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SMART ENERGY, UTILITY, AND TRANSPORT

infotainment, edutainment, and entertainment. Today’s automobiles

and their important components are being sensor attached, facilitat-

ing their remote monitoring, diagnosis, control, repair, and mainte-

nance. Sensors themselves are smart and are capable of forming ad hoc

networks with one another on an as-needed basis (sensors are coop-

erative objects) to accomplish composite tasks that in turn automate

one or more processes directly and fully. e underlying sensor-filled

infrastructures, high-speed telecommunication networks, a bevy of

enabling technologies, a growing range of sleek and handy gadgets,

and a growing repository of cyber systems are being suitably readied

to contribute individually as wel ...