Applications of Cloud-Based Internet of Things

Applications of Cloud-Based Internet of Things

Nipun R. Navadia, Gurleen Kaur, Harshit Bhardwaj, Taranjeet Singh, Aditi Sakalle, Divya Acharya, Arpit Bhardwaj
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-6981-8.ch004
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Abstract

Cloud storage is a great way for companies to fulfill more of their data-driven needs and excellent technology that allows the company to evolve and grow at a faster pace, accelerating growth and providing a flexible forum for developers to build useful apps for better devices to be developed over the internet. The integration of cloud computing and the internet of things creates a scalable, maintainable, end-to-end internet of things solution on the cloud network. By applying the infrastructure to the real universe, it generates sources of insight. Cloud computing and IoT are separate technology but are closely associated and are termed as ‘cloud-based IoT' as IoT has the ability to create intelligent goods and services, gather data that can affect business decisions and probably change the business model to boost success and expansion, and cloud infrastructure can be at the heart of all IoT has to deliver.
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Introduction

In the context of Cloud Computing and Internet of Things (IoT) the prototype, the Iot concept is both global and dynamically networked infrastructure based, and it operates self-configuring entities with superior intellect. It is distinguished by legitimate issues such as performance, reliability, privacy and scalability and typically includes small artifacts (things) with minimal Memory storage and computing power. Cloud Computing, on the other hand, is a huge area with nearly infinite capacities when it comes to data and computing capacity. Many IoT problems were partly solved by this technology. IoT and Cloud are two daunting developments that have been combined to transform the present and potential of Internetworking networks (Chang, et al., 2011),(Zhou, et al., 2013). The majority of the papers presented individually about Iot and Cloud, indicating concern in the trend since 2008, and there are many more journals on our analysis between 2008 and 2013 about IoT and Cloud integration. Implementation of Cloud and IoT is the most current and upcoming trend (Cloud based IoT). Cloud IoT is the name assigned to this latest concept.

Cloud computing is a technology concept that allows ubiquitous, on-demand platform access to a number of customizable computing infrastructure such as servers, software, networks, storage and services, all of which can be easily delivered and deployed with limited maintenance effort or service provider involvement. The five basic features of the Cloud Computing paradigm are Resource pooling, limited network connectivity, Rapid Elasticity, Metered Operation and on-demand self-service. Infrastructure as a Service, Applications as a Service, and Web as a Service are both part of the Cloud Paradigm. Private Cloud, public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, and Group Cloud are some of the implementation frameworks for cloud computing (Mell, et al., 2011).

The IoT theory has developed quickly in recent time, and It recognizes the web as a collection of sophisticated and integrated artifacts in a complex, global constructing networks. Objects are individually addressable and as well as available smart devices with sensing and actuation capabilities that are widely dispersed and have minimal computational resources like Processor, network capabilities and memories. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the combination of many systems and connectivity solutions, such as RFID, actuators and cameras. The primary concept is that smart objects would be present all over people, capable of understanding, monitoring, and even controlling the world. IoT has the ability to play a vital role in e-health, smart homes and offices and smart transportation assisted living scenarios at home and at work (Vermesan, et al., 2011)(Chen, et al.,2014)(Whitmore, et al., 2015)(Da Xu, et al., 2014). Small wearable sensors, for example, are used in biomedical applications to collect patient data like readings of blood pressure. The information gathered is then submitted to physicians for medical consultation, and it may even be made accessible to medical researchers for analysis remotely. Smart Cities is one more ground-breaking IoT technology that seeks to create an effective networking and collaboration network by combining different data sources to render communities smarter (Yue, et al., 2014)(Tei, et al., 2014)(Moreno, et al., 2016). Despite recent progress in rendering IoT a possibility, there are a number of accessible concerns that will need further research and development activities to fully realize its potential (Cavalcante, et al., 2016) (Borgia, et al., 2014) (Mital, et al., 2016). One of these issues is the enormous amount of energy required to stream data generated by a so many interconnected computers with limited resources, which must be collected, analyzed, and delivered in an effective and understandable manner.

Table 1.
Major difference between IoT and Cloud
IOTCloud
The Internet of Things (IoT) is everywhere about us (things placed everywhere).Clouds are everywhere (resources usable from everywhere).
There are incidents that happen in the actual world.It's all about virtual capital.
This is constrained in terms of computing power.It has almost limitless computing power.
It has minimal storage capacity or none at all.The cloud has almost limitless computing options.
The Internet is seen as a point of integration in this case.It delivers services over the internet.
This is a large-scale data base.It refers to the management of large amounts of data.

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