Toward a Comprehensive Platform for IoT Applications in Vietnam Using Machine to Machine Communication

Abstract

The  Internet  of  Things  (IoT) applications  like  Home  Automation  (HA)  or  Smart Grid presents one of the biggest growth potential in the  Machine-to-Machine  (M2M)  communication today.  Thanks  to  M2M  technologies’  advances recently, the sensors/actuators and smart meters are expected  not  only  require  human  intervention  in sensing  environmental  parameters,  meter  the energy/water consumption level and send them back to central platform for processing but also give out proper  &  automatic  responses  to  the  situation. However,  there  are  still  many  challenges  in designing communication protocols and platform to exchange  and  share  of  collected  information  and other various constrains such as the variety of  end devices,  real-time  nature  and  extra-low  power consumption. This article investigates on a number of  existing  communication  protocols  and  platforms that  can  be  adopted  for  M2M  application development and deployment in Vietnam conditions.