For all the talk of the Internet of Things (IoT), most things will never really connect to the worldwide network. They will sit on an intranet and talk to the cloud through a gateway that sits mere metres away. But there will still be plenty that need their own direct connection because they will be too far away to make installing a gateway viable. Because of this demand, battle lines are now being drawn between the standards that want to bring sensors out of the field onto the IoT.
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C. Edwards (2016) studied this question.