TY - THES A1 - Salinas Segura, Alexander T1 - The Internet of Things: Business Applications, Technology Acceptance, and Future Prospects T1 - Das Internet der Dinge: Unternehmensanwendung, Technologieakzeptanz und Zukunftsaussichten N2 - This dissertation explores the Internet of Things from three different perspectives for which three individual studies were conducted. The first study presents a business application within supply chain management. The second study addresses user acceptance of pervasive information systems, while the third study covers future prospects of the Internet of Things. The first study is about wireless sensor technologies and their possibilities for optimizing product quality in the cold chain. The processing of sensor data such as temperature information allows for the construction of novel issuing policies in distribution centers. The objective of the study was to investigate the possible economic potential of sensor-based issuing policies in a cold chain. By means of simulation, we analyzed a three-echelon supply chain model, including a manufacturer, a distribution center, and a retail store. Our analysis shows that sensor-based issuing policies bear the potential to become an effective complement to conventional issuing policies. However, the results also indicate that important trade-offs must be taken into account in the selection of a specific issuing policy. The second study deals with the increasing emergence of pervasive information systems and user acceptance. Based on the integration of the extended “Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology” (UTAUT2) and three pervasiveness constructs, we derived a comprehensive research model to account for pervasive information systems. Data collected from 346 participants in an online survey was analyzed to test the developed research model using structural equation modeling and taking into account multi-group and mediation analysis. The results confirm the applicability of the integrated UTAUT2 model to measure pervasiveness. The third study addresses future prospects of the Internet of Things within the retail industry. We employed a research framework to explore the macro- as well as microeconomic perspective. First, we developed future projections for the retail industry containing IoT aspects. Second, a two-round Delphi study with an expert panel of 15 participants was conducted to evaluate the projections. Third, we used scenario development to create scenarios of the most relevant projections evaluated by the participants. N2 - Die vorliegende Dissertation untersucht das „Internet der Dinge“ aus drei verschiedenen Perspektiven, wofür drei Studien durchgeführt wurden. Die erste Studie präsentiert eine kommerzielle Anwendung innerhalb des Supply Chain Managements. Die zweite Studie behandelt das Thema Nutzerakzeptanz im Kontext allgegenwärtiger Informationstechnologien, während sich die dritte Studie mit Zukunftsaussichten des Internets der Dinge im Einzelhandel befasst. Die erste Studie evaluiert die Möglichkeiten kabelloser Sensortechnologien zur Optimierung der Produktqualität verderblicher Güter in der Kühlkette. Dabei ermöglicht die Verarbeitung von Sensordaten, wie bspw. Temperaturinformationen, neuartige Ansätze bei sog. Verbrauchsfolgeverfahren in der Lagerhaltung im Verteilzentrum. Das Ziel der Studie ist die möglichen ökonomischen Potenziale sensorbasierter Verbrauchsfolgeverfahren in der Kühlkette zu untersuchen. Mittels Simulation wurde eine dreistufige Lieferkette, bestehend aus einem Hersteller, einem Verteilzentrum und einem Einzelhandelsgeschäft, analysiert. Die Analyse verdeutlicht, dass sensorbasierte Verbrauchsfolgeverfahren das Potenzial besitzen sich zu einer wirkungsvollen Ergänzung zu üblichen Verbrauchsfolgeverfahren zu entwickeln. Die Ergebnisse zeigen jedoch auch, dass wichtige Kompromisse bei der Auswahl spezifischer Verbrauchsfolgeverfahren zu berücksichtigen sind. Die zweite Studie behandelt das Thema Nutzerakzeptanz von sog. pervasiven Informationssystemen. Auf der Grundlage der Integration der erweiterten „Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology” (UTAUT2) und drei Konstrukten zu „Pervasiveness“, wurde ein umfassendes Forschungsmodell entwickelt um pervasiven Informationssytemen Rechnung zu tragen. Hierzu wurden Daten von 346 Teilnehmern einer Onlineumfrage gesammelt und analysiert, um das Forschungsmodell unter Verwendung von Strukturgleichungsmodellierung zu testen. Weitere Bestandteile der Analyse waren eine Mehrgruppen-Moderation und Mediation. Die Ergebnisse bestätigen die Anwendbarkeit des integrierten UTAUT2-Modells um die Nutzerakzeptanz pervasiver Informationssysteme zu messen. Die dritte Studie befasst sich mit den Zukunftsaussichten des Internets der Dinge im Einzelhandel. Vor dem Hintergrund makro- und mikroökonomischer Faktoren wurden zunächst Zukunftsprojektionen im Kontext des Internets der Dinge im Einzelhandel erstellt. Anschließend wurde eine zweistufige Delphi-Studie mit einer 15 Teilnehmer umfassenden Expertengruppe durchgeführt zur Bewertung der Projektionen. Im letzten Schritt stand die Szenarioentwicklung im Vordergrund, in der potenzielle Zukunftsszenarien aus den relevantesten Projektionen, basierend auf den Expertenmeinungen, entwickelt wurden. KW - Internet der Dinge KW - Internet of Things KW - Sensors KW - Supply Chain KW - Technology Acceptance KW - Delphi Study Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-131605 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Prantl, Thomas A1 - Zeck, Timo A1 - Bauer, Andre A1 - Ten, Peter A1 - Prantl, Dominik A1 - Yahya, Ala Eddine Ben A1 - Ifflaender, Lukas A1 - Dmitrienko, Alexandra A1 - Krupitzer, Christian A1 - Kounev, Samuel T1 - A Survey on Secure Group Communication Schemes With Focus on IoT Communication JF - IEEE Access N2 - A key feature for Internet of Things (IoT) is to control what content is available to each user. To handle this access management, encryption schemes can be used. Due to the diverse usage of encryption schemes, there are various realizations of 1-to-1, 1-to-n, and n-to-n schemes in the literature. This multitude of encryption methods with a wide variety of properties presents developers with the challenge of selecting the optimal method for a particular use case, which is further complicated by the fact that there is no overview of existing encryption schemes. To fill this gap, we envision a cryptography encyclopedia providing such an overview of existing encryption schemes. In this survey paper, we take a first step towards such an encyclopedia by creating a sub-encyclopedia for secure group communication (SGC) schemes, which belong to the n-to-n category. We extensively surveyed the state-of-the-art and classified 47 different schemes. More precisely, we provide (i) a comprehensive overview of the relevant security features, (ii) a set of relevant performance metrics, (iii) a classification for secure group communication schemes, and (iv) workflow descriptions of the 47 schemes. Moreover, we perform a detailed performance and security evaluation of the 47 secure group communication schemes. Based on this evaluation, we create a guideline for the selection of secure group communication schemes. KW - Internet of Things KW - encryption KW - secure group communication Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-300257 VL - 10 SP - 99944 EP - 99962 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Loh, Frank A1 - Raffeck, Simon A1 - Geißler, Stefan A1 - Hoßfeld, Tobias T1 - Paving the Way for an Energy Efficient and Sustainable Future Internet of Things T2 - KuVS Fachgespräch - Würzburg Workshop on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Next-Generation Communication Networks 2023 (WueWoWAS’23) N2 - In this work, we describe the network from data collection to data processing and storage as a system based on different layers. We outline the different layers and highlight major tasks and dependencies with regard to energy consumption and energy efficiency. With this view, we can outwork challenges and questions a future system architect must answer to provide a more sustainable, green, resource friendly, and energy efficient application or system. Therefore, all system layers must be considered individually but also altogether for future IoT solutions. This requires, in particular, novel sustainability metrics in addition to current Quality of Service and Quality of Experience metrics to provide a high power, user satisfying, and sustainable network. KW - Internet of Things KW - energy efficiency KW - sustainability Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-322161 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krupitzer, Christian A1 - Temizer, Timur A1 - Prantl, Thomas A1 - Raibulet, Claudia T1 - An Overview of Design Patterns for Self-Adaptive Systems in the Context of the Internet of Things JF - IEEE Access N2 - The Internet of Things (IoT) requires the integration of all available, highly specialized, and heterogeneous devices, ranging from embedded sensor nodes to servers in the cloud. The self-adaptive research domain provides adaptive capabilities that can support the integration in IoT systems. However, developing such systems is a challenging, error-prone, and time-consuming task. In this context, design patterns propose already used and optimized solutions to specific problems in various contexts. Applying design patterns might help to reuse existing knowledge about similar development issues. However, so far, there is a lack of taxonomies on design patterns for self-adaptive systems. To tackle this issue, in this paper, we provide a taxonomy on design patterns for self-adaptive systems that can be transferred to support adaptivity in IoT systems. Besides describing the taxonomy and the design patterns, we discuss their applicability in an Industrial IoT case study. KW - Design patterns KW - Internet of Things KW - IoT KW - self-adaptive systems KW - software engineering Y1 - 2020 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-229984 VL - 8 ER -