# The Emergence of Internet of Things (IoT): Connecting Anything, Anywhere
###### Abstract  
Internet of Things (IoT) plays the role of an expert's technical tool by empowering physical resources into smart entities through existing network infrastructures. Its prime focus is to provide smart and seamless services at the user end without any interruption. The IoT paradigm is aimed at formulating a complex information system with the combination of sensor data acquisition, efficient data exchange through networking, machine learning, artificial intelligence, big data, and clouds. Conversely, collecting information and maintaining the confidentiality of an independent entity, and then running together with privacy and security provision in IoT is the main concerning issue. Thus, new challenges of using and advancing existing technologies, such as new applications and using policies, cloud computing, smart vehicular system, protective protocols, analytics tools for IoT-generated data, communication protocols, etc., deserve further investigation. This Special Issue reviews the latest contributions of IoT application frameworks and the advancement of their supporting technology. It is extremely imperative for academic and industrial stakeholders to propagate solutions that can leverage the opportunities and minimize the challenges in terms of using this state-of-the-art technological development. IoT; smart environment; security and surveillance +
Footnote †: journal: Computer Science  
We are living in a new era of computing, information, and communication technology, that, as many are saying, pushes forward seamless interaction between humans, nature, and physical objects and is captured within the ecosystems of Internet of Things (IoT). The anticipated rich connectivity of environment-to-machine, machine-to-machine, and machine-to-backbone internet infrastructure starts to be seen and developed almost everywhere in the world. As a result, massive amounts of data is being propagated, which are being subsequently processed into some useful decision-making and intelligent actions to make our lives easier and safer [1]. Concurrently, however, the massive amount of data being exchanged as well as the way it is being processed in the cloud and edge devices of IoT platforms may not always leverage upon secure and reliable protocols and mechanism. This Special Issue addresses the research and development of the latest contributions to IoT application agendas and the corresponding supporting technology where many issues are being inherited by IoT due to enabling smart applications. Among the submissions received, all of which went through a rigorous peer-review process, five papers have been selected for publication. In a manuscript entitled \"Resource Allocation Model for Sensor Clouds under the Sensing as a Service Paradigm\", the authors considered data sharingissues embedded within sensor and cloud environment and attempted to design a service-oriented model based on sensing functionality [2]. The paper \"Making Sense of the World: Framing Models for Trustworthy Sensor-Driven Systems\", facilitates the introduction of two important concepts, namely frames of reference and frames of function that can be used to assist in organizing sensor-driven models and their intended uses [3]. The article \"Ontology Middleware for Integration of IoT Healthcare Information Systems in EHR Systems\" describes IoT facilities for Electronic Healthcare Record (EHR) to improve the healthcare service by provisioning towards out-of-clinic automatic monitoring services to the patients [4]. In the manuscript \"Performance Evaluation of HARQ Schemes for the Internet of Things\", the authors sought to provide a comprehensive performance comparison of power-constrained short-packet Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) transmission schemes, tailored for IoT applications [5].