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IoT Interoperability: Challenges, Trends, and Solutions
The Internet of Things (IoT) concept which aim is to enlarge the traditional Internet of Computers to the other things has been promoting innovative solutions at the full stack, ranging from devices, bridges and gateways to applications and services. In the other perspective, IoT has been also supporting new and fascinating research areas such as Ambient Intelligence and Ambient Assisted Living, Smart Objects, Sensor Networks, Smart agriculture, Fog and Edge Computing, Industry 4.0, Smart Grid, Environmental Monitoring, just to name a few.
The increasing success and expansion of the IoT brought several challenges where the interoperability is one of the most relevant as it directly impacts on the success of the IoT adoption by companies and institutions. The ability of heterogeneous devices and systems to seamlessly interact regardless of their intrinsic characteristics depends on interoperability but its materialization has not been an easy task. Standardization organizations as well as associations of commercial companies have be specifying interoperability standards but none was yet assumed as a worldwide IoT Standard. This situation has led research community to adopt different standards and to provide specific interoperability mechanisms for each layer of the IoT stack.
This Topical Collection seeks original and unpublished articles addressing the IoT interoperability challenge or generalist IoT applications and services that provide an approach for seamlessly address vertical and/or horizontal market integration.
Keywords:
Internet of Things, Interoperability, Technical Interoperability, Syntactical Interoperability, Semantic Interoperability, Semantic Technologies, Ontologies, Integration, Gateways, Multi-Platform Integration, Web of Things, Standardization, Real-word Web of Things Systems
Editors
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António Pereira
António Pereira, Professor, Polytechnic of Leiria, Portugal He is the head of the Smart IoT Eco-systems research line of Computer Science and Communications Research Centre of Polytechnic of Leiria. He received his Habilitation degree in Computer Science from the University of Aveiro, Portugal in 2018, his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science Engineering from University of Coimbra, Portugal in 2006. He has published more than 150 conference papers and refereed journals in the areas of Computer Science and Communications. He received 2 best paper awards at international conferences. He has participated and coordinated more than 30 R&D+I project
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Nuno Costa
Nuno Costa, Professor, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal He is a Coordinator Professor at Polytechnic of Leiria, Portugal. He received the Ph.D. degree from University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro, Vila Real, Portugal, in 2010. He is a Researcher with the IoT Ecosystems Group of Computer Science and Communication Research Centre, Department of Computer Science, School of Technology and Management, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal.
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Antonio Fernández-Caballero
Antonio Fernández-Caballero, Professor, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain He received his M.Sc. in Computer Science from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, in 1993, and his Ph.D. from the Department of Artificial Intelligence at Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain, in 2001. He is a Full Professor with the Department of Computer Science at Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha. He is head of the n&aIS (natural and artificial Interaction Systems) research group belonging to the Albacete Research Institute of Informatics. His research interests are Image Processing, Cognitive Vision, Mobile Robotics, etc.
