Abstract
1- Introduction
2- Survey on domain specific IoT architectures
3- Open research issues and future direction
4- Conclusion
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Abstract
Internet of Things is a platform where every day devices become smarter, every day processing becomes intelligent, and every day communication becomes informative. While the Internet of Things is still seeking its own shape, its effects have already stared in making incredible strides as a universal solution media for the connected scenario. Architecture specific study does always pave the conformation of related field. The lack of overall architectural knowledge is presently resisting the researchers to get through the scope of Internet of Things centric approaches. This literature surveys Internet of Things oriented architectures that are capable enough to improve the understanding of related tool, technology, and methodology to facilitate developer’s requirements. Directly or indirectly, the presented architectures propose to solve real-life problems by building and deployment of powerful Internet of Things notions. Further, research challenges have been investigated to incorporate the lacuna inside the current trends of architectures to motivate the academics and industries get involved into seeking the possible way outs to apt the exact power of Internet of Things. A main contribution of this survey paper is that it summarizes the current state-of-the-art of Internet of Things architectures in various domains systematically.
Introduction
Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the stringent connectedness between digital and physical world (Atzori et al., 2010; Sterling, 2005; Internet Reports, 2005). Various researchers have described IoT in multitude forms: – ‘‘a dynamic global network infrastructure with selfconfiguring capabilities based on standard and interoperable communication protocols where physical and virtual ’Things’ have identities, physical attributes, and virtual personalities and use intelligent interfaces, and are seamlessly integrated into the information network” (Kranenburg, 2008). – ‘‘3A concept: anytime, anywhere and any media, resulting into sustained ratio between radio and man around 1:1” (Srivastava, 2006). – ‘‘Things having identities and virtual personalities operating in smart spaces using intelligent interfaces to connect and communicate within social, environmental, and user contexts” (Networked Enterprise & RFID & Micro & Nanosystems, 2008). The semantic meaning of ‘‘Internet of Things” is presented as ‘‘a world-wide network of interconnected objects uniquely addressable, based on standard communication protocols”.