Highlights•IoT and Cloud solutions introduced in agriculture are presented.•Widely used
sensors in agricultural deployments are surveyed.•The potential of interoperable software …

In recent years, the range of sensing technologies has expanded rapidly, whereas sensor
devices have become cheaper. This has led to a rapid expansion in condition monitoring of …

The Internet of Things (IoT) provides a virtual view, via the Internet Protocol, to a huge variety
of real life objects, ranging from a car, to a teacup, to a building, to trees in a forest. Its appeal …

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are networks of distributed autonomous devices that can
sense or monitor physical or environmental conditions cooperatively. WSNs face many …

This paper is concerned with the application of wireless sensor network (WSN) technology
to long-duration and large-scale environmental monitoring. The holy grail is a system that …

Traditionally, environmental monitoring is achieved by a small number of expensive and
high precision sensing unities. Collected data are retrieved directly from the equipment at …

This chapter elaborates on the most significant components in the smartphone usage, which
is the space discovery paradigms, and discusses offline tracking applications. Rahmati and …

Storm has emerged as a promising computation platform for stream data processing. In this
paper, we first show inefficiencies of the current practice of Storm scheduling and challenges …

Sensor networks are deemed suitable for large-scale deployments in the wild for a variety of
applications. In spite of the remarkable efforts the community put to build the sensor systems …

Wireless sensor networks are untethered infrastructures that are easy to deploy and have
limited visual impact—a key asset in monitoring heritage buildings of artistic interest. This …