Architecture and Applications of IoT Devices in Socially Relevant Fields

TL;DR

This paper reviews IoT devices across socially relevant fields, analyzing their architectures, protocols, and performance, highlighting current deployments and challenges to improve reliability and effectiveness.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of IoT device architectures and applications in key social sectors, emphasizing performance and challenges for future improvements.

Findings

Significant number of IoT devices are deployed in health, farming, safety, and surveillance.

Performance of these devices is promising in real-world applications.

Challenges remain in ensuring reliability and addressing field-specific issues.

Abstract

Number of IoT enabled devices are being tried and introduced every year and there is a healthy competition among researched and businesses to capitalize the space created by IoT, as these devices have a great market potential. Depending on the type of task involved and sensitive nature of data that the device handles, various IoT architectures, communication protocols and components are chosen and their performance is evaluated. This paper reviews such IoT enabled devices based on their architecture, communication protocols and functions in few key socially relevant fields like health care, farming, firefighting, women/individual safety/call for help/harm alert, home surveillance and mapping as these fields involve majority of the general public. It can be seen, to one's amazement, that already significant number of devices are being reported on these fields and their performance is promising. This paper also outlines the challenges involved in each of these fields that require solutions to make these devices reliable