In the article titled “A Distributed Relation Detection Approach in the Internet of Things” [1], the order of the research funders was incorrect. The order should be corrected in Acknowledgements as follows:

This research was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 61502351), Outstanding Young Academic Talents Start-Up Funds of Wuhan University (no. 216-410100004), Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (no. 2042015kf0042), and Natural Science Foundation of Hubei, China (no. 2015CFB340).