Citation: Salih, K.O.M.; Rashid, T.A.;
Radovanovic, D.; Bacanin, N. A
Comprehensive Survey on the
Internet of Things with the Industrial
Marketplace. Sensors 2022, 22, 730.
https://doi.org/10.3390/s22030730
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and Matteo Anedda
Received: 25 November 2021
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Review
A Comprehensive Survey on the Internet of Things with the
Industrial Marketplace
Kazhan Othman Mohammed Salih
1
, Tarik A. Rashid
2,
* , Dalibor Radovanovic
3
and Nebojsa Bacanin
3,
*
1
Project Management Department, College of Commerce, University of Sulaimani, Sulaimani 46001, KRG, Iraq;
kazhan.mohammed@univsul.edu.iq
2
Computer Science and Engineering, School of Science and Engineering, University of Kurdistan Hewler,
Erbil 44001, KRG, Iraq
3
Departman of Informatics and Computing, Faculty of Informatics and Computing, Singidunum University,
Danijelova 32, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia; dradovanovic@singidunum.ac.rs
* Correspondence: tarik.ahmed@ukh.edu.krd (T.A.R.); nbacanin@singidunum.ac.rs (N.B.)
Abstract:
There is no doubt that new technology has become one of the crucial parts of most people’s
lives around the world. By and large, in this era, the Internet and the Internet of Things (IoT) have
become the most indispensable parts of our lives. Recently, IoT technologies have been regarded as
the most broadly used tools among other technologies. The tools and the facilities of IoT technologies
within the marketplace are part of Industry 4.0. The marketplace is too regarded as a new area that
can be used with IoT technologies. One of the main purposes of this paper is to highlight using IoT
technologies in Industry 4.0, and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is another feature revised.
This paper focuses on the value of the IoT in the industrial domain in general; it reviews the IoT
and focuses on its benefits and drawbacks, and presents some of the IoT applications, such as in
transportation and healthcare. In addition, the trends and facts that are related to the IoT technologies
on the marketplace are reviewed. Finally, the role of IoT in telemedicine and healthcare and the
benefits of IoT technologies for COVID-19 are presented as well.
Keywords: IoT; Industry 4.0; IIoT; IoT applications; telemedicine; COVID-19; marketplace
1. Introduction
The human connection is one of the most important types of communication available
on the Internet. The Internet is a global network that allows humans from all over the
world to communicate with one another. A human-organized network of computers and
smartphones is required to access the Internet. Personal computers and smartphones are
examples of such devices. As a result, it has come to be known as “the Internet of People”.
In a matter of a few years upcoming, the Internet will grow and evolve into the
Internet of Things (IoT), shifting away from human-to-human communication and toward
computers interacting with one another, which is also known as machine-to-machine (M2M)
communication [
1
]. This new mode of communication will have a profound impact on the
way people communicate and compute in their daily lives.
Kevin Ashton was the first who, in 1999, used the term Internet of Things [
2
]. Since
2008, the total number of things connected to the IoT has outnumbered the total number of
people living on the planet. The IoT is expected to make it possible for everyone to access
and provide a vast amount of information about equipment and locations in the future.
The IoT can be used to connect a variety of objects to a network, including artificial
articles, plants, and animals. This can be counted as one of the fundamental differences
between the IoT and the rest of the world. The IoT is still based on the Internet, but it is the
most logical evolutionary and technological step forward for the Internet in recent history.
In this paper, we examine the origins and history of the IoT, and then we discuss IoT
applications that have been developed, tested, and refined in the industrial marketplace.
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