“…These technologies are critical for an IoT application. Now, the state of the art of IoT applications can be found in medical, transportation, services, home, factories, mines and cities, reflecting the broad commercial applications for this technology (Appadwedula et al, 2005;Xu, 2011;Sun et al, 2012;Sung and Tsai, 2012;Li, 2013;Li et al, 2013b;Zhang and Yu, 2013;Bi et al, 2014;Fan et al, 2014;Fang et al, 2014b;Tao et al, 2014;Wang et al, 2014a;Xiao et al, 2014;Xu et al, 2014). Li et al (2013a) modeled a multiple attribute group decision-making problem for the group decision-making to emergency situations, and used a new methodology based on IoT to reach the understanding of emergency response plans with the maximized consensus in course of decision-making.…”