Cybersecurity Management for (Industrial) Internet of Things: Challenges and Opportunities

Internet of Things: Perspectives, Challenges and Opportunities

The Internet of things can be defined as to make the “things” belong to the Internet. However, many wonder if the current Internet can support such a challenge. For this and other reasons, hundreds of worldwide initiatives to redesign the Internet are underway. This article discusses the perspectives, challenges and opportunities behind a future Internet that fully supports the “things”, as wel...

Internet of Things & M2M – A Perspective on Opportunities and Challenges

Modern infrastructure systems such as roadways, utility networks, telecommunications, retail, etc. are large scale complexly networked, socio-technical systems that are contributing largely to the quality of life in modern societies. The operation and control of existing infrastructures has several challenges. Technologies and business models gathering around Internet of Things (IoT) and Machin...

Internet of Animal Health Things (IoAHT) Opportunities and Challenges

Understanding the Information Architecture, Data Management, and Analysis Challenges and Opportunities of the Internet of Things

We live in an age of information explosion, driven by technology that has progressed from monolithic mainframes, to distributed computing, to on-premises and hybrid distributing computing, and towards multi-tenant cloud environments. Further, a new paradigm has emerged where connectivity has a multitude of channels – mobile, tablets, sensors and monitors – that yield an abundance of data and in...

Challenges for database management in the internet of things

This article discusses the challenges for Database Management in the Internet of Things. We provide scenarios to illustrate the new world that will be produced by the Internet of Things, where physical objects are fully integrated into the information highway. We discuss the different types of data that will be part of the Internet of Things. These include identification, positional, environmen...