Will Cloud Computing Survive the Internet of Things? (The Force of Internet of Things)
July 29, 2014
Grazed from HDS. Author: Editorial Staff.
The world includes hundreds of millions of interconnected devices or things. These things range from handheld mobile platforms to systems that will observe the universe. At a coarse level this is what the Internet of Things (IoT) is all about: devices that are connected either directly or through a proxy to either an Intranet or the Internet.
However is there a more robust or even a formally authored standard definition? Unfortunately the state of the standards work is more immature than Cloud Computing. As recently as 2013 the European Union’s Internet of Things Architecture team states, “…after many years of heavy discussion, there is still no clear and common definition of the concept [21].” For the purposes of this paper the definition from the International Telecommunications Union is referenced…
Internet of things (IoT): A global infrastructure for the information society, enabling advanced services by interconnecting (physical and virtual) things based on existing and evolving interoperable information and communication technologies [22].
While necessary, the ITU definition doesn’t sufficiently characterize size, type or key uses. At a coarse level Cisco can provide a sense of scale as they predict the total number connected things to be roughly 50 billion in 2020 versus 12.5 billion in 2010 [23]. However more is needed to engender a sense of just how impactful IoT is today and will be tomorrow. To that end this section will characterize both consumer, scientific and industrial aspects of IoT, with an aim of illustrating how impactful this force will be. Further it is anticipated that the characterization will set the stage for explaining the key question posed about the impact of IoT on Cloud Computing…
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