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ISSUE 2/2009

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Selected Highlights
	The Internet of Things - Connec- ting the real world with the digital world
	Machine-to-ma- chine communica- tion - European push for M2M standardisation
	Interview with Anthony Belpaire from Alcatel- Lucent
	Context-aware- ness meets multicasting - European re- search project C-CAST
	Creating testbeds for sensor network applications - The European project WISEBED

Eurescom mess@ge 2/2009

The Internet of Things

The Internet of Things has been a buzzword in the ICT research domain for a decade, being sometimes related to concepts like “smart dust” and “ambient intelligence”.

So what is the Internet of Things? There is no single, generally accepted definition. It all depends on the view you choose. From a computing perspective, the Internet of Things is nothing more than a network of electronic objects. From a Semantic Web perspective the Internet of Things consists of a network in which all objects, and not just those electronic, smart, or RFID-enabled, are addressable via the Internet Protocol.

This issue of Eurescom mess@ge presents a glimpse of the ongoing research, which will help create the vision of an Internet of Things that will be an Internet of Things for People.

The Internet of Things - Connecting the real world with the digital world

Machine-to-machine communication - European push for M2M standardisation

Interview with Anthony Belpaire from Alcatel-Lucent

Context-awareness meets multicasting - European research project C-CAST

Creating testbeds for sensor network applications - The European project WISEBED

The Internet of Things
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Earlier issues

1/2009
ICT and Sustainability

3/2008
Public Safety and ICT

2/2008
European telecommuni-cation testbeds

1/2008
Future Internet

3/2007
Interactive media

2/2007
The future of internet governance

1/2007
ICT and healthcare

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HIGHLIGHTS

THE KENNEDY PERSPECTIVE

Five basic rules for the Internet of Things

Eurescom director David Kennedy proposes some basic guidelines in order to make the Internet of Things a success.

VIEWPOINT

Europe should push the multilingual Web

Maria Barros, programme manager at speech technology expert at Eurescom, demands a major push for multilingual websites in Europe and worldwide.

EUROPEAN ISSUES

Future Internet - European public-private partnership launched in Prague

The Future of the Internet conference and the Future Internet Assembly meeting in Prague constituted another important step in the EU's efforts towards shaping the Future Internet. David Kennedy, Director of Eurescom, presented a new industrial public-private partnership initiative, which will ensure industry involvement in Future Internet work.

TUTORIAL

Near Field Communication - Wireless, effortless, secure

Nikos Mouratidis from BlueChip Technologies gives an introduction to Near Field Communication, explaining how the technology works and what benefits it offers.

A BIT BEYOND

Twitter - Between nuisance and killer application

No Internet application has divided users as much as Twitter. Some regard the micro-blogging service as the biggest waste of time ever invented while others embrace it as a central social networking tool of high societal impact. Both sides are probably right, says Eurescom mess@ge's editor-in-chief, Milon Gupta.

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