Friess & Vermesan 
Digitising the Industry [PDF ebook] 
Internet of Things Connecting the Physical, Digital and Virtual Worlds

This book provides an overview of the current Internet of Things (Io T) landscape, ranging from the research, innovation and development priorities to enabling technologies in a global context. A successful deployment of Io T technologies requires integration on all layers, be it cognitive and semantic aspects, middleware components, services, edge devices/machines and infrastructures. It is intended to be a standalone book in a series that covers the Internet of Things activities of the IERC – Internet of Things European Research Cluster from research to technological innovation, validation and deployment.The book builds on the ideas put forward by the European Research Cluster and the Io T European Platform Initiative (Io T-EPI) and presents global views and state of the art results on the challenges facing the research, innovation, development and deployment of Io T in the next years. The Io T is bridging the physical world with virtual world and requires sound information processing capabilities for the "digital shadows" of these real things. The research and innovation in nanoelectronics, semiconductor, sensors/actuators, communication, analytics technologies, cyber-physical systems, software, swarm intelligent and deep learning systems are essential for the successful deployment of Io T applications. The emergence of Io T platforms with multiple functionalities enables rapid development and lower costs by offering standardized components that can be shared across multiple solutions in many industry verticals.The Io T applications will gradually move from vertical, single purpose solutions to multi-purpose and collaborative applications interacting across industry verticals, organisations and people, being one of the essential paradigms of the digital economy. Many of those applications still have to be identified and involvement of end-users including the creative sector in this innovation is crucial. The Io T applications and deployments as integrated building blocks of the new digital economy are part of the accompanying Io T policy framework to address issues of horizontal nature and common interest (i.e. privacy, end-to-end security, user acceptance, societal, ethical aspects and legal issues) for providing trusted Io T solutions in a coordinated and consolidated manner across the Io T activities and pilots. In this context, Io T ecosystems offer solutions beyond a platform and solve important technical challenges in the different verticals and across verticals. These Io T technology ecosystems are instrumental for the deployment of large pilots and can easily be connected to or build upon the core Io T solutions for different applications in order to expand the system of use and allow new and even unanticipated Io T end uses. Technical topics discussed in the book include: * Introduction* Digitising industry and Io T as key enabler in the new era of Digital Economy* Io T Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda* Io T in the digital industrial context: Digital Single Market* Integration of heterogeneous systems and bridging the virtual, digital and physical worlds* Federated Io T platforms and interoperability* Evolution from intelligent devices to connected systems of systems by adding new layers of cognitive behaviour, artificial intelligence and user interfaces* Innovation through Io T ecosystems* Trust-based Io T end-to-end security, privacy framework* User acceptance, societal, ethical aspects and legal issues* Internet of Things Applications