Preface [1st EAI International Conference on Internet of Everything, IoECon 2022]

Abstract

[Excerpt] It is a pleasure to introduce the proceedings of the first edition of the 2022 European Alliance for Innovation (EAI) Internet of Everything Conference (IoECon). The Internet of Everything (IoE) is an emerging study area aimed at extending the IoT paradigms to their whole dimension, intelligently connecting devices, people, processes, data, and things. IoE is multi-disciplinary and offers an opportunity to explore the co-relations between different areas, techniques, and theories about a new cyber world. This first conference and the community it is assembling focus on a complete ecosystem that digitally interconnects everything, including people-to-people, people to-machines, and machines-to-machines. IoECon has emphasized the technological effects on people, organizational processes, and the information security challenges from the accelerated technological evolution. [...]