There are key challenges and implications today that need to be addressed before mass adoption of IOT can occur.

Privacy and Security

As the IoT become a key element of the Future Internet and the usage of the Internet of Things for large-scale, partially mission-critical systems creates the need to address trust and security functions adequately. New challenges identified for privacy, trust and reliability are: • providing trust and quality-of-information in shared information models to enable re-use across many applications. • Providing secure exchange of data between IoT devices and consumers of their information. • Providing protection mechanisms for vulnerable devices.

Cost versus Usability

IOT uses technology to connect physical objects to the Internet. For IOT adoption to grow, the cost of components that are needed to support capabilities such as sensing, tracking and control mechanisms need to be relatively inexpensive in the coming years.

Interoperability

In the traditional Internet, interoperability is the most basic core value; the first requirement of Internet connectivity is that “connected” systems be able to “talk the same language” of protocols and encodings. Different industries today use different standards to support their applications. With numerous sources of data and heterogeneous devices, the use of standard interfaces between these diverse entities becomes important. This is especially so for applications that supports cross organizational and various system boundaries. Thus the IOT systems need to handle high degree of interoperability.

Data Management

Data management is a crucial aspect in the Internet of Things. When considering a world of objects interconnected and constantly exchanging all types of information, the volume of the generated data and the processes involved in the handling of those data become critical.

Device Level Energy Issues

One of the essential challenges in IoT is how to interconnect “things” in an interoperable way while taking into account the energy constraints, knowing that the communication is the most energy consuming task on devices.

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