Internet of Things (IoT): A Survey

Internet of Things (IoT) is a kind of network to connect anything mainly everyday objects which are locatable, recognizable, addressable, readable by information sensing device or/and controllable device via Internet, regardless of different means of communication (wide area networks, RFID, wireless LAN, or any other) and each device is provided with unique IP address. IoT is employed to achieve tracing, positioning, monitoring, administration and smart recognitions. In this paper it is briefed regarding IoT, definition of IoT, characteristics of IoT, functional blocks of IoT, technology and protocols of IoT, applications of IoT, market opportunity of IoT, the perfect match of IoT, Big Data and Cloud computing also IoT today and potential employment of IoT.