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Vol.04,Special Issue 05, (ICIR-2019) September 2019, Available Online: www.ajeee.co.in/index.php/AJEEE

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INTERNET OF THINGS: IT’S APPLICATION, FUTURE ASPECTS AND CHALLENGES Shruti Jain

Assistant Professor, Oxford International College, Indore

Abstract - Internet of Things (IoT) gained a great attention from researchers, since it becomes an important technology that promises a smart human being life, by allowing a communications between objects, machines and every thing together with peoples. IoT represents a system which consist things in the real world, and sensors attached to or combined to these things, connected to the Internet via wired and wireless network structure. The IoT sensors can use various types of connections such as RFID, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth in addition to allowing wide area connectivity using many technologies. Internet of Things (IOT) refers to the network of interconnected everyday objects. It is generally viewed as a self-configuring wireless network of objects/sensors whose purpose would be to interconnect all things. IoT-enabled things will share information about the condition of things and the surrounding environment with people, software systems and other machines. By the technology of the IoT, the world will become smart in every aspects, since the IoT will provides a means of smart cities, smart healthcare, smart homes and building, in addition to many important applications such as smart energy, grid, transportation, waste management and monitoring. The IOT allows everyday objects embedded with electronic hardware and software to be controlled or sensed through a network remotely.

Self-configuring intelligence and autonomous control are not part of the original concept of the Internet of things. This intelligence and autonomous control in IoT do not necessarily require Internet structures, either. In this paper we review a concept of many IoT applications and future possibilities for new related technologies in addition to the challenges that facing the implementation of the IoT.

Keywords: Internet of Things, IoT, RFID, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Sensors, Autonomous , Future Technologies, Smart Cities, Smart Environment, Smart Energy and Grid, Smart Manufacturing, Smart Healthcare.

1 INTRODUCTION

The notions Smart devices, Smartphones, Smart cars, Smart homes, Smart cities—A smart world—have been espoused for many years. Achieving these goals has been investigated, to date, by many diverse and often disjoint research communities. Five such prominent research communities are: Internet of Things (IoT), mobile computing (MC), pervasive computing (PC), wireless sensor networks (WSNs), and, most recently, cyber-physical systems (CPS). However, as technology and solutions progress in each of these fields, there is an increasing overlap and merger of principles and research questions. Narrow definitions of each of these fields are no longer appropriate. Further, research in IoT, PC, MC, WSN, and CPS often relies on underlying technologies such as real-time computing, machine learning, security, privacy, signal processing, big data, and others. Consequently, the smart vision of the world involves much of computer science, computer engineering, and electrical engineering. Greater interactions among these communities will speed progress.

`The Internet of Things (IoT) is a latest communication paradigm that visualizes a near future, where the objects of everyday life will be able to communicate or interact with one another and with the users by equipping them with transceivers for digital communication, and appropriate routing strategies to become an integral part of the Internet. The IoT enables the everyday life objects to see, hear, think and perform various tasks and provide services by enabling them to ‗talk‘ or interacting with each other for information sharing as well as coordination. The Internet of Things (IoT), sometimes referred to as the Internet of Objects, will change everything including ourselves. The Internet has an impact on education, communication, business, science, government, and humanity. Clearly, the Internet is one of the most important and powerful creations in all of human history and now with the concept of the internet of things, internet becomes more favorable to have a smart life in every aspect. Internet of Things is a new technology of the Internet accessing. By the Internet of Things, objects recognize themselves and obtain intelligence behavior by making or enabling related decisions thinks to the fact that they can communicate information about themselves. These objects can access information that

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has been aggregated by other things, or they can add to other services. Figure 1 reviews that with the internet of things, anything’s will able to communicate to the internet at any time from any place to provide any services by any network to anyone. this concept will create a new types of applications can involve such as smart vehicle and the smart home, to provide many services such as notifications, security, energy saving, automation, communication, computers and entertainment .The aim of this paper is presents the internet of things Applications, Related Future Technologies, and challenges.

Fig.1 Internet of Things Concept 1.Internet of Things

The Internet of Things is a novel paradigm shift in IT arena. The phrase “Internet of Things”

which is also shortly well-known as IoT is coined from the two words i.e. the first word is

“Internet” and the second word is “Things”. The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide. It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies . Today more than 100 countries are linked into exchanges of data, news and opinions through Internet.

1.2 Definitions

There is no unique definition available for Internet of Things that is acceptable by the world community of users. In fact, there are many different groups including academicians, researchers, practitioners, innovators, developers and corporate people that have defined the term, although its initial use has been attributed to Kevin Ashton, an expert on digital innovation. What all of the definitions have in common is the idea that the first version of the Internet was about data created by people, while the next version is about data created by things.

The best definition for the Internet of Things would be: “An open and comprehensive network of intelligent objects that have the capacity to auto-organize, share information, data and resources, reacting and acting in face of situations and changes in the environment” Internet of Things is maturing and continues to be the latest, most hyped concept in the IT world. Over the last decade the term Internet of Things (IoT) has attracted attention by projecting the vision of a global infrastructure of networked physical objects, enabling anytime, anyplace connectivity for anything and not only for any one . The Internet of Things can also be considered as a global network which allows the communication between human-to-human, human-to-things and things-to-things, which is anything in the world by providing unique identity to each and every object. IoT describes a world where just about anything can be connected and communicates in an intelligent fashion that ever

ANYTHING ANYTIME

ANYONE

ANY PLACES ANY SERVICES ANY NETWORKS

INTERNET OF THINGS[IOT]

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before. Most of us think about “being connected” in terms of electronic devices such as servers, computers, tablets, telephones and smart phones. In what’s called the Internet of Things, sensors and actuators embedded in physical objects—from roadways to pacemakers—are linked through wired and wireless networks, often using the same Internet IP that connects the Internet. These networks churn out huge volumes of data that flow to computers for analysis. When objects can both sense the environment and communicate, they become tools for understanding complexity and responding to it swiftly.

What’s revolutionary in all this is that these physical information systems are now beginning to be deployed, and some of them even work largely without human intervention.

The “Internet of Things” refers to the coding and networking of everyday objects and things to render them individually machine-readable and traceable on the Internet. Much existing content in the Internet of Things has been created through coded RFID tags and IP addresses linked into an EPC (Electronic Product Code) network.

The rapid development of information technology (IT) has brought forward a hyper connected society in which objects are connected to mobile devices and the Internet and communicate with one another . In the 21st century, we want to be connected with anything anytime and anywhere, which is already happening in various places around the world. The core component of this hyper connected society is IoT, which is also referred to as Machine to Machine (M2M) communication or Internet of Everything (IoE).

Fig.2 Internet of Things Vision 2 INTERNET OF THINGS APPLICATIONS

There are many applications such as smart cities, homes, transportation, energy and smart environment. Internet of things promises many applications in human life, making life easier, safe and smart.

A. Smart Cities

Most of the major cities were supported by smart projects, like Seoul, New York, Tokyo, Shanghai, Singapore, Amsterdam, and Dubai. Smart cities may still be viewed as cities of the future and smart life, and by the innovation rate of creating smart cities today’s, it will became very feasible to enter the IoT technology in cities development. Smart cities demands require careful planning in every stage, with support of agreement from governments, citizens to implement the internet of things technology in every aspect. By the IoT, cities can be improved in many levels, by

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improving infrastructure, enhancing public transportation and keeping citizens safe, healthy and more engaged in the community. By connection all systems in the cities like transportation system, healthcare system, weather monitoring systems and etc., in addition to support people by the internet in every place to accessing the database of airports, railways, transportation tracking operating under specified protocols, cities will become smarter by means of the internet of things.

B. Smart Home and Buildings

Wi-Fi’s technology in home automation has been used primarily due to the networked nature of deployed electronics where electronic devices such as TVs, mobile devices, etc are usually supported by Wi-Fi. Wi-Fi have started becoming part of the home IP network and due the increasing rate of adoption of mobile computing devices like smart phones, tablets, etc. Many companies are considering developing platforms that integrate the building automation with entertainment, healthcare monitoring, energy monitoring and wireless sensor monitoring in the home and building environments. By the concept of the internet of things, homes and buildings may operate many devices and objects smartly, of the most interesting application of IoT in smart homes and buildings are smart lighting, smart environmental and media, air control and central heating, energy management and security.

C. Smart Energy and the Smart Grid

A smart grid is related to the information and control and developed to have a smart energy management. A smart grid that integrate the information and communications technologies (ICTs) to the electricity network will enable a real time, two way communication between suppliers and consumers, creating more dynamic interaction on energy flow, which will help deliver electricity more efficiently and sustainably . The Key elements of information and communications technologies will include sensing and monitoring technologies for power flows; digital communications infrastructure to transmit data across the grid; smart meters with in home display to inform energy usage; coordination, control and automation systems to aggregate and process various data, and to create a highly interactive.

Many applications can be handling due to the internet of things for smart grids, such as industrial, solar power, nuclear power, vehicles, hospitals and cities power control.

D. Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a system that transmits the identity of an object or person wirelessly using radio waves in the form of a serial number . First use of RFID device was happened in 2nd world war in Brittan and it is used for Identify of Friend or Foe in 1948. Later RFID technology is founded at Auto-ID center in MIT in the year 1999. RFID technology plays an important role in IoT for solving identification issues S. Madakam et al. 170 of objects around us in a cost effective manner. The technology is classified into three categories based on the method of power supply provision in Tags: Active RFID, Passive RFID and Semi Passive RFID. The main components of RFID are tag, reader, antenna, access controller, software and server. It is more reliable, efficient, secured, inexpensive and accurate. RFID has an extensive range of wireless applications such as distribution, tracing, patient monitoring, military apps etc.

E. Smart Health

A close attention that required to hospitalized patients whose physiological status should be monitored continuously can be constantly done by using IoT monitoring technologies. For smart health sensors are used to collect comprehensive physiological information and use gateways and the cloud to analyze and store the information and then send the analyzed data wirelessly to caregivers for further analysis and review. It replaces the process of having a health professional come by at regular intervals to check the patient’s vital signs, instead providing a continuous automated flow of information. In this way, it simultaneously improves the quality of care through

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constant attention and lowers the cost of care by reduces the cost of traditional ways of care in addition to data collection and analysis.

3 INTERNET OF THINGS AND RELATED FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES

Many new technologies are related to IoT to prove the integration of wired as well as wireless control, communication and IT technologies together which are responsible for connecting several subsystems and things which operate under a unified platform controlled and managed smartly.

A. Distributed Computing

Distributed computing uses groups of networked computers for the same computational goal. Distributed Computing has several common issues with concurrent and parallel computing, as all these three fall in the scientific computing field. Nowadays, a large amount of distributed computing technologies coupled with hardware virtualization, service oriented architecture, and autonomic and utility computing has led to cloud computing.

Internet of Things with distributed computing represents a vision in which the Internet extends into the real world embracing everyday objects. Physical items are no longer disconnected from the virtual world, but can be remotely controlled and can act as physical access points to Internet services.

B. Big Data

Due to the rapid expansion in the networks nowadays, the number of devices and sensors in networks are increased more and more in the physical environments which will change the information communication networks, services and applications in various domains.

The expectations in the next year’s show that around 50 billion devices will generate large volumes of data from many applications and services in a variety of areas such as smart grids, smart homes, healthcare, automotive, transport, logistics and environmental monitoring. The related technologies and solutions that enable integration of real world data and services into the current information networking technologies are often described under the term of the Internet of Things (IoT).

C. Cloud Computing

The two worlds of Cloud and IoT have seen a rapid and independent evolution. These worlds are very different from each other, but their characteristics are often complementary in general, in which IoT can benefit from the virtually unlimited capabilities and resources of cloud to compensate its technological constraints for example storage, processing, and communication. Cloud can offer an effective solution for IoT service management and composition as well as for implementing applications and services that exploit the things or the data produced by them .On the other hand, cloud can benefit from IoT by extending its scope to deal with real world things in a more distributed and dynamic manner, and for delivering new services in a large number of real life scenarios. In many cases, Cloud can provide the intermediate layer between the things and the applications, hiding all the complexity and functionalities necessary to implement the latter. This will impact future application development, where information gathering, processing, and transmission will generate new challenges, especially in a multi cloud environment or in fog cloud. Cloud facilitates for IoT application to enabling data collection and data processing, in addition to rapid setup and integration of new things, while maintaining low costs for deployment and for complex data processing.

3.1 Challenges of IOT

Despite huge opportunities and possibilities in IOT. There are some challenges involved like complexity, Privacy and Security issues, Data storage Issues and some more. But there are also ways with which we can overcome them. Block chain also plays a major part in the Internet of Things it enhances the security, makes transactions more seamless and creates efficiencies in the supply chain.

3.2 Security & Privacy concerns:

With IOT huge numbers of devices are connected to each other. Even, one poorly designed device can cause the security issues like data theft and possibilities of hacking the other devices will increase. This also raises the data privacy issues, since huge amount of

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personal data is collected by IOT devices. Sometimes the end user may not even be aware of what data the devices are collecting from them.

3.3 Stability:

Issues on how devices perform without internet or connectivity should also be considered when developing the devices. Making the device to perform in the similar way without the connectivity is also a challenge.

3.4 Scalability:

Internet of Things has a big concept than the conventional Internet of computers, because of things are cooperated within an open environment. Basic functionality such as communication and service discovery therefore need to function equally efficiently in both small scale and large scale environments. The IoT requires a new functions and methods in order to gain an efficient operation for scalability.

3.5 Self-Organizing:

Smart things should not be managed as computers that require their users to configure and adapt them to particular situations. Mobile things, which are often only sporadically used, need to establish connections spontaneously, and able to be organize and configure themselves to suit their particular environment.

3.6 Data volumes:

Some application scenarios of the internet of things will involve to infrequent communication, and gathering information’s form sensor networks, or form logistics and large scale networks, will collect a huge volumes of data on central network nodes or servers. The term represent this phenomena is big data which is requires many operational mechanism in addition to new technologies for storing, processing and management.

3.7 Data interpretation:

To support the users of smart things, there is a need to interpret the local context determined by sensors as accurately as possible. For service providers to profit from the disparate data that will be generated, needs to be able to draw some generalizable conclusions from the interpreted sensor data.

3.8 Interoperability:

Each type of smart objects in Internet of Things have different information, processing and communication capabilities. Different smart objects would also be subjected to different conditions such as the energy availability and the communications bandwidth requirements. To facilitate communication and cooperation of these objects, common standards are required.

3.9 Compatibility:

Since IOT requires lot of devices to be interconnected the devices should be made compatible with each other. This needs the special hardware and software design.

4 CONCLUSIONS

Internet of things is a new technology which provides many applications to connect the things to things and human to things through the internet. Each object in the world can be identified, connected to each other through internet taking decisions independently. All networks and technologies of communication are used in building the concept of the internet of things such technologies are mobile computing, RFID, wireless sensors networks, and embedded systems, in addition to many algorithms and methodologies to get management processes, storing data, and security issues. IoT requires standardized approach for architectures, identification schemes, protocols and frequencies will happen parallels, each one targeted for a particular and specific use. by the internet of things many smart applications becomes real in our life , which enable us to reach and contact with every things in addition to facilities many important aspects for human life such as smart healthcare, smart homes, smart energy , smart cities and smart environments. IoT has

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been gradually bringing a sea of technological changes in our daily lives, which in turn helps to making our life simpler and more comfortable, though various technologies and applications. There is innumerable usefulness of IoT applications into all the domains including medical, manufacturing, industrial, transportation, education, governance, mining, habitat etc. Though IoT has abundant benefits, there are some flaws in the IoT governance and implementation level. The key observations in the literature are that (1) There is no standard definition in worldwide (2) Universal standardizations are required in architectural level (3) Technologies are varying from vendor-vendor, so needs to be interoperable (4) For better global governance, we need to build standard protocols. Let us hope future better IoT.

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