The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to extending the reach of the Internet into the physical world. The realization of IoT applications involves the integrated operation of many subsystems that retain their private function. This makes IoT application deployment and integration a Systems of Systems (SoS) problem. In this paper we collect SoS properties and characteristics from the literature in...

Internet of Things (IoT) allows daily objects, with computing and communication capabilities, to connect to the Internet. In this scenario, an application called GREatRoom runs in an IoT environment, which has distributed wireless labels in places and objects, to detect the presence of nearby users, providing services intuitively and efficiently. Considering that IoT systems have quality charac...

This paper is about human interaction with things in the home. It is of potential relevance to developers of the Internet of Things (IoT), but it is not a technological paper. Rather, it presents a preliminary observational study of a day in a life of things in the home. The study was done out of curiosity to see, given the emphasis on ‘things’ in the IoT, what mundane interaction with things l...

It has been more than fifteen years since the term Internet of Things (IoT) was introduced to the public. However, despite the efforts of research groups and innovative corporations, still today it is not possible to say that IoT is upon us. This is mainly due to the fact that a unified IoT architecture has not been yet clearly defined and there is no common agreement in defining protocols and ...

Smart City represents one of the most promising, prominent and challenging Internet of Things (IoT) applications [22]. In the last few years, indeed, the smart city concept has played an important role in academic and industry fields, with the development and deployment of various middleware platforms and IoT-based infrastructures. However, this expansion has followed distinct approaches creati...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is being applied for stovepipe solutions, since it presents serious limitations in terms of inter-domain interoperability. IoT needs to be pushed towards a more open, interoperable and collaborative IoT. The first step has been the Internet of Things, where IPv6 has abstracted all the heterogeneous communications medium to a common network layer. The second step has...

The Internet today is not what it was a decade ago. Social networking was emerging with MySpace and Facebook was an unknown term for almost everyone on the planet. Similarly the iPhone was none existing and a smart phone with the Android OS will come only after few years. Cloud Computing and Software as a Service (SaaS) were concepts known only to specific industry and researchers. Now, Faceboo...

The Internet of Things (IoT), in general, is a compelling paradigm that aims to connect everyday objects to the Internet. Nowadays, IoT is considered as one of the main technologies which contribute towards reshaping our daily lives in the next decade. IoT unlocks many exciting new opportunities in a variety of applications in research and industry domains. However, many have complained about t...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a networking paradigm where interconnected, smart objects continuously generate data and transmit it over the Internet. Much of the IoT initiatives are geared towards manufacturing low-cost and energy-efficient hardware for these objects, as well as the communication technologies that provide objects interconnectivity. However, the solutions to manage and utilize...