Santosh Kumar Pani (editor) - Internet of Things: Enabling Technologies, Security and Social Implications (Services and Business Process Reengineering)

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The Internet of things (IoT) is the need of the hour, and it has escalated itself in every sphere of our day-to-day lifestyle starting from smart homes to smart agriculture, automobile sector to educational aids and automated workplaces to circumspect industries. According to 2016s Gartners Hype Cycle for Internet of Things, IoT is currently at peak of inflated expectations. It is estimated that the number of IoT devices connected to the Internet will hike up to 34 billion by 2020. IoT is strengthened by the latest developments in wireless technologies, smart sensors, actuators, communication technologies, Internet protocols and cloud services. IoT is built on heterogeneous programming platforms and devices that lead to standardization issues. The management of huge amount of IoT data in a continuously expanding network gives rise to non-trivial concerns regarding data collection efficiency, data processing, analytics and security. With billions of IoT devices, which arise around us providing computing-intensive and delay-sensitive services, in many application scenarios, the low response latency for IoT services is achieved at the cost of computing-complexity of IoT devices and cloud. To improve efficiency and scalability of IoT applications, multiple computing paradigms emerge, such as mobile transparent computing, fog computing and mobile edge computing. Security-related aspects have been hindering a faster adoption of IoT devices. Aspects such as low processing power and small storage capacity of IoT devices contribute to their typically poor built-in security and forensics capabilities.

Wireless communication services in IoT have to compete with the existing users in radar, government and military communications, environmental monitoring and other IoT applications, which requires strategy to increase the efficiency of spectrum sharing among the enormous users in IoT. Therefore, it is essential to pursue fundamental research on new components, techniques and architectures to achieve energy-efficient sensing, communications and networking in a shared spectrum environment for IoT. Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) can provide both improved and new functionality with efficiency and convenience; but the increasing use of CPSs and their application to key infrastructure components means that failures can result in disruption, damage and even loss of life. It is essential to develop CPSs which are reliable (or trustworthy).