Middleware Technologies for Smart Wireless Sensor Networks towards Internet of Things: A Comparative Review

• Published in: Wireless personal communications Vol. 116; no. 3; pp. 1539 - 1574
• Main Authors: Vikash, Mishra, Lalita, Varma, Shirshu
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.02.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Coalescing; Communications Engineering; Computer Communication Networks; Electronic devices; Engineering; Heterogeneity; Internet of Things; Interoperability; Middleware; Networks; Real time; Signal,Image and Speech Processing; Wireless networks; Wireless sensor networks; Wireless sensor networks; Radio frequency identification (RFID); Middleware technology; Machine to machine communication (M2M); Internet of Things; Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
• ISSN: 0929-6212; 1572-834X
• DOI: 10.1007/s11277-020-07748-7

Internet of Things (IoT) offers complex networks of connected devices, which are used to serve in the real-time environment. Interestingly, Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) play as one of the major components to observe environment in real-time. Although, IoT is being used in diverse applications and services, which involve heterogeneity and interoperability that make it more complex as compared to traditional networks. Further, to take-care of these issues middleware coalesce as a software technology by supporting interoperability, heterogeneous computing, and communication. So, middleware can be used in various IoT applications by extending the WSNs as a services. With this reference, we provide a survey on WSNs middlewares towards IoT to provide a comparative view of various middlewares and how this middleware technology can be used to incorporate several problems arise in the development of IoT applications. This survey paper also highlights the various issues involved while developing the IoT applications.