Marco Manso

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The devastating impact that seismic events can cause to societies demands that the underlying physical processes that cause them are better understood. Seismic networks have been increasingly deployed over the years allowing to measure ground motion with great accuracy and, in a few cases, reaching high-density deployments for high-resolution measu...

As life expectancy continues to increase in most EU Member States, smart technologies can help enable older people to continue living at home, despite the challenges accompanying the ageing process. The Innovation Action (IA) SHAPES ‘Smart and Healthy Ageing through People Engaging in Supportive Systems’ funded by the EU under the Horizon 2020 Rese...

The seismic sensor network Alentejo (SSN-Alentejo) developed by the Earth Sciences Institute (Instituto de Ciências da Terra, University of Évora) brings the largest high-density seismic sensor network ever deployed in Portugal. This novel network aims to improve the characterization of seismic activity in the region, through a high-resolution mapp...

Seismic events can be extreme and severe threats to humanity, causing a heavy death toll, serious destruction and damage. Helping to understand these phenomena, seismic networks have been deployed in increasing number, filling in gaps in the global coverage and improving our understanding of the physical processes that cause earthquakes. Deployment...

The evolving fields of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) and the Internet of Things (IoT) have allowed a multitude of state and non-state actors to leverage remote, ubiquitous and context rich computing for solving future challenges. Individually, standards underlying ICT/IoT serve the purpose they were devised for in supporting prede...

The digital world nowadays consists of a very high number of devices and software services that are being used and constantly exposed to the Internet. Furthermore, with the evolution of the Internet of Things (IoT), the cybersecurity threat landscape has overall increased. Consequently, various certification frameworks have been developed for maint...

The NATO Research Task Group IST-150 ”NATO Core Services profiling for Hybrid Tactical Networks” had Federated Mission Networking (FMN) as the main context and motivation for its work. IST-150 intended to investigate Core Services at the tactical level, and provide recommendations for future spirals of FMN targeting the tactical level. Specifically...

Seismology deals with the study of the activity of physical forces responsible for the origin of earthquakes and the seismic waves generated within the Earth. All structures located from the center of the Earth to its surface are the subject of study in this discipline. Seismology therefore pursues the understanding of the Earth’s internal structur...

Seismic events can be extreme and severe threats to humanity, causing a heavy death toll, serious destruction and damage. Being no exception, the Iberian Peninsula and the North of Africa share the Eurasian-Nubian plate boundary that corresponds to a well-defined narrow band of seismicity, where large earthquakes occur. Helping to understand these...

People generally need more support as they grow older to maintain healthy and active lifestyles. Older people living with chronic conditions are particularly dependent on healthcare services. Yet, in an increasingly digital society, there is a danger that efforts to drive innovations in eHealth will neglect the needs of those who depend on healthca...

The rapid technological evolution in sensors, sensor platforms and networking is enabling the deployment of large sensor networks for "live" monitoring of seismic activity with high spatial resolution. In this regard, this paper describes our work in developing an online "High Throughput Seismic Sensor Network". We present the architecture and impl...

Following a chemical or biological attack, the rate at which a forensic investigation proceeds is critical for capturing perpetrators and preventing future incidents. Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) is a process that aims at recording the scene as it is first encountered and recognizing and collecting all the physical evidence potentially relevant...

The research task group NATO STO/IST-150 «NATO Core Services profiling for Hybrid Tactical Networks» is working towards profiling Core Services for the tactical domain, which can be characterized as DIL (disconnected, intermittent and limited) environments. In this context, our work is intended to feed into future spirals of the Federated Mission N...

The seismic sensor network Alentejo (SSN-Alentejo) brings a new approach in seismological survey based on networked low-cost sensors and acquisition systems. It is developed by the Earth Sciences Institute (Instituto de Ciências da Terra, University of Evora) to bring the most dense seismic sensor network ever deployed in Portugal. By combining hig...

Cybersecurity is an increasingly critical aspect of healthcare information technology infrastructure. Nowadays, the rapid digitisation of healthcare delivery, from electronic health records and telehealth (eHealth services) to mobile health (mHealth) and network-enabled medical devices, introduces risks related to cybersecurity vulnerabilities that...

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) promises to transform our society into smart environments that is environmentally aware. IoT applications cut across all societal domains, including military. Military organisations can exploit IoT applications in battlefields and operational theatres to improve situational awareness, mission performance and achieve inf...

The environment in which tactical forces operate is characterized by disconnected intermittent connectivity and limited bandwidth (DIL). This environment significantly constrains the application of widely used technologies. These characteristics require that technology and standards need to be carefully selected and that appropriate profiles are se...

The Internet-of-Things (IoT) promises to transform our society into smart environments, incorporating smart objects that cooperate to fulfil specific goals. Amongst its many applications, emergencies can also benefit from IoT principles and use of automation for a better emergency response and reducing the number of fatalities. Smart devices can be...

The adoption of smart environments is becoming more and more important in many application scenarios such as healthcare, asset management and environmental monitoring. In emergency services, there are also very attractive use cases on next generation emergency services, presenting challenges that must be addressed in order to satisfy the requiremen...

In the original version of the book, incorrect author name “Maria Ghanza” has to be corrected as “Maria Ganzha” in Preface and in chapter “Towards Multi-layer Interoperability of Heterogeneous IoT Platforms: The INTER-IoT Approach”. The erratum book has been updated with the change.

This edited book investigates the lack of interoperability in the IoT realm, including innovative research as well as technical solutions to interoperability, integration, and interconnection of heterogeneous IoT systems, at any level. It also explores issues caused by lack of interoperability such as impossibility to plug non-interoperable IoT dev...

The rapid technological evolution in sensors, sensor platforms and networking is enabling the deployment of large sensor networks for "live" and real-time monitoring of seismic activity with high spatial resolution. In this regard, this paper presents our work in designing and implementing a sensor system that operates autonomously, is network enab...

The rapid technological evolution in sensors, sensor platforms and networking is enabling the deployment of large sensor networks for "live" monitoring of seismic activity with high spatial resolution. In this regard, this paper presents our work in designing and implementing a sensor system that operates autonomously, is network enabled and produc...

The Internet of Things (IoT) potentials to transform our modern society into smart environments that facilitate living and boost all types of transactions are becoming more and more evident as the number of interconnections between the physical and the virtual world keeps increasing. Cyber-physical systems, wide end-to end connectivity and handling...

This study explores the potential deployment of small satellites for maritime interdiction and security applications by investigating the available solutions and formulating a generic proposal to optimize the use of those short lived space assets in support of these operations. The operational background is analyzed with respect to the potential us...

The NATO research task group IST-118 titled “SOA recommendations for disadvantaged grids in the tactical domain” is addressing the challenge of implementing the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm at the tactical level by providing guidance and best practices in the form of a Tactical SOA Profile. The group will conduct identification and...

The NATO research group IST-118 titled " SOA recommendations for disadvantaged grids in the tactical domain " is addressing the challenge of implementing the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm at the tactical level by providing guidance and best practices in the form of a Tactical SOA Profile. The group will conduct feasibility assessment...

Pico satellites (PicoSats) are small size short lived satellites that operate at a low earth orbit. They can carry various payloads such as imagery sensors, Automatic Identification Systems (AIS) and communications. Interest in PicoSats is rising given their relative low cost of production and operation, relative ease of engineering and available w...

Executive Summary Agility is the capability to successfully effect, cope with, and/or exploit changes in circumstances. While other factors will also influence outcomes, C2 Agility enables entities to effectively and efficiently employ the resources they have in a timely manner in a variety of missions and circumstances. SAS-085 was formed to impro...

Worldwide crises have drawn significant attention to the role information communication technologies play in crisis and search and rescue response efforts, due to the increasing participation of informed citizens through online (social) media and mobile communications. Empowered by the new digital communication, including smartphones, text messagin...

Large-scale crises challenge the ability of public safety and security organisations to respond efficient and effectively. Meanwhile, citizens' adoption of mobile technology and rich social media services is dramatically changing the way crisis responses develop. Empowered by new communication media (smartphones, text messaging, internet-based appl...

Several ELICIT experiments have been conducted in the past with the objective of better understanding and validating NEC tenets and principles, including the NATO NEC C2 Maturity Model (N2C2M2) developed by the NATO SAS-065 Group. These experiments involved human subjects and, more recently, parameterizable software agents capable of mimicking huma...

In this paper we discuss emerging security and safety applications of Online Social Networks (OSNs). Due to high worldwide popularity social networking can be considered not only as an effective communication channel and efficient information sharing platform, but also as a useful mechanism to enhance public safety and security, including crisis re...

The ubiquity of online and mobile technologies across the World and their rapid adoption by citizens in the face of emergencies and crises is rapidly changing the C2 operational environment for responses to natural disasters, terrorist threats and social upheavals.

Worldwide crises recently prompted new attention to the role information communication technologies (ICT) play in SAR and crisis response efforts, due to the growing citizens' participation through online (social) media and mobile communications. Empowered by new communication media, such as mobile phones with cameras, text messaging and internet-b...

Operationalizing C2 Agility" is the process of moving from a conceptual model or theory of C2 Agility to applying this theory to improve an entity's C2 Agility in practice. This process is greatly facilitated if one builds a proper foundation. In this paper, we begin by identifying the critical elements or cornerstones of such a foundation and the...

The use of sensors to capture disparate types of information from the environment has been increasing and they cover a wide range of applications, such as climate monitoring (e.g., seismic activity and climate), water quality monitoring, area surveillance, intelligent buildings, energy management, automotive industry and scientific purposes. Additi...

Modern military operations require to operate in a coalition environment in which Network-Centric principles intrinsically apply. These operations were coined as Complex Endeavors (Alberts and Hayes, 2009) - characterized by multiple chains of command, lack of understanding of all cause-effect relationships and unpredictability - and new ways of co...

This paper presents a work that aims to monitor seismo-electromagnetic phenomena in the Western Part of the Eurasia-Nubia Plate Boundary. This region has a significant tectonic activity combined with relatively low electromagnetic noise levels, rendering high quality seismo-electromagnetic measurements possible. An overview of the seismicity of thi...

SAFE-PORT is a recently started project addressing the complex issue of determining the best configurations of resources for harbour and port surveillance and protection. More specifically, the main goal is to find, for any given scenario, an adequate set of configuration solutions - i.e., number and type of sensors and equipments, their locations...

ELICIT aims to investigate social and cognitive impacts of command and control approaches and organisational structures within the context of information sharing, shared awareness and knowledge task. Nowadays, command and control is increasingly seen as the result of multidimensional factors and processes that intertwine the physical, information,...

The recently developed NATO NEC Command and Control Maturity Model (N2C2M2) defined new C2 approaches, established their relation with one or more maturity levels and studied the implications throughout the NCW value chain, the C2 domains (information, cognitive and social) and the organization's effectiveness. This paper focus on a set of experime...

This paper presents a work that aims to monitor seismo-electromagnetic phenomena in the Western Part of the Eurasia-Nubia Plate Boundary. This region has a significant tectonic activity combined with relatively low electromagnetic noise levels, rendering high quality seismo-electromagnetic measurements possible. An overview of the seismicity of thi...