INTERNET OF THINGS AND SMART CITIES

"The Internet of Things has the potential to change the world, just as the Internet did. Maybe even more so." - Kevin Ashton

• The Internet of Things links the objects of the real world with the virtual world, thus enabling anytime, anyplace connectivity for anything and not only for anyone. It refers to a world where physical objects and beings, as well as virtual data and environments, all interact with each other in the same space and time.
• A radical evolution of the current Internet into a Network of interconnected objects that not only harvests information from the environment (sensing) and interacts with the physical world (actuation/command/control), but also uses existing Internet standards to provide services for information transfer, analytics, applications and communications.
• Fuelled by the prevalence of devices enabled by open wireless technology such as Bluetooth, radio frequency identification (RFID), Wi-Fi and telephonic data services as well as embedded sensor and actuator nodes, IoT is now led to the interconnection between people at an unprecedented scale and pace.
• Only in 2011, the number of interconnected devices on the planet overtook the actual number of people. Currently there are 9 billion interconnected devices and it is expected to reach 24 billion devices by 2020. According to the GSMA, this amounts to $1.3 trillion revenue opportunities for mobile network operators alone spanning vertical segments such as health, automotive, utilities and consumer electronics

Objective of the Program

• The main fields of action of the Internet of Things are the Smart Cities and Intelligent Buildings. This allows equipping cities with communication and decision capacity for waste collection, damage repairing, public lighting management or electric power transport efficiency. It also allows equipping buildings with communication and decision capacity for temperature increase or reduction or water leakage detection, attending to the parameters measured within a building.
• The Master Degree in Internet of Things and Smart Cities is designed to train multidisciplinary professionals with the necessary skills to adapt to the different challenges the Internet of Things proposes.
• The Internet of Things (IoT) Engineering is an interdisciplinary program that combines the study of electronic engineering and computer science, with an emphasis on internet technologies, wireless communications, sensor devices, and cloud computing.