Processing Distributed Internet of Things Data in Clouds

Recent studies by Cisco and IBM show that we generate 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day, and this is set to explode to 40 yottabytes by 2020-that's 5,200 gigabytes for every person on earth. 1,2 Much of this data is and will be generated from Internet of Things (IoT) devices and sensors. IoT comprises billions of Internet-connected devices (ICDs) or "things," each of which can sense, communicate, compute, and potentially actuate, and can have intelligence, multimodal interfaces, physical/virtual identities, and attributes. ICDs can be sensors, RFIDs, social media, clickstreams, business transactions, actuators (such as machines/equipment fitted with sensors and deployed for mining, oil exploration, or manufacturing operations), lab instruments (such as a high energy physics synchrotron), and smart consumer appliances (TV, phone, and so on).