Harnessing the Internet of Things (IoT) for a Hyper-Connected Smart World

Showcasing the diverse ways that IoT can be employed for improvement in many areas of contemporary life, this new volume explores a multitude of IoT applications that provide advanced solutions for real-world problems. The selection of topics includes network on chip as the new paradigm for system on chip integration for maintaining high performance for IoT applications; new router designs to increase speed; and the challenges of wireless underground sensor networks, which have a wide range of applications in military, underground sensing, testing soil traits and moisture content, pollution control and location detection, security, and detection of natural calamities. Various state-of-the-art techniques such as optimization schemes, blockchain, machine learning, orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, etc., are also discussed in the context of cognitive IoT.

The volume considers the uses of IoT in agriculture, discussing challenges along with solutions with the help of the latest technical smart tools to uplift the farming community, specifically IoT applications for information gathering to improve yield productivity, food and crop quality and sustainability, monitoring toxic substances and soil properties, etc. The book also covers a broad spectrum of IoT applications in the educational industry along with the challenges associated with them and how to facilitate the use of smart classroom technology. A chapter on IoT in the healthcare industry presents an IoT-based GPS-enabled smart jacket design to monitor heart rate, sugar level, blood pressure, fever, and stress level. The authors also present an IoT-based Peltier air conditioner design that overcomes the limitations of existing HVAC framework, a review of various energy harvesting techniques to generate electrical power from non-conventional power sources with their merits and demerits, and much more.

展示了物聯網在當代生活中可以應用於多個領域的多樣方式，這本新書探討了許多物聯網應用，為現實世界的問題提供了先進的解決方案。所選主題包括網絡芯片作為系統芯片集成的新範式，以維持物聯網應用的高性能；增加速度的新路由器設計；以及無線地下感測網絡的挑戰，該網絡在軍事、地下感測、測試土壤特性和含水量、污染控制和位置檢測、安全和自然災害檢測等方面具有廣泛應用。還討論了各種最先進的技術，如優化方案、區塊鏈、機器學習、正交分頻多路復用等，並將其置於認知物聯網的背景下進行討論。

本書考慮了物聯網在農業中的應用，討論了挑戰以及如何借助最新的技術智能工具來提升農業社區，特別是物聯網應用於信息收集以提高產量生產力、食品和作物品質和可持續性、監測有毒物質和土壤性質等方面。該書還涵蓋了教育行業中各種物聯網應用，以及與之相關的挑戰以及如何促進智能教室技術的使用。關於醫療保健行業的一章介紹了基於物聯網的GPS智能夾克設計，用於監測心率、血糖水平、血壓、發燒和壓力水平。作者還介紹了一種基於物聯網的Peltier空調設計，克服了現有暖通空調系統的局限性，還有各種能量收集技術的評論，以從非傳統能源來源生成電力，並列舉了它們的優點和缺點，以及其他更多內容。

Indu Bala, PhD, is Associate Professor in the School of Electronics & Electrical Engineering at Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India. Her research interests include cognitive radio networks, dynamic spectrum access, interference mitigation, and power allocation for cognitive radio networks.

Kiran Ahuja, PhD, is Assistant Professor at the DAV Institute of Engineering and Technology, Jalandhar, India. She completed her postdoctoral fellowship at NIT, Jalandhar, under the N-PDF scheme of the Science and Engineering Research Board, India.

Indu Bala, PhD，是印度旁遮普邦法格瓦拉可愛專業大學電子與電氣工程學院的副教授。她的研究興趣包括認知無線電網絡、動態頻譜存取、干擾緩解以及認知無線電網絡的功率分配。

Kiran Ahuja, PhD，是印度賈蘭達爾DAV工程與技術學院的助理教授。她在印度科學與工程研究委員會的N-PDF計劃下，在賈蘭達爾國立工程學院完成了博士後研究員的研究。