Have you updated your lightbulb?: Solving IoT vulnerabilities through governance

Connecting ‘things’ like a doorbell, webcam, lamp, or other objects to the web to provide a service or control is called the Internet of Things (IoT). These devices contain vulnerabilities that form risks for the device user and possibly the network owner through their heterogeneity. The identified knowledge gap is the need for more IoT...

Implementing sustainable Internet of Things in horticulture

The Dutch agricultural sector needed to increase its production over the years. Production increased as a result of new technologies, growing amounts of pesticides, and government policies. Although these changes were fruitful, it is currently provoking environmental concerns. This is causing pressure for farmers to be more sustainable in the...

Palác Florenc: A dialogue between technology and the public realm in the smart urban palace

The project investigates the possibility of integrating new technological processes into the public realm in the city of Prague. This will act as a statement against the legacy of the new industrial capitalism, which has disconnected production, distribution and consumption spaces in the city. The focus is the design of a grocery re-distribution...

Control Network of Bi-Directional Flyback DC/DC Converters

In this paper, the possibilities of a network of DC/DC flyback converters are explored. The implementation is as follows:<br/>Multiple microcontroller units are connected to a single board computer (ODROID C1+) via the I2C bus. Data collected by the MCU's is logged to an external server, where it is accessable via the internet. Users are able to...

Designing a connected barbecue

Through emerging technologies, it is possible to efficiently extend everyday objects with wireless communication and sensing-/actuating functionality. The objects can communicate with each other as well as with humans. The movement that is concerned with applying and investigating these technologies is called The Internet of Things. What the...

Conceptualization of a Personal Adaptive Informing Platform

Right now, everyone is using many different personal computing devices to clench their desire to be informed, where manufactures have tried their hardest to integrate as many features as possible into one device. For most of the tasks executed they are overkill, and for others insufficient. Furthermore, they are quickly outdated and require a...

Smarter energy sharing

This thesis proposes a product-service-system for Lens-Energie bv. Lens is a Dutch company that provides solar panels to renters in apartment buildings. Their current product benefits from the current net-metering legislation in the Netherlands. Since its is expected that this legislation will be changed in the near future, a new product is...

Wireless Powered Smart Homes: Creation of a WiFi powered smart climate ecosystem

Wireless energy is found to be an enabler for IoT in smart homes. WiFi signals can be used as an energy source to power connected climate sensors. The smart climate product ecosystem is designed and a business model is created as part of an overall implementation startegy.

Conceptualization of a smart communicative luggage that communicates to the user and its environment

The aviation industry is going through a lot of changes in order to make the passenger experience more pleasant. Baggage handling services for check-in luggage are becoming even more seamless for the user with pick-up services emerging which take care of the luggage from home to end destination. However, a major issue is that passengers do not...

Co-design fiction to discover opportunities for internet-of-things applications in crisis management

This master thesis describes the design exploration of a co-creation workshop, namely ‘co-design fiction’, inspired by design fiction to engage the stakeholders, with an emphasis on strategic innovation of internet of things applications in crisis management. Introduction The project is initiated to brings insights for both the content of the...

The Smart Steering Wheel Cover: Enhancing safety and efficiency of driving experiences

The advancement of trends as “internet of things”, with more objects becoming connected to each other is putting the human in the centre of the irtuallyconnected space and turning their physical world into an information system. How can these inter-connected disruptive technologies benefit the experiences of driving that have been an unchanging...

JUMP: A toolbox for designing Socially Tangible Media

Socially Tangible Media (STM) is a term describing an emerging category of products that aim to link social data to the materiality of objects and spaces. Digital networks are increasingly used to connect on a social level, while a growing number of objects are becoming part of such networks. The aim of this graduation project is to provide...

Indoor Localization using Accidental Infrastructure

We can foresee a near-future scenario where a huge number of semi-intelligent devices are part of our everyday environment, our homes, the public places and the office as well. The intelligent thermostat uploads the temperature readings to an online database; the fridge sends a tweet when we are out of milk; the coffee machine texts us when the...

The value and meaning of meta products

Meta Products are the next generation product systems that will connect us in new ways with the Internet by combining a physical and a digital part. Bits and atoms have never been so close, and so the design challenge has never been greater. In this project, an extensive literature analysis was conducted to identify the most relevant theories...