IoT Platforms, Use Cases, Privacy, and Business Models: With Hands-on Examples Based on the VICINITY Platform

Zivkovic, Carna; Guan, Yajuan; Grimm, Christoph

This book provides a comprehensive and consistent introduction to the Internet of Things. Hot topics, including the European privacy legislation GDPR, and homomorphic encryption are explained. For each topic, the reader gets a theoretical introduction and an overview, backed by programming examples. For demonstration, the authors use the IoT platform VICINITY, which is open-source, free, and offers leading standards for privacy.

Presents readers with a coherent single-source introduction into the IoT;
Introduces selected, hot-topics of IoT, including GDPR (European legislation on data protection), and homomorphic encryption;
Provides coding examples for most topics that allow the reader to kick-start his own IoT applications, smart services, etc.