Collaborative Internet of Things (C-IoT): for Future Smart Connected Life and Business

This book provides a simplified visionary approach about the future direction of IoT, addressing its wide-scale adoption in many markets, its interception with advanced technology, the explosive growth in data, and the emergence of data analytics. IoT business applications span multiple vertical markets. The objective is to inspire creative thinking and collaboration among startups and entrepreneurs, which will breed innovation and deliver IoT solutions that will positively impact us by making our lives and business processes more efficient. With increasing proliferation of smartphones and social media, data generated by user-wearable/mobile devices continue to be key sources of information about us and the markets around us. Better insights will be gained through cognitive computation coupled with business intelligence and visual analytics that are GIS based.

Key highlights:

• Presents a simple and visionary approach of advanced IoT model “Collaborative IoT (C-IoT)” with integrating sensing, gateway and services, and a roadmap to Cyber-Collaborative IoT (C2-IoT)

• Simplifies market segmentation using domains and business applications, the three C-IoT domains being: Individual (representing smart living including wearable devices, smart homes, and connected cars), Industrial (smart building, factory, machine, and retail), and Infrastructure (public transportation and highways, public safety, disaster management, smart education, and smart cities)

• Rich set of examples of many potential business applications for the 2020s, 2030s and beyond, defining both requirements and framework for implementation

• Describes a smart secured IoT software platform to facilitate inter-application communications, enabling rapid building of multiple vertical Collaborative Internet of Things (C-IoT) application solutions that drive greater value and insights to improve business efficiency and quality of life