Smart Technologies: Scope and Applications

The book introduces the concept of ‘smart technologies’, especially ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT), and elaborates upon various constituent technologies, their evolution and their applications to various challenging problems in society. It then presents research papers and case studies based upon inception, application and implementation of IoT-based smart technologies for various application areas from some of the most technologically conservative domains like agriculture and farming to the most advanced areas such as automobiles, financial transactions and industrial applications. The book contents is thus applicable not only to academic researcher, but also to interested readers from industries and corporates, and those involved in policy making.      

Excerpt from the Foreword (read the complete text on Springerlink):

“This book contains besides the two introductory chapters, written by the project leaders from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bangalore, and TU Clausthal (TUC), Germany, the different areas of research work done within the INGPAR (Indo-German Partnership in Advanced Research, founded by DAAD in Germany and UGC in India) project so far by the Indian and German young researchers. It offers new perspectives and documents important progress in smart technologies. I can say without reservation that this book and, more specifically, the method it espouses will change fundamental ideas for cutting-edge innovation and disruption in the smart technology area.”        - Prof. Dr. Thomas Hanschke, President, TU Clausthal, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany

Professor K. B. Akhilesh is a Senior Professor at the Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India; President of Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Petroleum Technology, Amethi, India; former member of the Board of Governors at the Indian Institute of Management, Rohtak, and coordinator (IISc) for the M.Tech. program for Technology Management at the Defense Institute` of Advanced Technology, Pune, India. He is currently involved in establishing a national level institute for energy studies in Bangalore, India. He is a Fellow of National Institute of Personnel Management, India, Member of Academy of Management, USA, and President of International Society for Organization Design and Analytics.Professor Akhilesh has published over 140 papers in Indian and international journals. He has authored 18 books, the latest of which is 'Co-Creation & Learning' published by Springer, and guided over 30 PhD students. His research interests include collective intelligence at the team level, family business performance, expertise transfer, team design for virtual work and product development, vocational skill development, organizational development and change Management. As a consultant and a trainer he has interacted with corporates such as Daimler Chrysler, Airbus Industries, Pratt and Whitney USA, Siemens, Lapp India; government organizations such as 5th Central Pay Commission, Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL), Karnataka Power Corporation to name a few; and agencies such as International Labor Organization (ILO), World Bank, Azim Premji Foundation etc.

Dr. Dietmar Möller is a Professor in the Institute of Applied Stochastics and Operations Research at Clausthal University of Technology (TUC), Germany; a Member of the Simulations Science Center (SWZ) Clausthal-Göttingen, Germany; an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), USA; and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), USA. His research has been funded by international agencies such as National Science Foundation (NSF), USA, German Research Foundation (DFG), Germany, Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), Germany, German Academic Exchange Program (DAAD), Germany, Lower Saxonian Ministry for Science and Culture (MWK), Germany. His previous publications with Springer include Guide to Automotive Connectivity and Cybersecurity - Trends, Technologies, Innovations, and Applications (2018; co-authored with R. E. Haas), Guide to Computing Fundamentals in Cyber-Physical Systems - Concepts, Design Methods, and Applications (2016; Chinese translation of the book was published in 2018), and Introduction to Transportation Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation - Computational Foundations and Multimodal Applications (2014).