With the rapid development of communication technologies, the demand for security and automation of driving has promoted the development of the Internet of Vehicles (IoV). The IoV aims to provide users with a safer, more comfortable, and more efficient driving experience. However, the current IoV also faces a series of potential security risks and privacy breaches, which has further propelled research on trust management for vehicular networks. The introduction of the blockchain has resolved the issue of data security in IoV trust management. However, the blockchain is limited by its own performance and scalability, making it unsuitable for large-scale networks. In order to enhance the transaction-processing efficiency of blockchain-based trust management solutions and address their scalability limitations, this paper presents a graph partition-based blockchain-sharding protocol. Simulation results on real-world datasets demonstrate that the proposed scheme exhibits better scalability compared to existing blockchain-based approaches and can accommodate larger-scale device access.

Urban flood prevention faces challenges in real-time monitoring, data integration, and decision-making support, particularly under constraints of sensitive data security and efficient emergency response. This study proposes an artificial intelligence-assisted decision-making framework for urban flood prevention, integrating multi-dimensional data fusion via an intranet. A city-level digital twin platform is developed, combining real-time sensor data, meteorological information, and social media data using a geographic information system, the Internet of Things, and artificial intelligence algorithms. The framework ensures secure data processing through intranet-based operations, enhancing flood prediction accuracy and emergency response efficiency. The system was successfully implemented in Hebi City, Henan Province, demonstrating significant improvements in flood risk management. This research advances urban resilience and provides a scientific basis for flood management in smart cities.

Aging population inspired the market on advanced real time caring for the elder in home setting, accurately recognizing human activities is a challenging task. Activities of daily living are good indicators for behavior recognition. In this paper, we describe a new method to deploy a cost-effective solution which can be run on embedded device as smart router. We use the open dataset, map the raw dataset into a sparse binary matrix, unique by the time line and activity tags. Decision tree algorithm is applied to train the model, in order to achieve the goal that simple comparison work to implement the model and get a quick respond at high accuracy. We evaluate our approach by 3-fold cross validation and achieve a time-slice accuracy of 98.45%.