Designing Real Time Insights Dashboards for SME Manufacturing with Legacy Assets

Modern manufacturing operations rely on accurate, real time data for efficient operation and control of the production process. Many small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) still operate with legacy assets, limiting their access to a clear data picture. This thesis research and its design solutions help SMEs gain real time insights into their...

The Internet of Vehicles From a Socio-Technical Perspective: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Next-Generation Vehicular Communication Network

Yearly, 20.000 fatalities are recorded in road accidents on European roads alone. This situation is far more severe (1.3 million humans) when the global scope of road accidents is considered. Thus, Policymakers are initiating policy programs to overcome this challenge by enhancing safety and maximizing the associated positive economic impact....

Digital Platforms for Industrial Metaverse Applications: A Framework to Identify Data Quality Insufficiencies

The metaverse is one of the most disruptive technologies to evolve from the digital transformation. While the potential use cases of creating an immersive virtual world are numerous, the vision of an industrial metaverse is only recently emerging as a concept from the technology. In the automotive sector, manufacturers are starting to use...

The role of managerial communication in the adoption of IT automation: RPA in the recruitment industry

This master's thesis addresses a common problem of the adoption of IT automation; the nonoptimal use of the technology due to ineffective managerial communication. It searches for a solution by using the Design Science Research methodology to create a design artifact in the form of a managerial communication framework. This framework provides...

How interpretable is explainable?: The development of a framework to assess how interpretable Explainable Artificial Intelligence is for laypeople

Explainable AI (XAI) systems are rapidly gaining significance. While frameworks for XAI interpretability for experts abound, metrics for laypeople’s comprehension are absent. This study addresses this gap by investigating interpretability factors from both developer and layperson perspectives. The core research question is: "How can XAI...

The adoption and implementation of IoT in waste management

The fourth industrial revolution is upon us, and entire industries are seeking to reap the benefits resulting from the use of the technologies that the revolution brings. Waste management is one of those industries. The rapid growth of the human population causes more consumer goods to be produced every day. This underlines the importance of...

Achieving More Responsible Drone-Use by Means of Blockchain Technology: A Case Study for the NVWA

With the advent of a smart society and an era of connectivity, there remain a numerous amount of challenges yet to be solved. One of the key IoT innovations analysed in this research is known as Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS). UAS, or drone technologies, allow carrying out repetitive and dangerous tasks with almost no human intervention or...

Facilitating Tap-To-Phone adoption: Towards a portable architecture decision flow for designing a server-based payment architecture

Towards Value-Based Healthcare: Research to the design for an IT architecture to enable value-based healthcare in the Netherlands

The sustainability of the Dutch healthcare system is under severe pressure with increasing expenditure, more demand for care and a shortage of healthcare professionals. In the current healthcare system, providers are rewarded for increasing volume, but not for adding value, which only exacerbates the situation. Value-based healthcare (VBHC) is a...

Energy accounting of the black box: An exploratory study of the restrictions on accounting the energy consumption of training deep learning models in data centers

From traditional agriculture to AgTech: Towards a Sustainable Business Model

Agriculture is a fundamental element of every economy. However, global issues such as climate change, land deterioration, and a continuously growing population are strongly impacting the sector. It is estimated that by 2050 the population will increase by two billion, reaching 9 billion people to be fed. In the past 34 years, researchers...

Supply and planning in the factory of the future: The implementation framework

Recent developments in technology innovations show that huge efficiency improvements can be made in the manufacturing industry. Moreover, companies that adopt the new innovations, associated with Industry 4.0, can create a huge competitive advantage. However, these rather conservative businesses are slow adopters and usually wait for proof-of...

EDIRO: Edge-driven IoT Resource-aware Orchestration Framework for Collaborative Processing in Large Scale Internet of Things

Edge computing extends the cloud computing capabilities to the edge of the network to facilitate processing of the data in the close proximity of its generation. It augments the deployment of several applications in the Internet of Things (IoT) domain which demand low latency and near real-time response for their reliable operation. However, the...

Enhancing Vulnerability Management for IoT Devices with Bug Bounty Programs and Responsible Disclosure

The Internet of Things (IoT) will soon impact the lives of thousands of people as numerous IoT devices are emerging in the consumer market. Consumers goods consist of products designed for the consumption of final consumers. Even though IoT applications are expected to improve people's lives, security is often lacking in current IoT devices....