Recently Internet of Things (IoT) has gain popularity as the number of smart devices being used in day to day human life having network lifetime as a constraint. In providing connectivity between nodes, passing of routing information plays a prominent role. We identified that maximum energy of smart devices is utilised in routing the data (or) control packets. The objective of our research is to address the gaps in optimizing the network usage, which in turn maximize the network lifetime. In these directions, so far the literature review made on scalability, energy efficiency, Quality of Service (QoS), network lifetime, node deployment with Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) perspective. In the present work we made a systematic review addressing the challenges and issues in routing with IoT perspective from the year 2014 to 2017. Additionally, we compare the performance of the routing protocols using measures like latency, bandwidth, jitter, delay.