The 3rd edition of the Global IoT Summit (GIoTS), the flagship conference of the IEEE ComSoc IoT Emerging Technologies Initiative (IoT ETI), was held in Aarhus from 17th to 21st of June 2019. The conference was focused on key critical innovations that will affect future research and real-world applications, and transform our world.

GIoTS 2019 Key Topics:

• IoT Enabling Technologies,
• IoT Applications, Services and Real Implementations
• IoT Experimental Results and Deployment Scenarios
• IoT Security, Privacy and Data Protection
• End-user and Human Centric IoT, including IoT Multimedia, Societal Impacts and Sustainable Development

This year, new efforts were put into attracting new researchers from diverse cross-disciplinary areas to address challenges in the emerging discipline with several workshops organized around the conference. Of 133 submitted papers, 75 technical papers were selected and presented. The Award for Best Paper was given to authors of the paper entitled “The symbIoTe Solution for Semantic and Syntactic Interoperability of Cloud-based IoT Platforms".

Ahmed Khattab, Cairo University, Egypt

Alauddin Al-Omary, University of Bahrain, Bahrain

Alejandro Molina Zarca, University of Murcia, Spain

Alexandros Fragkiadakis, Institute of Computer Science FORTH, Greece

Alfonso Ramallo, University of Murcia, Spain

Alireza  Ghasempour, ICT Faculty, USA

Amalia  Damianou, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

Anand   Svr, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore, India

Andrea Cruciani, Agricolus srl, Italy

Antonio Iera, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Antonio Puliafito, University of Messina, Italy

Antonio Fernando Skarmeta Gomez, University of Murcia, Spain

Arkady  Zaslavsky, Deakin University, Australia

Arne Bröring, Siemens AG, Germany

Atman Jbari, Mohammed V University, Morocco

Blaine Price, The Open University, United Kingdom

Bob Frankston, Frankston, USA

Carlos Palau, Universitat Politecnica Valencia, Spain

Carlos Kamienski, Universidade Federal do ABC, Brazil

Cesar Alexandre Souza, University of São Paulo, Brazil

Chitra Balakrishna, Open University, United Kingdom

Christoph Grimm, Kaiserslautern University of Technology, Germany

Chun–Ying Huang, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

Ciprian Dobre, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania

Claudio Savaglio, University of Calabria, Italy

Claus Soerensen, Aarhus University, Denmark

CongDuc Pham, University of Pau, France

Corinna Schmitt, Universität der Bundeswehr München, Research Center CODE, Germany

Dan Garcia–Carrillo, University of Murcia, Spain

Danh Le Phuoc, Technical University of Berlin, Germany

Daniel Garcia, Gradiant, United Kingdom

David Kravitz, DarkMatter, USA

Dejan Drajic, DunavNET, Serbia

Dimosthenis Ioannidis, Information Technologies Institute, Greece

Dirk Pesch, University College Cork, Ireland

Dmitrij Lagutin, Aalto University, Finland

Domenico Rotondi, FINCONS SpA, Italy

Dominique Durand, Norce Research, France

Dragana Matic, Biosense, Serbia

Ella Pereira, Edge Hill University, United Kingdom

Enrico Ferrera, Istituto Superiore Mario Boella (ISMB), Italy

Enzo Mingozzi, University of Pisa, Italy

Ernö Kovacs, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany

Florian Büther, University of Lübeck, Germany

Florian Michahelles, Siemens Corporation, USA

Franck Le Gall, Easy Global Market, France

Giuseppe Bianchi, University of Rome “Tor Vergata", Italy

Giuseppe Ruggeri, University of Reggio Calabria, Italy

Gopi Krishna Garge, SmartLancs Ltd, United Kingdom

Grigoris Chatzikostas, Biosense, Serbia

Gyu Myoung Lee, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom

Igor Bisio, University of Genoa, Italy

Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

Isam Ishaq, Al-Quds University, Palestine

Ivana Podnar Zarko, University of Zagreb, Croatia

JaeSeung Song, Sejong University, Korea

Janusz Furtak, Military University of Technology, Poland

Jayavardhana Gubbi, TCS Research and Innovation, India

Jens–Matthias Bohli, Hochschule Mannheim, Germany

Jérôme Treboux, University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland (HES-SO), Switzerland

Jesus Sanchez–Gomez, University of Murcia, Spain

Jordi Ortiz, University of Murcia, Spain

Jorge Sá Silva, University of Coimbra, Portugal

Jorge Sanchez Molina, University of Almeria, Spain

Jorge Bernal Bernabe, University of Murcia, Spain

José Luis Hernandez Ramos, European Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC), Belgium

Juan Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain

Juan Ramón Santana, University of Cantabria, Spain

Karthikeya Acharya, Aarhus University, Denmark

Kary Främling, Aalto University, Finland

Konrad Wrona, NATO Communications and Information Agency, Netherlands

Konstantinos Loupos, INLECOM SYSTEMS, Greece

Koustabh Dolui, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

Kristina Sermuksnyte–Alesiuniene, ART21, Lithuania

Kumar Yelamarthi, Central Michigan University, USA

Leire Bastida, Tecnalia Research & Innovation, Spain

Luis Perez–Freire, Gradiant – Galician R&D Center in Advanced Telecommunications, Spain

Luis Sanchez, University of Cantabria, Spain

Malamati Louta, University of Western Macedonia, Greece

Malati Hegde, Indian Institute of Science, India

Marcelo Pias, FURG, Brazil

Maria Calderon, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain

Martin Serrano, National University of Ireland Galway – NUIG, Ireland

Martin Strohbach, AGT Group (R&D) GmbH, Germany

Martin Bauer, NEC Europe Ltd., Germany

Mikel Larrañaga, IK4-Tekniker, Spain

Mirko Presser, Aarhus University, Denmark

Neetesh Saxena, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

Nenad Gligoric, DunavNET, Serbia

Nicolas Ferry, SINTEF, Spain

Nikolaos Petroulakis, Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas, Greece

Niranjan Suri, US Army Research Laboratory (ARL), USA

Panagiotis Vlacheas, WINGS ICT SOLUTIONS, Greece

Paolo Bellavista, University of Bologna, Italy

Pavlos Charalampidis, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece

Pietro Tosato, University of Trento, Italy

Pin–Yu Chen, AI Foudations, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA

Puneet Kumar, Symantec Corp, USA

Qiushi Zheng, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia

Rafael Torres, Universidad de Murcia, Spain

Rafael Marin–Perez, University of Murcia, Spain

Raffaele Giaffreda, FBK CREATE-NET, Italy

Rahul Kher, G H Patel College of Engineering & Technology, India

Rajeev Piyare, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy

Ramon Alcarria, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain

Rana Sircar, Ericsson, India

Razvan Stanica, INSA Lyon, France

Rodrigo Aviles–Espinosa, University of Sussex, United Kingdom

Rodrigo Roman, University of Malaga, Spain

Salvatore Distefano, University of Kazan, Russia

Samuel Dupont, Bioceanor, France

Sara Nieves Matheu García, University of Murcia, Spain

Satish Chikkagoudar, US Naval Research Laboratory, USA

Sebastien Ziegler, Mandat International, Switzerland

Septimiu Nechifor, Siemens SRL, Romania

Shashikant Patil, SVKMs NMiMS Mumbai India, India

Sherali Zeadally, University of Kentucky, USA

Soumya Kanti Datta, EURECOM, France

Spiros Fountas, Draxis Environmental, Greece

Srdjan Krco, DunavNET, Serbia

Stefan Fischer, University of Lübeck, Germany

Stephan Haller, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

Sye Loong Keoh, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom

Tamás Bardócz, AquaBioTech Group, Spain

Thomas Usländer, Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany

Thomas Engel, John Deere, Germany

Tom Pfeifer, IoT Consult Europe, Germany

Valeria Loscrí, Inria Lille-Nord Europe, France

Ved Kafle, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

Xenofon Fafoutis, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark

Xinxin Fan, IoTeX, USA

Yunsheng Wang, Kettering University, USA

Zbigniew Zielinski, Military University of Technology, Poland

Zeljko Zilic, McGill University, Canada

Zhenhua Luo, Cranfield University, United Kingdom

Zifan Pei, USA

Selected paper of the conference will be invited to a Special Issue of Journal Sensors (ISSN 1424-8220, IF 2.475)