Introduction to Internet-of-Things (IoT) Systems

Marilyn Wolf

Jan 2026 · Elsevier

About this ebook

Internet of Things (IoT) systems are now in broad use in a number of application areas: manufacturing, utilities, agriculture, medical, home. IoT systems connect sensors (temperature, moisture, motion, etc.) and computers in networks to provide information and analysis about the physical world. Introduction to Internet-of-Things (IoT) Systems, from note embedded systems expert Marilyn Wolf, provides a comprehensive introduction to the design of IoT systems, from the creation of a sensor node through its connection through a network to a complete analytical system. Chapters introduce a cross-cutting introduction to the full set of topics necessary to create IoT systems: hardware, software, networks, data analysis. The book takes a bottom-up approach from computer organization through complex systems. It is designed to allow multiple entry points and paths, depending on the skills of the students and the goals of the instructors. - Provides complete coverage of such IoT topics as devices, networks, cloud, and applications - Includes self-contained discussion of several important topics like security, data analysis (signal processing, machine learning), energy and power consumption - Enriched with examples of real-world devices (Raspberry Pi, Arduino), systems (databases, cloud services), and applications (environmental monitoring, process monitoring)

About the author

Marilyn Wolf is Elmer E. Koch Professor of Engineering and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. She received her BS, MS, and PhD in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She was with AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1984 to 1989, was on the faculty of Princeton University from 1989 to 2007 and was Farmer Distinguished Chair in Embedded Computing Systems and GRA Eminent Scholar at the Georgia Institute of Technology from 2007 to 2019. Her research interests include cyber-physical systems, Internet-of-Things, embedded computing, embedded computer vision, and VLSI systems. She has received the IEEE Computer Society Goode Memorial Award, the ASEE Terman Award, and IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Education Award. She is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM and a Golden Core member of IEEE Computer Society. Professor Wolf is the author of several successful Morgan Kaufmann textbooks: Computers as Components, Fifth Edition (2022); High-Performance Embedded Computing, Second Edition (2014); The Physics of Computing, First Edition (2016); and Embedded System Interfacing, First Edition (2019).