A Survey on IOT enabled cloud platforms

IOT is a mainstream technology of today’s technology world and has transformed recently with a significant potential for modernizing the lifestyle of modern societies today. Since the term IOT was devised in the year 1999 by Kevin Ashton there is a tremendous increase in the countable devices bridged to the internet in the last few decades. This paper provides a literature survey on various cloud services used in integration with IOT and a study about fog computing used in various application areas. Due to seamless data exchange between IOT devices and sensors, there was a need of platforms for data management, storage, and analysis. Thus cloud computing and fog computing are often used interchangeably for providing high storage capacities and processing capabilities. Different types of IOT based cloud platforms are discussed in this paper depending on their applicability along with their pros and cons precisely.