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The Internet of data: a new idea to extend the IOT in the digital world

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Increasingly powerful computational technology has caused enormous data growth both in size and complexity. A key issue is how to organize the data to adapt the challenges of data analysis. This paper borrows ideas from the Internet of things (IOT) into the digital world and organize the data entities to form a network, the Internet of data (IOD), which has huge potential in data-intensive applications. In the IOD, data hiding technology is utilized to embed virtual tags, which record all the activities of the data entities since they are created, into every data entity in the system. The IOD aims to organize the data to be interconnected as a network and collect useful information for data identification, data tracing, data vitalization and further data analysis.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Software Development Environment, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China

    Wei Fan, Zhengyong Chen & Zhang Xiong

  2. Research Institute of Beihang University in Shengzhen, Shenzhen, 518057, China

    Zhengyong Chen & Zhang Xiong

  3. Sino-French Engineering School, Beihang University, Beijing, 100191, China

    Hui Chen

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Wei Fan received her BSc degree in computer science and technology from Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2008. She is currently pursuing the PhD degree in computer application in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, China. Her research interests include image forensics, digital watermarking, steganography, steganalysis, and image processing.

Zhengyong Chen received his BSc and PhD degrees in precision instruments and mechanology from Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, in 1998 and 2003, respectively. He was a Postdoctoral researcher in Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University, from 2004 to 2005. Since 2006, he is an associate professor of the School of Computer Science and Engineering of Beihang University. His research interests include information hiding, digital watermarking, and digital rights management.

Zhang Xiong received his BS degree from Harbin Engineering University in 1982. He received his MS degree from Beihang University in 1985. He is a professor and PhD supervisor in the School of Computer Science and Engineering, Beihang University. He is working on computer vision, wireless sensor networks, information security, and data vitalization.

Hui Chen received his BSc and MSc in computer science and technology from Beihang University, Beijing, China, in 2006 and 2009, respectively. He is now working in Sino-French Engineering School in Beihang University. His research interests include digital watermarking, image processing.

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Fan, W., Chen, Z., Xiong, Z. et al. The Internet of data: a new idea to extend the IOT in the digital world. Front. Comput. Sci. 6, 660–667 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11704-012-1036-z

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