Internet of Things: Future Challenging Issues and Possible Research Directions

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoTs) or Internet Connected Things are changing human’s being life a lot (in terms of living or accessibility). IoTs is merging of several “things” for building an infrastructure (like cyber physical systems, smart ecosystems) with using internet (for making communication system) to establish a smart interaction among people, applications and surrounding objects/ devices (like Road Side Units, access points, street light, etc.). Together this, Cloud is recognised as a crucial component of IoTs, which is used to provides valuable applications/ specific services in several areas like defence, farming, Transportation, home automation, etc. Also, cloud is used to provide storage to these connected devices. Now days, several IoT cloud providers are emerging into the market to increase the need or fulfil need of users/ consumers (i.e., by IoT based services). In result, Internet of Things (IoTs) based cloud (or cloud based IoTs) are everywhere in our daily lives/ applications like homes, hospitals, streets, prevent fires, and many more beneficial applications. This scenario is known as Internet of Everything. But, using such devices/ technology or much involvement of these IoT based clouds create several issues and challenges which has been presented in this article as a literature (in detail). In summary, this work investigates several research issues for future researcher (which are need to be focused), it also provides a direction for future (i.e., with respect to device management, system management, heterogeneity management, data management, tools for analysis, deployment, monitoring, visualization, and research). In last, few challenges also have been discussed that the researchers should take focus on in near future (in the next decade). This article provides a road to future researchers to work in respective area or in Internet of Things (IoTs) based cloud (or cloud based IoTs).