A Taxonomy of Various Building Blocks of Internet of Things

Abstract

IoT is affecting each and every aspect of human life, since it is a woven combination of traditional system, sensors, cloud, mobile applications, web applications and control systems. IoT is a network of objects, where each object has unique identification as well as communication capabilities. This paper has described a conceptual framework of IoT. This framework is a woven combination of sensors, cloud platform, cloud servers and mobile applications. This paper also discusses IoT communication technologies and other basic building blocks of Internet of Things. The basic building blocks of IoT are: sensors, control units, communication technologies and software. This paper provides taxonomy of different building blocks of IoT.