Iot report

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PREFACE
We present you our report on our topic, “Internet of
Things”
The report is based on Internet of Things and
its applications and also its future scope. The
document elicits the system functions in a lucid and
under stable manner.
We have tried to cover all the necessary
information related to the project. This report
presents the research, finding and recommendations
resulting from the project. The objective was to
compile and synthesize information on status of
present latest application of IoT.
The objective of this report is to provide the
reader with conceptual understanding and the exact
idea of IoT.

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
At the very outset, we express our sincerest
and deepest gratitude to our guide honorable Ms.
Geetha G. for all type of help provided to us under
their auspices in messianic way.
Last but not the least, We are also thankful to
all the team members for collecting information in
least possible time and thus giving us more time for
compilation and completion of our report. We are
indeed very grateful to our team for all the support
they have shown towards the completion of report.
We also thank all our friends for their kind
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SUMMARY
This report consists of Information related to
Internet of Things. IoT is the current most growing
sector in the field of Technology. This report
consists of detailed information about IoT. It is said
that IoT can be what you imagine. IoT is surely a
thunderstorm in the field of Technology.

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HISTORY
As of 2016, the vision of the Internet of things has evolved due
to a convergence of multiple technologies, including ubiquitous
wireless communication, real-time analytics, machine learning,
commodity sensors, and embedded systems. This means that the
traditional fields of embedded systems, wireless sensor
networks, controlsystems, automation(including home and build
ing automation), and others all contribute to enabling the
Internet of things (IoT).
The concept of a network of smart devices was discussed as
early as 1982, with a modified Coke machine at Carnegie
Mellon University becoming the first Internet-connected
appliance, able to report its inventory and whether newly loaded
drinks were cold. Mark Weiser's seminal 1991 paper
on ubiquitous computing, "The Computer of the 21st Century",
as well as academic venues such as UbiComp and PerCom
produced the contemporary vision of IoT. In 1994 Reza Raji
described the concept in IEEE Spectrum as "[moving] small
packets of data to a large set of nodes, so as to integrate and
automate everything from home appliances to entire factories”.
Between 1993 and 1996 several companies proposed solutions
like Microsoft's at Work or Novell's NEST. However, only in
1999 did the field start gathering momentum. Bill
Joy envisioned Device to Device (D2D) communication as part
of his "Six Webs" framework, presented at the World Economic
Forum at Davos in 1999.
The concept of the Internet of things became popular in 1999,
through the Auto-ID Center at MIT and related market-analysis
publications. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) was seen
by Kevin Ashton (one of the founders of the original Auto-ID
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Ashton prefers the phrase "Internet for things." If all objects and
people in daily life were equipped with identifiers, computers
could manage and inventory them. Besides using RFID,
the tagging of things may be achieved through such
technologies as near field communication, barcodes, QR
codes and digital watermarking.
In its original interpretation, one of the first consequences of
implementing the Internet of things by equipping all objects in
the world with minuscule identifying devices or machine-
readable identifiers would be to transform daily life. For
instance, instant and ceaseless inventory control would become
ubiquitous. A person's ability to interact with objects could be
altered remotely based on immediate or present needs, in
accordance with existing end-user agreements. For example,
such technology could grant motion-picture publishers much
more control over end-user private devices by remotely
enforcing copyright restrictions and digital rights management,
so the ability of a customer who bought a Blu-ray disc to watch
the movie could become dependent on the copyright holder's
decision, similar to Circuit City's failed DIVX.
A significant transformation is to extend "things" from the data
generated from devices to objects in the physical space. The
thought model for future interconnection environment was
proposed in 2004. The model includes the notion of the ternary
universe consists of the physical world, virtual world and mental
world and a multi-level reference architecture with the nature
and devices at the bottom level followed by the level of the
Internet, sensor network, and mobile network, and intelligent
human-machine communities at the top level, which supports
geographically dispersed users to cooperatively accomplish
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promote the flow of material, energy, techniques, information,
knowledge, and services in this environment. This thought
model envisioned the development trend of the Internet of
things.

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APPLICATIONS
According to Gartner, Inc. (a technology research and advisory
corporation), there will be nearly 20.8 billion devices on the
Internet of things by 2020. ABI Research estimates that more
than 30 billion devices will be wirelessly connected to the
Internet of things by 2020. As per a 2014 survey and study done
by Pew Research Internet Project, a large majority of the
technology experts and engaged Internet users who responded—
83 percent—agreed with the notion that the Internet/cloud of
things, embedded and wearable computing (and the
corresponding dynamic systems) will have widespread and
beneficial effects by 2025. As such, it is clear that the IoT will
consist of a very large number of devices being connected to the
Internet. In an active move to accommodate new and emerging
technological innovation, the UK Government, in their 2015
budget, allocated £40,000,000 towards research into the Internet
of things. The former British Chancellor of the
Exchequer George Osborne, posited that the Internet of things is
the next stage of the information revolution and referenced the
inter-connectivity of everything from urban transport to medical
devices to household appliances.
The ability to network embedded devices with limited CPU,
memory and power resources means that IoT finds applications
in nearly every field. Such systems could be in charge of
collecting information in settings ranging from natural
ecosystems to buildings and factories, thereby finding
applications in fields of environmental sensing and urban
planning.
On the other hand, IoT systems could also be responsible for
performing actions, not just sensing things. Intelligent shopping
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habits in a store by tracking their specific mobile phones. These
users could then be provided with special offers on their favorite
products, or even location of items that they need, which their
fridge has automatically conveyed to the phone. Additional
examples of sensing and actuating are reflected in applications
that deal with heat, water, electricity and energy management, as
well as cruise-assisting transportation systems. Other
applications that the Internet of things can provide is enabling
extended home security features and home automation. The
concept of an "Internet of living things" has been proposed to
describe networks of biological sensors that could use cloud-
based analyses to allow users to study DNA or other molecules.
However, the application of the IoT is not only restricted to
these areas. Other specialized use cases of the IoT may also
exist. An overview of some of the most prominent application
areas is provided here. Based on the application domain, IoT
products can be classified broadly into five different
categories: smart wearable, smart home, smart city, smart
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solutions in each of these markets have different characteristics.
A 2012 Internet Refrigerator by
LG

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A Nest learning
thermostat reporting on
energy usage and local
weather.

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UNIQUE
ADDRESSABILITY OF
THINGS
The original idea of the Auto-ID Center is based on RFID-tags
and unique identification through the Electronic Product
Code however this has evolved into objects having an IP address
or URI.
An alternative view, from the world of the Semantic
Web focuses instead on making all things (not just those
electronic, smart, or RFID-enabled) addressable by the existing
naming protocols, such as URI. The objects themselves do not
converse, but they may now be referred to by other agents, such
as powerful centralized servers acting for their human owners.
Integration with the Internet implies that devices will use an IP
address as a unique identifier. Due to the limited address
space of IPv4 (which allows for 4.3 billion unique addresses),
objects in the IoT will have to use of the Internet protocol
(IPv6) to scale to the extremely large address space
required. Internet-of-things devices additionally will benefit
from the stateless address auto-configuration present in IPv6,as
it reduces the configuration overhead on the hosts, and the IETF
6LoWPAN header compression. To a large extent, the future of
the Internet of things will not be possible without the support of
IPv6; and consequently the global adoption of IPv6 in the
coming years will be critical for the successful development of
the IoT in the future.
A combination of these ideas can be found in the
current GS1/EPC global EPC Information Services (EPCIS)
specifications.

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TRENDS AND
CHARACTERISTICS
The interconnection via the Internet of computing devices
embedded in everyday objects, enabling them to send and
receive data
INTELLIGENCE
Ambient intelligence and autonomous control are not part of the
original concept of the Internet of things. Ambient intelligence
and autonomous control do not necessarily require Internet
structures, either. However, there is a shift in research to
integrate the concepts of the Internet of things and autonomous
control, with initial outcomes towards this direction considering
objects as the driving force for autonomous IoT.
In the future the Internet of things may be a non-deterministic
and open network in which auto-organized or intelligent entities
(Web services, SOA components), virtual objects (avatars) will
be interoperable and able to act independently (pursuing their
own objectives or shared ones) depending on the context,
circumstances or environments. Autonomous behavior through
the collection and reasoning of context information as well as
the objects ability to detect changes in the environment, faults
affecting sensors and introduce suitable mitigation measures
constitute a major research trend, clearly needed to provide
credibility to the IoT technology. Modern IoT products and
solutions in the marketplace use a variety of different
technologies to support such context-aware automation but more
sophisticated forms of intelligence are requested to permit
sensor units to be deployed in real environments.

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ARCHITECTURE
The system will likely be an example of event-driven
architecture, bottom-up made (based on the context of processes
and operations, in real-time) and will consider any subsidiary
level. Therefore, model driven and functional approaches will
coexist with new ones able to treat exceptions and unusual
evolution of processes (multi-agent systems, B-ADSc, etc.).
In an internet of things, the meaning of an event will not
necessarily be based on a deterministic or syntactic model but
would instead be based on the context of the event itself: this
will also be a semantic web. Consequently, it will not
necessarily need common standards that would not be able to
address every context or use: some actors (services, components,
avatars) will accordingly be self-referenced and, if ever needed,
adaptive to existing common standards (predicting
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for everything that is just not possible with any of the
current top-down approaches and standardizations).
Building on top of the Internet of things, the web of things is an
architecture for the application layer of the Internet of things
looking at the convergence of data from IoT devices into Web
applications to create innovative use-cases. In order to program
and control the flow of information in the Internet of things, a
predicted architectural direction is being called BPM
Everywhere which is a blending of traditional process
management with process mining and special capabilities to
automate the control of large numbers of coordinated devices.
NETWORK ARCHITECTURE
The Internet of things requires huge scalability in the network
space to handle the surge of devices. IETF 6LoWPAN would be
used to connect devices to IP networks. With billions of
devices being added to the Internet space, IPv6 will play a major
role in handling the network layer scalability. IETF's
Constrained Application Protocol, ZeroMQ, and MQTT would
provide lightweight data transport. "MQ" in "MQTT" came from
IBM's MQ Series message queuing product line.
Fog computing is a viable alternative to prevent such large burst
of data flow through Internet. The edge devices computation
power can be used to analyze and process data, thus providing
easy real time scalability.
COMPLEXITY
In semi-open or closed loops (i.e. value chains, whenever a
global finality can be settled) IoT will often be considered and
studied as a complex system due to the huge number of different
links, interactions between autonomous actors, and its capacity
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will likely be seen as a chaotic environment
(since systems always have finality). As a practical approach,
not all elements in the Internet of things run in a global, public
space. Subsystems are often implemented to mitigate the risks of
privacy, control and reliability. For example, Domestic Robotics
(Domotics) running inside a smart home might only share data
within and be available via a local network.
SIZE CONSIDERATIONS
The Internet of things would encode 50 to 100 trillion objects,
and be able to follow the movement of those objects. Human
beings in surveyed urban environments are each surrounded by
1000 to 5000 trackable objects.
SPACE CONSIDERATIONS
In the Internet of things, the precise geographic location of a
thing—and also the precise geographic dimensions of a thing—
will be critical. Therefore, facts about a thing, such as its
location in time and space, have been less critical to track
because the person processing the information can decide
whether or not that information was important to the action
being taken, and if so, add the missing information (or decide to
not take the action). (Note that some things in the Internet of
things will be sensors, and sensor location is usually important.)
The GeoWeb and Digital Earth are promising applications that
become possible when things can become organized and
connected by location. However, the challenges that remain
include the constraints of variable spatial scales, the need to
handle massive amounts of data, and an indexing for fast search
and neighbor operations. In the Internet of things, if things are
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mediation role is eliminated. Thus, the time-space context that
we as humans take for granted must be given a central role in
this information ecosystem. Just as standards play a key role in
the Internet and the Web, geospatial standards will play a key
role in the Internet of things.
SECTORS
There are three core sectors of the IoT: enterprise, home, and
government, with the Enterprise Internet of things (EIoT) being
the largest of the three. By 2019, the EIoT sector is estimated to
account for nearly 40% or 9.1 billion devices.
A SOLUTION TO "BASKET OF REMOTES"
According to the CEO of Cisco, the commercial opportunity for
"connected products ranging from cars to household goods" is
expected to be a $USD 19 trillion. Many IoT devices have a
potential to take a piece of this market. Jean-Louis
Gassée (Apple initial alumni team, and BeOS co-founder) has
addressed this topic in an article on Monday Note, where he
predicts that the most likely problem will be what he calls the
"basket of remotes" problem, where we'll have hundreds of
applications to interface with hundreds of devices that don't
share protocols for speaking with one another.
There are multiple approaches to solve this problem, one of
them called the "predictive interaction", where cloud or fog
based decision makers, will predict the user's next action and
trigger some reaction.
For user interaction, new technology leaders are joining forces
to create standards for communication between devices.
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technology leaders, there are also big companies that promote
their own protocol like CCF from Intel.
Manufacturers are becoming more conscious of this problem,
and many companies have begun releasing their devices with
open APIs. Many of these APIs are used by smaller companies
looking to take advantage of quick integration.
FRAMEWORK
IoT frameworks might help support the interaction between
"things" and allow for more complex structures like distributed
computing and the development of distributed applications.
Currently, some IoT frameworks seem to focus on real-time data
logging solutions, offering some basis to work with many
"things" and have them interact. Future developments might
lead to specific software-development environments to create
the software to work with the hardware used in the Internet of
things. Companies are developing technology platforms to
provide this type of functionality for the Internet of things.
Newer platforms are being developed, which add more
intelligence.
REST is a scalable architecture that allows things to
communicate over Hypertext Transfer Protocol and is easily
adopted for IoT applications to provide communication from a
thing to a central web server.

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STANDARDS AND
STANDARDS
ORGANIZATIONS
Short
name
Long
name
Standards under
development
Other notes
Auto-ID Lab —
Networked RFID (radiofrequency
identification) and
emerging sensing technologies
EPCglobal —
Standards for adoption
of EPC (Electronic Product Code)
technology
FDA
U.S. Food and
Drug
Administration
UDI (Unique Device Identification)
system for unique identifiers for medical
devices
GS1 —
Standards for UIDs (unique identifiers)
and RFID of fast-moving consumer
goods (consumer packaged goods),
health care supplies, and other things
Parent organization
comprises member
organizations such
as GS1 US
IEEE
Institute of
Electrical and
Electronics
Engineers
Underlying communication technology
standards such as IEEE 802.15.4

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Short
name
Long
name
Standards under
development
Other notes
IETF
Internet
Engineering
Task Force
Standards that comprise TCP/IP (the
Internet protocol suite)
MTConnect
Institute
—
MTConnect is a manufacturing industry
standard for data exchange
with machine tools and related industrial
equipment. It is important to the IIoT
subset of the IoT.
OCF
Open
Connectivity
Foundation
Standards for simple devices
using CoAP (Constrained Application
Protocol)
OCF (Open Connectivity
Foundation)
supersedes OIC (Open
Interconnect Consortium)
XSF
XMPP
Standards
Foundation
Protocol extensions XMPP (Extensible
Messaging and Presence Protocol), the
open standard of instant messaging.

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TRENDS TO ENABLING
TECHNOLOGIES :-
There are many technologies that enable IoT. Crucial to the field
is the network used to communicate between devices of an IoT
installation, a role that several wireless or wired technologies
may fulfill:
 SHORT-RANGE WIRELESS
 Bluetooth Mesh Networking – Specification providing a
mesh networking variant to Bluetooth Low Energy(BLE)
with increased number of nodes and standardized application
layer (Models).
 Light_Fidelity(Li-Fi) – Wireless communication technology
similar to the Wi-Fi standard, but using visible light
communication for increased bandwidth.
 Near-Field Communication(NFC) – Communication
protocols enabling two electronic devices to communicate
within a 4 cm range.
 QR Coded and Barcodes – Machine-readable optical tags
that store information about the item to which they are
attached.
 Radio-Frequency Identification(RFID) – Technology using
electromagnetic fields to read data stored in tags embedded in
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 Thread – Network protocol based on the IEEE
802.15.4 standard, similar to ZigBee,
providing IPv6 addressing.
 Transport Layer Security – Network security protocol.
 Wi-Fi – Widely used technology for local area
networking based on the IEEE 802.11 standard, where
devices may communicate through a shared access point.
 Wi-Fi Direct – Variant of the Wi-Fi standard for peer-to-peer
communication, eliminating the need for an access point.
 Z-Wave – Communication protocol providing short-range,
low-latency data transfer at rates and power consumption
lower than Wi-Fi. Used primarily for home automation.
 ZigBee – Communication protocols for personel area
networking based on the IEEE 802.15.4 standard, providing
low power consumption, low data rate, low cost, and high
throughput.
 MEDIUM-RANGEWIRELESS
 HaLow – Variant of the Wi-Fi standard providing extended
range for low-power communication at a lower data rate.
 LTE-Advanced – High-speed communication specification
for mobile networks. Provides enhancements to
the LTE standard with extended coverage, higher throughput,
and lower latency.
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 Low-power wide-area networking (LPWAN) – Wireless
networks designed to allow long-range communication at a
low data rate, reducing power and cost for transmission.
 Very small aperture terminal (VSAT) –
Satellite communication technology using small dish
antennas for narrowband and broadband data.
 Long-range Wi-Fi connectivity.
 WIRED
 Ethernet – General purpose networking standard
using twisted pair and fiber optic links in conjunction
with hubs or switches.
 Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) – Specification
enabling whole-home distribution of high definition video
and content over existing coaxial cabling.
 Power-line communication (PLC) – Communication
technology using electrical wiring to carry power and
data. Specifications such as Home Plug utilize PLC for
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Simulation
IoT modeling and simulation (and emulation) is typically carried
out at the design stage before deployment of the network.
Network simulators like OPNET, NetSim and NS2 can be used
to simulate IoT networks Digital Twins may also be
implemented to produce updates on the status and health of an
asset, based upon sensor readings integrated with a
computational model of the asset.
Politics and civic engagement
Some scholars and activists argue that the IoT can be used to
create new models of civic engagement if device networks can
be open to user control and inter-operable platforms. Philip N.
Howard, a professor and author, writes that political life in both
democracies and authoritarian regimes will be shaped by the
way the IoT will be used for civic engagement. For that to
happen, he argues that any connected device should be able to
divulge a list of the "ultimate beneficiaries" of its sensor data
and that individual citizens should be able to add new
organizations to the beneficiary list. In addition, he argues that
civil society groups need to start developing their IoT strategy
for making use of data and engaging with the public.
Government regulation on
IoT
One of the key drivers of the IoT is data. The success of the idea
of connecting devices to make them more efficient is dependent
upon access to and storage & processing of data. For this
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sources and store it in their cloud network for further processing.
This leaves the door wide open for privacy and security dangers
and single point vulnerability of multiple systems. The other
issues pertain to consumer choice and ownership of data and
how it is used. Presently the regulators have shown more interest
in protecting the first three issues identified above.
Current regulatory environment:
A report published by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in
January 2015 made the following three recommendations:
 Data security – At the time of designing IoT companies
should ensure that data collection, storage and processing
would be secure at all times. Companies should adopt a
“defence in depth” approach and encrypt data at each stage.
 Data consent – users should have a choice as to what data
they share with IoT companies and the users must be
informed if their data gets exposed.
 Data minimization – IoT companies should collect only the
data they need and retain the collected information only for a
limited time.
However, the FTC stopped at just making recommendations for
now. According to an FTC analysis, the existing framework,
consisting of the FTC Act, the Fair Credit Reporting Act, and
the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, along with
developing consumer education and business guidance,
participation in multi-stakeholder efforts and advocacy to other
agencies at the federal, state and local level, is sufficient to
protect consumer rights.
A resolution passed by the Senate in March 2015, is already
being considered by the Congress. This resolution recognized
the need for formulating a National Policy on IoT and the matter
of privacy, security and spectrum. Furthermore, to provide an

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impetus to the IoT ecosystem, in March 2016, a bipartisan group
of four Senators proposed a bill, The Developing Innovation and
Growing the Internet of Things (DIGIT) Act, to direct
the Federal Communications Commission to assess the need for
more spectrum to connect IoT devices.
Several standards for the IoT industry are actually being
established relating to automobiles because most concerns
arising from use of connected cars apply to healthcare devices as
well. In fact, the National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration (NHTSA) is preparing cyber security guidelines
and a database of best practices to make automotive computer
systems more secure.

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CRITICISM AND
CONTROVERSIES
Platform fragmentation
Iot suffers from platform fragmentation and lack of technical
standards a situation where the variety of IOT devices, in terms
of both hardware variations and differences in the software
running on them, makes the task of developing applications that
work consistently between different inconsistent technology
ecosystems hard. Customers may be hesitant to bet their IOT
future on a proprietary software or hardware devices that uses
proprietary protocols that may fade or become difficult to
customize and interconnect.
IOT amorphous computing nature is also a problem for security,
since patches to bugs found in the core operating system often
do not reach users of older and lower-price devices. One set of
researchers say that the failure of vendors to support older
devices with patches and updates leaves more than 87% of
active devices vulnerable.
PRIVACY, AUTONOMY, AND CONTROL
Philip n. Howard, a professor and author, writes that the internet
of things offers immense potential for empowering citizens,
making government transparent, and broadening information
access. Howard cautions, however, that privacy threats are
enormous, as is the potential for social control and political
manipulation.
Concerns about privacy have led many to consider the
possibility that big data infrastructures such as the internet of
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Writer Adam greenfield claims that these technologies are not
only an invasion of public space but are also being used to
perpetuate normative behavior, citing an instance of billboards
with hidden cameras that tracked the demographics of passersby
who stopped to read the advertisement.
The internet of things council compared the increased
prevalence of digital surveillance due to the internet of things to
the conceptual panoptic on described by Jeremy Bentham in the
18th century. The assertion was defended by the works of
French philosophers Michel Foucault and Gilles deleuze. In
discipline and punish: the birth of the prison Foucault asserts
that the panoptic on was a central element of the discipline
society developed during the industrial era. Foucault also argued
that the discipline systems established in factories and school
reflected Bentham’s vision of panopticism. In his 1992 paper
"postscripts on the societies of control," deleuze wrote that the
discipline society had transitioned into a control society, with
the computer replacing the panopticon as an instrument of
discipline and control while still maintaining the qualities
similar to that of panopticism.
The privacy of households could be compromised by solely
analyzing smart home network traffic patterns without
dissecting the contents of encrypted application data, yet a
synthetic packet injection scheme can be used to safely
overcome such invasion of privacy.
In response to rising concerns about privacy and smart
technology, in 2007 the British government stated it would
follow formal privacy by design principles when implementing
their smart metering program. The program would lead to
replacement of traditional power meters with smart power
meters, which could track and manage energy usage more
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these principles were ever actually implemented. In 2009
the Dutch parliament rejected a similar smart metering program,
basing their decision on privacy concerns. The Dutch program
later revised and passed in 2011.
DATA STORAGE AND ANALYTICS
A challenge for producers of iot applications is to clean, process
and interpret the vast amount of data which is gathered by the
sensors. There is a solution proposed for the analytics of the
information referred to as wireless sensor networks. These
networks share data among sensor nodes that are send to a
distributed system for the analytics of the sensory data.
Another challenge is the storage of this bulk data. Depending on
the application there could be high data acquisition requirements
which in turn lead to high storage requirements. Currently the
internet is already responsible for 5% of the total energy
generated and this consumption will increase significantly when
we start utilizing applications with multiple embedded sensors.
SECURITY
Concerns have been raised that the internet of things is being
developed rapidly without appropriate consideration of the
profound security challenges involvedand the regulatory
changes that might be necessary.
Most of the technical security issues are similar to those of
conventional servers, workstations and smartphones, but the
firewall, security update and anti-malware systems used for
those are generally unsuitable for the much smaller, less
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According to the business insider intelligence survey conducted
in the last quarter of 2014, 39% of the respondents said that
security is the biggest concern in adopting internet of things
technology. in particular, as the internet of things spreads
widely, cyber-attacks are likely to become an increasingly
physical (rather than simply virtual) threat in a January 2014
article in Forbes, cyber-security
columnist josephSteinberg listed many internet-connected
appliances that can already "spy on people in their own homes"
including televisions, kitchen appliances, cameras, and
thermostats. Computer-controlled devices in automobiles such
as brakes, engine, locks, hood and trunk releases, horn, heat, and
dashboard have been shown to be vulnerable to attackers who
have access to the on-board network. In some cases, vehicle
computer systems are internet-connected, allowing them to be
exploited remotely. by 2008 security researchers had shown the
ability to remotely control pacemakers without authority. Later
hackers demonstrated remote control of insulin pumps and
implantable cardioverter defibrillators. David pogue wrote that
some recently published reports about hackers remotely
controlling certain functions of automobiles were not as serious
as one might otherwise guess because of various mitigating
circumstances; such as the bug that allowed the hack having
been fixed before the report was published, or that the hack
required security researchers having physical access to the car
prior to the hack to prepare for it.
The U.S national intelligence council in an unclassified report
maintains that it would be hard to deny "access to networks of
sensors and remotely-controlled objects by enemies of the united
states, criminals, and mischief makers... An open market for
aggregated sensor data could serve the interests of commerce
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vulnerable targets. Thus, massively parallel sensor fusion may
undermine social cohesion, if it proves to be fundamentally
incompatible with fourth-amendment guarantees against
unreasonable search." in general, the intelligence community
views the internet of things as a rich source of data.
As a response to increasing concerns over security, the internet
of things security foundation (IOTSF) was launched on 23
September 2015. IOTSF has a mission to secure the internet of
things by promoting knowledge and best practice. Its founding
board is made from technology providers and
telecommunications companies including,Vodafone,
imagination technologies and pen test partners. In addition, large
it companies are continuously developing innovative solutions
to ensure the security for iot devices. As per the estimates from
kbv research, the overall iot security market would grow at
27.9% rate during 2016–2022 as a result of growing
infrastructural concerns and diversified usage of internet of
things.
DESIGN
Given widespread recognition of the evolving nature of the
design and management of the internet of things, sustainable and
secure deployment of iot solutions must design for "anarchic
scalability. application of the concept of anarchic scalability can
be extended to physical systems (i.e. controlled real-world
objects), by virtue of those systems being designed to account
for uncertain management futures. This "hard anarchic
scalability" thus provides a pathway forward to fully realize the
potential of internet-of-things solutions by selectively
constraining physical systems to allow for all management
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Brown university computer scientist Michael littman has argued
that successful execution of the internet of things requires
consideration of the interface's usability as well as the
technology itself. These interfaces need to be not only more
user-friendly but also better integrated: "if users need to learn
different interfaces for their vacuums, their locks, their
sprinklers, their lights, and their coffeemakers, it's tough to say
that their lives have been made any easier.”
ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY IMPACT
A concern regarding internet-of-things technologies pertains to
the environmental impacts of the manufacture, use, and eventual
disposal of all these semiconductor-rich devices. Modern
electronics are replete with a wide variety of heavy metals and
rare-earth metals, as well as highly toxic synthetic chemicals.
This makes them extremely difficult to properly recycle.
Electronic components are often incinerated or placed in regular
landfills. Furthermore, the human and environmental cost of
mining the rare-earth metals that are integral to modern
electronic components continues to grow. With production of
electronic equipment growing globally yet little of the metals
(from end-of-life equipment) are being recovered for reuse, the
environmental impacts can be expected to increase.
Also, because the concept of internet of things entails adding
electronics to mundane devices (for example, simple light
switches), and because the major driver for replacement of
electronic components is often technological obsolescence rather
than actual failure to function, it is reasonable to expect that
items that previously were kept in service for many decades
would see an accelerated replacement cycle if they were part of
the iot. For example, a traditional house built with 30 light
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all those components still original at the end of that period. But a
modern house built with the same number of switches and
outlets set up for iot might see each switch and outlet replaced at
five-year intervals, in order to keep up to date with technological
changes. This translates into a ten-fold increase in waste
requiring disposal.
CONFUSING TERMINOLOGY
Kevin lonergan at information age, a businetechnology
magazine, sfeo the tersounding iot as a rology zoo”. The lack of
clear terminology is not “useful from a practical point of view”
and a “source of confusion for the end user”. A company
operating in the iot space could be working in anything related
to sensor technology, networking, embedded systems, or
analytics. According to lonergan, the term iot was coined before
smart phones, tablets, and devices as we know them today
existed, and there is a long list of terms with varying degrees of
overlap and technological convergence: internet of things
(iot), internet of everything (ioe), industrial internet, pervasive
computing, pervasive sensing, ubiquitous computing, cyber-
physical systems (cps), wireless sensor networks (wsn), smart
objects, cooperating objects, machine-to-machine (m2m),
ambient intelligence (ami), operational technology (ot),
and information technology (it). Regarding iiot, an industrial
sub-field of iot, the industrial internet consortium's vocabulary
task group has created a "common and reusable vocabulary of
terms". To ensure "consistent terminology" across publications
issued by the industrial internet consortium. Iot one has created
an iot terms database including a new term alert]
to be notified
when a new term is published. As of march 2017, this database
aggregates 711 iot-related terms, however, without any attempts
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IOT ADOPTION BARRIERS
Complexity and unclear value propositions
Despite a shared belief in the potential of iot, industry leaders
and consumers are facing barriers to adopt iot technology more
widely. Mike farley has argued in forbes that many iot solutions
are either too complex or lack a clear use case for end-
users. “Instead of convincing consumers that they need complex
systems to serve needs they don’t have, we should fix real
problems people struggle with every day. Many gadgets in the
consumer iot space have appealed to early adopters, yet failed to
demonstrate relevance to ordinary people’s lives. In order to
overcome barriers, “we need to stop making toys no one cares
about and instead work on building simple solutions to real,
everyday problems for real people. A recent study by ericsson
regarding the adoption of iot among danish companies, has
suggested that many are struggling “to pinpoint exactly where
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the value of iot lies in order to capture it, otherwise non-action is
the consequence. This indicates that a major roadblock to iot
adoption is not technical but analytical in nature.
PRIVACY AND SECURITY CONCERNS
According to a recent study by noura aleisa and karen renaud at
the university of glasgow, "the internet of things' potential for
major privacy invasion is a concern"with much of research
"disproportionally focused on the security concerns of
iot." Among the "proposed solutions in terms of the techniques
they deployed and the extent to which they satisfied core privacy
principles",only very few turned out to be fully satisfactory.
Louis basenese, investment director at wall street daily, has
criticized the industry's lack of attention to security issues:
"despite high-profile and alarming hacks, device manufacturers
remain undeterred, focusing on profitability over security.
Consumers need to have ultimate control over collected data,
including the option to delete it if they choose...without privacy
assurances, wide-scale consumer adoption simply won't
happen."
In a post-snowden world of global surveillance disclosures,
consumers take a more active interest in protecting their privacy
and demand iot devices to be screened for potential security
vulnerabilities and privacy violations before purchasing them.
According to the 2016 accenture digital consumer survey, in
which 28000 consumers in 28 countries were polled on their use
of consumer technology, security “has moved from being a
nagging problem to a top barrier as consumers are now choosing
to abandon iot devices and services over security concerns.” The
survey revealed that “out of the consumers aware
of hacker attacks and owning or planning to own iot devices in
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the services and related services until they get safety
guarantees.”This suggests that consumers increasingly
perceive privacy risks and security concerns to outweigh
the value propositions of iot devices and opt to postpone planned
purchases or service subscriptions.
TRADITIONAL GOVERNANCE STRUCTURES
A study issued by ericsson regarding the adoption of internet of
things among danish companies identified a "clash between iot
and companies' traditional governance structures, as iot still
presents both uncertainties and a lack of historical
precedence."Among the respondents interviewed, 60 percent
stated that they "do not believe they have the organizational
capabilities, and three of four do not believe they have the
processes needed, to capture the iot opportunity."This has led to
a need to understand organizational culture in order to
facilitate organizational design processes and to test
new innovation management practices. A lack of digital
leadership in the age of digital information has also stifled
innovation and iot adoption to a degree that many companies, in
the face of uncertainty, "were waiting for the market dynamics
to play out",or further action in regards to iot "was pending
competitor moves, customer pull, or regulatory
requirements."Some of these companies risk being 'kodaked' –
"kodak was a market leader until digital disruption eclipsed film
photography with digital photos"– failing to "see the disruptive
forces affecting their industry" and "to truly embrace the new
business models the disruptive change opens up."Scott anthony
has written in harvard business review that kodak "created a
digital camera, invested in te technology, and even understood
that photos would be shared online"but ultimately failed to
realize that "online photo sharing was the new business, not just
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APPENDIX (A)
(1)Groningen,Netherland has internet enabled dustbins.What
benefit does it provide?
(a) The bins can report vandals
(b) The bins sort recylable materials
(c) The bins can ask to be emptied
(d) The bins segregated wet and dry waste
(2)Some companies refer to the IOT as IOE. What does it
mean?
(a) Internet of Ethernet
(b) Internet of Everything
(c) Internet of Enterprise
(d) Internet of Elegance
(3)Why did the city of London ask a recycling firm to stop a test
project using connectedrecycling bins?
(a) There were fears of radio wave exposure
(b) The bins were tracking people's smartphone
(c) The bins used too much electricity
(d) They started to malfunction
(4)Microsoft is positioning Windows 10 as the platform for IOT
devices, how many systems is it targeting??
(a) 500 million
(b) 1 billion
(c) 3 billion
(d) None of the above
(5)What is Kenya using Rasberry Pi poweredcameras in boxes
for?
(a) Oil exp
(b) Coffee harvesting

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(c) Protecting rhinos from poachers
(d) None
(6)What does security expert Eugene Kaspersky calls IOT as?
(a) Internet of totality
(b) Internet of Threats
(c) Internet of Teams
(d) Internet of Time
(7)What are the disadvantagesof IOT?
(a) Network issues
(b) Reduction in human labour
(c) Security Issue
(d) All of the above
(8)What are the applications of IOT?
(a) Home automation
(b) Automobiles
(c) Industrial sector
(d) All of the above
(9)The huge no of devices connectedto the IOT have to
communicate automatically not via humans .What is this all?
(a) Machine to Machine
(b) Bot to Bot
(c) Skynet
(d) Intercloud
(10)The IOT needs a lot of networkconnections .What is the
proposed"white space" radio standard called?
(a) Bluetooth
(b) Wimax
(c) Weightless
(d) None

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SUMMARY
This report consists of Information related to
Internet of Things. IoT is the current most growing
sector in the field of Technology. This report
consists of detailed information about IoT. It is said
that IoT can be what you imagine. IoT is surely a
thunderstorm in the field of Technology.

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