Unmanned aerial vehicle for internet of everything: Opportunities and challenges
A UAV-enabled IoE (Ue-IoE) solution is introduced by exploiting UAVs’s mobility, in which it is shown that Ue-ioE can greatly enhance the scalability, intelligence and diversity of IoE.
Abstract
The recent advances in information and communication technology (ICT) have\nfurther extended Internet of Things (IoT) from the sole "things" aspect to the\nomnipotent role of "intelligent connection of things". Meanwhile, the concept\nof internet of everything (IoE) is presented as such an omnipotent extension of\nIoT. However, the IoE realization meets critical challenges including the\nrestricted network coverage and the limited resource of existing network\ntechnologies. Recently, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have attracted\nsignificant attentions attributed to their high mobility, low cost, and\nflexible deployment. Thus, UAVs may potentially overcome the challenges of IoE.\nThis article presents a comprehensive survey on opportunities and challenges of\nUAV-enabled IoE. We first present three critical expectations of IoE: 1)\nscalability requiring a scalable network architecture with ubiquitous coverage,\n2) intelligence requiring a global computing plane enabling intelligent things,\n3) diversity requiring provisions of diverse applications. Thereafter, we\nreview the enabling technologies to achieve these expectations and discuss four\nintrinsic constraints of IoE (i.e., coverage constraint, battery constraint,\ncomputing constraint, and security issues). We then present an overview of\nUAVs. We next discuss the opportunities brought by UAV to IoE. Additionally, we\nintroduce a UAV-enabled IoE (Ue-IoE) solution by exploiting UAVs's mobility, in\nwhich we show that Ue-IoE can greatly enhance the scalability, intelligence and\ndiversity of IoE. Finally, we outline the future directions in Ue-IoE.\n