Milan Milenkovic earned M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He has given invited talks at academic and industrial conferences and has authored a number of journal and conference papers, industry technical reports, standards, and U.S. and international patents. He is the author of the textbook Operating Systems: Concepts and Design (McGraw-Hill), a monograph on distributed database systems, and an IEEE tutorial on multimedia systems. He is a Fulbright Scholar, an ACM Distinguished Engineer and a Senior Member of IEEE.

Comprehensive and balanced coverage provides a rounded and solid foundation to students and practitioners to build upon when designing IoT systems and components, and to confidently evaluate their options when choosing components and partners/vendors to complement their solutions

Reader-minded approach: starts by describing the nature and significance of issues and problems so that readers are better motivated to understand solutions, including why they matter, where they fit, and how they work

System-first approach: starts by describing the big picture and how the overall system works so that readers can interpret subsequent in-depth topical coverage in context

Systems aspects and integration: in addition to describing the functional and foundational aspects of all major IoT system components, the book emphasizes integration throughout, i.e. how the components and building blocks are combined to create complete IoT systems. This is in contrast to most alternative approaches that tend to describe piece parts as independent isolated topics, without much guidance on how to put them together

Emphasizes IoT data and information modeling, interoperability and the related standards. Data interoperability is viewed as a key technical requirement for IoT