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2.12 Recommendations on Research Topics
2.12.1 Applications
Applications of IoT are numerous, permeating into almost all domains of
everyday life and activities of individuals and organizations. The challenges
are numerous, varied and often related to a particular domain or the context
in which an application is used. Abstracting those context specific challenges,
the following are considered to be crucial for the successful development and
adoption of IoT applications:
Efficient and simple mechanisms for interaction with “things”
Design of simple methods (and their standardisation) that will enable application
developers to include appropriate sensors, actuators and other “things”
regardless of who designed and deployed them into applications without having
to know the details of the implementation of each device. These should
include not only communication methods, but also normalization of observations
taking into account the conditions under which the observations were
taken.
Reliable and trustworthy participatory sensing
Inclusion of humans in the loop and leveraging their mobility and the mobility
of their personal communication devices to capture “snapshots” of the physical
world on a global scale and create a “community wisdom” view of the physical
world.
Creating knowledge and making it available
Creation and provision of services capable of processing and analysing massive
data generated by communicating things (“making sense out of sensed
data”) with open interfaces that allow their simple integration into various
applications.
Set up interdisciplinary projects for smart energy, grid and mobility
Smart grid and smart mobility topics each merge know how from very different
disciplines (e.g. traffic management, urban management, automotive,
communication). Specialists in the fields are “speaking different languages”
and need to come to a mutual understanding. Ideally projects should go along