The Internet of Things enabling communication technologies, applications and challenges: a survey

TL;DR

This survey reviews emerging communication technologies in IoT, explores various application domains, and discusses key challenges to maximize IoT benefits across different sectors.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of IoT communication technologies, application domains, and challenges, highlighting recent developments and future directions.

Findings

Identifies key communication technologies used in IoT

Enumerates major application domains of IoT

Discusses critical challenges faced by IoT implementations

Abstract

Recently, the IoT has gained great importance, which results in the evolution of communication technologies to meet the needs of different IoT applications. In addition, several domains integrate the IoT technologies in several applications of our professional life and daily activities. However, the IoT still presents many challenges and issues. This article describes in details the emerging communication technologies used in the IoT networks and enumerates the common domains of their application. It also describes the main challenges of the IoT and its use in order to exploit its advantages at most.