A Survey from the Perspective of Evolutionary Process in the Internet of Things

Abstract

The title of this paper may suggest such topics as routing, networking, and data mining, but we focus on new research angles regarding the Internet of Things (IoT) as the theme of this paper. These research angles come from other disciplines and are in the process of being adopted by the IoT. Our paper serves a key purpose: from the perspective of correlative technologies based on time, to review the evolutionary process of the IoT and depict the relations between the correlation techniques which are largely missing in current literature in which the focus has been more on the introduction and comparison of existing technologies and less on issues describing evolutionary process of the IoT. We consider that the latter is crucial to understanding the evolution of the IoT. Through generalizations of particular focus in different stages of each technology, we can better understand the current phase of the IoT and therefore predict future challenges. This paper aims to bridge this gap by providing guidance in terms of the evolutionary process of the IoT and gives readers a panoramic view of the IoT field without repeating what is already available in existing literature so as to complement the existing IoT survey papers which have not covered the evolutionary process of the IoT.

The MASSIF platform: a modular and semantic platform for the development of flexible IoT services

“…The capability to semantically annotate raw data. To be able to extract useful knowledge from the IoT-data, the data needs to be semantically annotated first [55]. 2.…”

“…-Semantic Annotation: To be able to extract useful knowledge from the IoTdata, the data needs to be semantically annotated first [55]. Since it cannot be expected that all sensors and devices generate semantically annotated data natively, it should be possible to enrich raw (sensor) data according to the semantic model.…”

Unified Fingerprinting/Ranging Localization in Harsh Environments

“…In Algorithm 1, we utilize conventional predict (ut predict()) and update functions (ut update()) (1) Initialization: (2) Set equal to the prior distribution of x 1 .…”

“…The burgeoning demand for context-aware services and smarter environments has been largely motivated by the proliferation of the increasingly dense wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and intelligent embedded devices [1][2][3][4][5]. These services and environments accommodate applications in diverse fields such as healthcare [6][7][8], emergency [9][10][11], or industry [12][13][14].…”

CBSTM-IoT: Context-based social trust model for the Internet of Things

“…In the context of the Internet of Things (IoT) [1,2] everything and anything could be part of the global physical and virtual network called the Internet of Things. This means that each real "thing" will have a virtual counterpart in the cyber realm, [3] with "Things" having unique addresses creating an addressable gamut of computers, sensors, actuators, mobile phones, etc with so many things interacting with each other consuming and producing services and cooperating to achieve an assortment of goals.…”