Assembling Smart Cyber-Physical Systems

Assembling Smart Cyber-Physical Systems: Heterogeneous, Diffuse and Green Technological Infrastructures for Cities and Industries offers a comprehensive approach on how 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 learn 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.

• Employs a versatile, bottom-up, horizontal approach to CPS infrastructure and applications
• Utilizes the Stack4Things framework, an evolution of the well-known OpenStack environment, to construct a virtual representation of the systems under exam and manage complex systems of systems, both in the fields of smart cities and industry 4.0
• Considers green aspects as a driving principle in the design and operational phase
• Explores systems construction green principles throughout the whole book
• Follows a practically oriented approach throughout the book, with theory always supported by guided experiments related to smart cities and smart industries as the main application fields