Designing next-generation smart sensor hubs for the Internet-of-Things

Summary form only given. Materializing the vision and the huge business opportunities offered by the Internet-of-Things requires a paradigm shift in sensor data processing, fusing, understanding. Centralized approaches (sensors at the edges, with centralized intelligence in the cloud) are not scalable, hierarchical, distributed processing is a strong requirement. In this talk I will describe recent trends in the development of new computing platforms geared to distributed sensor data management, discuss design challenges and research opportunities.