Poster: Smart buildings, sensor networks, and the Internet of Things
Bernhard Firner, Robert Moore, Richard E. Howard, Richard P. Martin, Yanyong Zhang · 2011
In contrast to traditional sensor networks, the "Internet of Things" focuses on interactions between humans and physical objects rather than on sensing and reporting low level information. While several middle-ware systems have been created to simplify the task of managing and aggregating data from multiple sensor networks that use different hardware and software, management of the data is not sufficient to build an Internet of Things.