Billions of objects are being to be shattered almost everywhere to enable smart services in different application domains, such as health care, logistics, energy management, military, environmental monitoring, and industry-automation (just to name a few). Thus, it is important to design effective, flexible, energy-efficient, lightweight, distributed, and secure communication architectures. In this context, research activities of Telematics Lab mainly focus on wireless sensor networks, channel access protocols, routing protocols, energy-harvesting architectures, well as real-time communication architectures in industrial environments and middlewares for machine-to-machine systems. In addition, Telematics Lab is also involved in standardization activities in the IETF 6tisch Working Group.