The Internet of Things: Why now, and what's next?

Can a Green Thumb Make a Difference?: Using a Nature Metaphor to Communicate the Sensor Information of a Coffee Machine

“…Both professional and personal environments are being enriched with connected devices, which support or perform many of our daily tasks-although maintenance and reconfiguration work still demand human expertise and intervention. The abundance of smartphones and the cloud infrastructure have laid much of the way for the IoT [26].…”

A STUDY OF MALAYSIA’S SMART CITIES INITIATIVE PROGRESS IN COMPARISON OF NEIGHBOURING COUNTRIES (SINGAPORE & INDONESIA)

“…Internet of Things (IoT) is a popular topic that is actively discussed among academicians and technology professionals [1], [2]. This popular buzzword is even being introduced to non-IT environments [3]- [6] such as sales and marketing [7]. Research journals often reference Kevin Ashton as the founder of the IoT, who believed IoT can change the world, as for how the internet has changed the world [2], [7], [8].…”

Hijacking internet‐connected devices to provoke harmful oscillations in an electrical network: a feasibility assessment

“…To the authors’ best knowledge, this question has not been addressed in the extant research literature. This issue is growing in importance, as an increasing proportion of end‐consumer devices integrate internet of things (IoT) functionality [2], which means these electrical devices could potentially be hijacked by a malicious cyberattacker. While the idea of interfering with consumer‐scale electronic equipment to harm a nation‐spanning grid may seem implausible, there are reasons to believe that this is a credible attack vector.…”