Books in Hardware and architecture

Photonic Integrated Circuits for Sensing Applications

1st Edition
December 1, 2025
Anu Agarwal + 2 more
English

Photonic Integrated Circuits for Sensing Applications introduces sensors as an important application area for integrated photonics. It provides a brief historical perspective and highlights key free-space spectroscopic sensing techniques such as FTIR, Raman, SPR, and reflectometry, and it thoroughly explores the advantages of photonic integrated circuit (PIC) sensor systems, which have the potential for low SWAP-C and high performance. Topics covered include sensor system components such as waveguides (below and above 1550 nm), ring resonators and toroids, photonic crystals, MZ interferometers, light input and output, light sources (below and above 1550 nm), and spectrometers and detectors. The book considers integrated systems that employ biofunctionalization... for applications in chem–bio sensing, and it also addresses sensor manufacturing at scale, including materials, PDK development, and sensor packaging.

Advances in Fog Computing and the Internet of Things for Smart Healthcare

1st Edition
November 19, 2025
Joseph Bamidele Awotunde + 3 more
English

The synergy between fog computing and the IoT facilitates the growth of smart applications and services, empowering various industries to harness the full potential of IoT technologies while ensuring faster and more efficient data processing. In essence, IoT devices collect data, and fog computing provides a mechanism for processing that data closer to the source, optimizing performance, latency, privacy, and overall system efficiency. Together, these concepts contribute to building more effective and responsive IoT ecosystems. Advances in Fog computing and the Internet of Things for Smart Healthcare explores the intersection of fog computing, the IoT, and places their application in the context of smart healthcare systems. The book educates researchers and graduate students about the concepts of fog computing, IoT, and their applications in healthcare, explaining how these technologies work, their benefits, and potential challenges. The book showcases real-world use cases where fog computing and IoT have been applied in healthcare. For instance, it discusses how IoT devices are used for patient monitoring, and how these technologies contribute to personalized medicine. Addressing the challenges related to privacy, security, data management, interoperability, and regulatory compliance would be crucial. The book explores strategies and solutions for overcoming these challenges in the context of healthcare. Alongside the companion book, 'Fundamentals of Fog Computing and the Internet of Things for Smart Healthcare', this book provides readers with a comprehensive understanding of how fog computing and IoT are transforming the landscape of healthcare, enabling more efficient, personalized, and accessible healthcare services.

Embedded Systems Architecture

3rd Edition
November 3, 2025
Tammy Noergaard
English

Embedded Systems Architecture: A Comprehensive Guide for Engineers and Programmers, Third Edition is a practical and technical guide for understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. This book is perfect for those starting out as technical professionals such as engineers, programmers, and designers of embedded systems but is also great for students of computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering. Users will find a much-needed ‘big picture’ for recently graduated engineers grappling with understanding the design of real-world systems. In addition, the book provides professionals with a systems-level picture of the key elements that can go into embedded design.

Internet of Things Security

1st Edition
October 20, 2025
Preeti Mishra + 4 more
English

Internet of Things Security: Attacks, Tools, Techniques and Challenges delves into the essential aspects of safeguarding devices within the IoT ecosystem. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the IoT architecture, its vast applications, and the difficulties in securing such an expansive infrastructure. Readers gain insight into various security vulnerabilities present at each layer of IoT architecture, alongside viable security solutions. The book thoroughly examines distinct access control and authentication strategies, including intrusion detection systems (IDS), misuse detection, anomaly detection, DNS-based security solutions, and the implementation of artificial intelligence (AI) in cognitive IoT security.Additionall... the book explores microservice architecture for distributed IoT security and blockchain-based IoT security solutions.

Energy-Efficient Devices and Circuits for Neuromorphic Computing

1st Edition
October 6, 2025
Farooq Ahmad Khanday
English
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Energy-Efficient Devices and Circuits for Neuromorphic Computing is an important contribution to this field, covering topics from neuron dynamics to energy-efficient CMOS devices and circuits. The book delves into theoretical analysis of learning processes in spiking neural networks, two-terminal neuromorphic devices, material-engineered neuromorphic devices, and novel biomimetic Si devices. It offers insights into the latest developments in non-volatile memory crossbar arrays and emerging post-CMOS devices. Overall, it provides a comprehensive overview of energy-efficient neuromorphic computing architecture. This book is an essential resource for researchers, engineers, and students working in neuromorphic computing and energy-efficient electronics.

Fundamentals of Fog Computing and the Internet of Things for Smart Healthcare

1st Edition
September 17, 2025
Joseph Bamidele Awotunde + 3 more
English
Paperback
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Fundamentals of Fog Computing and the Internet of Things for Smart Healthcare explores the intersection of two transformative technologies, fog computing and the IoT, shedding light on how they are revolutionizing healthcare. The book serves as an essential guide for researchers and graduate students, explaining the underlying concepts, operational benefits, and potential challenges of these technologies. By delving into how fog computing enhances real-time data processing, the book's authors provide invaluable insights into the practical applications of these advancements in the healthcare industry.Additionall... together with its companion book, Advances in Fog computing and the Internet of Things for Smart Healthcare, the series provides a comprehensive understanding of how these technologies are enabling more efficient, personalized, and accessible healthcare services. By facilitating smart applications and services across various industries, fog computing optimizes performance, latency, privacy, and overall system efficiency, ultimately contributing to the development of more effective and responsive IoT ecosystems.

Decentralized Optimization in Networks

1st Edition
August 1, 2025
Qingguo Lü, + 5 more
English
Paperback
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Decentralized Optimization in Networks: Algorithmic Efficiency and Privacy Preservation provides the reader with theoretical foundations, practical guidance, and solutions to decentralized optimization problems. The book demonstrates the application of decentralized optimization algorithms to enhance communication and computational efficiency, solve large-scale datasets, maintain privacy preservation, and address challenges in complex decentralized networks. The book covers key topics such as event-triggered communication, random link failures, zeroth-order gradients, variance-reduction, Polyak’s projection, stochastic gradient, random sleep, and differential privacy. It also includes simulations and practical examples to illustrate the algorithms' effectiveness and applicability in real-world scenarios.

Digital Twin, Blockchain, and Sensor Networks in the Healthy and Mobile City

1st Edition
February 28, 2025
Tuan Anh Nguyen
English
Paperback
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In smart cities, information and communication technologies are integrated to exchange real-time data between citizens, governments, and organizations. Blockchain provides security for communication and transactions between multiple stakeholders. Digital twin refers to a simulation of physical products in a virtual space. This simulation fully utilizes the physical models, wireless sensor networks, and historical data of city operation to integrate big information (digital twin cities) under multidiscipline, multiphysical quantities, multiscale, and multiprobability.Dig... Twin, Blockchain, and Sensor Networks in the Healthy and Mobile City explores how digital twins and blockchain can be used in smart cities. Part 1 deals with their promising applications for healthy cities. Part 2 covers other promising applications and current perspectives of blockchain and digital twins for future smart society and smart city mobility. Together with its companion volume, Digital Twin and Blockchain for Sensor Networks in Smart Cities, this book helps to understand the vast amount of data around the city to encourage happy, healthy, safe, and productive lives.

Digital Twin and Blockchain for Sensor Networks in Smart Cities

1st Edition
February 25, 2025
Tuan Anh Nguyen
English
Paperback
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Digital twin, blackchain, and wireless sensor networks can work together to improve services in the smart city. Big data derived from wireless sensor networks can be integrated to accommodate the exchange of real-time data between citizens, governments, and organizations. Blockchain can provide high security for large-scale communications and transactions between many stakeholders. Digital twin uses physical models and historical data to integrate big information under multidiscipline, multiphysical quantities, multiscale, and multiprobability conditions.Digital Twin and Blockchain for Sensor Networks in Smart Cities explores how digital twin and blockchain can be optimized to improve services. This book is divided into three parts. Part 1 focuses on the fundamental concepts of blockchain and digital twin for sensor networks in the smart cities, while Part 2 describes their applications for managing the regular operations and services. Part 3 deals with their applications for safe cities.

Blockchain and Digital Twin for Smart Healthcare

1st Edition
February 12, 2025
Tuan Anh Nguyen
English
Paperback
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The smart hospital framework involves three main layers: data, insight and access. Medical data is collected real-time from devices and systems in a smart hospitals: the internet of medical things. This data is integrated to provide insight from the analytics or machine learning software using digital twins. Security and transparency are brought through a combination of digital twin and blockchain technologies. Blockchain and Digital Twins for Smart Healthcare describes the role of blockchain and digital twins in smart healthcare. It describes the ecosystem of the Internet of Medical Things, how data can be gathered using a sensor network, which is securely stored, updated and managed with blockchain for efficient and private medical data exchange. The end goal is insight that provides faster, smarter decisions with more efficiency to improve care for the patient.

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