Internet of Things Applications: Opportunities and Threats

Abstract

In the century of automation, which is digitized, and more and more technology is used, automatic systems' replacement of old manual systems makes people's lives easier. Nowadays, people have made the Internet an integral part of humans' daily lives unless they are insecure. The Internet of Things (IoT) secures a platform that authorizes devices and sensors to be remotely detected, connected, and controlled over the Internet. Due to the developments in sensor technologies, the production of tiny and low-cost sensors has increased. Many sensors, such as temperature, pressure, vibration, sound, light, can be used in the IoT. As a result of the development of these sensors with new generations, the power of the IoT technology increases, and accordingly, the revolution of IoT applications are developing rapidly. Therefore, their security issues and threats are challenging topics. In this paper, the benefits and open issues, threats, limitations of IoT applications are presented. The assessment shows that the most influential factor for evaluating IoT applications is the cost that is used in 79% of all articles, then the real-time-ness that is used in 64%, and security and error are used in 57% of all reviewed articles.

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