Internet of Things and Digital Economy
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Management".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 6008
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Interests: audit; Internet of Things; project management
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Dear Colleagues,
The digital economy, also known as internet economy, the new economy, or web economy, was first named in the book The Digital Economy: Promise and Peril in the Age of Networked Intelligence by Don Tapscott in 1995.
The digital economy is the engine of change in the classical (nondigital) economy, especially in the last ten years. The ingrowth of information and communication technologies into the economy presents challenges not only in the technology field but also in the field of business models, and thus has overlap into the legal field as well. In the technology field, the Internet of Things (IoT) and its subsets in the form of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) and Industry 4.0 are currently a significant trend. The mentioned subsets of IoT are affiliated with the dimensions of production, quality, and application of primary sensors for sensing phenomena. However, the number of sensors represents a potential source of a large amount of data that needs to be transmitted, stored, and, finally, evaluated, and their security or anonymization ensured.
Another phenomenon of the increase in digitization, both from a technical and legal point of view, is autonomous devices. What is the legal liability of such autonomous facilities?
New business models appear mainly in the form of the so-called sharing economy, where both the resources of the economy and products or services are shared by end-user. Users pay for these services or products through user fees. What about the utilization and availability of these services, especially at peak times, when demand for shared devices is extreme? How does an efficient and effective business model look? What are the economic aspects of shared devices? Is equipment sharing effective not only economically but also ecologically?
What are the risks of these emerging trends in terms of privacy and data security in general?
The following topics are welcome to our issue:
- Deployment of technical equipment (sensors) in new applications IoT and IIoT (production for Industry 4.0, transport, distribution and measurement of utilities, etc.);
- Data transfer, storage, processing, and evaluation (data transfer protocols, Big data, data analysis, etc.);
- Creation of forecast models based on collected data—predictive maintenance;
- Proposals for new business models and their concepts that are applicable to a sharing economy;
- Modification of business models and approaches to the economy under the influence of the COVID-19 pandemic;
- Security issues of the deployment of IoT information technology in business concepts;
- Legal issues related to personal data protection, etc.
Prof. Dr. Petr Doucek
Dr. Miloš Maryška
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- Industry 4.0
- Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)
- digital economy
- digitalization
- predictive maintenance
- machine learning (ML)
- security
- data processing
- data analytics
- autonomous devices
