ABSTRACT
The Internet-of-Things (IoT) has been identified as one of the main pillars of the world’s economies and the technology enabler for the evolution of the societies and for the future developments and improvement of the Internet. A large number of research activities in Europe have been working in this direction i.e. FP7 projects in the context of Future Internet Research and Experimentation initiative. In Smart cities despite the growing number of IoT deployments, multiple installations and related testbeds, the majority of deployed IoT applications tend to be self-contained, thereby forming application silos. The integration, combination and interoperability of IoT silos is fully in-line with the overall FIRE vision that makes part of the Horizon 2020 program, which aspires to allow European experimenters/researchers to investigate/develop leading-edge, ubiquitous and reliable computing services, as well as seamless and open access to global data resources.
