A Comprehensive Review of Recent Advances, Architectures, Applications, Open Challenges, and Future Research Directions in Internet of Things
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https://doi.org/10.59222/ustjet.4.1.1Keywords:
Internet of Things, IoT, IoT advances, IoT architecture, IoT technologies, IoT applicationsAbstract
Recently, the Internet of Things (IoT) has gained significant popularity and has become a fundamental part of our world. Nowadays, IoT applications are more frequent than we think; the number of IoT devices is exponentially increasing. Many significant studies and research investigations were introduced to improve technology using IoT. However, for researchers who have a lack of holistic technical knowledge and recent advances of IoT, numerous topics and issues related to advances of IoT must be addressed from a before IoT can fully realize its potential, such as IoT architecture, components including hardware, operating systems (OSs), communication technologies, protocols, and applications. This paper conducts a holistic review of recent advances, visions, evolution, architectures, Components (hardware, middleware, and OSs), and applications of IoT. In addition, the paper investigates the recent challenges, open issues, and future research of IoT technologies. This paper assists researchers in understanding the key advances with a technical depth of the Internet of Things and the recent applications in the real world. The paper identifies IoT priority challenges and open issues, providing a guide for those leading IoT initiatives and revealing opportunities for future IoT research.
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