Internet of Things Technology: A New Automation Backbone

This is an edited book on the Internet of Things Technology written with the academicians, researchers and field practitioners in mind. The focus of this book is on IoT Technology and how this technology is rapidly evolving into a new automation backbone in the field in different application domains and in industry. The first chapter of this book is a very active research area. It is on the interoperability of the heterogeneous IoT protocols working at different layers of the IoT stack with reference to the semantic web of things. The second chapter is very interesting from the application perspective. It deals with myriad applications of IoT in the healthcare domain. This is a very active area in the industry and this space is seeing the mushrooming of many dedicated start ups lately. The third chapter is on IoT security. Security of the data becomes very important particularly in cyber physical systems of which IoT is a relatively new entrant. The difficulties of securing data in the IoT domain are many and the problem of extremely constrained environments poses altogether new set of challenges. In the fourth chapter, the authors have attempted to construct an evaluation model to assess IoT based Internet of Things Technology: A New Automation Backbone v systems for their security features using integrated MCDM methodology. The evaluation model uses ANP to weigh security requirements and have used grey relational analysis to evaluate IoT system alternatives with respect to those security requirements. This chapter also presents an empirical study on the evaluation of IoT based healthcare devices. The book concludes with a chapter on the integration of Geographic Information Systems with IoT technology. The integration of GIS with IoT has the potential for building very powerful applications and this is particularly true in the case of disaster mitigation and prediction and the preventive maintenance of large distribution networks. Authors and editors ardently hope that the readers find the book useful for traversing through the challenging terrain of IoT.