A NEW ERA OF NETWORKING: INTERNET OF THINGS.

This paper provides information of the Internet of Things (IoT) with brief explanation on enabling technologies, protocols, and application issues. The IoT is being possible because of the RFID latest developments, Internet protocols, communication technologies, and smart sensors. The basic tool for the IoT is to have smart sensors collaborate directly without human involvement to deliver a new class of applications. In the future years, the IoT is expected to act as the bridge diverse technologies developed by new applications connecting physical objects to support of intelligent decision making. This paper also provide some of the key IoT challenges presented in the paper and provide a summary of related research work. This also presents the need for better horizontal integration among IoT services. The Internet of Things (IoT) shall be able to incorporate transparently and seamlessly a large number of different and heterogeneous end systems, while providing open access to selected subsets of data for the development of digital services. Building a general architecture for the IoT is hence a very complex task, mainly because of the extremely large variety of devices, link layer technologies, and services that may be involved in such a system.