Emerging Real-world Applications of Internet of Things

The Internet of things (IoT) is a network of connected physical objects or things that are working along with sensors, wireless transceiver modules, processors, and software required for connecting, processing, and exchanging data among the other devices over the Internet. These objects or things are devices ranging from simple handheld devices to complex industrial heavy machines. A thing in IoT can be any living or non-living object that can be provided capabilities to sense, process, and exchange data over a network. The IoT provides people with the ability to handle their household works to industrial tasks smartly and efficiently without the intervention of another human. The IoT provides smart devices for home automation as well as business solutions for delivering insights into everything from real-time monitoring of working systems to supply chain and logistics operations. The IoT has become one of the most prominent technological inventions of the 21st century.

Due to the versatility of IoT devices, there are numerous real-world applications of the IoT in various domains such as smart home, smart city, health care, agriculture, industry, and transportation. The IoT has emerged as a paradigm-shifting technology that is influencing various industries. Many companies, governments, and civic bodies are shifting to IoT applications to improve their works and to become more efficient. The world is slowly transforming toward a "smart world" with smart devices. As a consequence, it shows many new opportunities coming up in the near "smart" future for IoT professionals. Therefore, there is a need to keep track of advancements related to IoT applications and further investigate several research challenges related to the applicability of IoT in different domains to make it more adaptable for practical and industrial use. With this goal, this book provides the most recent and prominent applications of IoT in different domains as well as issues and challenges in developing IoT applications for various new domains.

Dr. Anshul Verma received M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science & Engineering from ABV-Indian Institute of Information Technology and Management Gwalior, India in 2011 and 2016, respectively. He has done Post-doctorate from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India in 2017. Currently, he is serving as Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University Varanasi, India. He has also served as faculty in Computer Science & Engineering at Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology (MNNIT) Allahabad and National Institute of Technology (NIT) Jamshedpur, India, from 2015 to 2017. His research interests include Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, Internet of Things, Mobile Ad-hoc Networks, Distributed Systems, and Formal Methods. He has participated as advisory board member, session chair, programme committee member in many conferences and he is serving as editorial board member in many journals. He is serving as the Editor of the Journal of Scientific Research, BHU, Varanasi, India.

Dr. Pradeepika Verma received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science & Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (ISM) Dhanbad, India, in 2020. She has received M.Tech in Computer Science & Engineering from Banasthali University, Rajasthan, India, in 2013. Currently, she is working as Post-Doctoral Fellow in Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India. She is also working as Associate Professor in Department of Computer Science at K L Deemed to be University, Andhra Pradesh, India and is presently on study leave. Prior to this, she has worked as Assistant Professor in Department of Computer Science & Engineering at Pranveer Singh Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India and as Faculty member in Department of Computer Application at Institute of Engineering and Technology, Lucknow, India. Her current research interests include Internet of Things, Natural Language Processing, Optimization Approaches, and Information Retrieval.

Dr. Yousef Farhaoui, is an Associate Professor at Moulay Ismail University, Faculty of sciences and Techniques, Morocco. He is also serving as Chair of IDMS Team, Director of STI laboratory, Local Publishing and Research Coordinator, Cambridge International Academics in the United Kingdom. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Security from Ibn Zohr University of Science. His research interests include Internet of Things, e-learning, computer security, big data analytics, and business intelligence. Farhaoui has three books in computer science. He is a coordinator and member of the organizing committee and also a member of the scientific committee of several international congresses, and is a member of various international associations. He has authored 6 Books and many Book Chapters with Reputed Publishers such as Springer and IGI. He has served as a Reviewer for IEEE, IET, Springer, Inderscience and Elsevier Journals. He is also the Guest Editor of many Journals with Wiley, Springer, Inderscience, etc. He has been the General Chair, Session Chair, and Panelist in Several Conferences. He is Senior Member of IEEE, IET, ACM and EAI Research Group. Dr. Zhihan Lv is currently an Associate Professor at Uppsala University in Sweden. From 2017 to 2021, he has been an Associate Professor at Qingdao University in Qingdao of China. From 2012 to 2016, he has held an Adjunct Assistant Professor position at Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Science in Shenzhen of China. He was granted PhD. degree in Computer applied technology from Ocean university of China in Qingdao of China, supervised by Prof. Ge Chen. Before that, he has enjoyed sixteen months full-time research experience at French National Centre for Scientific Research(CNRS)-UPR9080 in Paris of France, supervised by Dr. Marc Baaden, meanwhile, he was a visiting Ph.D. student at University of Paris. After then, he has fulfilled two-year postdoc research experience at Umea university in Umea and a short invited teaching experience at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm of Sweden, supervised by Prof. Haibo Li. From 2014 to 2015, he had been a Marie Curie Experienced Researcher in European Union's Seventh Framework Lanpercept, at clinical section Fundación FIVAN in Valencia of Spain. From 2015 to 2017, he was a Research Associate at Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics(VECG) group at University College London(UCL) in London of UK, supervised by Prof. Anthony Steed. In 2018, he joined Event Lab at University of Barcelona in Barcelona of Spain, supervised by Prof. Mel Slater. He is IEEE Senior Member, BCS Fellow and ACM Distinguished Speaker.