Innovative Research Topics in IoT (Internet of Things)

IoT refers to the 'Internet of Things’, a vision in which the internet expands itself into the real world and seizes everyday objects. Internet of things is a complex network of things connected with each other and it shares data and information. Researchers have a great opportunity in doing their research in this emerging area. The research topics discussed below represent the most valuable research efforts from the community.

Following are some innovative IoT research topics from energy harvesting to data analytics and more:

Energy Harvesting

It is a process in which energy is extracted from external resources that are converted into electrical energy with the help of an energy harvesting device. For example- solar energy from the sun is converted to light energy, pressure, and gravity to atmospheric energy, vibration to kinetic energy, diffusion to chemical energy, and kinetic energy from water to hydro energy. Therefore, energy harvesting consists of four things such as selection of an abundantly available external resource, its transformation, storage, and consumption.

Data-Driven IoT

Nowadays, there are many organizations that know the potential of IoT but still face problems in pulling out value from it. Organizations that are well aware of how IoT can be beneficial to them, must also know about the challenges to face. They should know how to automate the collection of data, combine both structured and unstructured data from different sources, analyze and implement the data. Data that is produced, analyzed, and then implemented by IoT can help organizations in making faster and better decisions. Therefore, many organizations are already enjoying the rewards of IoT.

IoT Search

Searching relevant things from billions of things out there is the most challenging thing in the IoT because the technologies for searching and finding things in IoT are way too different from the ones in searching web documents. IoT Search is, therefore, a software system that discovers and resolves issues on contents of the Internet of Things.

Network Virtualization

In the use of computers, network virtualization refers to the process in which hardware and software network resources and network functionality are combined together into a single software organizational entity, known as a virtual network. Network virtualization is of two types. External virtualization, that combines various networks or some parts of networks into one single virtual unit. And, internal virtualization, which provides network functionality to software containers on a single network server.

Security, Privacy and Trust in IoT

The risk of data security and privacy increases with an unmatched growth in the deployment of smart objects of IoT. One of the challenges in the IoT infrastructures is the limited operational power and fewer resources of most IoT devices. Along with scalable security- scalability is one of the most important requirements in the internet of things infrastructures, upload of data, and interoperability. Therefore, there is an important need of finding out intelligent ways to address the current security challenges of internet of things systems.

Service Computing and IoT

Service computing was initiated at the same time as the internet of things as an important set of ideas to change the way of design and consumption of software applications. It is an important research topic that focuses on IoT services discovery, aiming to find the right internet of things services at the right time and location.

Other interesting research topics in IoT are Social IoT, Edge Computing and IoT, IoT recommendation, Conversational IoT, etc. These are some of the best sectors and topics to research on IoT i.e., the Internet of Things. Research writing has to be interesting and creative, thus, these topics can help you write a good research paper.