Assembling Smart Cyber-Physical Systems

Assembling Smart Cyber-Physical Systems: Heterogeneous, Diffuse and Green Technological Infrastructures for Cities and Industries offers a comprehensive approach to design, implement, and use Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs)-computing systems with a strong interaction between the physical environment (equipped with sensors and actuators) and the cyber realm (the Cloud). Through a carefully structured methodological approach to systems design, readers will understand how the infrastructure continuum represents our environment, where we can move from edge computing to the Cloud, going through fog resources to set up an entire framework for services deployment and application in smart cities and industries. As dealing with complex systems has become increasingly difficult, CPSs are increasingly critical to cope with integrating software, which people are used to, with hardware,

which is distributed among different domains. This book shows how to deal with such systems where there is no distinction among the different parts: computing, storage, networking and IoT all contribute to setting up the modern processing environments, thus it is mandatory to keep them simultaneously under control. The book follows this holistic approach and supports the reader in dealing with CPSs of growing complexity, where theory and practice continuously mix to give a concrete structure to the discussion. It teaches how to design a network architecture with all the virtualized resources in place, how to optimize their interaction and keep everything under the full control of the system manager. This book allows students, researchers, practitioners, and professionals alike to learn the theory behind CPSs put that theory into practice in smart city and industry applications.