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Preface

The Internet of Things (IoT) has seen phenomenal growth over the last few years. Not only is this emerging IoT paradigm enhancing lives, it also has the potential to impact economic growth. And because IoT enables new insights into the business world, it continues to be very helpful in transforming business strategies and operations. However, before its full potential can be realized, it is necessary to confront several challenges by addressing the issues posed by the IoT and provide technological solutions to them. To help in this mission, many of the powerful features of the IOT and how they can be used to build strategies for a successful business are discussed in this book; and, in order to generate insights into various domains, IOT tools and techniques are also discussed in detail.

This book is written based on many years of teaching and research experience. Our goal is to provide researchers and students a complete package covering the fundamentals of the IOT and how it helps in various domains, its common practice in business and industry as well as all research aspects of IoT applications. Therefore, when choosing a format for a book that would be accessible to both researchers and university students, an attempt was made to simplify the content and emphasize real-life examples to make the information more easily understood.

After reading the entire book, the reader will come away with a thorough understanding of the rapid development of IoT-based systems and their impact on several scientific and engineering domains, including healthcare, smart homes, agriculture, robotics, industries, integration of leak detection in pipeline custody transfer of hydrocarbon products, and many others. Current trends and different architecture domains are explained systematically to motivate those in academia and industry to become familiar with the power of IoT. Also included are the heterogeneous used to enhance IoT security and an explanation of the framework of intelligent spaces needed for IoT-based optimized and secure ecosystem for the energy internet, handled by pervasive computing environment. The chapters thoroughly explain the transformation of business and ways of addressing its current needs, including how machine learning approaches play a greater role in achieving business intelligence in large commercial organizations, the role of big data analytics with the concept of automation, a roadmap for businesses to leverage big data analytics for creating business value implementing smartness in a smart environment where people are living and making an effort to develop it. Also, an analysis is conducted to examine how human and artificial intelligence might evolve together in future years and how it will impact humans with the help of business intelligence. Finally, this book portrays the difficulties experienced in business development consisting of a self-governing autonomous group setup with resources from both the IT and business advancement side of the organization.

On behalf of the entire editorial board, our heartfelt appreciation goes out to all the authors for considering us to publish their valuable work. Their overwhelming response has been a real factor in keeping us motivated and moving forward with this book, and therefore merits our sincere acknowledgement. The quality and diversity of their contributions have made the book more impactful, and their trust, patience and kind cooperation throughout the various stages of production played a vital role in its success. We also wish to thank the people at Scrivener Publishing for their guidance and support in bringing this edited collection to completion.

The Editors

November 2020