Description

This handbook is an authoritative, comprehensive reference on Internet of Things, written for practitioners, researchers, and students around the world. This book provides a definitive single point of reference material for all those interested to find out information about the basic technologies and approaches that are used to design and deploy IoT applications across a vast variety of different application fields spanning from smart buildings, smart cities, smart factories, smart farming, building automation, connected vehicles, and machine to machine communication. The book is divided into ten parts, each edited by top experts in the field. The parts include: IoT Basics, IoT Hardware and Components, Architecture and Reference Models, IoT Networks, Standards Overview, IoT Security and Privacy, From Data to Knowledge and Intelligence, Application Domains, Testbeds and Deployment, and End-User Engagement. The contributors are leading authorities in the fields of engineering and represent academia, industry, and international government and regulatory agencies.