Semantic sensor networks use declarative descriptions of sensors promote reuse and
integration, and to help solve the difficulties of installing, querying and maintaining complex …

Intelligent sensors should be seamlessly, securely, and trustworthy interconnected to enable
automated high‐level smart applications. Semantic metadata can provide contextual …

In the current worldwide ICT scenario, a constantly growing number of ever more powerful
devices (smartphones, sensors, household appliances, RFID devices, etc.) join the Internet …

Challenges the Internet of Things (IoT) is facing are directly inherited from today's Internet.
However, they are amplified by the anticipated large scale deployments of devices and …

The concept of “smart city” has attracted considerable attention lately. Still, common
definitions are hard to find, and there is a lack of formal models to guide their design. This …

Abstract The Internet of Things plays a central role in the foreseen shift of the Internet to the
Future Internet, as it incarnates the drastic expansion of the Internet network with non …

In this paper, we propose an Internet of Things (IoT) virtualization framework to support
connected objects sensor event processing and reasoning by providing a semantic overlay …

Abstract The Internet of Things (IoT) with billions of connected devices has been generating
an enormous amount of data every hour. Connecting every data item generated by IoT to the …

This paper describes a linked-data platform to publish sen-sor data and link them to existing
resource on the semantic Web. The linked sensor data platform, called Sense2Web …

Cloud computing is among the hottest trends in ICT, aiming at providing on-demand
computing and storage resources with guarantees on the quality of service. A limit of current …