automatically measuring pedestrian dynamics. The basic idea is simple: network packets sent by WiFi-enabled devices can be collected by sensors and by extrac...

Today, the challenge in healthcare is to create personalised solutions in which existing care technologies can be better adapted to the cognitive and perceptual decline of older people. This paper presents the final digital solution vINCI, validated in the clinical environment by older adults without major health problems with the involvement of pr...

Background: Quality of life (QOL) is a complex concept known for being influenced by socio-demographic characteristics, individual needs, perceptions and expectations. The study investigates influences of such heterogeneous variables and aims to identify and describe subgroups of older patients who share similar response patterns for the four domai...

In the context in which it was demonstrated that humanoid robots are efficient in helping children diagnosed with autism in exploring their affective state, this paper underlines and proves the efficiency of a previously developed machine learning-based mobile application called PandaSays, which was improved and integrated with an Alpha 1 Pro robot...

As we get older, various health-related problems appear, and it becomes more and more difficult to perform actions that once seemed simple. This paper presents a novel solution for different mobility and age-related problems, that incorporates virtual reality and video gaming features. The main feature provided by the implemented rehabilitation sys...

Increasing network speeds and storage resource requirements have led the vast majority of industry players to intensively use cloud as a commodity service. Although the advantages obtained by following this trend are obvious, a multitude of privacy concerns arise regarding the confidentiality and integrity of data. In order to overcome privacy issu...

One of the most important lifestyle risk factors for many chronic conditions in the older age, low physical activity has shown to have significant impact on the sustainability of national welfare in many developed countries. Technology-based assisted living solutions can effectively be used to enable older adults to optimise their health-related qu...

The analysis of emotions is still considered a rather difficult procedure and it is constrained by the limitations related to the languages available for this analysis. The Romanian language is one of the richest and most complex languages with different dialects, regionalisms, archaisms and a powerful and expressive poetic language. Starting from...

The digitization of the Romanian cultural heritage is a basic solution for the conservation of national cultural creations. The access to representative cultural works will be a real support for the continuity of the Romanian language and traditions, it will contribute to the education support in Romania and it will facilitate the access of future...

Today, we are witnessing profound changes in the provision of healthcare services, shifting from illness-centred systems to patient-centred ones, able to deliver a personalised and integrated experience. This new approach has been generated by the tendencies of recent decades regarding the continuous increase of chronic medical conditions associate...

Monitoring systems for the activities of the older adults are increasingly desired and requested by the elderly, their families and medical professionals. This paper presents a detailed analysis of depth cameras with highlights of key features, algorithms used in the development of applications using these types of cameras, limitations and problems...

Constant Internet connectivity has become a necessity in our lives. Hence, music festival organizers allocate part of their budget for temporary Wi-Fi equipment in order to sustain the high network traffic generated in such a small geographical area, but this naturally leads to high costs that need to be decreased. Thus, in this paper, we propose a...

In order to improve the traffic in large cities and to avoid congestion, advanced methods of detecting and predicting vehicle behaviour are needed. Such methods require complex information regarding the number of vehicles on the roads, their positions, directions, etc. One way to obtain this information is by analyzing overhead images collected by...

The growing aging of the world's population is leading to the need to take assistance measures and prepare health care systems for the elderly. The innovative vINCI system provides technologies and uses smart devices that can non-invasively monitor the activity of elderly, to intervene in case of alerts, to prevent possible health problems, such as...

Blockchain is an emerging technology that has shaken the financial sector, and which is already perceived as having an impact. A blockchain is a network of many interconnected nodes, both trustworthy and malicious, which can reach a consensus and generate valid data. The resulting information is packed into a block and permanently saved on the netw...

The new demographic perspectives lead to the necessity to develop new solutions based on the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, which is designed for the early identification of the health issues of the elderly people and for providing support to them so as to understand the factors that limit their Quality of Life (QoL). An adaptive technology,...

Due to the demographic changes, the demand for care services adapted to the elderly will have an unprecedented growth globally. In this situation, maintaining quality of life (QoL) and wellbeing for older adults will need support of complementary, non-traditional, ICT-based care practices. vINCI project, part of the European research effort in this...

With the rate at which smartphones are currently evolving, more and more of human life will be contained in these devices. At a time when data privacy is extremely important, it is crucial to protect one’s mobile device. In this paper, we propose a new non-intrusive gait recognition based mechanism that can enhance the security of smartphones by ra...

The worldwide increasing pace of population leads to the need to prepare health and social care systems for the elderly. In this context, there are challenges to develop technologies that meet the needs of older adults, to adapt to their cognitive and perceptual decline. The vINCI project develops an integrated and validated Internet of Things (IoT...

The User Datagram Protocol (UDP) and other similar protocols send the application data from the source machine to the destination machine inside segments, without foreseeing nor allowing for any type of control on the transmission or success metrics. These protocols are very convenient for e.g. real time data transmission. But when the reliability...

A disruptive technology often used in finance, Internet of Things (IoT) and healthcare, blockchain can reach consensus within a decentralised network—potentially composed of large amounts of unreliable nodes—and to permanently and irreversibly store data in a tamper-proof manner. In this paper, we present a reputation system for Intelligent Transpo...

Wi-Fi offloading in fog networks is believed to be one of the best ways to solve the significant data increase in cellular networks, since nodes located close by are used as relays for offloading traffic and computations. This alarming growth has affected these networks and has put its mark on their performance. Some operators might try upgrading t...

In these days the scientific community is times bigger comparing with the previous centuries. The need of powerful tools to aggregate and analyse the information about articles, books and other publications becomes greater with each published paper. In this paper we describe a solution for understanding and leveraging this data. The platform integr...

The vINCI project proposes an approach for providing personalized assistance services for patients in an IoT-based ecosystem. In this context, the challenges remain to develop technologies that meet the needs of older adults, accommodate their cognitive and perceptual declines. One of the challenges to the effective design of such technologies is t...

The INTELLIT project develops a virtual online museum of the Romanian literature. The sources of data made available and provided by the Romanian Academy, such as: General Dictionary of Romanian Literature, Timeline of the Romanian Literary Life and the canonical works of Romanian writers are digitized and indexed using smart text analytics. One of...

The rapid growth of mobile devices in recent years has led to the rapid progress of mobile computing. However, this has exposed certain limitations, that have first been addressed by mobile cloud computing. Once Internet of Things devices have started being put online, a new step in the evolution of mobile networks was taken through the addition of...

In this paper we present a solution that represents both an open portal to the digital era and also a possible answer to the problems of preservation and conservation of Romanian literature patrimony. This solution consists in the development of a digital platform, by which literary works, manuscripts, editions of a work, bibliographies, dictionari...

The continuous increase in the number of elderly people today poses important challenges for countries as they have to ensure that social and health systems are aligned with the needs of the elderly. In this paper is considered the problem of older adult health monitoring based on IoT monitoring platforms and clinical systems. A large amount of dat...

Due to the increased rhythm of aging population at world level, all countries need to prepare for this challenge their healthcare and social systems for the elderly. Thus, it appears the need of monitoring the older adults in order to increase their Quality of life (QoL) and wellbeing, this conducting to the development of ICT-based systems to solv...

An exciting piece of information was tweeted at the Microsoft Build 2017 conference, regarding the global Internet traffic. While in 1992 the global Internet traffic was about 0.001 GB/s, today the global Internet traffic is estimated to 20,000 GB/s. This significant figure sets the plot for an interconnected environment that shares media content a...

Drop Computing is a network paradigm that aims to address the issues of the mobile cloud computing model, which has started to show limitations especially since the advent of the Internet of Things and the increase in the number of connected devices. In Drop Computing, nodes are able to offload data and computations to the cloud, to edge devices, o...

This open access book is the final publication of the COST Action IC1303 “Algorithms, Architectures and Platforms for Enhanced Living Environments (AAPELE)” project. Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) is an area of research based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), medical research, and sociological research. AAL is based on the notion...

Because the number of elderly people is predicted to increase quickly in the upcoming years, “aging in place” (which refers to living at home regardless of age and other factors) is becoming an important topic in the area of ambient assisted living. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a human physical activity recognition system based on data coll...

In recent years, the amount of data consumed by mobile devices has grown exponentially, especially with the advent of the Internet of Things and all its connected devices. For this reason, researchers are looking for methods of alleviating the congestion and strain on the network, generally through various means of offloading, or by bringing the da...