During the last decade, digitalization has borne tremendous changes on the way we live and do business. Industry 4.0, the new industrial revolution, is merging the physical, digital and virtual worlds through emerging technologies that collide with each other and create a distinctive paradigm...

Chapter 1. Connected Things: People, Machines and Plants in the Internet of Things (IoT) -- Chapter 2. Blueprint for IoT Systems -- Chapter 3. IoT Platforms -- Chapter 4. IoT and Enterprise Software -- Chapter 5. Interaction of IoT with Other Technologies -- Chapter 6. Prepare IoT Projects...

This book is published under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license. The editors present essential methods and tools to support a holistic approach to the challenge of system upgrades and innovation in the context of high-value products and services. The approach presented here is based on three main pillars:...