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Internet of Things (IoT) refers to heterogeneous systems and devices (often referred to as smart objects) that connect to the internet, and is an emerging and active area of research with tremendous technological, social, and economical value for a hyper-connected world. In this paper, we will discuss how billions of these internet connected devices and machines will change the future in which we shall live, communicate and do the business. The devices, which would be connected to the internet, could vary from simple systems on chip (SOC) without any Operating System (OS) to highly powerful processor with intelligent OS with widely varying processing capability and diverse protocol support. Many of these devices can also communicate with each other directly in a dynamic manner. A key challenge is: how to manage such a diverse set of devices of such massive scale in a secured and effective manner without breaching privacy. In this paper, we will discuss various management issues and challenges related to different communication protocol support and models, device management, security, privacy, scalability, availability and analytic support, etc., in managing IoT. The key contribution of this paper is proposal of a reference management system architecture based on cloud technology in addressing various issues related to management of IoThaving billions of smart objects.

The Next-Generation Signaling System (NGSS)

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