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

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.