Internet of Things: an early reality of the Future Internet

Workshop report, Prague, 10 May 2009

At some point there will be a need to take the step from supporting single business processes towards being able to deal with a freely flowing mash of information and things that interact, and we are not there, yet. The subjects of Future of Internet and IoT provide useful ground to bring these disciplines together in a useful way, rather than stay in the stovepipes they have been used to work in over the last decennia. The motto towards the research community is: educate, and bring together. Networks, network architecture, and the future Internet will be driven by IoT. This will raise new management issues with the new masses of information and users.
Working internationally, with people from Japan, USA, China and other globally important players will help create a better understanding of what IoT could be at a global level, as an inclusive model. We also learned to appreciate a dynamic responsive research agenda, appreciating the wealth of research that has already been carried out and is going on in other countries. There is a future in which the progression of a project like CASAGRAS could help keeping such a global research agenda on the table, by monitoring research and initiate research towards problems identified, from a dynamic model perspective on IoT.