We are immensely thankful to all the authors of the chapters of this book, who have worked hard to bring forward this unique resource on the key enabling technologies of smart cities and homes, to help students, instructors, researchers, and community practitioners. We would like to stress that, as the individual chapters of this book were written by different authors, the responsibility for the contents of each chapter lies with the respective authors.
We would like to thank Mr Brian Romer, the Elsevier executive acquisitions editor, who worked with us on the project from the beginning, for his suggestions and advice. We also would like to thank Elsevier publishing and marketing staff members, in particular Ms Amy Invernizzi, editorial project manager (Elsevier), for her great efforts. Finally, we would like to sincerely thank our respective families, for their continuous support and encouragement during the course of this project.
January 8, 2016