Currently, we are experiencing a technological shift, which is expected to change the way
we program and interact with the world. Cloud computing and mobile computing are two …

Physical world integration with cyber world opens the opportunity of creating smart
environments; this new paradigm is called the Internet of Things (IoT). Communication …

The smart management of freshwater for precision irrigation in agriculture is essential for
increasing crop yield and decreasing costs, while contributing to environmental …

This study proposes a flexible architecture under the LAsim Smart FActor Plus reference
framework, fostering the integration of different related data sources—processes, products …

Internet of Things (IoT) has been growing rapidly due to recent advancements in
communications and sensor technologies. Meanwhile, with this revolutionary transformation …

The joint W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) and OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium)
Spatial Data on the Web (SDW) Working Group developed a set of ontologies to describe …

With the recent advancement of the Internet of Things (IoT), it is now possible to process a
large number of sensor data streams using different large-scale IoT platforms. These IoT …

The W3C Semantic Sensor Network Incubator group (the SSN-XG) produced an OWL 2
ontology to describe sensors and observations—the SSN ontology, available at http://purl …

Smart city represents one of the most promising, prominent and challenging Internet of
Things (IoT) applications [1]. In the last few years, indeed, the smart city concept has played …

Fog computing (FC) is an emerging distributed computing platform aimed at bringing
computation close to its data sources, which can reduce the latency and cost of delivering …