2. IoT technology and applications
T. Ananth Kumar, A John, C. Ramesh Kumar · Internet of Things · 2020
The Internet of things (IoT) has emerged as a significant and intrinsic constituent of the current wireless sensor networks technology. Consequently, the applications of IoT technology have penetrated various fields that benefit society, such as health-care systems, the education sector, and the media sector. Its application has been identified by users with the aid of various semisupervised and supervised approaches. For instance, IoT has been utilizing Zigbee and Wi-Fi as communication techniques, and the automation of these applications has been enriched using IoT and has helped speed up the socially relevant processes everywhere. It is observed that artificial intelligence (AI) is more and more being applied as the key technology for IoT applications. Another perspective is that IoT technology has improvised the utilities and applications of the digital world and thereby enriched social demands related to knowledge gathering and knowledge communication enabled by various sensors, including video sensors and communication systems, which are essential elements of IoT. Apart from such physical devices, AI also plays a necessary and vital function toward the automation of systems required for IoT application processing. The social IoT world has been expecting a plethora of various kinds of application works in order to enrich communication and automated processing in many fields. However, despite IoT having grown enormously to automate the digital world, there are still some challenges hindering the development of IoT. For instance, the challenges posed by the hacking world are becoming a growing concern regarding the implementation of IoT in the right direction and right uses. Therefore, it is important that the development and implementation of IoT adopts the necessary precautions against these security challenges in order to monitor and safeguard the societal data and knowledge bases. To ensure that implementations and adoption are carried out with authenticity, it is crucial to introduce authentication of data and utilize nanothings to process the authentication and identification, bringing the elements of forensic science. Authenticity and authorization are critical and should always be ensured.