Trusted IoT in the Complex Landscape of Governance, Security, Privacy, Availability and Safety

The Internet of Things (IoT) has attracted a lot of attention the last decade due to the unprecedented opportunities it provides for economic growth and for improving the quality of life of citizens. The advances in the IoT domain have been quite important and especially in the areas of IoT hardware, data and context extraction, service provisioning and service composition, cognition, interoperability and extensibility. Considering these advances, the IoT technologies are being considered quite mature for being deployed in real world environments and this has already been done in many cities around the world. Thousands of smart devices are now operating in cities, gathering information and providing smart applications for e.g. environmental monitoring, energy management, traffic management, smart buildings and smart parking [1, 2]. These devices are equipped with intelligence and are able to monitor and control physical objects, thus creating a new “Cyber-Physical” world [3]. The latest advances in the manufacturing engineering has allowed the minimization of the size of IoT devices so that they are not easily noticed.