A review of connectivity challenges in IoT-smart home

The Internet of Things with its enormous growth widens its applications to the living environment of the people by changing a home to smart home. Smart home is a connected home that connects all type of digital devices to communicate each other through the internet. These devices form a home area network where communications are enabled by different protocols. As these devices are designed by different companies with different standards and technologies there is a problem exists in their connectivity. This paper aims at describing the wireless standards used in home network and how these protocols face the connectivity challenges in the smart home network.