Gerhard P. Hancke

ORCID: 0000-0002-4026-687X
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Research Areas
  • Energy Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks
  • Energy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
  • Smart Grid Energy Management
  • Smart Grid Security and Resilience
  • IoT and Edge/Fog Computing
  • IoT-based Smart Home Systems
  • Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies
  • Bluetooth and Wireless Communication Technologies
  • Microgrid Control and Optimization
  • IoT Networks and Protocols
  • Manufacturing Process and Optimization
  • Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
  • Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
  • Network Security and Intrusion Detection
  • IoT and GPS-based Vehicle Safety Systems
  • Sensor Technology and Measurement Systems
  • Power Line Communications and Noise
  • Advanced Electrical Measurement Techniques
  • Opportunistic and Delay-Tolerant Networks
  • Wireless Networks and Protocols
  • Mineral Processing and Grinding
  • Optimal Power Flow Distribution
  • Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
  • Software-Defined Networks and 5G
  • Security in Wireless Sensor Networks

Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
2019-2025

University of Pretoria
2015-2024

City University of Hong Kong
2017-2024

IRD Fuel Cells (Denmark)
2024

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
2021-2023

National Taiwan University
2022-2023

Swinburne University of Technology
2022-2023

Delft University of Technology
2021

Tshwane University of Technology
2017-2018

Royal Holloway University of London
2012

For 100 years, there has been no change in the basic structure of electrical power grid. Experiences have shown that hierarchical, centrally controlled grid 20th Century is ill-suited to needs 21st Century. To address challenges existing grid, new concept smart emerged. The can be considered as a modern electric infrastructure for enhanced efficiency and reliability through automated control, high-power converters, communications infrastructure, sensing metering technologies, energy...

10.1109/tii.2011.2166794 article EN IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 2011-09-15

<para xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> In today's competitive industry marketplace, the companies face growing demands to improve process efficiencies, comply with environmental regulations, and meet corporate financial objectives. Given increasing age of many industrial systems dynamic manufacturing market, intelligent low-cost automation are required productivity efficiency such systems. The collaborative nature wireless sensor...

10.1109/tie.2009.2015754 article EN IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 2009-03-06

The collaborative and low-cost nature of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) brings significant advantages over traditional communication technologies used in today's electric power systems. Recently, WSNs have been widely recognized as a promising technology that can enhance various aspects systems, including generation, delivery, utilization, making them vital component the next-generation system, smart grid. However, harsh complex electric-power-system environments pose great challenges...

10.1109/tie.2009.2039455 article EN IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics 2010-02-12

Information and communication technologies (ICT) represent a fundamental element in the growth performance of smart grids. A sophisticated, reliable fast infrastructure is, fact, necessary for connection among huge amount distributed elements, such as generators, substations, energy storage systems users, enabling real time exchange data information management system ensuring improvements terms efficiency, reliability, flexibility investment return all those involved grid: producers,...

10.1109/tii.2012.2218253 article EN IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 2012-09-11

In a world where resources are scarce and urban areas consume the vast majority of these resources, it is vital to make cities greener more sustainable. Advanced systems improve automate processes within city will play leading role in smart cities. From design buildings, which capture rain water for later use, intelligent control systems, can monitor infrastructures autonomously, possible improvements enabled by sensing technologies immense. Ubiquitous poses numerous challenges,...

10.3390/s130100393 article EN cc-by Sensors 2012-12-27

The novel coronavirus (COVID-19), declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a global pandemic, has brought with it changes to general way of life. Major sectors world industry and economy have been affected Internet Things (IoT) management framework is no exception in this regard. This article provides an up date survey on how pandemic such COVID-19 IoT technologies. It looks at contributions that associated sensor technologies made towards virus tracing, tracking spread mitigation....

10.1109/access.2020.3030090 article EN cc-by IEEE Access 2020-01-01

To address the false data injection (FDI) and denial of service (DoS) attack, this article proposes an event-trigger-based resilient distributed energy management approach for cyber–physical system smart grid. Here, consensus algorithm (ERCA) is proposed with attack identification compensation mechanism. The event-triggered mechanism improved within optimization combined reliable acknowledgment (ACK) signals technique to mitigate impact loss or transmission delay, trust nodes-based during...

10.1109/tsmc.2024.3357497 article EN IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems 2024-02-13

Privacy disclosures and malevolent data intrusions targeting adversarial agents pose significant menaces to cyber-physical systems, a reality that extends the intricate realm of micro-grid energy management. This paper proposes homomorphic encryption based resilient distributed algorithm with an event-triggered mechanism address this problem. Due potential information disclosure issue, exchange is encrypted arbitrary neighbor decrypted private key protect agents. Considering security attacks...

10.1109/tsg.2024.3390108 article EN IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid 2024-04-17

The smart grid (SG) is envisioned as providing a communications network for the energy industry, similar to that which Internet now provides business and personal communications. SG offers new opportunities different kind of industries, such smart-meter vendors, electric utilities, telecom operators from all around world. This article deals with issues related homes (SHs) metering, are key elements in SG. It introduces players this field points out research challenges. Finally, pilot...

10.1109/mie.2012.2207489 article EN IEEE Industrial Electronics Magazine 2012-12-01

Wireless sensor networks (WSN) over the years have become one of most promising networking solutions with exciting new applications for near future. Its deployment has been enhanced by its small, inexpensive, and smart nodes, which are easily deployed, depending on application coverage area. Common include use military operations, monitoring environmental conditions (such as volcano detection, agriculture, management), distributed control systems, healthcare, detection radioactive sources....

10.1109/access.2018.2793841 article EN cc-by-nc-nd IEEE Access 2018-01-01

Topology control plays an important role in the design of wireless ad hoc and sensor networks; it is capable constructing networks that have desirable characteristics such as sparser connectivity, lower transmission power, a smaller node degree. In this research, new distributed topology technique presented enhances energy efficiency reduces radio interference networks. Each network makes local decisions about its power culmination these produces preserves global connectivity. Central to...

10.1109/tii.2011.2166778 article EN IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 2011-09-15

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), in recent times, have become one of the most promising network solutions with a wide variety applications areas agriculture, environment, healthcare and military. Notwithstanding these applications, sensor nodes WSNs are vulnerable to different security attacks due their deployment hostile unattended resource constraints. One such is DoS jamming attack that interferes disrupts normal functions WSN by emitting radio frequency signals jam legitimate cause...

10.3390/s18061691 article EN cc-by Sensors 2018-05-24

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are integrated as a pillar of collaborative Internet Things (IoT) technologies for the creation pervasive smart environments. Generally, IoT end nodes (or WSN sensors) can be mobile or static. In this kind hybrid WSNs, sinks move to predetermined sink locations gather data sensed by static sensors. Scheduling energy-efficiently while prolonging network lifetime is challenge. To remedy issue, we propose three-phase energy-balanced heuristic. Specifically,...

10.1109/tii.2015.2489160 article EN IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 2015-10-09

Micro-grid dispatch is facing a great challenge since the system security and economic cost are often time-varying with different requirements. In this paper, novel multiple time-scale model firstly constructed considering load voltage frequency dynamics of islanding awareness, which limited rate-of-change (RoCoF) micro-grid. Based on model, micro-grid power converted into multi-objective optimization problem (MOP) taking cost, deviation stability consideration. To address problem,...

10.1109/tpwrs.2022.3155750 article EN IEEE Transactions on Power Systems 2022-03-03

In wireless underground sensor networks (WUSNs), due to the dynamic channel characteristics and heterogeneous network architecture, connectivity analysis is much more complicated than in terrestrial ad hoc networks, which was not addressed before, our knowledge. this paper, a mathematical model developed analyze WUSNs, captures effects of environmental parameters such as soil composition moisture, system operating frequency, burial depth, sink antenna height, density devices, tolerable...

10.1109/twc.2011.093011.110632 article EN IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications 2011-10-13

Recent developments in wireless sensor networks have inspired applications which require high accuracy localization. Impulse radio ultra wide-band technology has a fine time resolution, allowing accurate determination of the arrival at receiver, making it serious contender for ranging, comparison to narrow-band technologies. In this paper, we present UWB based 3D real-time indoor positioning system with 802.15.4a compliant nodes. Results from measurement campaigns reveal that line-of-sight...

10.1109/icuwb.2014.6958993 article EN 2014-09-01

A multi-interface ZigBee building area network (MIZBAN) for a high-traffic advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) high-rise buildings was developed. This supports meter management functions such as Demand Response smart grid applications. To cater the communication in these networks (BANs), framework defined and designed to coordinate operation between multiple interfaces based on newly tree-based mesh (T-Mesh) topology, which both tree routing single network. evaluate MIZBAN, an experiment...

10.1109/tii.2013.2280084 article EN IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics 2013-08-29

Toxic gas leakage that leads to equipment damage, environmental effects, and injuries humans is the key concern in large-scale industries, particularly petrochemical plants. Industrial wireless sensor networks (IWSNs) are specially designed for industrial applications with improved efficiency, remote sensing toxic leakage. Sleep scheduling a common approach IWSNs overcome network lifetime problem due energy constrained nodes. In this article, we propose sleep scheme ensures coverage degree...

10.1109/mwc.2017.1600072wc article EN IEEE Wireless Communications 2017-01-05

A smart helmet has been developed that is able to detect of hazardous events in the mines industry. In development helmet, we have considered three main types hazard such as air quality, removal, and collision (miners are struck by an object). The first concentration level gases CO, SO2, NO2, particulate matter. second event was classified a miner removing mining off their head. An IR sensor unsuccessfully but off-the shelf then used successfully determine when on miner's third defined where...

10.1109/icit.2016.7475079 article EN 2022 IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT) 2016-03-01

In this paper, the concept of a wireless wearable device capable measuring electrocardiogram (ECG) and respiration rate (RR) through use non-contact capacitive-based electrodes was designed implemented. Both ECG RR were measured using only active an analog conditioning circuit. The utilizes Bluetooth low energy for low-power communication to remote server. data is used calculate heart variability, RR, extract related features. It found that chest viable approach measurement. system focuses...

10.1109/jsen.2018.2844122 article EN IEEE Sensors Journal 2018-06-04
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