Internet of nanothings: Challenges & opportunities

Abstract

Nanotechnology is an upfront technology used to develop and design devices in the scale of nanometers. It offers opportunities and effective solutions in the field of medicine, military, agriculture, environment and computing systems. There are a lot of funding, initiatives by different countries around the world such as US, China for the project based on Nanotechnology in different areas. Recently, Oman is also incorporating nanotechnology to be deployed in different fields. Getting different sensors connected and interact intelligently with each other is the main application of IoT. However, replacing sensors with Nano sensors has provided a completely a new aspect to the Internet of Things (IoT) that is IoNT. IoNT is the new evolution that is a blend of IoT and nanotechnology. Because of its promising prospects and applications in the different areas, IoNT can be considered as the next generation of the IoT. Therefore in this paper, we will study and analyze the opportunities and the challenges of IoNT in the applications pertaining to the various domains.