Architecting the Internet of Things
Many of the initial developments towards the Internet of Things have focused on the combination of Auto-ID and networked infrastructures in business-to-business logistics and product lifecycle applications. However, the Internet of Things is more than a b
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Dieter Uckelmann • Mark Harrison Florian Michahelles Editors
Architecting the Internet of Things
With a foreword by Bernd Scholz-Reiter
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Editors Dieter Uckelmann University of Bremen Hochschulring 20 28359 Bremen, Germany [email protected]
Mark Harrison University of Cambridge Institute for Manufacturing 17 Charles Babbage Road, Cambridge, CB3 0FS, UK [email protected]
Florian Michahelles ETH Zürich Information Management ETH Zentrum SEC E4 Scheuchzerstrasse 7 8092 Zürich, Switzerland [email protected]
ISBN 978-3-642-19156-5 e-ISBN 978-3-642-19157-2 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-19157-2 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011925652 © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Cover design: eStudio Calamar S.L. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword The Internet of Things – Threats and Opportunities of Improved Visibility The Internet has changed our business and private lives in the past years and continues to do so. The Web 2.0, social networks and mobile Internet access are just some of the current developments in this context. Ubiquitous computing and ambient intelligence have been fields of research where changes of computing in everyday situations have been examined. Today, the Internet of Things is a foundation for connecting things, sensors, actuators, and other smart technologies, thus enabling person-to-object and object-to-object communications. The development of the Internet of Things is aligned with ongoing changes in information technology, logistics and electronic (e-)business. The significant reduction of message exchange times from analogue to digital messaging has led to reduced message sizes while increasing the number of message transactions. Additionally, there is a shift from mass broadcast to mass customisation and userspecified subscription to content tailored to an individual’s interests. We expect to retrieve personalised information, as needed to cope with the growing information overflow. These changes are not limited to the Internet. We see similar changes in logistics, for example the increasing number of smaller delive
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