Embracing the Future Internet of Things
A special issue of Future Internet (ISSN 1999-5903). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (14 July 2021) | Viewed by 328
Special Issue Editor
Interests: smart cities; Internet of Things; federation of IoT platform; connectivity for IoT; computing platforms for IoT; edge computing; IoT application oriented technologies; security and privacy enhancing technologies; machine learning
Special Issue Information
Dear colleagues,
Internet-of-Things (IoT) envisions to represent and connect all the objects in the real world in the digital world. Services are, then, using the available data from this Internet-of-Things (IoT) for various social and economic benefits which explain its extreme broad usage in very heterogeneous fields.
Coordination and cooperation among IoT systems are the keys to build a hyperconnected IoT towards holistic IoT services boosting the benefits magnitude. However, integration of IoT systems often happens one-to-one which is an approach that does not scale with the IoT growth. Further, manual integration is not something that IoT system’s administrators are easily keen to do.
Nonetheless, IoT is not only data but also services that link with things and with other services. The vision is that those services work together autonomously to augment things information, infer status and predict situations.
This opens several challenges. First, it is important to correctly manage data ownership since both individuals and private companies need to be conscious about the IoT world around us. They need to get aware of the data that they unknowingly own, in order to apply their will in terms of policy and to relieve the data consumers for possible backlash. Second, privacy and security should be enforced seamlessly and decoupled from data analytics services’ development, relieving the burden from the service developers. Third, future IoT should allow critical real-time operation to timely infer and react to emergency situation. For this purpose, special care should be taken to fog and edge computing. Fourth, the data generated by sensors and services need to be verified in order to avoid false alert or false negative that might seriously impact critical applications. Fifth, automatic integration and cooperation across IoT systems.
Dr. Flavio Cirillo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Serverless computing
- Fog and Edge computing
- Digital Twin
- Privacy and Security
- Data Usage Control
- Data ownership management
- IoT systems integration
- Linked data
- Standardization
- IoT analytics
- Federated analytics
- Trustworthiness evaluation
- Critical real-time operation
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