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Digital Twins in the Automotive Sector: A Summary of Reports from the IoT4CPS Research Project
In December 2020, the Austrian 3-year project IoT4CPS (Trustworthy IoT for CPS) came to its end. The project’s aim was to develop guidelines, methods and tools for secure IoT-based applications in two areas: Connected & Autonomous Vehicles, and Industry 4.0. The focus of services developed in IoT4CPS for the Automotive sector is purely on safety and…
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Digital Twins, Part 3: Cross-Platform Interoperation at the Data Level
There is virtually no limit to what could be done when the data are combined using the right strategies, analytics methods and tools. The results could be both – the desired benefits or undesired consequences adversely affecting privacy, safety, fairness, and overall decisions. In our recent research on designing Digital Twins for IoT lifecycle data…
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AVL Research Networking Day 2019, Graz
IoT4CPS is an Austrian research project with a focus on Connected and Automated Mobility and Industry 4.0. The project is funded for 3 years (Dec 2017 – Nov 2020) and its aim is to develop guidelines, methods and tools for secure and safe IoT-based applications for connected vehicles. Through IoT4CPS, we are collaborating with AVL‘s…
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Digital Twins, Part 2: The Analysis of Public Datasets
Based on a description of the business case presented in part 1, this post continues with a selection of relevant public datasets to enhance data repositories dealing with lifecycle phases of connected cars. Specifically, we look at those datasets that cover both Automotive Manufacturing and Connected Cars, and address two perspectives: multi-stakeholder and cybersecurity &…
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Digital Twins, Part 1: Data Strategy
Our role in the research project IoT4CPS (Trustworthy IoT for CPS https://iot4cps.at/) is to design and implement a demonstrator for automotive driving scenarios, addressing cybersecurity and privacy challenges related to various stakeholders engaged along the entire lifecycle of the connected cars. The IoT4CPS demonstrator needs to be fed by a variety of data which is…
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Just Published “Digital Twins for Dependability Improvement of Autonomous Driving”
This is the topic of our latest research paper to be presented in September 20, 2019, at the Workshop on Best Practices in Design of Systems Applying Functional Safety & Cybersecurity (co-located with the 26th EuroSPI2019 conference), in Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, URL: http://2019.eurospi.net/index.php/workshop?id=77. The focus of the workshop is on implementing functional safety and cybersecurity…
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Just Published “An open source approach to the design and implementation of Digital Twins for Smart Manufacturing”
Our latest journal paper has been just published via Taylor & Francis Online, and can be found here: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0951192X.2019.1599436# Abstract This paper discusses the design of a Digital Twin (DT) demonstrator for Smart Manufacturing, following an open source approach for implementation. Open source technology can comprise of software, hardware and hybrid solutions that nowadays drive…
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A look back at the Vienna CyberSecurity Week 2019
The Austrian Chamber of Commerce (WKO) hosted this year’s the Vienna Cyber Security Week (VCSW2019) from March 11-15, 2019. The event attracted more than 800 participants. All presentations can be found at: https://www.energypact.org/vienna-csw-2019/ (under Presentations) https://www.viennacybersecurityweek.org/ My presentation “Digital Twins for Automotive Cybersecurity Engineering and Validation” was given in the session “Cybersecurity in Industry”. Digital…