Abstract
IoT solution developers today are hampered Ilyas, Muhammad U. Khan, Muhammad Murtaza Saleem, Sajid permit burdens and high up-front deployment and maintenance costs, Alowibdi, Jalal S. in the public domain. Essentially, it keeps the development of IoT solutions requiring large deployments in the purview of deep-pocketed players, to the exclusion of millions of small developers who may have figured out novel solutions to problems, but lack the resources to pilot them. This is akin to the situation of cellphones before the release of SDKs for Apple iOS and Android smartphones; phones with relatively capable hardware were often restricted to running the dozen-or-so apps they shipped with. Together, smartphone SDKs and public cloud services, which were becoming available at around the same time, less well-resourced developers were able to bring their ideas for apps to the public, thus launching the smartphone revolution. In this paper we conducted a survey of studies that describe various pieces of the technology puzzle that could contribute towards democratizing access to public IoT resources.