Basic Idea
In “A vision, architectural elements, and future directions”, it presents their vision of IoT and coin the term “cloud centric IoT” for a system offering data distribution and additional services in a cloud based layer.
In other words, a system uses Cloud as the proxy for all communications between things or as a data hub where IoT data are gathered and analysed.
Note that “cloud-based IoT” and “cloud centric IoT” are used interchangebly.
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