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IOTS 2010 - The 1st IEEE/ACM Internet of Things Symposium
http://www.cpschina.org/IOTS/
http://incodat.dlut.edu.cn/IOTS/
In conjunction with GreenCom 2010
Hangzhou, China, December 18-20, 2010

- List of accepted papers.
- Registration instructions, accommodation information, VISA and travel guide are available at the GreenCom-2010 conference website: http://cse.stfx.ca/~GreenCom2010/.
- Selected best papers (extended version) will be considered for publication in special issues of SCI-index international journals.

IOTS 2010 will be held in Hangzhou, China, from the 18th through 20th of December, 2010. The symposium will be in conjunction with the GreenCom 2010 conference, bringing together strongly interrelated communities and widening the scope to cover communication science, technology and applications.

The Internet of Things (IoT), also called M2M standing for Machine to Machine, Machine to Man, Man to Machine, or Machine to Mobile, intelligently connects humans, devices, and systems. Considered as another IT wave following computers, the Internet, and mobile communications, it represents the pinnacle of our current ICT ambitions. It has been stated that the goal of ICT is to connect all objects on the basis of networked individuals to form a ubiquitous network, which is called the Internet of Things. When embedded with chips and sensors, these objects can "think", "feel", and "talk" with each other. Together with the infrastructure of the Internet and mobile networks, these objects can communicate with humans, and enable us to monitor and control them anytime anywhere and enjoy their intelligent services, making the idea of a "Smart Planet" a dream come true.

IoT is a technological revolution that represents the future of computing and communications, and its development depends on dynamic technical innovation in a number of important fields, from wireless sensors to nanotechnology. In computing, the Internet of Things refers to a network of objects, such as household appliances. It is often a self-configuring wireless network. The concept of the internet of things is attributed to the original Auto-ID Center, founded in 1999 and based at the time in MIT.

If all cans, books, shoes or parts of cars are equipped with minuscule identifying devices, daily life on our planet will undergo a transformation. Things like running out of stock or wasted products will no longer exist as we will know exactly what is being consumed on the other side of the globe. Theft will be a thing of the past as we will know where a product is at all times. The same applies to parcels lost in the post. If all objects of daily life, from yogurt to an airplane, are equipped with radio tags, they can be identified and managed by computers in the same way humans can. The next generation of Internet applications (IPv6 protocol) would be able to identify more objects than IPv4, which is currently in use. This system would therefore be able to instantaneously identify any kind of objects. The Internet of objects should encode 50 to 100,000 billion objects and follow the movement of those objects. Every human being is surrounded by 1,000 to 5,000 objects.