Enabling wireless communication and networking technologies for the internet of things [Guest editorial]

The Internet of Things (IoT) is enabling ubiquitous computing with a novel design paradigm to integrate global physical objects, cyber and social spaces, and machines. It may be envisaged as a web of trillions of machines that will communicate with each other. The major enabling technologies that are giving a flying kickstart to IoT are ad hoc and wireless sensor networks, short-range wireless communications, real-time systems, low power and energy harvesting, radio frequency identification, machine type communication, resource-constrained networks, and embedded software.