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Internet of Things
- Global Technological and Societal Trends Smart Environments and Spaces
to Green ICT

Ovidiu Vermesan,SINTEF, NO & Peter Friess, EU, BE

ISBN:
978-87-92329-67-7

Price:
€98.50
after 15.00% Discount €83.73

Available
from: May 2011

Description

The book aim is to define the Internet of Things (IoT)
in a global view, present the research agenda for Internet of Things
technologies by addressing the new technological developments and
providing a global balanced coverage of the challenges and the technical
and industrial trends.

Energy consumption by the data, communication and
networking devices and global CO2 emission is increasing exponentially.
ICT has a dual role in this process: it accounts for about two percent of
global CO2 emissions and at the same the ICT including IoT technologies
and applications have a direct effect on lowering CO2 emissions,
increasing energy efficiency, reducing power consumption, and achieving
efficient waste recycling.

The book builds on the ideas put forward by the
European research Cluster on the Internet of Things Strategic Research
Agenda and presents global views and state of the art results on the
challenges facing the research, development and deployment of IoT at the
global level.

IoT together with the other emerging Internet
developments such as Internet of Energy, Media, People, Services,
Business/Enterprises are the backbone of the digital economy, the digital
society and the foundation for the future knowledge based economy and
innovation society. IoT developments show that we will have 16 billion
connected devices by the year 2020 , which will average out to six devices
per person on earth and to many more per person in digital
societies.

Devices like smart phones and machine to machine or
thing to thing communication will be the main drivers for further IoT
development. The first direct consequence of the IoT is the generation of
huge quantities of data, where every physical or virtual object may have a
digital twin in the cloud, which could be generating regular updates. The
IoT contribution is in the increased value of information created by the
number of interconnections among things and the transformation of the
processed information into knowledge for the benefit of mankind and
society. The Internet of Things market is connected to industrial machine
to machine (M2M) systems, smart meters and enabling technologies such as
nanoelectronics, communications, sensors, smart phones, embedded systems,
cloud computing and software technologies that will create new products,
new services, new interfaces by creating smart environments and smart
spaces with applications ranging from smart transport, cities, buildings,
energy, grid, to smart health and life.

Technical topics discussed in the book include:

The Internet of Things: The Way
Ahead

Internet of Things Strategic
Research Agenda

Challenges of a Sustainable Roadmap
for the Internet of Things

Technologies behind Internet of
Things: From Nanoelectronics and Embedded Systems to Cloud Computing and
Cognitive Systems

Machine to machine (M2M)
communication and the emerging Internet of Things
applications

The “Internet of Things” based on
IPv6.  Paving the way to Smart IPv6 Buildings

"Internet of Things - from
Ubiquitous Computing to Ubiquitous Intelligence
Applications"

Virtualization of network resources
and Physical devices in Internet of Things applications

Validation and Interoperability
challenges for IoT

Mobile devices enable IoT evolution
from industrial applications to mass consumer applications

Interoperability, Standardisation
and Governance in the era of Internet of Things (IoT)

Technologies, Applications, and
Governance in the Internet of Things

Opportunities, Challenges for
Internet of Things Technologies

Keywords: Internet of
Things, ubiquitous intelligence, virtualization, wireless networks: ad
hoc, sensor and cellular, nanoelectronics, embedded systems, cloud
computing, cognitive systems, next and future generation Internets