Is Fragmentation a Threat to the Success of the Internet of Things?

TL;DR

This paper examines how industry fragmentation poses significant challenges to IoT development, particularly affecting interoperability, data reuse, and system performance, which could threaten IoT's success.

Contribution

It analyzes the impact of industry fragmentation on IoT interoperability and performance, highlighting the need for unified approaches to ensure IoT's growth.

Findings

Fragmentation hampers IoT interoperability.

Diverse technologies limit data reuse.

Handling data collection affects system performance.

Abstract

The current revolution in collaborating distributed things is seen as the first phase of IoT to develop various services. Such collaboration is threatened by the fragmentation found in the industry nowadays as it brings challenges stemming from the difficulty to integrate diverse technologies in system. Diverse networking technologies induce interoperability issues, hence, limiting the possibility of reusing the data to develop new services. Different aspects of handling data collection must be available to provide interoperability to the diverse objects interacting; however, such approaches are challenged as they bring substantial performance impairments in settings with the increasing number of collaborating devices/technologies.