Large urban areas are nowadays covered by millions of wireless devices, including not only cellular equipment carried by their inhabitants, but also several ubiquitous and pervasive platforms used to monitor and/or actuate on a variety of phenomena in the city area. Whereas the former are increasingly powerful devices equipped with advanced processors, large memory capacity,…
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Powering the IoT: Storage-less and converter-less energy harvesting
Wide spread of Internet of Things (IoTs) still have huddles in cost and maintenance. Energy harvesting is a promising option to mitigate battery replacement, but the current energy harvesting methods still rely on batteries or equivalent and power converters for the maximum power point tracking (MPPT). Unfortunately, batteries are subject to wear and tear, which…
Personalization Using Sensors for Preliminary Human Detection in an IoT Environment
In Internet of Things (IoT), there are many future applications in smart environments. This paper first presents a possible scenario of a family making use of the IoT in their daily living, and then work leading to integration of unobtrusive sensors in the smart environment is discussed. In the applications discussed, Bluetooth connections linked and connected the…
Designing multi-level connectivity for IoT-enabled SmartX Boxes
In this paper, we discuss about a futuristic design for multi-level connectivity that plays the pivotal role in enabling IoT services employing the hyper-convergent SmartX Boxes.
Do-it-Yourself Digital Agriculture applications with semantically enhanced IoT platform
Internet of Things (IoT) enables various applications (crop growth monitoring and selection, irrigation decision support, etc) in Digital Agriculture domain. Semantic enhancements to IoT platforms address challenges of interoperability, data fusion, integration of heterogeneous IoT silos, annotation of data streams, just to name a few. This paper discusses the recently developed OpenIoT platform which demonstrated its applicability and efficiency…
Using BIP to reinforce correctness of resource-constrained IoT applications
Internet of Things (IoT) systems process and respond to multiple (external) events, while performing computations for a Sense-Compute-Control (SCC) or a Sense-Only (SO) goal. Given the limitations of the interconnected resource-constrained devices, the execution environment can be based on an appropriate operating system for the IoT. The development effort can be reduced, when applications are built…
Engaging citizen communities in smart cities using IoT, serious gaming and fast markerless Augmented Reality
This paper describes a novel approach in engaging citizen communities based on serious gaming incorporating integration of the physical and digital worlds through aggregation of Internet of Things (IoT) service with Augmented Reality (AR) data visualization. The IoT service is provided by the ekoNET solution providing real-time monitoring of air quality and other atmospheric condition environmental data.…
ID-based communication for realizing IoT and M2M in future heterogeneous mobile networks
Internet of Things (IoT) and Machine to Machine (M2M) communication are expected to be the major paradigm of communications in the future Internet, where trillion of devices will be connected through heterogeneous mobile networks that will vary in both networking and link technologies. The IoT/M2M devices need to remain connected despite they change their points of…
IoT service framework based on mega data center and micro data center in PMIPv6 environment for smart devices
Internet of Things (IoT) is a new technology that allows many smart devices to interact with each other after they are connected to the Internet. Smart devices can communicate with each other as well as with other applications to gather useful information/tracking items/provide location which can be used to improve that service or obtain feedback.…
IoT Data Compression: Sensor-Agnostic Approach
Management of bulk sensor data is one of the challenging problems in the development of Internet of Things (IoT) applications. High volume of sensor data induces for optimal implementation of appropriate sensor data compression technique to deal with the problem of energy-efficient transmission, storage space optimization for tiny sensor devices, and cost-effective sensor analytics. The…