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The Internet is a powerful tool used in almost all sectors including IT sectors, markets, or everyday human life. (Cisco, n.d.) This internet allows different devices to get connected which can communicate with one another and take simple decisions this concept is known as the internet of things or the IoT.
European Research Cluster on the Internet of Things (IERC) (Van Kranenburg, 2008), has defined IoT as: “It is an advanced global network infrastructure with self-configuring potential based on interoperable and standard communication protocols where both physical and virtual things have physical attributes, specification and virtual personalities with an identity which are continuously integrated into the network of information using intelligent interfaces,”. An abundance of smart connected platforms and devices have been integrated into a wide range of applications like agriculture, energy, commerce, healthcare transportation, utilities, industrial control, and buildings, etc. (Sundmaeker et al., 2010). Thus IoT can be defined as a system of interrelated computing devices, digital machines and mechanical, objects, that are connected through the Internet, every device on the network is provided with unique identifiers (UIDs). The system can transfer data and information over a network without human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction required (Rouse, 2019).
It is estimated that around 30 billion devices are connected to the internet in today's world which still makes less than 1% of the total that could be connected to the internet (Madakam et al., 2015) The capability to keep track of objects by coding has helped numerous companies to speed up their process, prevent theft, increase efficiency and flexibility of organizational systems through IoT (Ferguson, 2002). IoT smart technology is an approach where methods are applied based on prior knowledge. Smart technology with intelligent objects can communicate actively or passively with users. The technology comes under the field of an advanced human-machine interaction system, the theory of artificial intelligence and intelligent signal processing.