Marc Roelands

Alcatel Lucent · Bell Labs

The motivation for this article arises from the security, complexity and interoperability challenges in cyber-physical systems (CPS) especially in energy and mobility domains. Handling peak consumption hours and balancing power levels in the energy grids are becoming more and more expensive for the energy sector, energy intensive industry and consu...

The connected car is likely to play a fundamental role in the foreseeable Internet of Things. The connectivity aspect in combination with the available data (e.g. from GPS, on-board diagnostics, road sensors) and video (e.g. from dashcams and traffic cameras) streams enable a range of new applications, e.g., accident avoidance, online route plannin...

In this paper, we introduce an innovative, service platform-based approach to dynamic, world model-derived stream prioritization and selection, going beyond today's practice in urban security solutions. By validating the approach in a realistic urban simulation and resource-constrained wireless sensor network context, we demonstrate a significant i...

In order to realize a viable business ecosystem in the Internet of Things (IoT), we investigated how a smart horizontal IoT service platform can bring value and economies of scale to all required ecosystem stakeholders. By means of an example application domain case, this paper constructs a multi-sided business model illustrating how such viable bu...

With Machine-to-Machine and Internet of Things getting beyond hype, including an ever wider range of connected device types in ever more value-added services, a new era of data (and multimedia) stream-intensive services is emerging. While live data is massively becoming available, turning it into meaningful information that is not only actionable f...

This work presents a Cognitive Management framework for empowering the Internet of Things (IoT). This framework has the ability to dynamically adapt its behaviour, through self-management functionality, taking into account information and knowledge (obtained through machine learning) on the situation (e.g., internal status and status of environment...

In this paper, we report our analysis of extracting relevant existing and new interaction patterns that are candidates as enabling paradigms to facilitate Internet of Thing user created application building. We first define the context and underline what is an internet of thing user created application and what are the main research issues. We stre...

In this chapter we discuss the wide range of challenges in user-generated Internet of Things applications, as being worked on among the large consortium of the DiY Smart Experiences (DiYSE) project (DiYSE, ITEA2 08005). The chapter starts with a discussion on the context of ‘DiY’ as a phenomenon to be leveraged, and eco-awareness as an example appl...

In this chapter we present a first analysis towards the enablement of mass creativity in the Internet of Things, potentially leading to a wide range of new tangible, interactive applications that leverage the fundamental new possibilities of an emerging Web of Things. After an introduction of the socio-cultural practice of ‘Do-it-Yourself’ (DiY) as...

As technology advances and becomes more pervasive, the DiY (Do-it-Yourself) paradigm that emerged on the furniture & home decoration market in the 70's is now experiencing a second birth in the digital realm. Continuing from the prosumer paradigm, where people are allowed not only to surf a network obtaining content and information, but also (co-)c...

In this chapter we discuss the wide range of challenges in user-generated Internet of Things applications, as being worked on among the large consortium of the DiY Smart Experiences (DiYSE) project (DiYSE, ITEA2 08005). The chapter starts with a discussion on the context of "DiY" as a phenomenon to be leveraged, and eco-awareness as an example appl...

Existing “photoframes” are single application closed proprietary systems. In this paper, we will outline the possibilities that emerge when we expose the control API of the digital “photoframe” to the local network. The “photoframe” is connected to an execution environment that aggregates intelligence in the smart space. We will describe briefly th...

A profound impact of the Web2.0 lies in its power to transform skilled users into service providers, resulting in more complex value networks. As recently traditional ¿operated¿ network infrastructure is complemented with huge amounts of connected smart objects (the Internet-of-Things), the same mass creativity can be made applicable to smart, co...

A synchronization criterion for overlap-add time-scale modification is derived through a least squares estimation of the modified short-time Fourier transform. Based on this finding, a structural time-domain framework for time-scale modification is described. One efficient variant, which was called the Waveform Similarity based Overlap-Add (WSOLA)...

A concept of waveform similarity for tackling the problem of time-scale modification of speech is proposed. It is worked out in the context of short-time Fourier transform representations. The resulting WSOLA (waveform-similarity-based synchronized overlap-add) algorithm produces high-quality speech output, is algorithmically and computationally ef...

A synchronization criterion for overlap-add time-scale modification is derived through a least squares estimation of the modified short-time Fourier transform. Based on this finding, a structural ti me-domain framework for time-scale modification is described. One e fficient variant, which was called the Waveform Similarity based Overlap-Add (WSOLA...