Introduction to the Internet of Things

This book provides readers with an insight into information and knowledge in the Internet of Things, in particular an investigation of data management and processing, information extraction, technology, knowledge management, knowledge sharing, knowledge co-creation, knowledge integration, and the development of new intelligent services available anytime, anywhere, by anyone.

The authors show how IoT enables communication and ubiquitous computing between global citizens, networked machines and physical objects, providing a promising vision of the future integrating the real world of knowledge agents and things with the virtual world of information.