Research Area:  Internet of Things
Internet of Things (IoT) offers complex networks of connected devices, which are used to serve in the real-time environment. Interestingly, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) play as one of the major components to observe environment in real-time. Although, IoT is being used in diverse applications and services, which involve heterogeneity and interoperability that make it more complex as compared to traditional networks. Further, to take-care of these issues middleware coalesce as a software technology by supporting interoperability, heterogeneous computing, and communication. So, middleware can be used in various IoT applications by extending the WSNs as a services. With this reference, we provide a survey on WSNs middlewares towards IoT to provide a comparative view of various middlewares and how this middleware technology can be used to incorporate several problems arise in the development of IoT applications. This survey paper also highlights the various issues involved while developing the IoT applications.
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Author(s) Name:  Vikash, Lalita Mishra & Shirshu Varma
Journal name:  Wireless Personal Communications
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Publisher name:  Springer
DOI:  10.1007/s11277-020-07748-7
Volume Information:  volume 116, pages 1539–1574 (2021)
Paper Link:   https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11277-020-07748-7