A Compact Study of Recent Trends of Challenges and Opportunities in Integrating Internet of Things (IoT) and Cloud Computing

The internet of things (IoT) has seen immense growth in a couple of decades. Many data centers are producing bulk data daily, which is needed to be handled properly. The extent of produced data is constantly growing. Storing data on local IoT devices is not recommended because of the availability of limited storage space, less security, and high energy consumption. The IoT integration with cloud computing requires service provision with other attributes like efficiency, high performance, scalability, reliability, and ubiquity. For accomplishing such attributions, research vision and business are anticipated to merge IoT and cloud computing concepts to enable everything as a service model to encompass new capabilities of cognitive IoT and functionalities. This manuscript describes IoT-cloud computing-based smart infrastructure and presents different techniques for preventing challenges for integrating cloud computing and IoT.

I. Introduction and Background

Internet of Things (IoT) is a platform enabling its users to link millions of intelligent devices for exchanging information, establishing control, and accessing 24 hours monitoring. Few good examples of IoT are agricultural surveillance, a smart grid for smart cities, health care systems, intelligent home automation systems, and other modern control approaches [1]. Dynamic digitization of IoT constantly reduces the borders of actual and artificial environments for physical systems that are always ready for delivering value-added services (VAS) for interconnected devices. IoT is kept running through dedicated software that performs functions by changing, controlling, and feeling the state of connected things (devices) [2].