Evolution of IoT in smart vehicles: An overview

The journey of IoT from Arpanet to state of art wireless communication in vehicles is presented. The history of the wireless standards used in IoT is described which gives the path followed by the community of IoT using different communication modes. It is observed that Wi-Fi is the speediest of all the wireless standards used for IoT. A special observation here, which is design constraint, is that internet connectivity is mandatory for information communication. Extensive usage of IoT in Vehicle communication has impacted the research work to develop new routing and data gathering protocols. The growth of internet of things in vehicular communication is discussed. Surveys of the routing protocols are presented. It is interesting to note that present smart vehicles have data sensing and gathering (DSG) modules and data fusing models to improve the services provided to user community. The survey depicts the advancement in the IoT trends up to date till the year 2015. A brief overview of the IoT system design is presented with some typical issues that have to be seen during deployment phase.