Cloud of Things Assimilation with Cyber Physical System: A Review

Cloud of Things (CoT) provides a smart intelligent platform having capability of doing limitless computations by using the resources in an optimized fashion. With the advent of social networks, modern-day society relies on advanced computing technologies and communication infrastructures to share real-world events. Here comes the role of typical cyber-physical systems (CPSs) that derives tightly coupled computations with the physical world by integrating the computations with physical processes. The linkage between the computational resources and the physical systems can be done by using sensors and actuators. CoT can play a crucial role for extending the capabilities of CPSs. While this integration is still seeking more efforts for its own shape, the future CPS can dynamically adopted in different domains like healthcare, manufacturing, disaster management, agriculture and transportation etc. The deficiency of overall architectural awareness provides ample space and motivation for the academicians and industries to get involved in further studies. In this chapter, a complete literature study of CoT and CPSs oriented architectures are done which will act as a catalyst to improve the research efforts and understanding of tools and techniques. It also presents the current research opening in this area. The study is made to look beyond the current trends of architectures. The major contribution of this study is to summarize the CoT and CPSs oriented critical infrastructures with respect to the cutting-edge technologies and design considerations with respect to overall impact on the real-world.