Futuristic Technology in Textile industry - Internet of Things

The IT service industry has disrupted the way things work in normal day life by connecting billions of people through the internet. IoT connects objects to communicate, exchange information, make decisions, and invoke actions to provide amazing services. Thus, the importance of this exploratory study naturally follows. An exponential increase in processing power and the astounding impact of cloud computing and analytics has led to the evolution of concepts such as the Internet of Things (IoT) and Ubiquitous computing. In this study, the definition of the Internet of Things (IoT) available in the literature and those proposed by organizations working on IoT were reviewed. To completely understand the concepts and the goals of IoT its architecture, elements, standards and product have been overviewed. Furthermore, a outlook on impediments challenging the progress of IoT, especially cyber security, and how it relates to the textile industry has been studied. A comparative analysis was performed to evaluate these systems based on IoT architecture to identify limitations and future scope of IoT for the textile industry.