https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~brecht/courses/854-Emerging-2014/readings/iot/iot-survey.pdf

The Internet of Things: A survey

In recent year, the Internet of Things (IoT) has drawn significant research attention. IoT is considered as a part of the Internet of the future and will comprise billions of intelligent communicating `things'. The future of the Internet will consist of heterogeneously connected devices that will further extend the borders of the world with physical entities and virtual components. The Internet of Things (IoT) will empower the connected things with new capabilities. In this survey, the definitions, architecture, fundamental technologies, and applications of IoT are systematically reviewed. Firstly, various definitions of IoT are introduced; secondly, emerging techniques for the implementation of IoT are discussed; thirdly, some open issues related to the IoT applications are explored; finally, the major challenges which need addressing by the research community and corresponding potential solutions are investigated.

The internet of things: a survey

The Internet of Things is a paradigm where everyday objects can be equipped with identifying, sensing, networking and processing capabilities that will allow them to communicate with one another and with other devices and services over the Internet to accomplish some objective. Ultimately, IoT devices will be ubiquitous, context-aware and will enable ambient intelligence. This article reports on the current state of research on the Internet of Things by examining the literature, identifying current trends, describing challenges that threaten IoT diffusion, presenting open research questions and future directions and compiling a comprehensive reference list to assist researchers.

The Internet of Things--A survey of topics and trends

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A survey on Internet of Things architectures

In-home healthcare services based on the Internet-of-Things (IoT) have great business potential; however, a comprehensive platform is still missing. In this paper, an intelligent home-based platform, the iHome Health-IoT, is proposed and implemented. In particular, the platform involves an open-platform-based intelligent medicine box (iMedBox) with enhanced connectivity and interchangeability for the integration of devices and services; intelligent pharmaceutical packaging (iMedPack) with communication capability enabled by passive radio-frequency identification (RFID) and actuation capability enabled by functional materials; and a flexible and wearable bio-medical sensor device (Bio-Patch) enabled by the state-of-the-art inkjet printing technology and system-on-chip. The proposed platform seamlessly fuses IoT devices (e.g., wearable sensors and intelligent medicine packages) with in-home healthcare services (e.g., telemedicine) for an improved user experience and service efficiency. The feasibility of the implemented iHome Health-IoT platform has been proven in field trials.

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A Health-IoT Platform Based on the Integration of Intelligent Packaging, Unobtrusive Bio-Sensor, and Intelligent Medicine Box

The advancement of ubiquitous computing technologies has greatly improved the availability of digital resources in the real world. Here, the authors investigate mobile interaction with tagged, everyday objects and associated information that's based on the Internet of things and its technologies. Their framework for integrating Web services and mobile interaction with physical objects relies on information typing to increase interoperability. Two prototypes for mobile interaction with smart posters build upon this framework to realize multi-tag interaction with physical user interfaces. The authors' evaluation identifies usability issues regarding the design of physical mobile interactions, interfaces, and applications.

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Perci: Pervasive Service Interaction with the Internet of Things

Although mobile services can be used ubiquitously, their employment and the interaction with them are still restricted by the constraints of mobile devices In order to facilitate and leverage mobile interaction with services, we present a generic framework that combines semantic Web service technology and physical mobile interaction This interaction paradigm uses mobile devices to extract information from augmented physical objects and use it for a more intuitive and convenient invocation of associated services For that purpose, the presented framework exploits Web service descriptions for the automatic and dynamic generation of customizable user interfaces that support and facilitate physical mobile interaction This generic approach to mobile interaction with services through the interaction with physical objects promises to meet the complementary development of the Internet of things A user study with a prototype application for mobile ticketing confirms our concept and shows its limits

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Supporting Mobile Service Usage through Physical Mobile Interaction

Mobile devices are more and more used for mobile interactions with things, places and people in the real world. However, so far no studies have discussed which interaction techniques are preferred by users in different contexts. This paper presents an experimental comparison of four different physical mobile interaction techniques: touching, pointing, scanning and user-mediated object interaction. To evaluate these techniques across different scenarios and to collect real usage data, four prototypes were implemented: a system for mobile interaction in smart environments, a mobile tourist guide, a mobile museum guide and a prototype for mobile interaction with advertisement posters. In each setting an experimental comparison was performed. Based on the results of these studies, which involved over 60 participants in total, advantages and disadvantages of these interaction techniques are described. Context-specific user preferences are presented for the interaction techniques, to help application designers and developers decide which interaction technique(s) to integrate into their application and which consequences this decision has.

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Mobile interaction with the real world: an evaluation and comparison of physical mobile interaction techniques

Seamful design is a new approach to reveal and exploit inevitable technical limitations in Ubiquitous Computing technology rather than hiding them. In this paper we want to introduce its general ideas and apply them to the design of location-aware games for mobile phones. We introduce our own seamful trading-game called “Tycoon” to explore seams on this platform and show how to incorporate them into the design of mobile games. We want to evaluate how applications for the mobile phone platform which use cell-positioning can exploit seams for better interaction, gameplay and usability.

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Seamful design for location-based mobile games

Large public displays have become pervasive in our everyday lives, but up to now, they are mostly information screens without any interaction possibilities. Users tend to forget what they saw relatively fast after leaving such a display. In this paper, we present a new interaction technique for transferring information from a public display onto a personal mobile phone with its built-in camera. Instead of having to rely on their memory, users simply take a picture of the information of interest. Instead of just storing the image, our system then retrieves the actual data represented on the screen, such as a stock quote, news text, or piece of music. The Shoot & Copy technique does not require visual codes that interfere with shown content or reduce screen real estate. Our prototype allows users to capture an arbitrary region of a standard desktop screen, containing icons, which represent pieces of data. The captured image is then analyzed and a reference to the corresponding data is sent back to the mobile phone. Once the user has time to view the information in more detail, our system allows retrieving the actual data from this reference. We present our prototype and the methods it uses for image processing, as well as an evaluation of our interaction technique illustrating its potential use and applications.

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Gregor Broll

Papers

Perci: Pervasive Service Interaction with the Internet of Things

Supporting Mobile Service Usage through Physical Mobile Interaction

Mobile interaction with the real world: an evaluation and comparison of physical mobile interaction techniques

Seamful design for location-based mobile games

Shoot & copy: phonecam-based information transfer from public displays onto mobile phones