Internet-of-Things-Enabled Sensor Networks: Vision Challenges and Smart Applications

Internet-of-Things is the future of connectivity that has turned the physical world into smart objects. The practical feature of Internet-of-Things is to combine all objects, rendering them dependent on a shared infrastructure, in such a manner that humans can regulate them as well as monitor their status. Internet-of-Things is a physical object network that is embedded with hardware, software, sensors, and networking to allow objects to share data with the connected devices. This chapter details the Internet of Things, vision challenges, and various intelligent applications in sensor-enabled networks. The wide-scale application of the Internet would significantly affect how computers and objects engage in real-life scenarios. This chapter aims to highlight the perspective of some novel technologies and innovative implementations for the protection, welfare, and privacy concerns due to the Internet of Things. Some critical sensor networks, which represent the most used sensor networks in many domains, such as Smart Applications, are included in this introduction section. A literature study on Internet-of-Things has been conducted for different aspects, such as infrastructure, implementation problems, etc. The authors offer several other applications that are significant. Future research directions for Internet-of-Things have been outlined in the study to equip novel researchers with the assessment of current status and to build upon them with creative ideas.

Keywords: Actuators, Internet-of-Things, Innovative homes, Sensors, Smart city, WSNs.