UNLEASHING THE POTENTIAL OF INTERNET OF THINGS CURRENT TRENDS, CHALLENGES, AND FUTURE DIRECTIONS

Abstract

Nowadays Internet of Things (IoT) gained a great attention from researchers,since it becomes an  important technology  that promises  a  smart  human  being  life, by  allowing a  communications between objects, machines and  every things  together with peoples. IoT represents  a system which consists a things in the real world, and sensors attached to or combined to these things, connected to the  Internet via  wired  and wireless  network  structure.

  The  IoT  sensors  can use  various  types  of connections  such  as  RFID,  Wi-Fi,  Bluetooth,  and  ZigBee,  in  addition  to  allowing  wide  area connectivity using many technologies  such as GSM, GPRS, 3G,  and LTE. IoT-enabled things  will share  information  about  the  condition  of  things  and  the  surrounding  environment  with  people, software systems and other machines. by the technology of the IoT, the world will becomes smart in every aspects, since the IoT will provides  a means of smart cities, smart healthcare, smart homes and building, in addition to many important applications such as smart energy, grid, transportation, waste management and monitoring . In this paper we review a concept of many IoT applications and future possibilities for new related technologies in addition to the challenges that facing the implementation  of the IoT.