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development and use of IoT technologies in Europe [13] [14]. China also invests 800 million dollars
in the IoT industry by 2016. China has a plan to lead in setting the standards for IoT technologies [15].
Japan has also launched i-japan and u-japan approaches to use IoT technologies in daily life [16].
3. The Service-Based Architecture of IoT
The main objective of IoT is to connect different devices or things over the internet. Service-based
architecture is also known as service-oriented architecture (SOA). SOA can also use to support IoT
as a main contributing technology in devices or heterogeneous systems. Nowadays SOA is used
successfully in the number of research areas including vehicular networks, cloud computing
platforms, and wireless sensor networks WSN [17] [18]. Some researchers also proposed the ideas to
create multilayer SOA architecture for IoT technologies. According to the International
Telecommunication Union, IoT architecture based on five different layers which are sensing,
accessing, networking, middleware, and application layers [6] [19]. The number of researchers
proposed three major layers for IoT architecture which are perception, network, and service layers.
Atzori et al also proposed the three-layer model for IoT architecture which is based on the application,
network and the sensing layers [11]. Liu et al also proposed application architecture for IoT which
consists of the application, middleware, transport, and physical layers. According to the functionality
of layers in IoT, a layered architecture of IoT is shown in Table I. The design consideration for
industrial IoT application is illustrated in Table II. The interaction and linkages of four layers with
each other are shown in figure 4.
The architectural design of IoT technologies is based on the number of things such as business
models, web services, web applications, corresponding process, smart objects, data processing,
networking and communication, and security etc. For IoT technologies, the architecture of IoT must
ponder the scalability, modularity, extensibility, and interoperability among various devices. The
architecture of IoT needs to provide effective and efficient event driven capability due to its
decentralized and heterogeneous nature [11] [12] [18].
Table 1. Layered architecture for IoT technology.
Sensing Layer
To control the physical world and data an existing hardware (RFID, Sensors) are
integrated with this layer.
Networking Layer
The functionality of this layer is to provide a basic networking support and data
transfer operations over the wireless or wired network.
Service Layer
This layer is responsible of creating and managing services. Services are provided to
the users to fulfil their needs.
This layer provides interactable interfaces and methods services to the users.
Table 2. Design goals for Industrial IoT Applications.
Design goals Description
Energy
How long can an IoT device operates with limited power supply?
Latency
How much time is a need for message propagation and processing?
What is the maximum amount of data that can be transported through the network?
Scalability
How many devices are supported?
Who must communicate with whom?
Security and
How secure and safe in the application.
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