Handbook on Securing Cyber-Physical Critical Infrastructure

Chapter 20

Pervasive Sensing and Monitoring for Situational Awareness

Sharad Mehrotra, Nalini Venkatasubramanian, Mark-Oliver Stehr, Carolyn Talcott

This chapter contains information on the following concepts: Hierarchical Modeling and Reasoning in Cyber-Physical Systems, Adaptive Middleware for Cyber-Physical Spaces, Enabling Scalability in Cyber-Physical Spaces, Dependability in Sentient Spaces, and Privacy in Pervasive Spaces.

20.1 Introduction

Advances in sensing and multimedia data capture technologies coupled with mechanisms for low-power wireless networking have enabled the possibility of creating deeply instrumented cyber-physical spaces. Embedded sensors and data capture devices in such environments enable the possibility of digitally ...