Managing the upcoming ubiquitous computing

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a promising theme of research. Covering subjects from micro-electronic to social sciences with a major field in computing, network and telecommunication. It is judged as the future of the today's Internet. The main idea is to benefit from an ambient intelligence instantiated by objects assisting humans in their daily tasks. One has already imagined use cases and challenging projects in separate areas, but challenge often means performances and requires expensive specific implementations or technologies. Paradoxically, this technology fragmentation starves us from a rapid growth of the IoT whereas it prevents us to be flooded by the uncharacterized traffic it would generate [1]. Intersecting three domains of research that are Systems Monitoring and Management, Ubiquitous Computing and Cognitive Radio, we introduce our ongoing work on a new transversal use case called Ubiquitous Cognitive Systems Management (UCSM) to tackle this paradox and originate the chatty object concept.