My research focuses on connecting the physical world to the Web. Within this scope, I worked on several research projects:

• Searching the Real World with Mobile Phones: This research project was a cooperation with the industry partner DOCOMO Euro-Labs. In the context of this research project, we developed a search engine which allows for the real-time search for real-world entities (people, places and things) that exhibit a certain current state on the Web. For example, one could use our search engine to search for restaurants which are currently quiet but well-attended. Unlike existing approaches, we do not assume a global view of the world, i.e., a central sink where all sensor readings are streamed to.
  
  
• I am also interested in ways of simplifying the integration of physical objects with the Web. For this, we identified certain key primitives that are missing from today's Web and implemented them in a framework for the Web of Things. Currently, I am working with programmable, low-power WiFi modules which allow the instant connection of everyday objects such as office chairs or light switches to the Web, without the need for dedicated infrastructures such as gateways.
  
  
• Together with Philipp Bolliger, I developed the initial concept of connecting plants to the Web (and subsequently to mobile phones), utilizing sensor nodes to measure critical parameters. This concept is now turned into a product by the Koubachi AG.

• Benedikt Ostermaier, Matthias Kovatsch, Silvia Santini
  Connecting Things to the Web using Programmable Low-power WiFi Modules.
  Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on the Web of Things (WoT 2011), San Francisco, CA, USA. June 2011
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• Kay Römer, Benedikt Ostermaier, Friedemann Mattern, Michael Fahrmair, Wolfgang Kellerer
  Real-Time Search for Real-World Entities: A Survey.
  Proceedings of the IEEE, Vol. 98, No. 11, pp. 1887-1902, November 2010
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• Benedikt Ostermaier, Kay Römer, Friedemann Mattern, Michael Fahrmair, Wolfgang Kellerer
  A Real-Time Search Engine for the Web of Things.
  Proceedings of Internet of Things 2010 International Conference (IoT 2010). Tokyo, Japan, November 2010
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• Benedikt Ostermaier, Fabian Schlup, Matthias Kovatsch
  Leveraging the Web of Things for Rapid Prototyping of UbiComp Applications.
  In: Jakob E. Bardram, Marc Langheinrich, Khai N. Truong, Paddy Nixon (Eds.): Adjunct Proceedings of the 12th ACM International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2010). ACM, pp. 375-376, New York, USA, September 2010
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• Benedikt Ostermaier, Fabian Schlup, Kay Römer
  WebPlug: A Framework for the Web of Things.
  Proc. of the First IEEE International Workshop on the Web of Things (WOT2010). Mannheim, Germany, March 2010
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• Silvia Santini, Benedikt Ostermaier, Robert Adelmann
  On the Use of Sensor Nodes and Mobile Phones for the Assessment of Noise Pollution Levels in Urban Environments.
  Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Networked Sensing Systems (INSS 2009), Pittsburgh, PA, USA. June 2009
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• B. Maryam Elahi, Kay Römer, Benedikt Ostermaier, Michael Fahrmair, Wolfgang Kellerer
  Sensor ranking: A primitive for efficient content-based sensor search.
  IPSN '09: Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks. IEEE Computer Society, ISBN 978-1-4244-5108-1, pp. 217-228, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 2009
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• Benedikt Ostermaier, B. Maryam Elahi, Kay Römer, Michael Fahrmair, Wolfgang Kellerer
  Poster Abstract: Dyser – Towards a Real-Time Search Engine for the Web of Things.
  Proceedings of ACM SenSys 2008, Raleigh, NC, USA. November 2008
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• Benedikt Ostermaier, Philipp Bolliger
  Creating Location-based Services by utilising a Web of Places.
  2nd International Workshop on SensorWebs, Databases and Mining in Networked Sensing Systems (SWDMNSS) at SAINT 2008. Turku, Finland, June 2008
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• Silvia Santini, Benedikt Ostermaier, Andrea Vitaletti
  First Experiences Using Wireless Sensor Networks for Noise Pollution Monitoring.
  Proceedings of the 3rd ACM Workshop on Real-World Wireless Sensor Networks (REALWSN'08). Glasgow, United Kingdom, April 1, 2008
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• Philipp Bolliger, Benedikt Ostermaier
  Koubachi: A Mobile Phone Widget to enable Affective Communication with Indoor Plants.
  Adjunct Proceedings of MobileHCI, Mobile Interaction with the Real World Workshop (MIRW 2007). Singapore, September 2007
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• Benedikt Ostermaier, Florian Dötzer, Markus Strassberger
  Enhancing the Security of Local Danger Warnings in VANETs - A Simulative Analysis of Voting Schemes.
  Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2007). pp. 422-431, Vienna, Austria, April 2007
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• Benedikt Ostermaier
  Analysis and Improvement of Inter-Vehicle Communication Security by Simulation of Attacks.
  Master’s thesis, Technische Universität München, October 2005
  
  
• Stephan Eichler, Timo Kosch, Benedikt Ostermaier, Christoph Schroth
  Simulation of Car-to-Car Messaging: Analyzing the Impact on Road Traffic.
  13th Annual Meeting of the IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS) Atlanta, Georgia, USA, September 2005
  
  
• Christoph Schroth, Florian Dötzer, Timo Kosch, Benedikt Ostermaier und Markus Strassberger
  Simulating the traffic effects of vehicle-to-vehicle messaging systems.
  5th International Conference on ITS Telecommunications (ITS-T) Brest, France, June 2005