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Kahawati, Ali (author)Blockchain networks have acquired ongoing notoriety among associations that need to utilise the security perspectives that blockchain gives. Hyperledger Fabric (HF) is one of the most widely utilised distributed network technologies, most ordinarily applied in situations that require private information to be maintained safely and secretly. Use...bachelor thesis 2022
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Park, Chaiwon (author)A rise in the use of blockchain systems implies an increase in smart contract usage. Blockchain systems can easily be found these days, most notably in cryptocurrencies and financial management. Furthermore, the Internet of Things (IoT) is being developed with blockchain, since blockchain ensures trust in IoT data and adds great flexibility....bachelor thesis 2022
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Vega Sanchez, Julio (author)The increasing demand for sharing Internet of Things (IoT) increases demand for a secure way of sharing data. Smart contracts could provide this because of its distributed nature. Proxy re-encryption is an encryption (PRE) method that can be used to share information. In this paper, a secure data sharing scheme is presented that uses multi-hop...bachelor thesis 2022
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Fu, Danny (author)In recent years, the area of structural engineering has found new interesting prospects in the theory of waves. The acoustoelastic properties of materials are utilized in a new promising structural health monitoring (SHM) technique. The propagation of ultrasonic waves through stressed elements gives the ability to find invaluable information on...master thesis 2022
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Cornelissen, Lisa (author)The transformations the healthcare sector is undergoing can be divided into three types of changes; gradual change, sudden change and expected change. The ageing population represents the gradual change. The ageing population brings an increased demand for care, while also an increasing need for cost control and a decrease in available capacity...master thesis 2022
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Bulină, Malina (author)Data outsourcing has become one of the primary means for preserving information as it passes the responsibility of storage management to the service provider. However, storing sensitive data remotely poses privacy threats for the data owners. Searchable encryption (SE) is a technique that allows performing search queries over encrypted data. The...bachelor thesis 2022
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Petropoulou, Anastasia (author)According to the European Commission, buildings are responsible for approximately 40% of the EU energy consumption and 36% of the CO2 emissions, resulting in the largest energy consumer in Europe. Especially, the reduction of energy consumption for heating of residential dwellings has gained more and more interest in the last decades. Although...master thesis 2021
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Kolkowski, Lukas (author)While social segregation is often assessed in terms of one socio-geographic space, usually place of residence, more recent approaches also incorporate activity-based and, in particular, mobility-based data. This study extends the use of mobility data to measure social segregation between multiple groups by developing a method to connect socio...master thesis 2021
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SEKAR, SANJAY ARUN (author)By embedding actuators and sensors in passive structures, it will be possible to realize more functional machines, enabling the enhanced performance capabilities of high-tech machines. While developments in printed structures and electronics are reaching application maturity, only the first signs of feasibility for the printing of actuators and...master thesis 2021
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Raghunath, Shreya (author)"Imagineering is letting your imagination soar, and then engineering it down to earth." (Alcoa Aluminum, 1942)<br/><br/>The fourth industrial revolution is focused on integrating technologies into the production environment that can increase revenue and optimize production. As the lines between the physical and digital worlds are blurring with...master thesis 2021
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Popek, Oliwia (author)Cities are the centres of communication, commerce, and culture. Although, more than 80% of global GDP is generated in urban districts, the cities consume two-thirds of global resources and produce more than 70% of global CO2 emissions. Rising population, escalating urban pollution, the effects of climate change urge cities to search for...master thesis 2021
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He, Qian (author)The aerospace industry's global market rise considerably in recent years. StarDetect, founded in Beijing in 2020, is a startup focusing on small satellite technology, developing functional payloads and providing customised services within the needs of space astronomy or earth geography observation. However, due to the relatively short and...master thesis 2021
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Nibhanupudi, Sai Suprabhath (author)Transition from fossil fuels to sustainable sources of energy like wind and solar is the need of the hour. All over the globe, plans are in motion to achieve this goal. This implies addition of new elements to the grid in the form of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs). These affect the working of distribution grids and to ensure reliable as...master thesis 2021
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Damianakis, Nikos (author)With the current urge around the globe for switching to “green energy” and Renewable Energy Sources (RES) utilization, the electrification of the transportation sector has become a necessity. While the emerging Electric Vehicles (EVs) can provide several benefits to the power grid, such as voltage and frequency regulation and power quality...master thesis 2021
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d' Estalenx, Antoine (author)IoT devices keep entering our homes with the promise of delivering more services and enhancing user experience; however, these new devices also carry along an alarming number of vulnerabilities and security issues. In most cases, the users of these devices are completely unaware of the security risks that connecting these devices entail. Current...master thesis 2021
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Ouali, Mouad (author)The Dutch infrastructure counts many bridges, the majority of which are built in concrete. These bridges have been designed and constructed according to safety codes. A lot of these bridges date from the previous century and have been designed conform outdated safety codes. Therefore, the main problem<br/>of these bridges is the uncertainty with...master thesis 2021
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Leeger, Dione (author)This graduation project set out to design a modular interconnection system for smart textile applications for Elitac Wearables, that is widely implementable, robust, durable, cleanable,cost-effective, more integrated in the textile carrier and ergonomically to wear. The Double Diamond Design Process methodology of the Design...master thesis 2021
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Sandhir, Preeti (author)There are approximately 285 million people worldwide living with a visual impairment and the rate of acquired blindness is expected to continue increasing. Assistive technology for them is progressively being developed in order to enable independent living. For the blind and visually impaired, the tactile sense is the primary source of...master thesis 2021
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van Hees, Simon (author)On July 22nd 2018 the Noord/Zuidlijn, a metro line crossing the city center of Amsterdam, became operative. This entailed a transformation from a direct bus and tram network to a network consisting of a metro trunk line and bus and tram feeder lines. This study explores and uses interoperable smart card data from before and after the Noord...master thesis 2021
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Slöetjes, Loes (author)In 2008 more than 50 percent of all people, 3.3 billion people, lived in urban areas according to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA - United Nations Population Fund, n.d.). By 2030 this will be approximately 5 billion (Lea, 2017). On the one hand, with fast urban growth also come challenges in the way we build and manage cities. On the...master thesis 2021