Many companies offer websites that enable customers to design their own individual products, which the manufacturer can then produce to order. To date, the economic value of products self-designed using mass customization (MC) toolkits has been attributed to the two factors of preference fit...

After the birth of the Internet, the rise of Web 2.0, here comes the Internet of Things. Internet has led us to adopt special law, digital economy law…Web 2.0 has urged us to rethink core legal concepts such as liability and ownership and introduce notions such as sharing and availability. The...

Research suggests the future of the Internet will be defined by ubiquitous computing: a networked environment in which smart objects, called 'Things,' are imbued with identification data and micro-processing power to form an Internet of Things (IoT). Data production across the Internet continues...

This paper presents Halos Networks as a competitive architectural paradigm for developing future Internet of-with Things. A Halos Network is like a wireless network spontaneously emerging through the interactions of distributed resources embedding wireless communication capabilities. Halos...

The Machine to Machine (M2M) Market, according to Digital Research (2012) was 121 bn. $ in 2010, and was estimated by Digital Research to be 948 bn. $ for 2020. The so-called non-connectivity revenue (no human implication) will rise from 3% in 2010 to 25% in 2017, meaning no human interaction...

Background: Smart buildings are one of the major application areas of technologies bound to embedded systems and the Internet of things. Such systems have to be adaptable and flexible in order to provide better services to its residents. Modelling such systems is an open research question....

This article proposes a theoretical and practical extension of the IoT, taking in all "things" that can be sensed by sensors, without requiring them to be fitted with a tag or a digital network interface. These physical entities, whatever they may be (legacy appliances, passive items, subsets of...

The last decade has witnessed rapid growth of Internet of Things (IoT) literatures by scientists from technology domains such as computer science, telecommunication and engineering, but very few studies have been done by sociologists, and even fewer by economic geographers in service research....

Purpose: To analyze problematic aspects related with the practical approaches of Internet of Things (IoT). Design/methodology/approach: The article discusses problematic issues related with the IoT from various angles. The debates concerning IoT and its possible application fields continue for...