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114 Internet of Things Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda
with show cases which could act as seeds for the new infrastructure. We need
to address the challenges via a number of projects which are run by interdisciplinary
consortia.
Foster Standardisation for smart energy, grid and mobility
Foster and promote international standardisation activities in order to allow
for coherent infrastructures and to open the market for competition.
Support Public Awareness
Some aspects of the technologies discussed are critical with respect to privacy
and they will have social implications because, e.g., they deal with private
information or they might affect urban planning. Accompanying studies could
help us to understand social consequences and to identify eventual show stoppers
by time. Critical issues should be put for public discussion in an early
phase in order to avoid later acceptance problems.
Seamless integration of social and sensor networks
Tools and techniques for the seamless integration of social networks and sensor
networks, moving towards social IoT services that take into account the enduser’s
social preferences and interactions.
Infrastructures for social interactions between Internet-connected objects
Infrastructure, which could enable new forms of M2M interactions along with
associated opportunities for innovative applications and services. Research
could build upon existing semantic interactions and M2M APIs.
Utility metrics and utility driven techniques for “Clouds of Things”
Specification of utility metrics and utility driven techniques in the scope of
“Clouds of Things”.
2.12.2 Recommendations for Autonomic and Self-aware IoT
Self-awareness from the design to deployment
The IoT will exponentially increase the scale and the complexity of existing
computing and communication systems. Autonomy is thus an imperative