The Role of Autonomous Computing, Cloud Computing, and Multimedia in IoT

Abstract

Connecting a large number of physical objects equipped with sensors to the Internet generates what is called “big data.” Big data needs smart and efficient storage. The emerging and developing technology of cloud computing is defined by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) as an access model to an on-demand network of shared configurable computing sources such as networks, servers, warehouses, applications, and services. The manual installation and management of IoT devices becomes impractical due to the large numbers involved. Specifically, there exists an inefficiency that can be resolved by minimizing user intervention. The manual maintenance of a large number of devices becomes inefficient, and demands the presence of intelligent and dynamic management schemes. In addition, Internet of Things systems cannot successfully realize the notion of ubiquitous connectivity of everything if they are not capable to truly include ‘multimedia things'.