IoT Cloud Platforms: an Application Development Perspective
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With the growing number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the data generated through these devices is also growing. By 2025, it has been predicted that the number of IoT devices will exceed the number of human beings on earth. Thus, the data generated through these IoT devices will be gigantic. This gives upsurge in storage. One of the most promising solutions is to store data on cloud. Market is over helming with the number of IoT cloud platforms. In-spite of availability of huge variety of IoT cloud platforms, very little attempt in classifying or comparing it for the applications to be developed is found across the literature databases. This paper categorizes IoT platforms into four categories namely: publicly traded, open source, developer friendly and end to end connectivity. Some of the popular platforms in each category are identified and compared based on the given general IoT architecture. This study can be useful for newbies and application developers in IoT to select the most appropriate platform according to requirement for building applications.
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