Tagging everyday objects with sensors, actuators and building an instrumented environment are recent practices in industry and academia. In fact, the smart object domain has matured over the years. Several successful prototypes and applications have already demonstrated and deployed. However, there is very minimal interoperability among the design principles of these projects, and the underlying infrastructures can be rarely shared among isolated applications. We believe the primary reason behind this phenomenon is the missing rationale for the design and integration of smart objects. Now it is the time to focus on current practices and align on some key issues to continue the rapid progress of smart objects. The primary motivation of this workshop is to look at the existing systems to extract and extrapolate the best practices using the lessons learned from those projects to rationalize the design and integration approaches towards smart objects.
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