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Record W4411298207 · doi:10.1016/j.iot.2025.101667

Smart systems: A review of theory, applications, and recent advances

2025· review· en· W4411298207 on OpenAlex
Naseem Alsadi, Waleed Hilal, Alex McCafferty-Leroux, S. Andrew Gadsden, John Yawney

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

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Bibliographic record

VenueInternet of Things · 2025
Typereview
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicIoT and Edge/Fog Computing
Canadian institutionsMcMaster University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceCognitive sciencePsychology

Abstract

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Rapid technological advancements have permeated numerous professional fields, transforming mundane tasks and complex operations alike, with examples evident in smart cities, healthcare, and various industries. As a result, a significant surge in the literature concerning smart systems is observed, as is the rise of pragmatic implementations of such systems. In this comprehensive survey paper, we decompose the cumulative smart system architecture into five fundamental components, namely: control, perception, knowledge, communication, and security. Inspired by the underlying notions of cognitive dynamics theory, each component is discussed in detail and categorized, thoroughly detailing necessary concepts and functionality. To add, we discuss the state of the art with respect to each of these components and the most impactful applications of smart systems. From this, gaps in smart systems literature can be identified, where future work is proposed to rectify shortcomings in published methods. This work therefore has foremost utility to those investigating smart systems from an academic standpoint, with the goal of examining the smart system taxonomy and the most modern methods. In addition to further defining the smart system framework, our analysis concluded that the most increasingly researched, and most important components in advancing smart systems applications are knowledge and security. Primarily, this is motivated by aspirations towards safe, adaptive, and robust data-driven autonomy in large scale systems. We conclude that blockchain, IoT, and machine learning protocols and technologies are continuously developing topics that will be essential in smart system advancement.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Review · Consensus signal: Review
Teacher disagreement score0.749
Threshold uncertainty score0.732

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.001
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.020
GPT teacher head0.317
Teacher spread0.297 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it