Here comes another part of the story: our first book, intended to be purely technical, has a successor: a book about the high-level, abstract design of IoT systems, solutions, and connectivity, with particular focus on cybersecurity in IoT.
Over 400 pages provide a comprehensive guide for IoT system designers, managers, and cybersecurity specialists. Note that we are not away from technology—the content is strictly related to existing technologies, solutions, events, and activities in the IoT world.
If you’re a master’s student, system designer, or engineer boosting your career from low-level tasks into IoT project design and management, this book is for you. You can read the whole book or select chapters that fit your needs.
The book contains chapters about IoT Design Methodologies, IoT Architectures with particular respect to IoT network design, IoT Data Analysis, IoT Security, going even beyond the IoT world, Blockchain in IoT and Green IoT, where we discuss all aspects of ecology, starting from green energy use, through energy-efficient hardware and software design, finishing with waste management.
Preface
This book is intended to provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of IoT system design at a conceptual level. It covers IoT design methodologies, IoT system architectures, IoT data-related aspects, cybersecurity in IoT systems, blockchain in IoT and green IoT. Almost every top-level chapter of the book constitutes a separate study module related to a selected aspect of the IoT system design, so that this book can be treated as a set of separate guides as well as a solid and complete workbook for an entire IoT course at the master’s level.
The primary target readers are master’s students and industrial system designers, such as CTOs. This book constitutes a comprehensive manual for IoT technology; however, it is not a complete encyclopedia, nor does it exhaust the market. The reason is pretty simple – IoT is a rapidly evolving technology, so new devices, ideas and implementations appear daily. Once familiar with this book’s contents, the reader will understand the design methodologies, tools, and challenges of IoT systems. This book, however, comprises topics of particular industrial interest—including, but not limited to, data analytics, cybersecurity, and an introduction to blockchains —which illustrate the diversity of the IoT world and technology landscape.
Even if most of the content is technology-aware, the authors assume that persons studying the content must have at least general knowledge of the technical details of IoT and embedded systems, including main components at the electronics level, networking, data processing, and security.
For this reason, students starting their journey with IoT systems should first start with the “Blue Book,” which covers all the technical aspects of IoT needed as background knowledge for this high-level approach to IoT system design.
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Riga Technical University
- Agris Nikitenko, Ph. D., Eng.
- Karlis Berkolds, M. sc., Eng.
- Aleksejs Jurenoks, Ph.D., Eng
Silesian University of Technology
- Piotr Czekalski, Ph. D., Eng.
- Krzysztof Tokarz, Ph. D., Eng.
- Godlove Suila Kuaban, Ph. D, Eng.
Tallinn University of Technology
- Karlis Berkolds, M. sc., Eng.
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- DCB Distribution & Consulting Becker, Friedhelm Becker
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- Blanka Czekalska, M.Sc., Eng., Arch.
- Piotr Czekalski, Ph. D., Eng.
Technical Correction
- Eryk Czekalski
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This project was implemented under the Erasmus+ KA220-HED – Cooperation partnerships in higher education.
Project IOT-OPEN.EU Reloaded: Education-based strengthening of the European universities, companies and labour force in the global IoT market.
Project number: 2022-1-PL01-KA220-HED-000085090.
Sponsored by the Foundation for the Development of the Education System
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