1. Broad Emerging Themes in CPS/IoT
Saurabh Bagchi
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
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2. 4 foundational characteristics
What is CPS?
Cyber and physical coordination
Application Domains
Sense-Compute-Actuate
Timeliness
Network effect
Smart manufacturing
Transportation, other infrastructure
Wearable health
Robotics
First response
4 foundational characteristics

3. What is new?
What is old?
Value proposition from data
Adoption in variety of sectors
Mining finely granular data
Safety-critical deployments
More capable devices
Precursors: Real-time systems, Embedded systems, Sensor networks, Wireless mesh networks.
What is new?

4. Challenge: Maintain security and privacy of data and actuation
Challenge: Machine-to-machine and machine-to-human interactions, unpredictable and non-enumerable
Research problems: Understand context, including human context, multi-sensor fusion
Challenge: Maintain security and privacy of data and actuation
Research problems: Lightweight security protocols, unobtrusive authentication, orchestration between device-edge-cloud
Challenge: Wide diversity of hardware and software platforms
Research problems: Reverse engineer binaries, static analysis, automatic determination of bugs and vulnerabilities