Concept and Hardware Considerations for Product-Service System Achievement in Internet of Things

Cloud computing was considered last decade as a principal support for Internet of Things (IoT) applications. However, cloud solution introduces various constraints including mobility, reliable, scalability, and power consumption. To face such issues, researchers have proposed several solutions including mobile cloud computing, fog computing, and smart gateways. Recently, a PSS (product-service system) concept was proposed in the literature. In this paper, we focused on this concept which exploits the IoT object resources to further avoid IoT architecture issues while still meeting low-power and small-size object requirements. Thus, this paper discusses the emerging technologies and techniques that would be exploited towards PSS achievement. In addition, the promising hardware platforms for PSS achievement are presented and compared in terms of energy consumption.