State of the Art & Related Work

Cloud Computing is ever stronger converging with the Internet of Things (IoT) offering novel techniques for IoT infrastructure virtualization and its management on the Cloud. This interleaving of Cloud and IoT technologies is a crucial technological enabler of Cyber-Human Smart Cities. In this chapter we present an overview of the relevant state-of-the-art technologies in these two domains, with particular focus on IoT/Cloud provisioning, governance and application development support.