Table 2.
Comparative analysis of the existing review papers. Key: deployment category—DC, literature review—LR, security overview—SO, bibliometric literature review—BLR, systematic literature review—SLR.
| Reference | Year | Review Type | DC | Application Types | IoT and WSN Architecture Used | Challenges and Issues | R. Q. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [1] | 2015 | LR | Industry | 802.11 (WiFi) technology in smart cities | WSN | × | × |
| [4] | 2020 | LR | Science | IoT sensing applications discussed using sensing technology | WSN using RFID | Energy harvesting, communication interference, fault tolerance, higher capacities to handling data processing, cost feasibility. | × |
| [5] | 2016 | SO | Industry | IoT application in smart grids | IoT | Challenges discussed along with solutions to cope with | × |
| [6] | 2017 | SO | Industry | Deployment techniques discussed using sensor network | WSN | Communication cost, coverage time, accuracy, etc. | × |
| [10] | 2016 | LR | WSN applications in urban areas | Urban areas | WSN | Problems and solution of each WSN application | × |
| [17] | 2014 | SO | Industry | Network security protocols discussed in industrial applications | WSN | Challenges of stack protocol and their solutions | × |
| [19] | 2020 | SLR | Smart factories | Scope and conceptualization of IoT in Industry 4.0 | IoT | × | ✔ |
| [27] | 2020 | LR | Smart IoT devices | Detailed survey on security threat models applicable for IoT and WSN. They also discussed communication attacks and taxonomy of IoT and WSN | Both | ✔ | × |
| [28] | 2019 | LR | – | Discussed technical and social perspective of IoT for future technology enhancement | IoT | ✔ | × |
| [29] | 2017 | SLR | Smart cities | Applications, security, and taxonomy in IoT | IoT | × | × |
| [30] | 2019 | LR | Industrial | Applications and usage of actuators and sensor networks using MAC protocol. | IWSN | Security challenges on different layers of the stack, also discussed their solutions | × |
| [31] | 2016 | LR | – | Technologies, innovations, and applications of IoT discussed. | IoT | ✔ | × |
| [32] | 2014 | LR | Industrial | Coverage areas of WSN are discussed | WSN | Challenges they face were: Node type, depth type, communication range, etc. | × |
| [33] | 2016 | SUR | Industrial | Applications of intrusion detection system in IoT | IoT | × | × |
| [34] | 2015 | SUR | Industrial | Only explore and analyze existing solution to detect sinkhole attack | WSN | × | × |
| [35] | 2020 | LR | – | × | Both | Discuss attacks in IoT ans WSN with their solutions, advantages, and limitation | × |
| [36] | 2021 | SLR | Smart mobiles | Routing attacks and security measures in mobile network are discussed | WSN | × | × |
| [37] | 2021 | LR | Industrial | Detection of wormhole in both domains | Both | × | ✔ |
| [38] | 2017 | SUR | IoT systems | Software board and chips, crypto algorithms, security of IoT systems, and network protocols are discussed | IoT | – | × |
| [39] | 2015 | SUR | – | Existing security approaches of IoT system are described | IoT | ✔ | × |
| [40] | 2016 | SUR | – | Deployment models for sensor network to achieve coverage, their classification and working was discussed | WSN | × | × |
| [41] | 2018 | BLR | Smart factory & Industry | Discuss 12 approaches of Industry 4.0. in business and account management fields | IoT | × | × |
| This Paper | 2021 | SLR | Smart industry and Factory | Applications and contribution of both IoT and WSN are discussed in detail | IoT and WSN (both) | Key challenges and open issues of both IoT and WSN in Industry 4.0 are discussed | ✔ |