IoTNAT 2021

The Internet of Things (IoT) technology offers unprecedented opportunities to interconnect human beings as well as Machine-to-Machine (M2M), whereby sensors and networks allow all ‘things’ to communicate directly with each other to share vital information allowing us to have an instrumented universe where accurate data is readily available to inform optimal decision making. The IoT is about to enable a range of new capabilities and services far beyond today’s offerings. It will fundamentally change how people go about their lives. According to Gartner, the number of objects connected to the Internet is set to reach 20 billion by 2021. Cisco estimates the number will be close to 26 billion objects by 2021. Others believe the actual number will be even higher with the assumption that any object with a simple micro controller and on-off switch will be connected to the Internet in the near feature. The scale of the IoT is set to have a major economic, social and environmental impacts; the intersection of which forms the future sustainable growth. The IEEE International Workshop on Internet of Things: Networking Applications and Technologies (IoTNAT 2021) Symposium will be held in conjunction with The Fifth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2021). The IoTNAT 2021 Symposium aims at soliciting original ideas on the broad area of IoT including challenges and opportunities, concepts and applications and future trends. The Symposium aims to facilitate discussions among academics and IoT practitioners and make positive contributions to the field. Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished manuscripts. Submitted papers should be in accordance with IEEE format, and will be reviewed by at least two expert reviewers in terms of relevance, originality, contribution, correctness, and presentation.
The topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Emerging concepts of IoT
Design methodologies for IoT
Novel services and applications of IoT to facilitate environmental responsibility
Green by Internet of Things
IoT and Social benefits/impact
IoT Economics
Emerging Internet of Things business models and process changes
Communication systems and network architectures for the IoT
IoT and Data Management
Security and privacy of IoT
Reliability of IoT
Disaster recovery in IoT
Applications of Internet of things
Emerging applications and interaction paradigms for everyday citizens
Big data and IoT
Self-organizing IoT
Cloud Computing and IoT
IoT and sustainable Growth