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Session 6: Sustainability and smartness

S6.1 Certified security systems for sustainable cities of the 21st century.
Simone Wurster (Berlin University of Technology, Germany); Irene Kamara (Vrije Universiteit
Brussel, Belgium); Thordis Sveinsdottir (Trilateral Research & Consulting, United Kingdom)
The United Nations formulated 17 sustainable development goals to “transform our world”. Goal
11 aims to “make cities and human settlements inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable”. As such,
security systems have become increasingly relevant, particularly in the past several years as
significant and dangerous threats have emerged throughout the world. In addition to said risks, a
number of security solutions, for example in the field of CCTV, are linked with significant privacy
risks. Therefore, an appropriate certification scheme for security systems that not only considers
security aspects but also additional issues, e.g. data protection and privacy, is needed in Europe.
The EU Project CRISP (Evaluation and Certification Schemes for Security Products) aims to
facilitate this process via the development of pan-European certification. This paper shows
CRISP’s solutions based on the current outcomes of the project and its specific contribution to
research and practice.

S6.2 WiFi networks on drones.
Antonio Guillen-Perez, Maria-Dolores Cano; Juan Carlos Sanchez-Aarnoutse; Joan Garcia-Haro
(Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain); Ramon Sanchez-Iborra (Universidad Politécnica
de Cartagena, Spain / Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile)

The huge growth in the number of connected wireless devices leads to an increasing demand for
network connectivity. In this context, aerial networks may play an important role by widening the
concept of access networks. This paper describes and analyzes one of the most promising
applications of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, commonly known as drones, in the field of
communications: Extending the capacity or coverage of wireless systems through the deployment
of aerial communication networks. We present a comprehensive characterization study of an
experimental system to deploy an aerial WiFi network. To do so, an Intel Galileo development
board is appropriately configured and equipped as a WiFi node playing either the role of an access
point in the infrastructure mode or of an intermediate hop in the ad-hoc operational mode. This
device is then integrated onboard a drone. We compare both WiFi modes in terms of coverage area,
throughput, and energy efficiency. Preliminary results reveal that there is a trade-off between
coverage and data rates, for which the infrastructure mode performs better, and energy efficiency,
where the ad-hoc mode is more responsive.

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