Environmental monitoring is a function that falls within the scope of a smart environment, which is a specific implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT)and aims to make people’s lives more secure, comfortable, environmentally friendly, and productive. An implementation of the IoT is one tha...
This, in effect is the Internet of Things at work. What is IoT? So, let’s start by defining the Internet of Things. "Simply speaking, the Internet of Things is comprised of devices – from simple sensors to smartphones and wearables – connected together," says Matthew Evans, the ...
Our main findings suggest that convergence in the EU is still present at different regional levels, but its speed is slowing down. Total EU disparities were decreasing mainly because of reducing disparities between member states. At the same time, in the majority of EU member states, old and ...
As the future IoT will be a multi-national, multi-industry, multi-technology infrastructure, the paper reviews the global standardization efforts that are underway to facilitate its worldwide creation and adoption. The main purpose of the paper is to give a broad survey, based on published ...