6. Concluding Remarks and Open Issues

The emergent paradigm of Internet of Things (IoT) has the potential to provide novel value-added services to increase the quality of life of citizens, increase the productivity of companies and promote building more intelligent and sustainable cities, environments and countries. Despite its potential benefits, there are still many challenges to be overcome to leverage the wide dissemination and adoption of the IoT paradigm. One major challenge in this context is efficiently managing the resources involved in an IoT ecosystem. In this Book, we presented the state of the art in the area of resource management for IoT, with focus on characterizing the architectures and infrastructures able to support all the activities involved in such process. This chapter presents our final remarks, including a summarization regarding the activities addressed by the works discussed throughout the Book and the open issues identified. There are still several research opportunities to be explored in the field of resource management in order to tackle all the challenges posed by the IoT ecosystems in this context.