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A Survey on the Internet of Things Patterns and Their Classification Schemes

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The Internet of Things (IoT) patterns are the best practices used to solve common recurring problems in the IoT paradigm. Due to its scope and magnitude, the IoT consists of many patterns which are used by IoT practitioners to design and build ubiquitous smart objects for various IoT use cases. At the moment, finding appropriate classification schemes for these patterns is still an obstacle encountered by many IoT architects and practitioners. Existing classification schemes are either arbitrary, incomplete, or use overlapping categorisation domains. This paper conducts a survey on some of the known IoT patterns and their classification schemes, and systematically review the literature to show commonalities and prime focus areas in the IoT pattern literature. A shift in focus towards using a collaborative IoT pattern language and an ontology to organise the IoT patterns is recommended.

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    Technology refers to methods, systems, and devices which are the result of scientific knowledge being used for practical purposes [20]. There is usually a slight overlap between trademarked products such as electronic sensors, technologies such as mobile devices, and standards such Bluetooth and 5G.

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    The Gang of Four are the authors of the prominent book ‘Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software’. This popular book describes 23 design patterns and development techniques applicable in resolving com-mon object-oriented programming problems.

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    The few IoT patterns described by Reinfurt et al. can be found on the web portal: http://www.internetofthingspatterns.com/patterns/

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Sithole, V., Marshall, L. (2022). A Survey on the Internet of Things Patterns and Their Classification Schemes. In: Arai, K. (eds) Proceedings of the Future Technologies Conference (FTC) 2021, Volume 1. FTC 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 358. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-89906-6_25

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