CLIoT 2013 - International Workshop on Cloud for IoT (CLIoT 2013)

A new generation of embedded devices provides an opportunity to create new business and social models by exploiting a strong interaction with the environment. At the same time, the Internet of Things (IoT) seem to change the way we interact with the world around us. It aims to represent the physical world through uniquely identifiable and interconnected objects (things). Things that have the capacity for sensing, processing or actuating information about entities available from within the real world. This will be by allowing interactions or generating events about them. Thus, information travels along heterogeneous systems, such as routers, databases, information systems and the Internet. In turn, this leads in the generation and movement of enormous amounts of data which have to be stored, processed and presented in a seamless, efficient and easily interpretable form.
The growing exploitation of wireless Internet access through many different kinds of technologies (WiFi, ZigBee, 4G-LTE...) are bringing toward ubiquitous information and communication networks. Thus, smart connectivity with existing networks and context-aware computation is becoming indispensable for IoT. Cloud computing provides a very strategic virtual infrastructure which integrates monitoring devices, storage devices, analytics tools, visualization platforms and client delivery. It supports enormous amounts of data generated for IoT purposes, which have to be stored, processed and presented in a seamless, efficient and easily interpretable form. In fact, Cloud computing is able to offer theoretically unlimited computing and storage capabilities, and efficient communication services for transferring terabyte flows between data centres.
Both the IoT and Cloud technologies address two important goals for distributed system: high scalability and high availability. All these features make the Cloud Computing a promising choice for supporting IoT services. IoT can appear as a natural extension of Cloud Computing implementations, where the Cloud allows to access IoT based resources and capabilities, to process and manage IoT environments and to deliver on-demand utility IoT services such as sensing/actuation as a service.
The CLIoT workshop aims at bringing together scientists, practitioners and PhD students in order to discuss the limits and/or advantages of existing Cloud solutions for IoT, and to propose original and innovative contributions for enhancing real world resources over Cloud environments.
Organizers
Maria Fazio, University of Messina, Italy.
Nik Bessis, University of Derby, United Kingdom.