The Internet of (Broken?) Things

The Internet of Things (also known as the Internet of Everything, the Industrial Internet, or simply IoT) is seen by many as The Next Big Thing. The IoT is a technology, an economic ecosystem, and a market development that looks at the interconnection of objects (some everyday and some not) among themselves and to computational resources, as well as the applications that run on them. IoT has the promise of creating a rich and dynamic environment of smart applications and systems that will improve and enrich our lives. The IT research agency International Data Corporation estimated that the current IoT market is around $1.9 trillion and will grow to $7.1 trillion by 2020. At the same time, there are real worries that the IoT is being developed and deployed with little to no thought about security, privacy, and dependability. Some researchers have coined a new name—the Internet of Broken Things—to emphasize this lack of concern to such crosscutting issues.

This panel will have presentations from researchers in industry, academia, and federal agencies who are involved in the Internet of Things. The speakers will address issues at different layers of the system stack and will also cover a diverse set of application domains. We will open up for a Q/A session and group discussion on the issues, approaches, and roadblocks on the way to a dependable IoT.