<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="font-size:13px;font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;outline:none"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);outline:none"><div dir="ltr" style="outline:none"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline:none">Dear Colleagues,<br></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline:none"><br style="outline:none"></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline:none">You are cordially invited to submit your chapter proposals for the second edition of my book, "<span style="outline:none">Internet of Things A to Z: Technologies and Applications, Wiley-IEEE Press.</span></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline:none"><span style="outline:none"><br style="outline:none"></span></div></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);outline:none"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="outline:none"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><b style="outline:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;outline:none">Objectives</span></b></div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"></p><font color="#000000">The project aims to:</font><br style="outline:none"><ul style="color:rgb(0,0,0);outline:none"><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none"><span style="outline:none">Provide a comprehensive, 360-degree view of the IoT.</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none"><span style="outline:none">Fill the gaps identified in the first edition of the book and offer a more complete and up-to-date resource on the subject.</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none"><span style="outline:none">Cover IoT core concepts and enabling technologies.</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none"><span style="outline:none">Discuss key security issues, practices, and solutions.</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none"><span style="outline:none">Present a diverse array of IoT applications.</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none"><span style="outline:none">Offer tutorials on some of the common IoT platforms.</span></li></ul><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none;outline-color:initial;outline-width:initial"></span><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);outline:none"></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><b style="text-align:justify;outline:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;outline:none"><br style="outline:none"></span></b></div><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><b style="text-align:justify;outline:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;outline:none">Publisher</span></b></div><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2FXplorehelp%2Fbrowsing-ieee-xplore%2Fwiley-ieee-press&data=05%7C02%7C%7C40aeff12267844c602d108dc6af85a00%7Ccc7df24760ce4a0f9d75704cf60efc64%7C0%7C0%7C638502863810072945%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=GrnawvSzqghRDhWJ6KOx%2BbOf58KQI58A6BqwJ%2BoFcFE%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplorehelp/browsing-ieee-xplore/wiley-ieee-press" shash="bc1xR6tabKRk02RBX9nvJO+npAQcHmzG38d65llAKNJ+jhpcdte8SDUhyinKragVcpi2YSXnhkCcfR2SqHPV30DGAYqLAIY2hJRCXyjpJRC59McEg9fdy+HhJjvVERGSiCe1+B6bpLmEo47bfddlmW0QfSJeBnGL5+v8lf2hJMw=" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(25,106,212);outline:none">Wiley IEEE Press</a><u style="outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);outline:none"></span></u></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-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e">Virtualization and Containerization</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none"><span style="outline:none">Embedded Systems</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none"><span style="outline:none">Artificial Intelligence</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none"><span style="outline:none">Edge Computing</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none"><span style="outline:none">Big Data Analytics</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none"><span style="outline:none">A tutorial on video analytics and Nvidia Metropolis (with good coverage of edge AI and video analytics)</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none"><span style="outline:none">A tutorial on IoT live data streaming with MQTT and Kafka (from real sensors all the way up to the cloud, with good coverage of Kafka and data streaming concepts)</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none"><span style="outline:none">Application Domains (a separate chapter for each domain):</span></li><ul style="outline:none"><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none">Industrial IoT</li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none">Predictive Maintenance</li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none">Cyber-Physical Systems</li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none">Internet of Medical Things</li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none">Smart Cities</li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none">Smart Grids and Renewable Energy</li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none">Agriculture 5.0</li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none">Sustainability and Environment</li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none">Logistics and Supply Chain Management</li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none"><span style="font-family:"Courier New";color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"><span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman";outline:none"> </span></span><span dir="LTR" style="outline:none"></span>Retail and Inventory Management</li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none">Smart Homes and Buildings</li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none">Robotics/Swarm Robotics</li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none">Drones</li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none">Space</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none">Education/Personalized Learning</span></li><li style="margin-left:15px;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none">Wearables and </span>Human Augmentation</li></ul></ul><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none;outline-color:initial;outline-width:initial"></span><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);outline:none"></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);outline:none"></span></p><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-bottom:0in;line-height:normal;vertical-align:top;outline:none"><br style="out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tyle="margin-left:15px;outline:none"><font color="#212121">More information can be found <a href="goog_211628236">here: </a></font><a href="https://eur02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsites.google.com%2Fview%2Finternet-of-things-a-to-z-2%2Fhome&data=05%7C02%7C%7C40aeff12267844c602d108dc6af85a00%7Ccc7df24760ce4a0f9d75704cf60efc64%7C0%7C0%7C638502863810229252%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C80000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=AtpaDdMS03aTTjj04GGdN23JGwR9FDnAhjZKUOVXYYc%3D&reserved=0" originalSrc="https://sites.google.com/view/internet-of-things-a-to-z-2/home" shash="n1QD1waWFU48s0s7uLJAdSywUJCklu18YEN7A4FpH5h5Xpo7iDw8eK4D8D6WbEnGVqlGR2pTIaK7p9VRM6GB0ZzB3YtwTihGjSBTX1ttTGWPlM6MLUixFwCw0GCLtyMQ3sV1lozUP8z5ZFmuSDR1qyPEaBptZ4EUFS8qGZsc7iU=">https://sites.google.com/view/internet-of-things-a-to-z-2/home</a><br><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);outline:none"><br></div></li></ul><div><font color="#000000">Please share this call with your colleagues. Thank you.</font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div><div><font color="#000000"><br></font></div></div></div><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;outline:none">Regards,</div><div style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:verdana,helvetica,sans-serif;outline:none">Qusay F. Hassan, PhD</div></div>