Security-Smart is of Paramount Importance for Autonomous Vehicles

Abstract

& I WELCOME THE readers to the last issue of year 2019, the November 2019 issue, of the IEEE CONSUMER ELECTRONICS MAGAZINE (MCE). This becomes our second issue after Consumer Electronic Society decided to move from the previous editorial service to new one called “Common Design Service” for its production. I bring excellent news to your attention. I came to know about the 2018 impact factor of MCE. It is a pleasure to learn that the Impact Factor of MCE for year 2018 is 3.273. Based on my experiences, I consider this as an extraordinary achievement for a 7-year-old magazine. This is 128.24% increase with respect to the 2017 impact factor of 1.434. I would like to thank all the members of the editorial board and the enthusiastic authors who made this possible. I am hopeful that we will maintain the same quality and standards and momentum trend for future years. The current issue of MCE has a theme of vehicular security. I have discussed the concept of Energy-Smart, Security-Smart, and Response-Smart (ESR-Smart) in the past in my editorials as well many keynote addresses. This theme on vehicular security is a specific example of security-smart. Securitysmart deals with the security, privacy, or ownership-protection of electronic systems as well as that of the data that these systems capture, process, or store. In many articles and keynote addresses, I have formally defined smart cities as well as discussed the technologies and components needed for their design and operations. The smart cities use one or multiple smart components, which are essentially cyber-physical systems built using Internet-of-things (IoT). The components include smart healthcare, smart transportation, smart agriculture, smart infrastructure, and smart grids. Security and privacy are important for any of these components of smart cities. However, the challenges to provide the security/privacy solutions are not the same for different components and technologies deployed in the smart cities. The smart healthcare domain that uses various devices in the Internet-of-Medical-Things (IoMT) framework need to have security/privacy solutions which do not introduce much energy overheads. The IoMT devices include medical sensors, implantable medical devices (IMDs), or wearable medical devices (WMDs). The IMDs which, in the current generation design may have communications capabilities along with WMDs, are collectively defined as implantable and wearable medical devices (IWMDs). I envision that IWMDs in the framework of IoMT may lead to the realization of Internet-of-Everything Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCE.2019.2927970