This paper describes a data warehouse approach to environmentally friendly transportation nudging. Transportation makes up a significant part of global carbon emissions. These emissions impacts both the climate and the health of individuals. As such, efforts should be done to address transportation patterns and habits. In addition to the reduction of air pollution, making people more active ...

DaoCron is a service which enables users to schedule tasks periodically. The Distributed Arctic Observatory (DAO) aims to improve the data collection from the arctic tundra using Observation Units (OUs). These OUs are given a set of tasks which they are expected to schedule at certain intervals. In order to schedule these tasks at certain time-intervals one can make use of Cron, which is a tool for ...

The number of cellular Internet of Things (IoT) connections is expected to grow at a rate of 30% each year and is reaching into the billions by 2019. The world of IoT can be fragmented since data sources span a wide variety of protocols, API's, authentication methods and file formats. Data collection and processing can be complex and producing visualizations for value extraction can be a tedious ...

Diabetes is a complex and time-consuming affair for the people that are afflicted by the disease. A strict self-management regime needs to be followed to avoid short- and long-term complications, which requires a great deal of motivation and support from others. Low- or high-blood glucose levels can cause short- and long-term consequences, ranging from headaches and thirst to coma. In the last few ...

The advances in sensor technology and big-data processing enable performance analysis of sport athletes. With the increase in data, both from on-body sensors and cameras, it is possible to quantify what makes a good athlete. However, typical approaches in sports performance analysis are not adequately equipped for automatically handling big data. This thesis presents Arctic Human Activity ...

Caching services are vital for the performance of large-scale web services running in the cloud. However, placing sensitive data in caching services, implicitly includes all components of the cloud infrastructure that can be exploited. Therefore, end-users place their trust in the entire security stack of their service providers. In order to achieve confidentiality and integrity of sensitive ...

More and more scientific equipment are being placed outside to monitor the environment. Such observation units can benefit from increased autonomy to function during harsh conditions and network partitioning. Environmental conditions like low temperatures can damage equipment. Therefor it is important for equipment to be able to autonomously launch countermeasures. This thesis describes an autonomous ...

In recent years, technology has had a vast impact on the sports industry, particularly in soccer. Elite soccer teams utilize digital information systems to quantify performance metrics, in order to assess their strengths and weaknesses. Applied methods mostly rely on post-game analytics, allowing coaches to review games in retrospect and implement corrections to their team thereafter. However, this ...

META-pipe is a metagenomic analysis service provided in the ELIXIR distributed life science infrastructure. It provides assembly of sequence data, functional annotation, and taxonomic profiling. The analysis is computationally intensive and it consist of many jobs which have different requirements and varying complexity and execution times It therefore requires an execution environment that can ...

Due to the large increase of image data in animal surveillance, an effective and efficient way of labeling said data is required. Over the past few years the Climate-ecological Observatory for Arctic Tundra (COAT) project have deployed dozens of cameras in eastern Finnmark, Norway during winter, which have resulted in a large volume of wildlife images which is used to document the effects of climate ...