Internet of Things: Communication Technologies, Features and Challenges

  Saeedreza Arab,  Hossein Ashrafzadeh,  Amir Alidadi

The emerging Internet of Things is believed to be the next generation of the internet, in which communications are more than the communication of human-to-human and machine-to-machine. In the Internet of things, billions of things can communicate with each other and with the environment, and exchange information. Recently, research topics and new applications in the field of the Internet of things have been formed. In this article, we discuss the concept of the Internet of things, the barriers and challenges facing the development of the Internet of things, and its applications in the world around. Also, with the growing of IoT the set of IoT-Communication technologies is also continuously expanding. A general overview of the main communication technologies in the field of the Internet of Things which can have a beneficial impact in the realization of Smart World, will be mentioned and compared in different aspects.

Keywords- IoT, Applications, Communication technologies, Cellular Networks, LPWANs

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1802136
Page Number(s) - 733-742
Pubished in - Volume 6 | Issue 2 | June 2018
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -    http://doi.one/10.1729/IJCRT.18053
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Saeedreza Arab,  Hossein Ashrafzadeh,  Amir Alidadi,   "Internet of Things: Communication Technologies, Features and Challenges", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.6, Issue 2, pp.733-742, June 2018, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1802136.pdf