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The Internet of Things (IoT) is a step forward in the well-known wide-spread Internet revolution. It consists in a world of physical objects embedded with sensors and actuators linked by wireless networks and communicating using the Internet, shaping a network of smart objects, with processing power and able to capture environmental variables and to react to external stimuli. Such objects are connected and can be controlled over the Internet, enabling a myriad of novel applications. IoT is one of the key technologies to enable the creation of cyber physical systems and realize the vision of new IT application domains such as Smart Cities. Several recent technological advances enabled the emergence of IoT such as nanotechnology, wireless sensor networks, mobile communication, and ubiquitous computing. However, there is still a set of challenges to be addressed in order to fully realize the IoT paradigm, mainly related to the development of IoT applications dealing with the heterogeneity arising from the diversity of hardware, sensors and actuators, and wireless technologies inherent to such an environment.
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Delicato, F.C., Pires, P.F., Batista, T. (2013). Introduction. In: Middleware Solutions for the Internet of Things. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5481-5_1
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