The last years have seen the widespread diffusion of novel Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN ) technologies, which are gaining momentum and commercial interest as enabling technologies for the Internet of Things. In this paper we discuss some of the most interesting LPWAN solutions, focusing in particular on LoRa TM , one of the last born and most promising technologies for the wide-area IoT.

One of the main challenges when designing a new self-powered wireless sensor network (WSN) technology is the vast operational dependence on its scarce energy resources. Therefore, a thorough identification and characterisation of the main energy consumption processes may lay the foundation for developing further mechanisms aimed to make a more efficient use of devices’ batteries. This paper pro...

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...

The Internet of Things (IoT) and social networking integration, create a new concept named Social Internet of Things (SIoT) according to which the things are able to autonomously establish social relationships with regard to the owners. Things in SIoT operate according to a service-oriented architecture. There may be misbehaving owners and consequently misbehaving devices that can perform harmf...

The Internet of Things is the connection – via the internet – of objects from the physical world that are equipped with sensors, actuators and communication technology. This technology is looked at by a large variety of domains, such as manufacturing, healthcare and energy, to facilitate the development of new applications and the improvement of existing applications. To also enable the commerc...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is about inter-networking real word objects in order to foster data exchange and communication among things. In this work we present the IoT Application Profile (IoT-AP) ontology with a particular focus on the pattern-based design methodology used for modelling the ontology.

The steady rise in technological advancements has provided marketers with numerous opportunities to connect with consumers. One such innovation has been the web of interconnected devices known as the Internet of Things (IoT). However, new digital channels such as this present communication teams with both opportunities and challenges. This paper aims to bring understanding to a series of barrie...

The Internet of Things is rapidly developing in recent years. A number of devices connect with the Internet. Hence, the interoperability, which is the access and interpretation of unambiguous data, is strongly needed by distributed and heterogeneous devices. The semantics promotes the interoperability in the Internet of Things using ontology to provide precise definition of concepts and relatio...