Extending the Internet of Things: Towards a Global and Seemless Integration

This book examines the extension and integration aspects of the Internet of Things (IoT) in providing global access to services and information from legacy technologies and RFID to IPv6 and the Future IoT. It embraces machine to machine communications in the Future IoT composed of IPv6 networks, RFID tags, and smart things. Decribing the impact of the IoT on security and privacy, it also considers new advanced architectures and models for the Internet.