This book focuses on the Internet of Everything and related fields. The Internet of Everything
adds connectivity and intelligence to just about every device giving it special functions. The
book provides a common platform for integrating information from heterogeneous sources. However
this can be quite reductive as the Internet of Everything provides links not only among things
but also data people and business processes. The evolution of current sensor and device
networks with strong interactions between people and social environments will have a dramatic
impact on everything from city planning first responders the military and health.Such a
shared ecosystem will allow for the interaction between data sensor inputs and heterogeneous
systems. Semantics is a fundamental component of this since semantic technologies are able to
provide the necessary bridge between different data representations and to solve terminology
incongruence.Integrating data from distributed devices sensor networks social networks and
biomedical instruments requires first of all the systematization of the current state of the
art in such fields. Then it is necessary to identify a common action thread to actually merge
and homogenize standards and techniques applied in such a heterogeneous field. The exact
requirements of an Internet of Everything environment need to be precisely identified and
formally expressed and finally the role of modern computing paradigms such as Cloud and Fog
Computing needs to be assessed with respect to the requirements expressed by an Internet of
Everything ecosystem.
