Collaborative Internet of Things (C-IoT)

for Future Smart Connected Life and Business

Fawzi Behmann, Kwok Wu

• Publisher: Wiley
• Year: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781118913710
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Technik & Maschinenbau
• Subtopic: Mobile & drahtlose Kommunikation

This book provides a simplified visionary approach about the future direction of IoT, addressing its wide-scale adoption in many markets, its interception with advanced technology, the explosive growth in data, and the emergence of data analytics. IoT business applications span multiple vertical markets. The objective is to inspire creative thinking and collaboration among startups and entrepreneurs which will breed innovation and deliver IoT solutions that will positively impact us by making business processes more efficient, and improving our quality of life. With increasing proliferation of smart-phones and social media, data generated by user wearable/mobile devices continue to be key sources of information about us and the markets around us. Better insights will be gained through cognitive computation coupled with business intelligence and visual analytics that are GIS-based.

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Introductions and Motivation

1.1 Introduction

This book will provide the reader with a quick overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) as the next technical revolution of the Internet and address its impact on digital life and business process empowered by emerging Cloud Services. The IOE – Internet of Everything is a DOT (Disruption of Things) and agent of change transforming from Internet of People to Internet of M2M (machine-to-machine) to IoT and IoE. Key benefits include improved business process efficiency, productivity, and quality of digital life. The market demand is moving from reactive on-demand remote monitoring and control (pull model) to more proactive services where the services will identify who you are and deliver what you want and when you want. Services will take on a new form empowered by insights driven from data collected in a given target applications.

This book is targeted to:

• Decision Makers, CEOs, CIOs, CTOs, and Senior Executives
• Communications and Networking System Architects
• Product and Marketing Managers
• Software and Hardware Engineers
• Consultants, Entrepreneurs, and Startups
• Service Providers of content, utility, security, entertainment, and other services
• Professors and Students
• Hobbyists.

1.2 The Book

1.2.1 Objectives

The objective of this book is to provide a simplified approach to comprehend the IoT innovative business model, value, and the impact it will have over our lives and businesses.

Hence, the objective will be analyzed from two aspects:

1. Improving quality of our lives
2. Improving business efficiencies.

Both (1) and (2) will contribute to having better insights that will lead to living in a smart environment and being part of a smart community/smart city.

This book will provide both a simplified and innovative business model for IoT and IoT domains and key applications. In addition, window of opportunities for IoT applications is rapidly growing and this book will address the need for a platform where diverse applications and solution can be developed. Finally, there is a need for system solution to collaborate for better insights and decision-making.

1.2.2 Benefits

It is the hope that this book will be a great reference and a tool for the reader and provide tangible benefits that include:

• Prepare the readers to embrace the revolution of Internet Technology with IOT that impact our lives, our business, and the environment we live in.
• Understand the evolution of IoT opportunities in terms of key applications that impact our lives, business, or the environment. Examples include Health & Fitness, Smart Building & Home, Video Surveillance, Track & Monitor, Smart Factor/Manufacturing, Smart Energy, and others.
• Comprehend the simplified approach to IoT Business Model consisted of Sensing, Gateway, and Services. Understand landscape of technologies and standards that enable creation of innovative time-to-market solutions and systems.
• Describe technologies and protocols that directly relate to IoT for IoT Architecture model (Physical, Virtual, and Cloud). Examples:
  • Physical. Sensors, radio frequency identification (RFID), micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), wireless sensor networks (WSN), global positioning system (GPS), ZigBee, near field communication (NFC), Wi-Fi, and 3G/4G
  • Virtual. Software Defined anything (SDx), network functions virtualization (NFV), IPv4/IPv6, geographic information system (GIS), and body area network (BAN)/local area network (LAN)/wide area network (WAN) (body area network/local area network/wide area network)
  • Cloud. Big Data/Analytics.
• Acquire deeper the understanding with series of requirements of key applications and how they are implemented.
• Leverage a smart IoT platform approach to facilitate the development of applications and enable communications among systems and solutions in a collaborative manner (C-IoT). Smart IoT as characterized by the 8A’s stand for Automated Remote Provisioning and Management, Augmented Reality, Awareness of Context and Location, Analyze, Take Action, Automate, Anticipate, Predict, Autonomous, and Attractive. The 7S’s stand for Simplicity, Security, Safety, Smart, Scalable, Sustainable, and Sleek Appeal.
• Acquire deeper understanding of Secured IoT products and systems. Provide examples and tips for do-it-yourself (DIY) IoT solution.
• Make the reader aware of future challenges facing IoT.
• Inspire the reader to think and innovate on unlimited IoT opportunities by sharing examples of future trends.

1.2.3 Organization

This chapter introduces a simple innovative model for Collaborative Internet of Things (C-IoT) and a new way of looking at the market via domains and applications. The book introduces simplified segmentation for C-IoT consisting of three domains: Individual, Industrial, and Infrastructure. Applications/Solutions/Systems can impact Individual, Industry, or Infrastructure or all. The C-IoT model in its simplest form consists of sensing, gateway, and services. Gaining insights from application/solution/system will result in driving better results in each domain. Spanning applications/solutions/systems to more than one domain create a higher value for a better strategic decision.

The core of this book will highlight a series of cases spanning from the requirements to the solution for present market and business opportunities and exploring future opportunities.

Chapter 2 describes the landscape of C-IoT and highlights relevant technologies and standards of the C-IoT model. In addition, it illustrates the application requirements by selecting some of the C-IoT applications spanning one or more of the three domains: Individual, Industry, and Infrastructure.

Chapter 3 describes the implementation of some C-IoT applications progressively from personal consumer to home to industrial (business) and smart city (infrastructure and communities) levels to deliver sustainable smart living and smart environment that help optimize business process efficiency and improve quality of life.

Chapter 4 describes the need for a unified smart C-IoT software platform that enables one to build and deploy smart C-IoT product, systems solutions, and services for different vertical markets in a quick time-to-market fashion. This will be described including the 4A’s and 4S’s that characterize smart C-IoT products. The 4A’s stand for Awareness of Context and Location, Analyze, and Take Action, Automate and Autonomous, and Anticipate. The 4S’s stand for Simplicity, Security, Smart, and Scalable. The chapter ends with covering the Secured IoT.

Chapter 5 provides examples of do it yourself (DIY) kits aimed on bringing the concept, approach to hands-on experience that will inspire innovative thinking in exploring untapped opportunities that will improve the quality of humanity, and business efficiency in general.

Chapter 6 addresses the emerging new wave of new devices and technologies such as wearable/mobile and cloud technology (local, public, and inter-cloud), analytics, and social media as key building blocks of C-IoT distributed intelligence. In addition, the chapter examines the C-IoT impact on our digital lives and businesses and some of the future challenges such as privacy and security.

Chapter 7 presents the readers with final remarks and tips to inspire them to innovate and deliver differentiated solution that contributes toward improving quality of lives and improves business processes.

1.2.4 Book Cover

1.2.4.1 Title of the Book

The title is carefully constructed that is depicted by the image on the front cover of this book as well as the brief text in the back cover.

The title reflects the direction of the book focusing on the Future and addressing the need for a C-IoT that represents intelligently interacting and collaborating with current IoT solutions and sys...