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

Beiträge zum 17. Interuniversitären Doktorandenseminar Wirtschaftsinformatik

Dieser Tagungsband enthält Themenbeiträge des 17. Interuniversitären Doktorandenseminars Wirtschaftsinformatik. Die Aufsätze stammen von Doktoranden der mitteldeutschen Universitäten Halle-Wittenberg, Leipzig, Dresden, Freiberg, Chemnitz und Jena. Die thematische Vielfalt reicht von der IT-Unterstützung für KMUs über intelligente Verfahren im Supply Chain und Business Process Management bis hin zu Fragen der Konzeptionierung und Umsetzung Analytischer Informationssysteme. Diese Themen belegen eindrucksvoll die Forschungsorientierung in der Wirtschaftsinformatik, die auch die Forderung nach praktischer Relevanz nicht scheuen muss

Bound to mobility : the building up of a performing arts community in the European Union

The EU promotes mobility as part of its mission to raise citizens' involvement in the integration process, in conjunction with single market growth and employment targets. Yet data shows that intra-EU mobility remains low. Administrative and legal barriers are assumed to hinder the freedom of movement of persons. Within the misfield, performing artists, in particular, have been commonly associated to mobility throughout times since their activities are less regulated within national and organisational frameworks thus more flexible and adaptable to different places and partners. However, even apparently best suited, performing artists face many obstacles when working across borders in addition to their already vulnerable social condition. This research proposes an exploration beyond legal-administrative obstacles to mobility for the case of performing artists in the EU. Within a qualitative postulate and grounded theory driven methodology it investigates mobility as the potential to work across different established categories be those of languages, countries, disciplines and cultures, consubstantiated in institutional and individual aspirations and competences. Through analysis of a set of semi-structured interviews to artists and other professionals working in the performing arts in the EU it assesses empirically how aspirations and competences for mobility shape artistic practices and profiles as well as contributes to develop communities of interests at EU level. The emerging and fragile sector's organisation and action responds to the intricate demands imposed by intensified mobility aspirations that turned into a feature of performing arts market. Yet access to mobility relies on resources held by individuals and their organisations but also on societies as a whole to constitute adequate environments for these resources to flourish