SMARTSYS – Issues in Smart Systems and the Internet of Things

The concept of “Smart Systems” is becoming pervasive, from smart homes to autonomous vehicles to smart grids and cities, and beyond. These advances are driven by small, embedded, and high-powered computing systems which interconnect using rapidly-advancing technologies, and which produce ever-increasing amounts of data. Although the “Internet of Things” may produce useful applications and new distributed architectures, there are issues and challenges being revealed almost as fast as data is produced by these Smart Systems. A special session on Smart Systems is included in the Twelfth International Conference on Digital Telecommunications (ICDT 2017), held in Venice, Italy. Three papers address the challenges and issues in topical areas related to Identity-Based Encryption for Smart Grids, Technology Enhanced Infrastructure for Smart Cities, and Logical/Geospatial Device Location in Smart Grids.