Internet of Things for Sustainable Community Development

Dr. Abdul Salam is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer and Information Technology at Purdue University, where he is also the Director of the Environmental Networking Technology Laboratory. He has also taught at the Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, and Islamia University, Bahawalpur. Dr. Salam served in the Pakistan Army for nine years in several command, staff, and field roles and held the principal position at the Army Public School and College, Thal Cantonment. He has won several awards, including the International Conference on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN) 2016 Best Student Paper Award, the Robert B. Daugherty Water for Food Institute Fellowship, the Gold Medal MS (CS) on securing the first position in order of merit, and the 2016–2017 Outstanding Graduate Student Research Award from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the author of the books Internet of Things for Sustainable Community Development (Springer, 2019), Signals in the Soil (Springer, 2020), and Internet of Things in Sewer and Drainage Systems (Springer, 2023). Dr. Salam has published over 60 research articles in major journals and international conferences. His recent research focuses on underground soil sensing, wireless communications, the Internet of Underground Things in digital agriculture, sensor-guided irrigation systems, and vehicular communications. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE GRSS Remote Sensing Code Library from 2016 to 2018 and is an Associate Editor of the journals Advanced Electromagnetics and Array. Dr. Salam received his B.Sc. and M.S. degrees in computer science from Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan, in 2001 and 2004, respectively, the M.S. degree in computer engineering from UET, Taxila, Pakistan, in 2012, and the Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the Cyber-Physical Networking Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, USA.

• Chapter 1 Internet of Things for Sustainable Community Development: Introduction and Overview.- Chapter 2 Internet of Things for Environmental Sustainability and Climate Change.- Chapter 3 Internet of Things in Agricultural Innovation and Security.- Chapter 4 Internet of Things for Water Sustainability.- Chapter 5 Internet of Things for Sustainable Forestry.- Chapter 6 Internet of Things in Sustainable Energy Systems.- Chapter 7 Internet of Things for Sustainable Human Health.- Chapter 8 Internet of Things for Sustainable Mining.- Chapter 9 Internet of Things in Water Management and Treatment.- Chapter 10 Internet of Things for Sustainability: Perspectives in Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Future Trends.- Chapter 11 Medium Access in Internet of Things.- Chapter 12 IoT in Hyperspectral Space (Terrestrial Integration Network).- Chapter 13 IoT in Cyber Physical Systems.- Chapter 14 IoT in Adaptive Control Systems.