Unit and Ubiquitous Internet of Things

"Preface Internet of Things (IoT) attracts great attention, and brings promising opportunities and challenges. Research on IoT has important economic and social values for the development of the next generation of information, network, and communication technologies. However, it is still confusing for most people to understand IoT well, including definitions, contents, and differences from other similar concepts. IoT connects and fuses the physical world and cyber world by ubiquitous sensing, connection,and control with definite social attributes. It is hopeful that IoT can emancipate humans from onerous humanmachine interface work and information exploration. This book attempts to provide a future IoT vision, and answer some fundamental questions from various aspects, including concepts, architectures, models, and key technologies. It aims at helping readers find out the fundamental issues in IoT, and to be valuable IoT literature for college students, practicing engineers, researchers, business operators, and policy makers. The book accomplishes three main objectives - Introduce IoT essential concepts and contents from the perspectives of mapping and interaction between the physical world and cyber world. Meanwhile, social attributes are emphatically discussed in IoT. Preface - Build a fundamental architecture for future IoT, based on which the IoT layered model, topological structure, various existence forms, and corresponding logical relationships are described. Specific case studies are also presented in different application scenarios"--

Huansheng Ning, Ph.D., is an associate professor in the School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University. He was born in Anhui, China, and received a B.S. from Anhui University, China, and a Ph.D. from Beihang University, China. From 2002 to 2003, Dr. Ning worked at Aisino Corporation, Beijing, China. From 2004 to 2005, he was a post-Ph.D. at Beihang University. He has presided over several research projects supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC), the National High Technology Research and Development Program of China (863 Program), and other organizations. He has published many papers and books on radio frequency identification (RFID) and Internet of Things (IoT). Dr. Ning serves as an editor on Advances in Internet of Things (2012-Present), is a guest editor for the Journal of Universal Computer Science Special Issue on Internet of Things (JUCS), and coeditor for The Internet of Things: From RFID to the Next-Generation Pervasive Networked Systems (Taylor & Francis Group). He also serves as a chair or program committee member for international conferences/workshops, for example, program chair (IEEE iThings 2012), program committee member (AMT 2012), K15947. Internet of Things and CPS track chair (IEEE CIT’12), workshop chair (IEEE iThings 2011), and general chair (UMES 2011). Dr. Ning’s current research focuses on Internet of Things, electromagnetic sensing, and aviation security.