Abhik Chaudhuri - Internet of Things, for Things, and by Things

Message from Global Leaders

Abhik Chaudhuris book reveals the enormous new power of connecting millions of people, sensors and intelligent machines into what my colleague Thomas Malone calls Superminds. This is the age of the IoT. Abhik Chaurdhuri explains how these new IoT-enabled minds are transforming our homes, cities and society faster than most of us realize.

The book accomplishes the near-impossible, offering a helicopters view of the new landscape: It provides rich ground-level descriptions of key IoT technologies and systems. We grasp that these new enablers are real, cheap and plentiful. The book interweaves description with systematic overviews, offering wise counsel on how this profusion can be brought together to solve our most critical problems. A smart business executive or policy maker will benefit immensely from reading this book. Opportunities abound, and Chaudhuri enables us to consider them well.

James F. Moore

Strategist

Collective Intelligence Design Lab

Center for Collective Intelligence, MIT

Inventor of the business ecosystems approach to strategy-making

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the most important and complex technologies of our 21st-century digital economy, which promises to make our homes, cities, factories, vehicles, health systems and the world around us smarter and more responsive. The IoT is not an individual technology, but rather an ecosystem of products, services and private and public sector institutions, all of which must work well together to achieve its potential. But, like any advanced technology, the IoT must be properly managed to realize this potential while ameliorating its accompanying security and privacy risks as well as serious unintended consequences.

Abhik Chaudharis Internet of Things, for Things and by Things is a timely contribution to help achieve the promise of the IoT. His comprehensive book explains the fundamentals of the IoT, its potential applications, inherent risks and governance requirements to anyone interested in better understanding the IoT and its implications for economies and societies.

Irving Wladawsky-Berger

Emeritus, IBM; Visiting Faculty, MIT

Abhik Chaudhuri has researched and penned the most comprehensive compendium of information and insight on the IoT that I am aware of. He leaves no stone unturnedfrom theory and philosophy of information in the context of the IoT, to its ever-present security and privacy concerns and dozens of practical use-cases and real-world examples. Anyone looking to learn almost all there is to learn about the IoT, or about specific aspects of the IoT, should strongly consider this book.

Douglas Laney

VP and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner,

and author of the book Infonomics: How to Monetize, Manage,

and Measure Information for Competitive Advantage

Few thought leaders have Abhik Chaudhuris spectacular analytical ability to convert the complexity of the Internet of Things into an easy-to-comprehend book that expands and more deeply explains the original concept behind the IoT, which I devised in 1985. As this technology exponentially grows, it is important that publications of this nature are widely distributed so that other forward thinkers, like Abhik, can contribute to the more advanced integration of IoT technology with the decentralized features of blockchain, device data transportation improvements via 5G wireless and the emergence of complex systems, like unmanned aircraft systems traffic management, which will have a profound impact on the conduct of more efficient operations in our lives.

Peter T. Lewis

President, NetMoby, Washington DC

Inventor of the term Internet of Things and the concept behind it

Privacy by Design (PbD) is a framework I created in the late 1990s for preventing privacy harms by proactively embedding the necessary privacy-protective measures into the design of information technology, networked infrastructure and business practices. PbD is a model of preventionprevent the privacy harms from arising. The Internet of Things, or perhaps more aptly, the Internet of Everything truly concerns me because the interconnected nature of virtually all that we do may lead us down a path of surveillance that will be too great to conquer after the fact. Surveillance is the antithesis of privacy, and accordingly, the antithesis of freedom. I strongly believe that neither privacy nor the benefits inherent in the emerging IoT need to be sacrificed. If we are to preserve any semblance of privacy in such an emerging world, we must ensure that privacy is built into the very systems being developed. This will require innovation and ingenuity, as well as foresight and leadership, in an effort to reject unnecessary trade-offs and the false dichotomies that jeopardize privacy in favor of other laudable objectives. We can have privacy AND the Internet of Thingsbut only if we act now and proactively embed Privacy, by Design!

Ann Cavoukian, Ph.D., M.S.M.

Distinguished Expert-in-Residence

Privacy by Design Centre of Excellence

Ryerson University

This comprehensive book that Abhik Chaudhuri has authored will be an important contribution to many parties. He covers perspectives from the technical to the socio-technical and to important areas such as smart cities, governance and standardization. The book provides a synthesis from many sources including Abhiks own creative contributions.

Given the complexity of the multitude of technical and non-technical issues involved, this book should be a starting point for those who seek to work towards understanding and addressing the complexities and thus seeking solutions to the many opportunities and risks involved in the new world environment created via the Internet of Things.

Certainly deploying a systems perspective in considering the many interacting elements of the system of systems involved will be vital.

Harold Bud Lawson, Professor Emeritus

Coordinating Editor of the College Publications Systems Series

ACM, IEEE and INCOSE Fellow

IEEE Charles Babbage Computer Pioneer

INCOSE Systems Engineering Pioneer

The Internet of Things, for Things and by Things by Abhik Chaudhuri successfully illustrates all the different aspects related to the IoT, such as technology, people, philosophy and regulations. The book captures everything related to the IoT, from architecture, the philosophy of information, ethics in the IoT and privacy issues. Moreover, the book touches the aspects of threat mitigation and risk management of interdepended systems of smart cities, smart city governance and regulations. This book manages not only to provide theoretical information about the IoT but also provides examples of IoT technology and potential benefits to society in various domains. The reader can sufficiently understand the complexities of the IoT ecosystem. I recommend this book as a valuable addition in the field of the IoT not only for experts but also for everyone who will be using IoT technology in the future.

Dr. Maria Bada

Senior Researcher at Global Cyber Security Capacity Centre University of Oxford

Abhik Chaudhuri has assimilated and asserted the triple-foundations of the IoT. It is like reaching the foundations of the very democracy of information building, which is OF the architecture and the embedded philosophy, then FOR the array of designs that makes our built environment livable and inclusive! And finally, BY the players and stakeholders of all classes and categories that configure our humankind and that make any application complete. The new and deep course of the information building of our future, which is the IoT, is very well researched by Chaudhuri and it has been done in a unique way, never before and never attempted in the way that one may find while paging through the book. The book will go a long way and find a place on many shelves and in many minds of our better tomorrow.