IoT-Power in 21st Century: Developing New IoT Smart Frameworks, Platforms and Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Internet of Things (IoT) technology is an important infrastructure for information transmission in smart living, smart health, smart cities and homes. It can effectively improve the quality of life of citizens and bring great convenience to our lives, by bringing together industries, academia, researchers, experts and students. Based on IoT paradigm, smart living and health have become large systems that integrate organically, covering a more thorough perception, more comprehensive interconnection, and deeper intelligence. Among them, the Internet of Things is a very important element in the smart living and smart city, which support the whole intelligent systems. In addition, IoT provides a solid technical foundation and perception ability for the smart city and smart publuc health, making the perception more in-depth and intelligent. Only through environmental perception, water level perception, lighting perception, urban pipe network perception, mobile payment perception, personal health perception, wireless city portal perception, intelligent transportation interactive perception, smart healthcare systems and so on, can the smart living realize intelligent management in municipal administration, people's livelihood, industry, healthcare and other aspects. One of the main goals of the Internet of Things is to realize smart life, healthcare, cities and homes, and many industries applications based on the Internet of Things are serving the mainstream applications of smart life.

However, this paradigm poses unprecedented challenges for connecting networks technologies, enabling the collection, exchange, and analysis of generated information, and making smart the contextaware adaptation pervasive frameworks, platfoms and systems. In addition, IoT requirements need to design new fexible and open architectures to deal with following issues :

• Building interoperable IoT solutions
• End-to-End solutions (Frameworks, Platfoms and systems) rely on standards
• Adoption of open standards that encourage both by IoT developers and the IoT industry at large
• IoT software stacks
• Smart living and heathcare Frameworks, Platfoms and systems

The aim of this Special Issue is to include high quality and innovative scientific papers on the advances in the theory, frameworks, platfoms, systems and applications of the Internet of Things (IoT) in relation to the smart living and health systems. We invite industries, academia, researchers, experts and students to contribute in this special issue and to improve the quality of modern and smart systems.

Prof. Dr. Hamid Mcheick
Guest Editor

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