Middleware Challenges and Platform for IoT-A Survey

Internet of things is a network that provides ability to control devices and, manage and remotely monitor them. It basically is a platform which creates new serviceable information from enormous streams of real time data. The sensors like RFID, IR, GPS and laser scanners etc. are installed by IoT for everything that we use in our daily life and making connection of them with the internet using certain protocols for interchanging information and communication for obtaining various applications like intelligent recognition, tracking, location, management and monitoring. In internet to things the decisions are being made without any human interaction. With the technical support from IoT, smart agriculture, smart home, smart university and smart city projects have gain momentum. The intelligence of this network of everyday things created by IoT is governs by the software, called middleware. The middleware is one of the enabling technologies of integrating and collecting data from devices interconnected through internet and make decisions based on it by allowing them to communicate among themselves. Middleware is emerges as the software layer between application and communication layer; it creates abstraction such as hiding hardware details. In this paper, we surveyed the main challenges faced by the middleware that needs to be addressed and survey of IoT application protocols and the survey of most popular middleware for internet of things.