Abstract

Currently, the main communication form on the Internet is human being. But it is predictable that any object will have a distinctive way of authentication and can be addressed so that every system can be connected. The Internet will become to the title of Internet of Things. This will bring a new universal computing and communication generation and change people's lifestyle. Radio Frequency Identification techniques and related authentications technologies will be the cornerstones of the upcoming Internet of Things. This paper intention is that to show a structure of the Internet of Things and we try to address some essential issues of the Internet of Things like its architecture and the functionality, etc. At the beginning we describe an inspection of the Internet of Things. Then we give our architecture design of the Internet of Things and then we design a specific the Internet of Things application model which can apply to automatic facilities management in the smart areas. At last, we examine some open questions about the Internet of Things.