Iot resources management: a comprehensive study supported by the top providers of things management

Internet of Things (IoT) became an essential tool nowadays in every practical or scientific field. IoT connects intelligently fixed or mobile devices, moving objects or even animals in one network. These devices may need physical resources or services over the cloud. IoT defined as a network that connects physical objects to interact with each other for to perform information sharing and to take an action. IoT offers services as well. Connected objects over IoT are identified by unique address on the network and supported with the ability to transfer data over a network without human or computer interaction. IoT has wide and growing scope of applications starts from smart home passing all the way to smart city, smart grids, intelligent fire-fighting, government, environment ending with smart farming. In this paper, a comprehensive study is done for resources management process done by researchers with a detailed explanation for IoT top providers like IBM Watson, Google and Amazon platforms. The study encompasses IoT things management for these three providers then concluded that the three providers have different design principles, algorithm modeling, data location requirements and type of services. However, they have almost the same pricing per service.