Future Internet: The Internet of Things Architecture, Possible Applications and Key Challenges

TLDR

The Internet is evolving from human‑to‑human communication toward a machine‑to‑machine paradigm, with the Internet of Things embedding intelligence in connected objects to enable ubiquitous connectivity, information exchange, autonomous decision‑making, and a growing range of services that promise significant personal, professional, and economic benefits. This paper reviews current development trends, outlines a generic IoT architecture and its distinguishing features, explores potential future applications, and forecasts the key challenges facing IoT deployment.

Abstract

The Internet is continuously changing and evolving. The main communication form of present Internet is human-human. The Internet of Things (IoT) can be considered as the future evaluation of the Internet that realizes machine-to-machine (M2M) learning. Thus, IoT provides connectivity for everyone and everything. The IoT embeds some intelligence in Internet-connected objects to communicate, exchange information, take decisions, invoke actions and provide amazing services. This paper addresses the existing development trends, the generic architecture of IoT, its distinguishing features and possible future applications. This paper also forecast the key challenges associated with the development of IoT. The IoT is getting increasing popularity for academia, industry as well as government that has the potential to bring significant personal, professional and economic benefits.