Internet appliance

About: Internet appliance is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1974 publications have been published within this topic receiving 43571 citations.

Internet Access and Use in Context

Abstract: Introduction Over the past five years, thousands of articles have appeared in academic journals about new media, the internet and the web. The topics range from identity expression in online communities to how new media may affect political participation and voter turnout. The range of questions is both overwhelming and exciting. At the core of all these explorations lies a more basic question, however: Who uses new media and – equally important – who does not? It is an important baseline measure for putting into the appropriate context all other studies of new media use. The split between the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ of new media use has most often been referred to using the term the ‘digital divide’. The expression aims to signify the gap between those who have access to and use digital technologies, and those who do not. The topic has captured much attention in the popular media, in academic circles and the policy world alike. According to the Social Science Citation Index and the Humanities Citation Index, over 150 articles have appeared in academic journals on the topic of the ‘digital divide’. Moreover, the proportion of all internet and web related articles that deal with the ‘digital divide’ has gone up one percentage point each year in the past five years,suggesting an increasing interest in and importance of this issue. Here, I have chosen to discuss three books in this area of inquiry. They cover the topic at different levels and focus on different dimensions of access and use but they all contribute to a basic understanding of who uses digital technologies, who does not, and what may be the social implications of these initial patterns. In Social Consequences of Internet Use (Katz and Rice, 2002), James E. Katz and Ronald E. Rice – both professors of communication – describe the state of internet use and non-use in the U.S. context primarily concentrating on access, social involvement and social new media & society

The internet of things [Guest Editorial]

Abstract: The Internet has experienced a tremendous growth in the past three decades, evolving from a network of a few hundred hosts to a platform linking billions of "things" globally, including individual people as well as enterprises of various sizes, through computers and computerized devices of any conceivable size and capability and the applications running on them. The growth of the Internet shows no signs of slowing down and it steadily becomes the cause of a new pervasive paradigm in computing and communications. This new paradigm enhances the traditional Internet into a smart Internet of Things (IoT) created around intelligent interconnections of diverse objects in the physical world, such as vehicles, cell phones, habitats, and habitat occupants. It utilizes low-cost information gathering and dissemination devices, such as sensors and RFID tags, that facilitate fast-paced interactions among the objects themselves as well as the objects and persons in any place and at any time. IoT will usher in a wide range of smart applications and services to cope with many of the challenges individuals and organizations face in their everyday lives. For example, remote healthcare monitoring systems could aid in managing costs and alleviating the shortage of healthcare personnel; intelligent transportation systems could aid in reducing traffic congestion and inevitably the ills caused by it such as air pollution; smart distribution systems from utility grids to supply chains could aid in improving the quality and reducing the cost of their respective goods and services; tagged objects could result in more systematic recycling and effective waste disposal, and so on.

Architecture and measured characteristics of a cloud based internet of things

Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) many be thought of as the availability of physical objects, or devices, on the Internet [1]. Given such an arrangement it is possible to access sensor data and control actuators remotely. Furthermore such data may be combined with data from other sources - e.g. with data that is contained in the Web - or operated on by cloud based services to create applications far richer than can be provided by isolated embedded systems [2,3]. This is the vision of the Internet of Things.