Welcome message from the M2MCIP chairs

Abstract

Smarter and greener environments are essential to address economic, social, and environmental challenges due to the increase in urbanization, requiring informed decisions based on Internet of Things (IoT) generated data. Over the last number of years, more and more devices are being added to a wide range of communication, monitoring and control networks. Estimations suggest that by the end of 2020 there will be 50 billion devices connected to the IoT world-wide. Almost any kind of these devices will be allowed to seamlessly integrate into a large-scale Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication environment.