Data Processing in the Internet of Things

Dear Colleagues,

We gladly invite you to submit a paper to our Special Issue in the MDPI journal Information, titled “Data Processing in the Internet of Things.”

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become an important technology to make people’s lives easier and has established itself in many different domains, such as Smart Homes, Smart Cities, or Smart Factories. In the IoT, heterogeneous hardware devices, usually equipped with sensors and actuators, communicate through standardized network protocols to reach common goals.

In IoT applications, realizing efficient data processing is an important issue, since traditional data processing techniques (ETL, RDBMS, data warehousing, etc.) do not fit the specific requirements of the IoT. For example, storing IoT streaming data in a database or data warehouse and, in a further step, processing of the data, could only work in small IoT scenarios. In smart cities, for example, the amount of data being produced is too high to be first stored and then processed afterwards. Furthermore, for long-running data analysis, newly arriving data cannot be considered during data processing.

Hence, there is a high need to process IoT data as streams, using enhanced techniques such as Complex Event Processing or Data Stream Mining which process IoT streaming data directly, without the need to store them. Data that is not needed anymore can then be discarded or stored for long-term analysis. Using streaming approaches, newly arriving data can be considered as well.

In this Special Issue, we want to focus on data processing in the Internet of Things using streaming approaches. We are especially interested in new approaches in the areas of data stream processing, Complex Event Processing, data stream mining, time-window or length-window based data processing, machine learning, practical applications in IoT data processing, or best practices in this area. Survey papers may also be submitted to this Special Issue.

Dr. Pascal Hirmer
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Information is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

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