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safety context (e.g. driving cards) can become even more serious because the
implementation of a security threat can impact the safety of a user by disrupting
the autonomic process.
2.12.3 Infrastructure
IoT infrastructure as general infrastructure
More and more applications and services will rely on being directly connected
to the physical world, i.e. for getting real-time information about the state of
the real world or even for executing actuation tasks that directly influence
the real world. Therefore, the IoT infrastructure needs to become a horizontal
application-independent infrastructure like electricity, water or communications
infrastructures today. This requires a strong research focus on the infrastructure
itself, which takes requirements from the large variety of IoT-related
application areas, but is not specific to any one of them.
Easy connection and extension of infrastructure
It has to be made easy to add IoT devices to the IoT infrastructure based on
plugandplay type functionality, making additional configuration like semantic
annotation easy for the user. This will require more standardisation activities
on the protocol as at the information modelling level.
Core infrastructure services for supporting resolution, discovery,
monitoring and adaptation
The infrastructure has to support the findings of relevant things and related
services, enabling the connection to these services and facilitate the monitoring
and adaptation of applications and services as a result of changes in
the IoT infrastructure, i.e. with respect to the availability of IoT and related
services.
2.12.4 Networks, Communications
2.12.4.1 Networks
Research on mobile networks and mobile networks of networks
A widespread introduction of Internet of Things devices will cause mobile
devices at the access fringe of the mobile communication network to evolve