Internet of Things Applications - From Research and Innovation to Market Deployment

The book aims to provide a broad overview of various topics of Internet of Things from the research, innovation and development priorities to enabling technologies, nanoelectronics, cyber physical systems, architecture, interoperability and industrial applications. It is intended to be a standalone book in a series that covers the Internet of Things activities of the IERC – Internet of Things European Research Cluster from technology to international cooperation and the global "state of play".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. Internet of Things is creating a revolutionary new paradigm, with opportunities in every industry from Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Food and Beverage, Agriculture, Computer, Electronics Telecommunications, Automotive, Aeronautics, Transportation Energy and Retail to apply the massive potential of the IoT to achieving real-world solutions. The beneficiaries will include as well semiconductor companies, device and product companies, infrastructure software companies, application software companies, consulting companies, telecommunication and cloud service providers. IoT will create new revenues annually for these stakeholders, and potentially create substantial market share shakeups due to increased technology competition. The IoT will fuel technology innovation by creating the means for machines to communicate many different types of information with one another while contributing in the increased value of information created by the number of interconnections among things and the transformation of the processed information into knowledge shared into the Internet of Everything. The success of IoT depends strongly on enabling technology development, market acceptance and standardization, which provides interoperability, compatibility, reliability, and effective operations on a global scale. The connected devices are part of ecosystems connecting people, processes, data, and things which are communicating in the cloud using the increased storage and computing power and pushing for standardization of communication and metadata. In this context security, privacy, safety, trust have to be address by the product manufacturers through the life cycle of their products from design to the support processes. The IoT developments address the whole IoT spectrum - from devices at the edge to cloud and datacentres on the backend and everything in between, through ecosystems are created by industry, research and application stakeholders that enable real-world use cases to accelerate the Internet of Things and establish open interoperability standards and common architectures for IoT solutions. Enabling technologies such as nanoelectronics, sensors/actuators, cyber-physical systems, intelligent device management, smart gateways, telematics, smart network infrastructure, cloud computing and software technologies will create new products, new services, new interfaces by creating smart environments and smart spaces with applications ranging from Smart Cities, smart transport, buildings, energy, grid, to smart health and life. Technical topics discussed in the book include: • Introduction• Internet of Things Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda• Internet of Things in the industrial context: Time for deployment.• Integration of heterogeneous smart objects, applications and services• Evolution from device to semantic and business interoperability• Software define and virtualization of network resources• Innovation through interoperability and standardisation when everything is connected anytime at anyplace• Dynamic context-aware scalable and trust-based IoT Security, Privacy framework• Federated Cloud service management and the Internet of Things• Internet of Things Application

Extending the Internet of Things to the future Internet through IPv6 Support

Emerging Internet of Things (IoT)/Machine-to-Machine (M2M) systems require a transparent access to information and services through a seamless integration into the Future Internet. This integration exploits infrastructure and services found on the Internet by the IoT. On the one hand, the so-called Web of Things aims for direct Web connectivity by pushing its technology down to devices and smart things. On the other hand, the current and Future Internet offer stable, scalable, extensive, and tested protocols for node and service discovery, mobility, security, and auto-configuration, which are also required for the IoT. In order to integrate the IoT into the Internet, this work adapts, extends, and bridges using IPv6 the existing IoT building blocks (such as solutions from IEEE 802.15.4, BT-LE, RFID) while maintaining backwards compatibility with legacy networked embedded systems from building and industrial automation. Specifically, this work presents an extended Internet stack with a set of adaptation layers from non-IP towards the IPv6-based network layer in order to enable homogeneous access for applications and services

Internet of Vehicles: Motivation, Layered Architecture, Network Model, Challenges, and Future Aspects

© 2013 IEEE. Internet of Things is smartly changing various existing research areas into new themes, including smart health, smart home, smart industry, and smart transport. Relying on the basis of 'smart transport,' Internet of Vehicles (IoV) is evolving as a new theme of research and development from vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs). This paper presents a comprehensive framework of IoV with emphasis on layered architecture, protocol stack, network model, challenges, and future aspects. Specifically, following the background on the evolution of VANETs and motivation on IoV an overview of IoV is presented as the heterogeneous vehicular networks. The IoV includes five types of vehicular communications, namely, vehicle-to-vehicle, vehicle-to-roadside, vehicle-to-infrastructure of cellular networks, vehicle-to-personal devices, and vehicle-to-sensors. A five layered architecture of IoV is proposed considering functionalities and representations of each layer. A protocol stack for the layered architecture is structured considering management, operational, and security planes. A network model of IoV is proposed based on the three network elements, including cloud, connection, and client. The benefits of the design and development of IoV are highlighted by performing a qualitative comparison between IoV and VANETs. Finally, the challenges ahead for realizing IoV are discussed and future aspects of IoV are envisioned

Teollisen internetin mahdollistamat uudet liiketoimintamallit sähkösuunnittelualalla

The objective for this thesis was to investigate the current state of Internet of Things in general and in building services and how the development of IoT will impact electrical engineering and what new business opportunities might arise from it. The Internet of Things is the idea of connecting everything and analysing the data these things generate in order to make more informed decisions or automate monotonous tasks. There are many companies researching and developing IoT applications on all levels from electronics manufacturers to software developers, creating IoT platforms for their customers to use. There are many challenges with IoT in building services, for example how to handle big data, privacy and security concerns, the diversity of protocols etc. Many of the current lighting and HVAC control systems will become obsolete with IoT systems since they are based on inferior technology and require independent cabling and control systems. The integration of these systems will change the role of the electrical engineer to a point where automation design, traditionally with emphasis on HVAC control, will become more focused on electrical systems, and is thus more convenient to include with electrical engineering than HVAC engineering. Electrical engineering firms must build reliable partner ecosystems in order to succeed with IoT adaption due to the complexity of these systems. The introduction of a data engineer in the building services team is currently not possible but should be investigated since the data from sensors and devices is going to grow exponentially in the coming years.Tämän työn tarkoitus oli kartoittaa teollisen internetin tämänhetkinen tilanne pääasiassa talotekniikan kannalta. Tutkimme miten teollinen internet tulee muuttamaan sähkösuunnittelualaa ja mitä uusia liiketoimintamalleja se tuo tullessaan. Teollisella internetillä tarkoitetaan laitteita ja esineitä jotka ovat kytkettynä yhteen internetin välityksellä. Nämä laitteet tuottavat dataa joka kerätään ja analysoidaan jotta yritysten päätöksentekoja voidaan tukea paremmilla analyyseilla. Järjestelmällä voidaan myös helpottaa ihmisten jokapäiväistä elämää automatisoimalla yksinkertaisia tehtäviä. Monet suuryritykset, prosessorivalmistajista ohjelmistotaloihin, tutkivat ja kehittävät teollisen internetin järjestelmiä ja alustoja heidän asiakkailleen käytettäväksi. Teollisen internetin käyttöönotossa talotekniikassa on vielä haasteita, esimerkiksi suuren datan käsittely, yksityisyys ja turvallisuushuolet, yhteisen rajapinnan ja protokollien puute jne. Monet nykyiset valaistus- ja LVI-ohjausjärjestelmät tulevat tulevaisuudessa menettämään asemansa teollisen internetin tarjoamien etujen myötä. Vanhentunut tekniikka ja järjestelmäkohtainen kaapelointi tulevat poistumaan. Järjestelmien integrointi tulee muuttamaan automaatiosuunnittelijan roolia palvelemaan enemmän sähkötekniikkaa LVI-tekniikan sijaan, kuten tilanne on tänä päivänä. Tulevaisuudessa automaatiosuunnittelijan on järkeä olla tiiviimmässä yhteistyössä sähkösuunnittelijan kanssa, jopa samassa toimistossa. Sähkösuunnittelutoimistojen tulee rakentaa uusia luotettavia suhteita muiden teollisen internetin sidosryhmien kanssa, koska uusi ajattelutapa on liian suuri kokonaisuus yhden henkilön tai toimiston hallittavaksi. Suunnittelijaryhmään voisi tulevaisuudessa sijoittaa erillisen data-suunnittelijan suuren datamäärän takia. Datamäärä tulee kasvamaan eksponentiaalisesti teollisen internetin myötä

The "Object-as-a-Service" paradigm

International audienceThe increasing interest about the Internet of Things (IoT) is almost as remarkable than its practical absence in our everyday lives. Announced as the new breakthrough in IT industry, the domain is characterized by a large number of architecture propositions that are in charge of providing a structure for applications creation. These architectures are needed because of the heterogeneity of stakeholders involved in IoT Applications. Programming languages, operating systems, hardware specificities, processing power, memory, network organization, characteristics, constraints, the world of IoT is so diverse. Furthermore, these architectures should provide an easy access to users that are not aware of IT technologies involved. The Services Oriented Computing (SOC) has shown in the past its relevance to the decoupling constraints interoperability among stakeholders. The composition of loosely coupled services facilitates the integration of very varied elements and provides agility in the creation of new applications. But unlike the approach inherited from the SOC in pre-existing services are composed to obtain a specific application, we propose a more dynamic notion of service. Our "Object-as-a-Service" point of view is based on the notion of building dynamically the service needed on each Object and then integrate it in the whole composition. This paper focus on the gain of this approach for the IoT by promoting the "Object-as-a-Service" paradigm as a basis for the creation of dynamic and agile user-made applications

The Internet of Things in Healthcare. An Overview

La prestación de servicios de salud está experimentando enormes cambios alrededor del mundo. El envejecimiento de la población, la creciente incidencia de enfermedades crónicas, y la escasez de recursos se están convirtiendo en una carga pesada para los actuales sistemas de salud y podrían comprometer la prestación de servicios de salud en las próximas décadas. Por otro lado, la creciente popularidad de dispositivos para el cuidado de la salud y el bienestar, junto con avances en comunicaciones inalámbricas y en sensores abren la puerta a nuevos modelos para la prestación de servicios de salud respaldados por el Internet de las cosas (IoT). Este artículo presenta una revisión general de las tendencias que están impulsando el desarrollo de aplicaciones para el cuidado de la salud basadas en IoT, y las describe brevemente a nivel de sistema.The provision of healthcare is experimenting enormous changes worldwide. Population ageing, rising incidence of chronic diseases, and shortages of resources are placing a heavy burden in current healthcare systems and have the potential to risk the delivery of healthcare in the next few decades. On the other hand, the growing popularity of smart devices for healthcare and wellness, along with advances in wireless communications and sensors are opening the door to novel models of health care delivery supported by the Internet of things (IoT). This paper presents a review of the trends that are driving the development of IoT-based applications for healthcare and briefly describe them at a system level