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• How can new semantic information be derived from existing
semantic information based on additional knowledge about the
world, and how can this be supported by the infrastructure?
• How can the notion of physical location be best reflected in the
infrastructure to support the required functionalities mentioned
above?
• How should the infrastructure support for security and privacy
look?
• How can the infrastructure support accounting and charging as the
basis for different IoT business models?
• How we can provide security and privacy functions at infrastructure
level on the basis of heterogeneous and resource limited components
of the infrastructure?
2.6 Networks and Communication
Present communication technologies span the globe in wireless and wired
networks and support global communication by globally-accepted communication
standards. The Internet of Things Strategic Research and Innovation
Agenda (SRIA) intends to lay the foundations for the Internet of Things to
be developed by research through to the end of this decade and for subsequent
innovations to be realised even after this research period. Within this
time frame the number of connected devices, their features, their distribution
and implied communication requirements will develop; as will the communication
infrastructure and the networks being used. Everything will change
significantly. Internet of Things devices will be contributing to and strongly
driving this development.
Changes will first be embedded in given communication standards and networks
and subsequently in the communication and network structures defined
by these standards.
2.6.1 Networking Technology
The evolution and pervasiveness of present communication technologies has
the potential to grow to unprecedented levels in the near future by including the
world of things into the developing Internet of Things.
Network users will be humans, machines, things and groups of them.