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Internet-of-Things, Cyber-physical Systems demarcation and contribution to the Big Data realm

Abstract

The Hype of the Internet of Things (IoT) versus Cyber-physical Systems advent, as a relationship of competition, complementarity or else overlapping technologies, is bringing lots of attention, curiosity and treasure (ROI) hunting. The polls, predictions and market studies projections are giving very high figures of IoT enabled devices soon operational on the consumer electronics arena (currently, materializing at high pace) and of billions of dollars of investments and returns enticing researchers, developers and investors alike. On the other hand, the Big Data domain and how it is expected to get fatter with input from the foreseen large deployments of IoT systems is expected to put more stress, burden and challenge on data analytics researchers, who need to provide smarter and smarter expert systems and data miners that need to filter out data and infer trends, patterns, and projections as accurate as possible. In this presentation, we start from real million US$ worth research projects, one just completed (On Ubiquitous-Heath monitoring), and one currently active (On Air Quality Diagnostics using autonomous environmentally-power harvesting sensing platforms), and the third just started, on Wireless Networks of Column Sensors-supported Structural health monitoring for early Warning Systems. These three projects incorporate and rely for specific critical situation on the Internet of Things, as a necessity, Not as a fantasy.

Adel Ben Mnaouer

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