Cloud of Things: Integrating Internet of Things and cloud computing and the issues involved

TLDR

Ubiquitous computing connects everything to the Internet, generating data that can be transformed into knowledge and wisdom, and the pervasive Internet of Things requires integration with cloud computing to manage massive data volumes, provide virtual resources, and enable smart applications. This paper defines the integration of IoT and cloud computing as the Cloud of Things. The paper highlights key issues of IoT–cloud integration and proposes potential solutions.

Abstract

With the trend going on in ubiquitous computing, everything is going to be connected to the Internet and its data will be used for various progressive purposes, creating not only information from it, but also, knowledge and even wisdom. Internet of Things (IoT) becoming so pervasive that it is becoming important to integrate it with cloud computing because of the amount of data IoT's could generate and their requirement to have the privilege of virtual resources utilization and storage capacity, but also, to make it possible to create more usefulness from the data generated by IoT's and develop smart applications for the users. This IoT and cloud computing integration is referred to as Cloud of Things in this paper. IoT's and cloud computing integration is not that simple and bears some key issues. Those key issues along with their respective potential solutions have been highlighted in this paper.