Pichler, Harald

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Pichler, Harald
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Ing., BSc, MSc
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harald.pichler@forschung-burgenland.at
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57209338096
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    Smart industrial indoor farming - Technical and societal challenges
    (Trauner, 2019)
    Schmittner, Christoph 
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    Christl, Korbinian 
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    Macher, Georg 
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    Knapitsch, Johannes 
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    Parapatits, Martin 
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    Tauber, Markus 
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    Pichler, Harald 
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    Gnauer, Clemens 
    Population growth and food development are two of the major challenges for society. While smart farming can help, available arable land is restricted. Smart industrial indoor farming has the potential to increase agricultural production while also reducing resources usage. To guarantee a reliable food supply, we need to ensure a dependable system, which protects not only the plants, but also the Intellectual property (IP). We give an overview about the challenges on agriculture, available indoor farming systems and standards for smart farming. We evaluate the standards for applicability towards indoor farming and present a use case for a smart industrial indoor farming system. To assure a dependable system, we present a methodology to analyze the system and achieve a trade-off between different dependability attributes.
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    A Framework for Measuring the Costs of Security at Runtime
    (SCITEPRESS, 2019)
    Ivkić, Igor 
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    Pichler, Harald 
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    Zsilak, Mario 
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    Mauthe, Andreas 
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    Tauber, Markus 
    In Industry 4.0, Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are formed by components, which are interconnected with each other over the Internet of Things (IoT). The resulting capabilities of sensing and affecting the physical world offer a vast range of opportunities, yet, at the same time pose new security challenges. To address these challenges there are various IoT Frameworks, which offer solutions for managing and controlling IoT-components and their interactions. In this regard, providing security for an interaction usually requires performing additional security-related tasks (e.g. authorisation, encryption, etc.) to prevent possible security risks. Research currently focuses more on designing and developing these frameworks and does not satisfactorily provide methodologies for evaluating the resulting costs of providing security. In this paper we propose an initial approach for measuring the resulting costs of providing security for interacting IoT-components by using a Security Cost Modell ing Framework. Furthermore, we describe the necessary building blocks of the framework and provide an experimental design showing how it could be used to measure security costs at runtime.
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    A recommendation for suitable technologies for an indoor farming framework
    (Springer, 2020)
    Gnauer, Clemens 
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    Pichler, Harald 
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    Schmittner, Christoph 
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    Tauber, Markus 
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    Christl, Korbinian 
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    Knapitsch, Johannes 
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    Parapatits, Martin 
    Facing food insecurity and overuse of resources due to effects of climate change, humanity needs to find new ways to secure food production and produce close to consumers. Vertical farming, where plants are grown in vertical arrays inside buildings with help of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) components, could contribute to solving this issue. Such systems integrate heterogeneous devices on different computing layers and acquire a lot of data to monitor and optimize the production process. We created an indoor testing unit in which growing conditions can be monitored and controlled to optimize growth of microgreens. This setup includes an Indoor Farming Support as a Service (IFSaaS) prototype that provides safe and secure monitoring and controlling, as well as self-adaption of an indoor farming system. In this article we provide information about the combination of most suitable technologies.
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    Towards a secure and self-adapting smart indoor farming framework
    (Springer, 2019-10-21)
    Gnauer, Clemens 
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    Pichler, Harald 
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    Tauber, Markus 
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    Schmittner, Christoph 
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    Christl, Korbinian 
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    Knapitsch, Johannes 
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    Parapatits, Martin 
    Facing the increase in world population and the stagnation in available arable land there is a high demand for optimizing the food production. Considering the world-wide and ongoing reduction of the agricultural labor force novel approaches for food production are required. Vertical farming may be such a solution where plants are being produced indoors in racks, cared by robotic appliances which will be operated by specialized software. Given the multitude of parameters which determine the ideal condition, a lot of data needs to be acquired. As this data is used to adapt the entire Cyber-Physical System to a changing environment the data has to be secure and adaptations have to consider safety aspects as well. Such systems must hence be secure, safe, scalable and self-adaptable to a high degree. We present an important element for such solutions, a cloud, IoT and robotic based smart farming framework.
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