The Internet of Things (IoT) Applications and Communication Enabling Technology Standards: An Overview

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most promising area which penetrates the advantages of Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSAN) and Pervasive Computing domains. Different applications of IoT have been developed and researchers of IoT well identified the opportunities, problems, challenges and the technology standards used in IoT such as Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID) tags, sensors, actuators, mobile phones, etc. This paper is of two fold, the first fold covers the different applications that adopted smart technologies so far. The second fold of this paper presents the overview of the sensors and its standards.