Emerging Internet of Things Solutions and Technologies

Dear Colleagues,

The Internet of Things, together with its related emerging solutions and technologies, is driving a revolution with respect to the way people perceive and interact with the surrounding environment. Smart homes, smart offices, and smart factories are effective examples of daily life environments that, enriched with sensing, actuating, communication, and computing capabilities, are able to offer advanced services and applications. In this context, multiple advantages can be achieved. Among these, valuable benefits include improving the quality of life of people, increasing the efficiency of systems and plants, enriching the sustainability of buildings, enhancing the performance and usability of the offered services, and making technological solutions affordable to everyone and available everywhere. Further added value can be achieved by carefully combining the above benefits.

The full potential of the emerging Internet of Things paradigm needs a large amount of industrial and academic research efforts directed to the design, development, and assessment of novel architectures, methodologies, solutions, and technologies. Novelties in this field include, but are not limited to, the integration of consciousness and awareness in the Internet of Things, the adoption of machine learning and artificial intelligence, the exploitation of the edge and fog computing paradigms, the development of new standards and protocols, and the use of the digital twin concept to integrate physical and cyber worlds.

This Special Issue aims to involve both academic and industrial communities that operate in the fields of computer science, electronics, control systems, and telecommunications and that intend to offer their contributions in the abovementioned topics, thus advancing Internet of Things solutions and technologies.

Dr. Franco Cicirelli
Dr. Antonio Guerrieri
Dr. Carlo Mastroianni
Dr. Andrea Vinci
Guest Editors

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