FAILSAFE 2020	
The Second International Workshop on the Engineering of Reliable, Robust, and Secure Embedded Wireless Sensing Systems
The topic is important as the scientific problems that we face with IoT systems strike hard against the limits of our knowledge about how to organise, analyse, and adapt large, loosely-coupled, intercommunicating, and increasingly autonomous, distributed systems. This topic is timely because there is mounting pressure from various industries and government bodies to be able to place their trust in sensing based infrastructures for decision-making. This contention is supported by industry research showing the potential growth of the IoT sector. IDC forecasts that the worldwide market for sensor systems solutions will grow from $1.9 trillion in 2013 to $7.1 trillion in 2020. ABI Research estimates that the number of devices will more than double from the current level, with 40.9 billion forecasted for 2020. 75% of the growth between today and the end of the decade will come from non-hub devices: sensor nodes and accessories.