A Survey on the Internet of Things: Applications, Challenges and Opportunities with India Perspective

Abstract

AbstractExtensive research efforts are going on to contribute to the Internet of Things (IoT) application development. IoT will create network of “Things” capable of communicating and sharing information with one another. The main goal of IoT is to make the physical environment more intelligent. IoT plays an important role in smart cities and smart homes. The goals of this research paper are six-fold: (i) serve as a guideline for researchers who are new to the Internet of Things (IoT) and want to contribute to this research area, (ii) analyze problems and challenges identified in the implementation of middleware for IoT, (iii) provides a brief overview of the sensor network in Internet of Things (IoT) for building smart cities, (iv) depicts challenges on technologies and applications from India’s perspective, (v) proposes a general IoT architecture to meet the architecture challenge, and (vi) provides further research directions required into the Internet of Things (IoT) middleware and software architectures.KeywordsSmart cityInternet-of-ThingsCyber-Physical systemsIoT challengesIoT applications