A comparative study of cyber physical cloud, cloud of sensors and internet of things: Their ideology, similarities and differences

Internet is an ever changing and rapidly progressing entity. With each passing day, we come across a new technology or concept. Many of these concepts pass as a fad but few become the cornerstone of our future technology. Three of the hottest current research topics which are highly inter-related are cyber physical cloud (CPC), cloud of sensors (CoS) and internet of things (IoT). All these have sensors and cloud as integral part of their architecture. While the first two topics are directly related to cloud, the third one requires cloud computing in backend for huge amounts of data processing and storage. In this paper, we will study these concepts with intent of finding the area of overlap or similarities and their subtle yet important differences.