Internet of Things: an overview

Abstract

As technology proceeds and the number of smart devices continues to grow substantially, need for ubiquitous context-aware platforms that support interconnected, heterogeneous, and distributed network of devices has given rise to what is referred today as Internet-of-Things. However, paving the path for achieving aforementioned objectives and making the IoT paradigm more tangible requires integration and convergence of different knowledge and research domains, covering aspects from identification and communication to resource discovery and service integration. Through this chapter, we aim to highlight researches in topics including proposed architectures, security and privacy, network communication means and protocols, and eventually conclude by providing future directions and open challenges facing the IoT development.

IoT Resource Allocation and Optimization Based on Heuristic Algorithm

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“…To understand the importance of IoT, it should be mentioned that, according to the estimates, the number of connected devices in the IoT will reach 16 billion by 2021, and this industry will create a market of $900 billion by 2022 in America [14,15]. Although these values are just a prediction of the future of the IoT, what will undoubtedly occur is the expansion of the market and IoT in future decades.…”

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Analysis of Direction on Product Design in the Era of the Internet of Things

“…For example, smart transportation, smart logistics, and smart healthcare systems are all based on the IoT at the core of technology. In the future, the realization of these "wisdom" solutions can solve many problems facing humanity's sustainable development such as shortage of resources, energy waste, and inefficiencies [7].…”

“…With the help of intelligent and reliable, IOT connected things wirelessly. Objects with this facility will be able to communicate without any human interference [7][8].The IoT consists of objects, sensor devices, communication infrastructure, computational and processing unit that may be placed on cloud, decision making and action invoking system [9].As a new scientific and technological revolution, it will bring new vitality to the design.…”