Guerrieri A., Loscri V., Rovella A., Fortino G. Management of Cyber Physical Objects in the Future Internet of Things - Methods, Architectures and Applications

Springer, 2016. — 181 p. — ISBN: 978-3-319-26869-9.The emerging generation of Cyber Physical Objects (CPOs) brings new powers opening novel and revolutionary applications and new areas of innovation. The Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) constituted by the CPOs enable fusion between the physical and virtual worlds realizing the totally and globally connected scenario known as Internet of Things (IoT).
In the past decade, Cyber Physical Systems and consequently Cyber Physical Objects as their basic units and IoT as their reference scenario have become one of the ICT priorities.
The range of potential application domains is broad and embedded hardware and software systems could expand functionalities of household appliances, vehicles, aircraft, medical applications, digital libraries, etc. The interconnection of CPOs, through a virtual environment featured with globally networked services, is opening towards innovative business platforms.
The pervasive “features” of the emerging CPOs perfectly match and embrace the philosophy of the future “Internet of Things” (IoT), as the vision that nearly everything is connected to the Next-Generation Internet. This emerging paradigm is demanding novel methods and revolutionary architectures to respond to innovative applications in several daily scenarios. Methods for engineering CPSs that will be able to respond in real-time to dynamic and complex situations while preserving control reliability, safety, and keeping security and privacy need to be designed ad hoc.
Based on these premises, it is easily arguable that new issues and challenges arising with the IoT paradigm and the definition of CPSs need to be identified and timely addressed.
The main objective of this book is to explore multidisciplinary and recent advances in terms of methods, architectures, and identify novel applications deriving from the CPOs as main building blocks of the Internet of Things paradigm.