Internet of Things (IoT) and Ambient Intelligence

Dear Colleagues,

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the interconnection of heterogeneous and ubiquitous objects between themselves. Currently, people have things that form an IoT network. People’s daily lives involve many objects with an Internet connection like smartphones, tablets, smart TVs, micro-controllers, smart tags, computers, laptops, cars, cheaper sensors, and improved wireless connections. With these things, people have heterogeneous objects because these are of different types and people have ubiquitous objects because objects are installed in different places and some of these objects can move around the world. In this context, we could think that we already have the Internet of Things.

This Special Issue is focused on the ‘Internet of Things and Ambient Intelligence’. The topics of interest for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Internet of Things and ambient intelligence:
  • Software architecture and middleware
  • Data processing and management
  • Security, privacy, and reliability
  • Architectures, protocols, technologies, and algorithms
  • Security, cryptography, and privacy
  • Smart Objects, sensors, and actuators
  • The Web of Things
  • Social Internet of Things
  • Challenges and issues
  • Energy-efficient management of IoT objects
  • Internet of Things platforms
  • Smart objects through online social networks
  • Education
• Smart home, smart city, smart town, industrial Internet of Things, and smart Earth:
  • Architecture and infrastructure
  • Technologies
  • Applications, business, services, and issues
• Miscellaneous:
  • Implementing big data techniques
  • Implementing artificial intelligence techniques
  • Model-driven engineering for facilitating to any people
  • The use of cloud computing in the IoT and ambient intelligence
  • Cloud robotics

Prof. Dr. Cristian González García
Prof. Dr. Vicente García-Díaz
Guest Editors

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• Internet of Things
• ambient intelligence
• smart home
• industrial internet of things
• smart city
• smart earth
• smart objects