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Technical and Societal Challenges
• Sensor Energy: Sensors involved in IoT need to be self-sustaining. Changing
batteries among billions of devices deployed across the planet is quite a tedious
task. Sensor energy is another challenging issue to consider in IoT.
• Legal, Regulatory Rights: Usage of IoT devices raises many legal questions
and magnify many legal issues concerning the Internet. One issue concerns
the cross-border data flows transmitting data from one jurisdiction to another.
Legal and regulatory challenges have to be taken into consideration for evolving
IoT laws.
• Flexibility and Evolution of Applications: Everyday sensors and devices evolve
with new capabilities. This leads to the development of new techniques and algorithms to analyze data. The development of applications with minimal effort and
a comfortable platform is another challenge in IoT.
• Integration of Data from Multiple Sources: In IoT applications, data are streamed
from different places like sensors, data from mobile devices, social network feeds,
and from other web resources. Semantics of data should be part of data itself, and
it should not be based on the application logic.
A survey conducted by Accenture in January 2016 was about barriers of purchasing IoT
devices from the group of people aged greater than 14 years. The result of the survey is
shown in Figure 4.9 [13].
• IoT Threats: Other security threats include (1) common worms jumping from
ICT to IoT, (2) unprotected webcams, stealing content, (3) organized crime, and
(4) cyber terrorism.
• Business adoption cycle: New technology adoption always goes through the
business adoption life cycle. IoT is fundamentally the core model of the business
in various fields. IoT is most disruptive technology and has to transform radically in all fields like medical, retail, transportation, manufacturing, and so on.
Adoption of IoT depends on the removal of the barrier faced.
Too confusing
Barriers to purchase IoT devices and services
% of respondents
Unsure which device will be of use of them
Concerend about privacy and security issues
Too expensive
40%
60%
80%
100%
0%
20%
FIGURE 4.9
Accenture Survey. (From Accenture, Igniting Growth in Consumer Technology, Communication, Media &
Technology, 2016.)
Technical and Societal Challenges
• Sensor Energy: Sensors involved in IoT need to be self-sustaining. Changing
batteries among billions of devices deployed across the planet is quite a tedious
task. Sensor energy is another challenging issue to consider in IoT.
• Legal, Regulatory Rights: Usage of IoT devices raises many legal questions
and magnify many legal issues concerning the Internet. One issue concerns
the cross-border data flows transmitting data from one jurisdiction to another.
Legal and regulatory challenges have to be taken into consideration for evolving
IoT laws.
• Flexibility and Evolution of Applications: Everyday sensors and devices evolve
with new capabilities. This leads to the development of new techniques and algorithms to analyze data. The development of applications with minimal effort and
a comfortable platform is another challenge in IoT.
• Integration of Data from Multiple Sources: In IoT applications, data are streamed
from different places like sensors, data from mobile devices, social network feeds,
and from other web resources. Semantics of data should be part of data itself, and
it should not be based on the application logic.
A survey conducted by Accenture in January 2016 was about barriers of purchasing IoT
devices from the group of people aged greater than 14 years. The result of the survey is
shown in Figure 4.9 [13].
• IoT Threats: Other security threats include (1) common worms jumping from
ICT to IoT, (2) unprotected webcams, stealing content, (3) organized crime, and
(4) cyber terrorism.
• Business adoption cycle: New technology adoption always goes through the
business adoption life cycle. IoT is fundamentally the core model of the business
in various fields. IoT is most disruptive technology and has to transform radically in all fields like medical, retail, transportation, manufacturing, and so on.
Adoption of IoT depends on the removal of the barrier faced.
Too confusing
Barriers to purchase IoT devices and services
% of respondents
Unsure which device will be of use of them
Concerend about privacy and security issues
Too expensive
40%
60%
80%
100%
0%
20%
FIGURE 4.9
Accenture Survey. (From Accenture, Igniting Growth in Consumer Technology, Communication, Media &
Technology, 2016.)