International Conference on Identification, Information and Knowledge in the Internet of Things 2014 (IIKI 2014) October 17-18, 2014, Beijing http://ireg.bnu.edu.cn/IIKI2014 Realizing the full potential of the IoT (Internet of Things) requires solving serious technical and business problems: the identification of things, the organization, integration and management of big data, and the effective use of knowledge-based decision systems. These challenges, and more, are the focus for the International Conference on Identification, Information and Knowledge in the Internet of Things (IIKI). The 2014 conference, the third in the IIKI series, provides the scientific and technical community a dedicated forum for discussing research, development, and applications in the IoT. The conference is attended by international experts from the US, Europe, Australasia and China. The conference publishes in major international peer-reviewed journals.