The Cloud Computing and Internet of Things (IoT)

Abstract

The cloud is a huge, interconnected network of powerful servers that performs services for businesses and people. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. IoT has evolved with the greater generation of data. Internet of Things Cloud Service creates excessive communication between inexpensive sensors in the IoT which means even greater connectivity. Billions of connected devices and machines will soon join human-users. IoT generates lots of data while on the other hand, cloud computing paves way for this data to travel. In this paper we try to focus on cloud providers who take advantage of this to provide a pay-as-you-use model where customers pay for the specific resources used. Also, cloud hosting as a service adds value to IoT startups by providing economies of scale to reduce their overall cost structure.