ABSTRACT
Nowadays, a constantly growing number of devices join the Internet, foreshadowing a world of smart devices, or “things,” in the Internet of things (IoT) perspective. Moving away from typical IoT devices that include physical items either tagged or embedded with sensors, consumer-centric mobile sensing and computing devices connected to the Internet-such as smartphones-are becoming the catalysts for the evolution to the IoT. They are equipped with sensing and communication capabilities that allow them to produce and upload information to the Internet. According to Gubbi et al. [1], the definition of IoT for smart environments that use Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to make infrastructure components and services
10.1 Introduction 295 10.2 M2M Communications for MCS over the Cloud 298
10.2.1 M2M Reference Architecture 298 10.2.2 M2M Communications and the Volunteer
Contribution Model for MCS Applications 301 10.3 Case Study: An MCS Social Application 305 10.4 Conclusions 307 References 308
more aware, interactive, and efficient is “The Interconnection of sensing and actuating devices providing the ability to share information across platforms through a unified framework, developing a common operating picture for enabling innovative applications. This is achieved by seamless large scale sensing, data analytics and information representation using cutting edge ubiquitous sensing and cloud computing.”
