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Towards an Emotion-Aware Metaverse: A Human-Centric Shipboard Fire Drill Simulator
Musaab H. Hamed-Ahmed, Diego Ramil-López, Paula Fraga-Lamas +1
Traditional XR and Metaverse applications prioritize user experience (UX) for adoption and success but often overlook a crucial aspect of user interaction: emotions. This article a…
Design, Implementation and Practical Evaluation of an Opportunistic Communications Protocol Based on Bluetooth Mesh and libp2p
Ángel Niebla-Montero, Iván Froiz-Míguez, Paula Fraga-Lamas +1
The increasing proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices has created a growing need for more efficient communication networks, especially in areas where continuous connecti…
HELENE: An Open-Source High-Security Privacy-Preserving Blockchain Based System for Automating and Managing Laboratory Health Tests
Gabriel Fernández-Blanco, Pedro García-Cereijo, David Lema-Núñez +5
In the last years, especially since the COVID-19 pandemic, precision medicine platforms emerged as useful tools for supporting new tests like the ones that detect the presence of a…
Towards the Industrial Metaverse: A Game-Based VR Application for Fire Drill and Evacuation Training for Ships and Shipbuilding
Musaab H. Hamed-Ahmed, Paula Fraga-Lamas, Tiago M. Fernandez-Carames
This paper details the creation of a novel Virtual Reality-based application for the Industrial Metaverse aimed at shipboard fire emergency training for fire drill and evacuation,…
Tactical Edge IoT in Defense and National Security
Paula Fraga-Lamas, Tiago M. Fernandez-Carames
The deployment of Internet of Things (IoT) systems in Defense and National Security faces some limitations that can be addressed with Edge Computing approaches. The Edge Computing…
Advancing NASA-TLX: Automatic User Interaction Analysis for Workload Evaluation in XR Scenarios
Aida Vidal-Balea, Paula Fraga-Lamas, Tiago M. Fernandez-Carames
Calculating the effort required to complete a task has always been somewhat difficult, as it depends on each person and becomes very subjective. For this reason, different methodol…
IoT Architectures for Indoor Radon Management: A Prospective Analysis
Oscar Blanco-Novoa, Paulo Barros, Paula Fraga-Lamas +2
The demand for real-time Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) management has increased recently, since low-cost and modern sensors such as Particulate Matter (PM), Volatile Organic Compounds (…
A Cost-Effective Thermal Imaging Safety Sensor for Industry 5.0 and Collaborative Robotics
Daniel Barros, Paula Fraga-Lamas, Tiago M. Fernandez-Carames +1
The Industry 5.0 paradigm focuses on industrial operator well-being and sustainable manufacturing practices, where humans play a central role, not only during the repetitive and co…
Practical Evaluation of Wize and Bluetooth 5 Assisted RFID for an Opportunistic Vehicular Scenario
Angel Niebla-Montero, Ivan Froiz-Miguez, Paula Fraga-Lamas +1
Wireless communications are critical in the constantly changing environment of IoT and RFID technologies, where thousands of devices can be deployed across a wide range of scenario…
Practical Evaluation of Low-Frequency Vibration Energy Harvesting for Creating Green RFID and IoT Devices
Ivan Froiz-Miguez, Paula Fraga-Lamas, Tiago M. Fernandez-Carames
One of the main limitations for the development and deployment of many Green Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) and Internet of Things (IoT) systems is the access to energy sour…
A Comprehensive Survey on Green Blockchain: Developing the Next Generation of Energy Efficient and Sustainable Blockchain Systems
Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés, Paula Fraga-Lamas
Although Blockchain has been successfully used in many different fields and applications, it has been traditionally regarded as an energy-intensive technology, essentially due to t…
Design, Implementation and Practical Energy-Efficiency Evaluation of a Blockchain Based Academic Credential Verification System for Low-Power Nodes
Gabriel Fernández-Blanco, Iván Froiz-Míguez, Paula Fraga-Lamas +1
The educational system manages extensive documentation and paperwork, which can lead to human errors and sometimes abuse or fraud, such as the falsification of diplomas, certificat…
Towards a Blockchain and Opportunistic Edge Driven Metaverse of Everything
Paula Fraga-Lamas, Sérgio Ivan Lopes, Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés
Decentralized Metaverses, built on Web 3.0 and Web 4.0 technologies, have attracted significant attention across various fields. This innovation leverages blockchain, Decentralized…
A Review on Industrial Augmented Reality Systems for the Industry 4.0 Shipyard
Paula Fraga-Lamas, Tiago M Fernandez-Carames, Oscar Blanco-Novoa +1
Shipbuilding companies are upgrading their inner workings in order to create Shipyards 4.0, where the principles of Industry 4.0 are paving the way to further digitalized and optim…
Evolving Military Broadband Wireless Communication Systems: WiMAX, LTE and WLAN
P. Fraga-Lamas, L. Castedo-Ribas, A. Morales-Méndez +1
Emerging technologies for mobile broadband wireless are being considered as a Commercial Off-The-Shelf solution to cover the operational requirements of the future warfare. The cap…
Forging the Industrial Metaverse -- Where Industry 5.0, Augmented and Mixed Reality, IIoT, Opportunistic Edge Computing and Digital Twins Meet
Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés, Paula Fraga-Lamas
The Metaverse is a concept that proposes to immerse users into real-time rendered 3D content virtual worlds delivered through Extended Reality (XR) devices like Augmented and Mixed…
Unleashing the Potential of LTE for Next Generation Railway Communications
P. Fraga-Lamas, J. Rodríguez-Piñeiro, J. A. García-Naya +1
In an increasingly demanding marketplace that will put great strain on railway services, research on broadband wireless communication must continue to strive for improvement. Based…
Smart Pipe System for a Shipyard 4.0
Paula Fraga-Lamas, Diego Noceda-Davila, Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés +2
As a result of the progressive implantation of the Industry 4.0 paradigm, many industries are experimenting a revolution that shipyards cannot ignore. Therefore, the application of…
Home Automation System based on Intelligent Transducer Enablers
Manuel Suárez-Albela, Paula Fraga-Lamas, Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés +2
This paper presents a novel home automation system named HASITE (Home Automation System based on Intelligent Transducer Enablers), which has been specifically designed to identify…
A Review on Internet of Things for Defense and Public Safety
Paula Fraga-Lamas, Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés, Manuel Suárez-Albela +2
The Internet of Things (IoT) is undeniably transforming the way that organizations communicate and organize everyday businesses and industrial procedures. Its adoption has proven w…
Reverse Engineering and Security Evaluation of Commercial Tags for RFID-Based IoT Applications
Tiago M. Fernández-Caramés, Paula Fraga-Lamas, Manuel Suárez-Albela +1
The Internet of Things (IoT) is a distributed system of physical objects that requires the seamless integration of hardware (e.g., sensors, actuators, electronics) and network comm…
A Review on Blockchain Technologies for an Advanced and Cyber-Resilient Automotive Industry
Paula Fraga-Lamas, Tiago M. Fernandez-Carames
In the last century the automotive industry has arguably transformed society, being one of the most complex, sophisticated and technologically advanced industries, with innovations…
A Practical Evaluation of Commercial Industrial Augmented Reality Systems in an Industry 4.0 Shipyard
Oscar Blanco-Novoa, Tiago M Fernandez-Carames, Paula Fraga-Lamas +1
The principles of the Industry 4.0 are guiding manufacturing companies towards more automated and computerized factories. Such principles are also applied in shipbuilding, which us…
Towards post-quantum blockchain: A review on blockchain cryptography resistant to quantum computing attacks
Tiago M. Fernandez-Carames, Paula Fraga-Lamas
Blockchain and other Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) have evolved significantly in the last years and their use has been suggested for numerous applications due to their abi…