Smart Objects in the Internet of Things: From Sensor to Data Processing

Dear Colleagues,

The information technology ecosystem has been recently and significantly revolutionized by the advent of the Internet of things (IoT), and its quick and pervasive evolution. The IoT will consist of billions of interconnected devices denoted as “smart objects”, able to generate and consume a massive amount of heterogenous data. The massive amount of information being created by the IoT has the power to revolutionize everything from industry to healthcare, allowing them to work more efficiently and profitably. In this challenging context, data collection and data processing are two of the crucial pillars that will allow for extracting technological and business values from IoT applications and real deployments.

Furthermore, the mission of critical application will need real-time actionable intelligence and powerful user interfaces in order to make decisions and/or support decision makers in complex tasks. The seamless and efficient cooperation between data collection and processing, analytics, edge computing, and networking will be a fundamental enabler for the next generation of applications.

This Special Issue focuses on the innovative developments, technologies, and challenges related to Internet of things data generation, collection, modeling, and processing. The Special Issue is seeking the latest findings from research and ongoing projects. Additionally, review articles that provide readers with current research trends and solutions are also welcome. The potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Data discovery in IoT applications
• IoT data analytics
• Machine learning for IoT
• Integrating IoT data with external data sources
• Data generation, collection, and synchronization technologies
• Data processing for IoT
• Data science applications and services
• Data presentation and user interfaces (conversational interfaces, VR/AR)
• IoT application orchestration and coordination
• Distributed data management
• IoT Real-time application
• Real-time data processing for IoT
• Edge computing and efficient data processing
• Heterogeneity management
• Data modeling and seamless interoperability
• Application and data integration for IoT applications

Dr. Marco Picone
Dr. Marco Mamei
Dr. Màrius Montón
Guest Editors

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