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A dramatic social (and business) change!

A still-open issue: context-awareness

• what is your device, what are the network conditions?
• where are you?
• what are you doing right now and in the near future?
• what are your preferences?
• Who are your friends?
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Sensor networks (smart dust)

• Sensor networks (smart dust)

• Home networks

• Patient monitoring (personal area networks)

• Emergency management / battlefield / borders monitoring

• Museums and pervasive buildings

• Vehicular Ad hoc NETworks (VANET) / MANET

• Alert management (parking, kids, etc.)

• Supply chain

• U-Society

• People to People (P2P): Facebook on your cell phone
• People to Object (P2O): IoT platforms
• Geopositioned Services: App Store

• Do-IoT-Yourself: Arduino / Raspberry Pi / Beaglebone - Fab Lab ?

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The « Internet of Things (IoT) is […] a dynamic global network infrastructure with self configuring capabilities based on standard and interoperable communication protocols where physical and virtual ‘things’ have identities, physical attributes, and virtual personalities and use intelligent interfaces, and are seamlessly integrated into the information network.

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