Review: The Technical Foundations of IoT

This book is intended for professionals interested in research and those who develop and build the Internet of Things (IoT) end systems. This book equally serves as a reference of context for any reader crossing among the components of IoT whether in software, hardware, networks, or security. Covers some of the following topics: physical principles and information; historical perspective of IoT; applications and architectures of machine-to-machine communications (M2M); device communication; IoT solutions; hardware support; software development, and network security. With the imminence of a greater and more connected world, we are approaching another wave of revolution in connectedness. Just as the use of the Internet came as a surprise, IoT will no doubt be the same in how it affects and presents novel ways in how we interact with each other, our machines, and our world. This book could be viewed as presenting the reader with the technical “bones” of IoT so that he/she may lay flesh on them by discerning how and why the pieces ought to fit together.